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in CrimeNYPD’s new boss wants to revive broken-windows policing and increase high quality of life
Congratulations, Edward Caban, on being tapped by Mayor Eric Adams because the NYPD’s subsequent commissioner. Here’s your first order of enterprise: Restore broken-windows policing and focus like a laser on the quality-of-life offenses. Gotham has seen murders begin to drop — although they’re nonetheless far above pre-pandemic ranges. Yet New Yorkers proceed to place up […] More
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in CrimeMushrooms develop on our decaying metropolis, because of Democrats
“When weed got legal, mushrooms took its place.” So spoke A, one of many psilocybin salesmen now plaguing Washington Square Park, and also you couldn’t ask for a greater illustration of the ugly drug dynamic that now dominates within the Big Apple. That is: Lefty lawmakers push for decriminalization after which legalization of illicit substances. […] More
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in CrimeMadness stalks Gotham’s streets — and residents — on daily basis
Gotham’s loopy climate solely lasted a couple of days, however the insanity within the streets by no means appears to finish. Last Sunday, a woman known only as “Pop Star” was caught on video wreaking havoc in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park, overturning a desk, dragging one girl by her hair and scarily lunging at a […] More
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in CrimeClean Slate, even for murderers, is Albany’s newest ‘reform’ idiocy
Democrats in Albany simply can’t cease rewarding criminals — on the public’s expense. Their newest: a invoice, known as the Clean Slate Act, that might automatically seal criminal records, even for murders and out-of-state and federal prison offenses after a sure period of time. Sex crimes (fortunately) wouldn’t be sealable, but loads of different violent […] More
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in CrimeShoplifters are LITERALLY killing people. It’s time to finish the insanity
The shoplifters are profitable — and so they’re inflicting untold distress for buyers, retailers and retailer staff throughout the nation. When will this utter insanity finish? When will Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York lawmakers understand they should make assaults on retail staff an computerized felony — and see that the perps endure actual penalties […] More
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in Crime‘Less is More’ horrors: the poison fruit of ‘legal justice reform’
Albany didn’t cease “reforming” legal justice after the disasters of 2019. And the “Less is More” regulation, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2021, is proving equally disastrous. The regulation made it simpler for crooks who violate their parole to remain out of jail. Cue added blood within the streets. Less is More left Charles […] More
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in CrimeAndrew Cuomo’s pathetic marketing campaign to regain public belief
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is working relentlessly to regain the general public’s respect — whilst he refuses to confess, not to mention apologize for, even his most horrific sins. In a radio interview final week, for instance, he spent an hour making excuses for his quite a few abuses as governor, denying allegations in opposition to […] More
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in CrimeLimited beneficial properties on crime aren’t sufficient to finish New Yorkers’ concern
Good information: Most main crimes up to now this yr are down a bit over the identical interval in 2022, an indication Mayor Eric Adams’ method might have began turning issues round. Homicides dropped to 146 from 168. Not-so-good information: Total crime numbers, together with non-major crimes, are up about 1% over the primary 5 […] More
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in CrimeFare hikes to cowl for fare evaders: The value of progressive ‘reform’
What an insult to the law-abiding: The MTA’s taking a look at fare hikes over 5% to protect present service ranges — however the added burden on paying straphangers is lower than half what the system is shedding to farebeaters. The will increase — 15 cents on a single ride, $1 on a weekly move […] More
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in CrimeMayor Adams’ unhappy capitulation to the crime-coddling Left
We get why Mayor Eric Adams’ new anti-shoplifting plan is so pathetically lame: It looks as if state lawmakers have left him with out no sticks accessible. So he’s resorting to limp carrots — the pabulum (early intervention, diversion companies, battle decision) that progressives maintain peddling. It’s time for some creativeness. Start with the one […] More
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in CrimeThis subway murder was low-profile, however as telling because the Neely case
Add another subway murder to the 28 others since COVID hit: Richard Washington handed away final week on account of wounds suffered practically 18 months earlier than. Back on Jan. 2, 2022, Washington was heading from the Far Rockaway homeless shelter the place he lived to go to his dad and mom when Brian Moolenaar, […] More
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in CrimeFarebeating value surges to $690M: Exposing Gotham’s crime rot
On prime of its different corrosive impacts, farebeating prices the MTA big-time — some $690 million in 2022. The big-ticket breakdown: $315 million comes from bus-beaters, $285 million from subway delinquents. This, when the company’s in a multibillion-dollar gap after the pandemic and crime fears have massively shredded ridership. The subway is the town’s lifeblood, […] More
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