It's official...New York city's #1 attraction now is for crime and criminals! Used to be folks went there to see a good play or visit a nice restaurant. Now folks doing that are likely to get robbed, shot, or stabbed. Wonder what's changed?
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the Legislature’s reforms mean that 1) far fewer perps even qualify for remand (bail or jail), so all but the very worst offenders are free soon after any arrest, and 2) prosecuting anyone at all is far more difficult, so fewer-than-ever cases end with prison sentences, too.
Plus, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg fully buys into the pro-criminal ideology behind the state “reforms,” and most other DAs aren’t as far behind him as they should be.
All these stats show why the public in poll after poll ranks crime as its top concern, but few elected officials seem to care.
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More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year — the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available. The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.
“Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,” said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“This is kind of like monumental kind of stuff,” he told The Post, “like once in a lifetime.”
See what happens when you let Leftists run things?
A year into Eric Adams mayoralty, NYC is still losing ground on crime
Adams (who’s staring at huge budget problems down the line) so far doesn’t seem interested in adding to the ranks of the NYPD. He boasts of his (real) progress on homicides, but we see no sign of a…
nypost.com
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the Legislature’s reforms mean that 1) far fewer perps even qualify for remand (bail or jail), so all but the very worst offenders are free soon after any arrest, and 2) prosecuting anyone at all is far more difficult, so fewer-than-ever cases end with prison sentences, too.
Plus, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg fully buys into the pro-criminal ideology behind the state “reforms,” and most other DAs aren’t as far behind him as they should be.
All these stats show why the public in poll after poll ranks crime as its top concern, but few elected officials seem to care.
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NYC saw record levels of felony crimes last year, most in over 15 years
Mayor Adams, a former cop who ran a public safety platform, repeatedly dismissed concerns of crime as a “perception” created by the city’s media.
nypost.com
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More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year — the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available. The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.
“Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,” said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann, now an assistant professor at Manhattan’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“This is kind of like monumental kind of stuff,” he told The Post, “like once in a lifetime.”
See what happens when you let Leftists run things?
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