Bill Pepitone is a retired NYPD Police officer and Mayoral candidate running as a Republican. He is the law and order candidate and agrees that the policies of Mayor DeBlasio have seriously hurt New York City. Broken-windows policing and stop-and-frisk tactics would come back to New York City if a long-shot Republican candidate wins next year’s mayoral race. “We’ve let the quality-of-life crimes go and it’s turned into more violent crime,” Bill Pepitone told the Daily News on Tuesday. “We need to go back to that type of [broken-windows] policing” meaning NYPD officers would often bust low-level offenders to prevent more severe crimes — hallmarks of the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations.
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