NEW YORK (Newsmax) – New York City’s homicide rate has reached a five-year high with the number of shootings increasing 42 percent from a year ago, city police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday.
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Shea blamed a combination of a justice system which has been suppressed in producing criminal indictments; a deteriorated social safety net, which he claims is sending released prisoners into homelessness; bail reform laws that eliminate bail for most misdemeanor and “nonviolent” felonies; and case deferments, WNBC in New York reported.
“We cannot keep people safe without keeping bad, dangerous, people off the streets,” he said. “You have a criminal justice system that’s imploding. That’s the kindest way to put it.”
The revelation and statement by Shea comes as a police commander in the city’s borough of the Bronx has announced his retirement after nearly 30 years. Deputy Inspector Richard Brea is quitting because he’s not getting any guidance on how to get guns and drugs off the streets amid the department’s bid to reform following the riots and protests over the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the New York Post reported.
Brea will leave the department on Friday in protest over matters such as the disbanding of the NYPD’s anti-crime unit.
The paper quoted Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa as saying Brea told him, “I’m doing this and others may be following in my footsteps.”
As of this week there have been 166 homicides in New York, compared to 134 at the same point last year, a 24 percent increase year-over-year, and a 2.5 percent increase from five years ago.
Bronx Borough President Eric Adams called the increases alarming but didn’t want to see “heavy handed policing.”
“Let local communities decide who is going to police them,” he was quoted by WNBC. “Police commanders are the most powerful agency heads in our city and we don’t have enough say so on who is coming to particular communities – I think that is an important piece.”
This is what happens when Democrat support criminals over law abiding citizens, remember black lives matter until the black live is snuffed out by another black man like in every major Democrat run city.
This is what is meant by Olum Hafuch. When the cops are looked upon as criminals and the criminals are looked upon as tzadikim. crazy crazy worls.
Dumb country . We let thugs and anarchists rule the streets. the crminals are the new bosses.
Yes we need law and order
“We cannot keep people safe without keeping bad, dangerous, people off the streets,” he said. “You have a criminal justice system that’s imploding. That’s the kindest way to put it.”
Is Governor Cuomo listening? Is Mayor DeBlasio listening? Is Joe Biden listening? Is Antifa listening? Do they care? It is the downtrodden, stepped upon, abused BLACKS who suffer the most from these rules. It is the BLACKS who are being murdered. It is other minorities who are being murdered because of these laws. The rich WHITE judges who live in their all WHITE protected gated communities couldn’t care less that BLACKS are being murdered because of THEIR rulings. Why is BLM silent now?
This is what happens when you encourage crime and tell the world the police are bad.
I have heard from quite a few police officers how they simply don’t care.
We’ve all seen the videos of the police driving past people shooting fireworks at each other.
Contrary to what the left is trying to convince us. Those are not isolated incidents. They are happening all around us.
Olam Hafuch is the best way to put this.
May has hem protect us.
just asking…what career alternatives do cops have?…they are generally not the sharpest tools in the shed…not too educated…generally have bully personalities so would find it difficult to get along in the workplace….they’re lucky to be respected by most and should just shut up
It’s very telling that Eric Adams still insists on hobbling the NYPD. His own people are dying but it’s the PC,liberal ideal,which has now reached cult status,that matters most.
Eric Adams is the Borough President of Brooklyn, not the Bronx.