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in CrimeGov. Kathy Hochul fails to tie NY lawmaker raises to harder bail legislation: sources
Gov. Kathy Hochul tried to commerce approval of a massive legislative pay raise for harder bail guidelines — solely to cave when Democrats secured a veto-proof majority within the state Senate, The Post has discovered. Hochul — who got battered over New York’s controversial bail reform legislation throughout this 12 months’s gubernatorial marketing campaign — […] More
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in CrimeHochul & Adams’ ‘imaginative and prescient’ for post-COVID New York will get it nearly completely fallacious
No cheers for Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “shared vision” for a post-COVID-19 New York City, which they touted at an Association for a Better New York occasion this week. Their evaluation of the town’s present troubled financial scenario under-plays essentially the most vital subject: unchecked crime. Their prescriptions for change are imprecise, quixotic […] More
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in CrimeNew Yorkers give Kathy Hochul low marks on assembly coverage targets in 2022: ballot
A majority of registered New York voters say Gov. Kathy Hochul has failed to revive religion in state authorities — whereas falling brief over the previous 12 months on dealing with challenges like rising crime and skyrocketing rents, according to a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning. The governor has her “work reduce out for […] More
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in CrimeAnti-farebeating turnstiles are preposterous and dear — simply implement the rattling regulation
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Janno Lieber says the reply to the company’s $500-million-a-year farebeater problem is jumper-proof turnstiles. That figures. Anything however imposing the regulation is everyone’s go-to reply to the crime dragging down New York’s cities lately. Thus it’s an excessive amount of to count on the top of New York’s sprawling, on-the-verge-of-going-broke mass-transit […] More
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in CrimeIll-conceived bail reform legal guidelines have plunged New York right into a state of chaos
This previous August, I made a decision to go away my place as the executive judge of Queens Supreme Court Criminal Term. This was a troublesome determination, as I cherished my job and my time period was not set to run out till the tip of 2024. But public security in New York City is […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — Nov. 30, 2022
The Issue: Reports that conviction charges have dropped considerably underneath Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. District Attorneys Alvin Bragg, Larry Krasner and George Gascón are all recognized for gaslighting the general public they have been elected to guard [“The (Ugly) Bragg Difference,” Editorial, Nov. 28]. They deny crime has risen. They enable repeat offenders to proceed […] More
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in CrimeWith subway crime nonetheless rising, severe enforcement is the one reply
Subway crime continues to be headed the improper manner, and it might worsen if the MTA and NYPD don’t implement the official Code of Conduct. As Monday’s Post reported, felonies within the subways are up 40% this yr by means of October over the identical interval final yr. And, no, that’s not simply because riders […] More
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in CrimeLee Zeldin has proven Herschel Walker the way to win
Lee Zeldin has a lesson for Georgia Republicans. The Long Island congressman might not have defeated Gov. Kathy Hochul, however he brought out the red in a deep-blue state. In New York that made the distinction in quite a few congressional and state legislative races. In Republican-leaning Georgia, the Zeldin strategy is what can elect […] More
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in CrimeUnless Hochul will get severe on crime and dysfunction, the MTA will fall off a fiscal cliff
It’s official: New York City as we all know it’s dead, except our crime- and disorder-loving leaders in Albany can proper the ship on our disastrous no-bail regulation and different criminal-justice “reforms” which have killed the MTA’s post-COVID recovery and have it facing a fiscal cliff. The company is dropping some $200 million a month, […] More
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in CrimeWith midterms over, The New York Times abruptly notices horrific crime within the metropolis
Oh, now The New York Times notices horrific crimes within the metropolis: On Friday, it reported on a brutal rape that happened in a West Village park simply days earlier than final week’s midterm elections. The Times story recounted how police had been searching for alleged attacker Carl Phanor, a homeless man with 25 prior […] More
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in CrimeFentanyl mega-bust travesty reveals how hole left’s line on public security actually is
It seems you can get caught with 20,000 fentanyl pills and stroll, because of New York’s mandate that judges impose the “least burdensome” pre-trial remedy of accused criminals. Will the state’s leaders ever deign to repair this? Manuel Pagan was busted for a massive stash of the drug driving our hideous wave of overdose deaths […] More
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in CrimeDems’ finger-pointing doesn’t change Hochul’s No. 1 job: Get crime down
Days after Rep. Lee Zeldin got here inside 5 factors of defeating incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats misplaced 4 House seats within the Hudson Valley and on Long Island, the blame recreation was in full fury. Soon-to-be-ex-Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the top of House Democrats’ marketing campaign operation — and the primary chair in […] More