Yeah, no, I absolutely get it. To say he’s viewing the problem incorrectly is a huge understatement. The way to fix ‘black crime’ is to fix black poverty full stop. Povery = crime.
Part of the problem from a mayors perspective though is that poverty is a national issue, and you’ll never, no matter how much of the cities budget you dedicate to it, solve that problem.
Bloomberg wanted NYC to be the best city in the world when he ran NYC. The way he chose to get that done was to expel the minorities (who like most places in the US were disproportionately poor) from the city with official harassment to make way for gentrification. And today NYC has insanely low crime rates because there are by comparison no poor people left to commit those crimes.
I want to be super clear here, nothing about that is OK. At the same time I feel like every city in America over the last 20 years has been doing the same shitty tragedy of the commons math.