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in CrimeNYC landlords — and residents — deserve background checks for would-be tenants
There is a rising development of treating criminals as a brand new protected class. Common-sense New Yorkers have to reject this concept earlier than it’s too late. At a City Council Hearing on Intro 0632, which might prohibit background checks by landlords on potential tenants, advocates and my fellow council members forged criminals — who’ve […] More
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in CrimeSpeaker Heastie’s pathetic pique at being referred to as out for hovering teen homicides
“I’m not answering any of the questions from The Post,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie introduced this week as he ignored a query from our Albany chief, Zach Williams. It appears the speaker’s offended by an editorial headline that blamed him, by title, for rising homicides of and by metropolis teenagers due to the Raise the […] More
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in CrimeHochul takes an excellent step towards fixing bail legal guidelines — however not remotely sufficient to rein in crime
Good for Gov. Kathy Hochul for pushing at the least one vital step towards fixing the state’s disastrous bail reforms — but there’s a ton extra to repair to roll again New York’s out-of-control crime. In presenting her budget Wednesday, Hochul known as to get rid of “confusion” by scrapping the requirement for judges to […] More
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in CrimeSorry, progressives — The Post isn’t any outlier in reporting the horrors your crime reforms have triggered
Progressives in Albany faux the reality on crime is difficult to find out; their denial can be laughable if it didn’t empower a lot unnecessary struggling. “I maintain studying in some newspapers,” huffed Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz (D-Bronx) at a listening to Monday “that rearrests are skyrocketing,” although knowledge introduced by Division of Criminal Justice Services […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — Dec. 23, 2022
The Issue: A serial robber who broke into the Manhattan townhouse of actor Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro’s sanctum was invaded whereas he and his daughter have been house, sparking one more name to alter our disastrous no-bail legal guidelines (“You takin’ from me? ” Dec. 20). Every day, we’re handled to tales of the […] More
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in CrimeNYC murders are down — however not for ladies and ladies
Three years in the past this month, when three teen boys held 18-year-old Barnard pupil Tessa Majors down close to Morningside Park and stabbed her to demise, it was sufficient of an aberration that every one New York was shocked. Such femicide in New York City is not so uncommon. With 2022 practically over, 74 […] More
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in CrimeThe finish of Title 42 will improve hovering fentanyl deaths
President Biden’s border insanity isn’t just killing migrants and US legislation enforcement officers; it’s killing children and destroying households by way of the large influx of medicine the White House has invited. Title 42 — a Trump-era rule and one of the few brakes on our current massive migrant inflows — will expire this week. […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — Dec. 16, 2022
The Issue: A deal minimize with a repeat offender to lighten the workload for the Manhattan district legal professional’s workplace. In most private-sector jobs, it doesn’t matter what trade, when companies are confronted with a deadline to fulfill, they discover a approach to meet that deadline (“Too busy to try,” Dec. 16). The workers choose […] 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 CrimeBiden’s return to ‘normalcy’ introduced us loopy as an alternative — like Sam Brinton
Remember the Trump years? Back then we have been instructed the administration, like its head, President Donald J. Trump, was deeply unserious: impulsive, ignorant, probably corrupt and at all times vulgar. All in all, a shame to the hallowed historical past of American authorities. One argument for electing candidate Joseph Robinette Biden was {that a} […] More
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in CrimeEven as the rich flee NY, progressives push to punish them extra
A brand new metropolis evaluation exhibits that an enormous chunk of high-income earners fled in 2020. Yet progressives refuse to listen to the alarm bell: They’re pushing to “tax the wealthy” but once more as a substitute. The examine by the town’s Independent Budget Office exhibits a ten% plunge in taxpayers who remodeled $750,000, and […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — Dec. 12, 2022
The Issue: The Trump Organization’s conviction on 17 felony fees, together with for tax fraud. Former President Donald Trump could escape felony punishment for his involvement within the Jan. 6 rebel try and for taking categorised paperwork to Mar-a-Lago, however the efforts of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James […] More
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