Former NYC Police Commissioner says minority communities want more police, not fewer

Former NYC Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik says that studies show that most Latino and Black communities don't want the police defunded, but want more of a police presence. 

"If you go into New York City, and you go to Bed Stuy, or somewhere in Brooklyn, where there's a solid Black community, I guarantee you, those community leaders — the real community leaders in those communities, they're going to tell you, 'bring in as many cops as you physically can,'" Kerik said on the Wednesday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.

Kerik referred to the activists who live outside of minority communities who are screaming "defund the police" as a detriment to those communities.

"You have the activists on the outside, screaming and yelling about Black Lives Matter," Kerik said. "They are a detriment to the Black community."

According to Kerik, crime was way down in NYC when Rudy Giuliani was mayor.

"The most substantial reductions in New York City violent crime under Rudy Giuliani happened in the Black communities," Kerik explained. "You know, we reduced overall murder in New York City back in the early 90s and 2000s by about 70%."

Kerik said there is now a current police shortage in major cities due to the Defund the Police movement.

"Nobody wants to work in a city or for a jurisdiction where you don't have the full backing of the mayor, or the city council," Kerik continued. "In New York City, you still have city council members calling for defunding (the police). You have city council members that actively say they despise the New York City Police Department, yet they'll go out and pay for their own security."