Our major cities are growing increasingly lawless, and New York is no exception. On Tuesday evening, in the Bronx (New York) a drive-by shooting by four suspects on two scooters left one dead and three injured. 

Two scooters, each carrying two men, approached the scene eastbound when the rear passengers fired approximately 10 rounds, hitting four victims, who range anywhere between 23 to 37 years old. Three men were shot in the leg, and a fourth was fatally shot in the chest. He was 29-years-old. 

The suspects, all clad in masks and hoodies, fled the scene northbound on Townsend Ave. 

Illegal scooters and their use in crime have become a serious problem in New York in recent months.

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry spoke extensively about the city's efforts to crack down on scooters and illegal bikes from city streets, stating 9,500 scooters have been confiscated citywide this year. Of this number, 2,500 have been seized in just the Bronx alone.

"This is a prime example of why we're doing this to individuals on these scooters," Daughtry remarked regarding the city's aggressive crack down. “There is a direct relation to people riding around on illegal scooters and committing crimes.”

This is but one of many crime problems vexing the Big Apple.

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New York has been seeing a troubling increase in street crime in the last few years, and it's not the only city to have this problem. What's baffling is how so many of these cities still adhere to leftist justice policies, who still employ (let's say this softly) Soros-sponsored District Attorneys and prosecutors, and don't even seem to set about looking for the actual reasons that these problems exist. 

Were we to conduct a rigorous root-cause analysis here, one of the first cause/effect chains it would be helpful to look hard at is the ‘urban policy’ path, including the revolving-door justice system that seems to be in place in most of our major cities today. We’ve seen these results time and again, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and many other places. 

We could also examine the impact of millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom can't even speak English and who are effectively unemployable, and many of whom are young men - some of whom we already know come here intending to commit crimes.

A look hard at the educational pathway could be illustrative, as well.  Our big-city schools are failing, horribly, with some of them cranking out only single-digit percentages of graduates that are proficient in math and written English. That can’t help.

Add in the inexplicable growth of a toxic, brutal, misogynistic urban “thug” culture, and you have a recipe for trouble.

Our major cities are melting down. This New York case is just another indicator of an overall trend. There's little reason to be sanguine about things turning around any time soon; Chicago, to name one example, not long ago suffered four years of incompetent leftist leadership by an incompetent mayor and reacted by kicking her out of office and electing an even more incompetent leftist, on the theory that if ‘progressive’ policies don’t work, then one just needs to ‘progressive’ harder.