Florida Conservative

New York City has adopted leadership and personnel practices that predictably degrade public-safety capacity. The outcome—talent flight, command dilution, and declining service effectiveness—is already observable in the New York City Police Department. The same structural choices now place the Fire Department of the City of New York at similar risk.

The cost is credibility—and the public knows it. Pride is now seen by many as just another performative, politicized ritual, much like Black Lives Matter devolved into, or Antifa before it. Movements that began with moral clarity, but lost themselves in radicalism and spectacle.