NYPD Commissioner Explains Source of Crime. Really?

[From article]
“There is just less respect for authority. I think some of it’s coming out of the fact that we have so many home environments in our country that are not home environments in the traditional sense, in that there’s no direction at home.”
And that lack of direction has made it harder for cops in the field to do their jobs as they are forced to deal with an increasingly hostile public, he said.
“I think it’s a general sense of the liberalization of our society, and I think my average police officer in the street would tell you that he is encountering more resistance to his or her authority, and that’s inappropriate because it ratchets up what they have to do to get acquiescence to things they are attempting to enforce,” the top cop said.
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The dysfunction extends to the schools and the streets, he said.
“Many of our schools are struggling to provide guidance and keep control in the school environment. We’re struggling in the streets,” he said.
Bratton said that in parts of New York City, poverty and substandard housing are also a big part of the mix.
“You can see in our city where you have high unemployment, high poverty, poor housing, poor schools, you have crime. They all go together,” he said.

[Suggesting that all poor people are criminals is the same as saying that all persons accused of mental illness are criminals. Crime needs to be separated from poverty and from psychiatry. Many if not most poor people are not criminals. Are there no wealthy criminals? Children of rich and famous people are crime free? No wealthy athletes and politicians who commit crimes every day? Has a lawless White House and a lawless US Attorney General encouraged any young people to ignore laws? Bratton's focus is misguided.] 

http://nypost.com/2015/06/11/bratton-blames-broken-homes-for-anti-cop-hostility/

Bratton blames broken homes for anti-cop hostility
By Bob Fredericks
New York Post
June 11, 2015 | 12:55am