The Post says: NYC’s bad old days are back if we do nothing about violence
The scene where two NYPD cops were shot, on fatally, on West 135th Street in Harlem on Jan. 21, 2022 Will this horrible week finally break the madness of New York’s political class?
A woman, Michelle Go, shoved to her death in front of a subway train by a mentally ill homeless man.
A baby, Catherine Gomez, hit by a bullet two days before her first birthday, thanks to a thug who fired wildly during a street assassination.
A rookie police officer, Jason Rivera, killed by a coward with a weapon of mass destruction, while another, Wilbert Mora, fights for life in the hospital. They were the fourth and fifth NYPD cops shot this year alone.
Any one of these senseless acts would shock a sane society to its core. But we are not a sane society.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg continues his push to free criminals, gaslighting his critics by saying they can’t possibly understand his legal strategy. And if anyone happens to get locked up, Albany and the City Council will rush to free them. Progressives such as Jumaane Williams, Brad Lander and AOC will tell us the real problem is the police, as they slander the NYPD. Better hundreds more young black men die in gang violence, better children be caught in the crossfire, than anyone go to jail.
‘Time to save our city’
Progressive Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg must be recalled for allowing criminals to walk away from deadly shootings and robberies
At least Mayor Adams understands the moment, giving an impassioned speech at the scene of Rivera’s murder Friday night.
“It is time for us to save our city,” he said, “and we are going to need everyone on the same page to accomplish this task.”
He rightly noted that those bashing cops — the “defund the police” crowd — do not speak for New York City. The polls reject it. The mayoral election rejected it. The people who live in the neighborhoods hit by crime reject it. It is the heartless cause of radicals, criminals and Twitter revolutionaries.
“No matter how painful this moment is, don’t give up on these people in this city,” Adams said, addressing new NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. “Don’t give up. Don’t feel as though that they don’t want you to do your job. Twitter Instagram, the social media. They’re not the people you’re protecting. They want you here to do your job.”
Good words, but good words of course are not enough. This is a pivotal moment. And it’s time for New York’s politicians to step up:
- Gov. Hochul, you must immediately work with the Legislature to change the disastrous bail “reform” law. Judges must be given discretion to hold repeat offenders and gun possession must be made a bail crime again. Provisions must be put in place to protect witnesses in gang crimes so that they aren’t threatened for coming forward.
- Business owners and advocates already are putting pressure on Bragg, but he must be removed from office if he continues to insist that someone who commits a robbery with a weapon is charged with a misdemeanor if that weapon isn’t used. It is insane.
- To that end, Adams and Hochul both zeroed in on the illegal gun trade, saying that Washington needs to step up. We don’t disagree, but the issue more often than not is used as a dodge. It’s easy for liberal politicians in New York to point the finger at gun sellers in, say, Tennessee, and pretend that’s the end of it. What do you do when someone is caught with an illegal gun in New York City? Blaming gun running is an empty platitude if you believe that NYPD officers can’t search a suspicious person for a gun, and that someone caught with a gun gets no bail — and often no jail time. It’s not just about getting guns off the streets. It’s about getting the people using those guns off the street. Credit where due: Adams and Sewell are reintroducing the plainclothes unit tasked with this. Prosecutors and judges must have their backs.
- Mentally ill people can not be allowed to live on the subway system or streets. It is not compassionate nor right for them or others. Enough about how “rare” attacks like that on Go are. Even if the person reeling through Penn Station pushing a shopping cart and yelling profanity and racial slurs may not physically hurt anybody, it is a symbol of a city that does not care. Hochul says she’s deploying 12 rapid-response teams to the city to help with the mentally ill. They need to be given the power to take someone to a treatment center and given the help needed to make rational decisions.
Support the police
- New Yorkers, show support for the NYPD. Patrick Lynch, head of the largest police union, had it right when he urged all New Yorkers
to attend Rivera’s funeral. “The streets can’t just be full of New York
City police officers at this funeral. The public has to come. The
public has to send a message to anyone that dares to harm a New York
City police officer: not here, not now, not today, not to us. We’re
humbly asking you to come out and help us.” You know who shouldn’t come?
Politicians like Manhattan Councilmember Kristin Richardson Jordan, who on Jan. 2 called the NYPD “the biggest gang
in New York City” then had the temerity to put out a statement saying
she was saddened by Rivera’s death. She’s one of a long line of
Democratic politicians who spent the past two years calling cops every slur in the book, and now they claim to care. They can go to hell.
If you see a police officer today, tell them thank you. Tell them you care that they’re fighting to protect us. Now we only wish our leaders would do the same.
2 comments:
NYC is a shithole. Everybody KNOWS it is a shithole. It is not the insane people who make it a shithole. It is the semi-sane ones who put up with the insanity that make it so.
The same residents continue to vote liberal DA's into office while crime surges. You get what you vote for. I know this because BGB runs a similar story on NYC almost daily.
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