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NYC’s cop bashers need to get on board to make the city safe again

Post Editorial Board

 

New York Post

January 23, 2022

 

 

Following the murder of rookie NYPD Officer Jason Rivera, Mayor Adams is promising a comprehensive anti-crime plan this week that will include his promised new anti-gun unit as well as more cops underground 

 

 

“Now your soul will spend the rest of my days without me, throughout me, right beside me. I love you till the end of time,” runs the heartbreaking Instagram post from the widow of slain NYPD cop Jason Rivera to “my beautiful angel.”

This, as police sources share fresh details of the brutal killing, saying body-cam footage shows the perp kept shooting at the two officers as they lay helpless on the floor.

Meanwhile, Sunday brought another subway shoving (no serious injuries this time, thankfully) and a gruesome Brooklyn shooting of two teen girls and a man, 35, sitting in a car, among other horrors.

Enough.

Mayor Eric Adams now vows to offer a comprehensive anti-crime plan this week that will include his promised new anti-gun unit as well as more cops underground. As we’ve noted, he’s saying the right things in broad terms; we look forward to more details, including how he’ll ensure that those officers actually patrol the subways.

 

DA Bragg has come under fire for directing his office to take a lenient approach to prosecutions by dropping some misdemeanor cases and not seeking bail or prison time in a host of others

 

And other electeds need to step up, too — to wind back the “reforms” that leave far too many perps facing revolving-door “justice” and police reluctant to be proactive. And, in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s case, to remove Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg if he persists in refusing to do his job.

Cop-bashers like Public Advocate Jumaane Williams expressing sympathy for victims and outrage at violence isn’t enough when the city is seeing atrocity after atrocity: Walk the walk, people.