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| James Keivom |
Don’t blame COVID for a sick rise in crime.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Monday blamed criminal justice reforms passed by ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a pandemic-era spike in crime — while ripping the idea of President Trump sending the National Guard to the Big Apple.
Tisch jumped in when the moderator at an otherwise cordial Citizens Budget Commission breakfast kicked off the Midtown event by implying that crime in the city rose because of disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
“It really gets me when people say that,” Tisch said. “The pandemic was tied with drastic changes in our criminal justice laws that happened to take effect Jan. 1, 2020 — the whole time during the pandemic.
“In my opinion, crime went up as a result of the drastic changes we see in our criminal justice laws in New York City,” she said.
The commissioner singled out the state’s Raise the Age law — which upped the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18 and was passed by then-governor and current mayoral contender Cuomo in 2019 — as creating a “consequence-free environment” for youth.
“It is maddening, and the results of it are even more maddening,” she said. “The number of kids that are victims of shootings are up 83% since those laws changed. The number of kids that are shooters is up almost 100% in that time.”
Crime remained stubbornly high in the city after Mayor Eric Adams took office in 2022, and only recently showed promising signs of decline.
Shootings in the city this summer reached record lows, as murder and other major felonies steadily declined this year as Tisch imposed law and order on an NYPD racked by leadership scandals.--->READ MORE HERE
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| AP |
Andrew Cuomo never heard of the no-bail law; he’s proud of ending an “injustice”; it was the other guy; someone faked his name on it; it never happened in the first place.
The ex-gov is whiplashing himself all over the place on his record of criminal-justice reform as he pretends against all evidence — and sanity — to be the pro-public-safety mayoral candidate.
“We don’t have cashless bail” in New York, Cuomo said (with a straight face!) last week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to cut federal funding to areas that embrace the pro-crime “reform.”
Sorry, Andrew: Tell that to 94-year-old Audrey Hawkins. She was trying to catch the E train in June when serial criminal Edwin Wright bashed her in the head — just a few months after his arrest for assaulting a child . . . and rapid release because his charges weren’t “bailable.”
Other times, Cuomo resorts to other lies, insisting for example that the (all-powerful?) state Legislature warped his noble vision: He had wanted “judicial discretion” in there, but lawmakers overrode him.
No-bail passed as part of the state budget, which is assembled in weeks of negotiations and compromise; if the governor (easily the most powerful of the “three men in a room” that cut the final deal) really wanted something, he could get it — albeit at the expense of something else he wanted.
Not to mention that this noble son of Mario and Matilda called for cashless bail long before he signed it into law. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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