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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — June 29, 2022
The Issue: Mayor Adams’ comment that he was “shocked” at how badly metropolis sources are managed. It’s nice that Mayor Adams acknowledges that town is dysfunctional (“Now it’s time to fix it, Mr. Mayor,” Editorial, June 28). After eight years of former Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Democratic Party’s assist of the defund-the-police motion […] More
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in CrimeWe should make NYC extra accountable on the homeless and mentally unwell
New York’s comeback from COVID-19 stays hampered by the dual crises of homelessness and psychological sickness. Many metrics are objectively dangerous. Adding to the issue, attitudes about normalcy seem to have modified. Street and subway situations that circa 2019 individuals took in stride as a part of big-city life are much less acceptable to employees […] More
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in CrimeHarry Wilson: How, as governor, I’d turn around New York’s crime problem
New York is broken. Taxes are too high. The cost of living is skyrocketing. And our streets are getting less and less safe. Politicians have failed us, and with every new scandal, misuse of taxpayer money and radical policy, they hope for one of two outcomes: that voters have grown numb to the status quo […] More
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in CrimeNYC pols have let the mentally ill take over our streets
The threat-laced ramblings of alleged subway shooter Frank James, now in custody, have a disturbingly familiar ring, don’t they? Sure, they’re on YouTube — but bitter mumblings of the same sort are heard all day, every day in New York’s increasingly untenable subway system. So the question of the moment is this: How long will […] More