Elite New Yorkers Get Their Wish: Bad Old Days are Back

Shot:

● “The Bad Old Days: Returning Soon to a Gotham City Near You.”

—Ed Driscoll.com, September 27th, 2013.

Chaser:

● “Police Commissioner [Howard Safir, NYPD commissioner from 1996-2000]: Bad Old Days of Crime May Be Back.”

—Time magazine, yesterday.

And as Daniel Henninger wrote a decade at a the Wall Street Journal, numerous Manhattan elites missed the crime wave  of the 1970s — and via the election of Bill de Blasio in November of 2013, have helped engineer the start of its return.