At a time when crime is soaring in New York, the Democrats running the show there decided that now would be a good time to slash $1 billion from the New York Police Department's $6 billion budget.  Hello, crime wave, hello 'Shattered,' that famous Mick Jagger anthem of New York's slum-of-a-decade, the 1970s. It doesn't take a genius to know that's exactly what's going to happen. New Yorkers, after all, are fleeing. The only people left are the ones who can't get out. Naturally, the far-left is outraged. Police cuts, mere cuts? They wanted the entire police force cut. "Defund the police," after all is their battle cry. But in a Tom Wolfean pot-boiler of conflicting interests, just getting that lunatic cut has put these rabid leftwingers up on a collision course with Black interests in New York, who know whose ox is about to get gored as the radicals virtue-signal. According to the New York...(Read Full Post)