De Blasio/Cuomo fume as DOJ cuts funds
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Started by metmike - Sept. 21, 2020, 6:29 p.m.

De Blasio, Cuomo fume as DOJ puts ‘anarchist’ NYC funds on chopping block

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New York’s Democratic leaders on Monday trashed President Trump after the Justice Department placed the Big Apple on a list of “anarchist jurisdictions” eligible to lose federal funds — with Mayor Bill de Blasio claiming the decision was “all about race.”

Responding to the news that New York has been designated an “anarchist jurisdiction” by the DOJ, first reported by The Post, de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the threat to yank funds from New York was a shameless move by Trump to boost his re-election campaign, rather than a sincere effort to discourage cities from tolerating violent protests or cutting cops during violent crime waves.

“It’s all about race and it’s all about attempts to divide and to enthrall his base by attacking ‘the other,’” de Blasio said. “This is what this guy does, it’s the only trick in his book. You gotta go back to the 1980s when he called for the execution of the Central Park Five.”

“He turns his attention, which he wants to associate with people of color — in another way, of course, he wants to associate with Democrats and progressives,” Hizzoner said. “He treats them as ‘the other,’ he tries to convince a lot of people in this country that we all are the problem and he will save his voters from all of us.”

Cuomo told reporters the move was “a continuation of his political theme” of being a “law-and-order candidate.”

“When you try to manipulate and distort government agencies to play politics, which is what the Trump administration has done from day one, it’s what the SALT taxes were — just taking from Democratic states to give to Republicans, it’s what the Trusted Traveler program was, which has been outed by the US attorney in the Southern District — so this is more of the same,” Cuomo said.

New York City made the Justice Department’s list in part because its city council approved a budget in July that trimmed or transferred to other departments nearly $1 billion from the NYPD’s $6 billion annual budget — even as murders and shootings soared."


There we go again. Democratic leaders blaming the problems they are causing on President Trump and calling him a racist but taking no accountability for the high crime rates and massive amount of blacks being killed from violent crime in their cities.

If Trump tries to reduce this, Trump is the racist. 

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By metmike - Sept. 21, 2020, 6:36 p.m.
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Gun violence shot up 177% in July, NYPD says

https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/gun-violence-shot-up-72-in-july-nypd-says/

By Tina Moore

 

August 3, 2020 |

This July saw nearly three times the number of shootings it did last year, new NYPD stats show.

There were 244 shooting incidents for the month, compared to just 88 in July 2019 — an increase of 177 percent, data shows.

The figure comes amid a stark rise in gunplay for the entire year, which as of July 31 has risen 72 percent over 2019 — 772 versus 450.

Murders increased 59 percent for the month over July 2019 with 54 versus 34. The number of burglaries also rose to 1,297 over 989, a 39 percent increase. The number of auto thefts shot up to 892 from 583 or 53 percent citywide."



By metmike - Sept. 21, 2020, 6:37 p.m.
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Attorney General Barr says New York violence spike due to bail reform

https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/attorney-general-barr-says-new-york-violence-spike-due-to-bail-reform/

Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday blamed soaring gun violence and murder in New York City on the state’s bail reform law, which he said allows the near-instantaneous release of suspects who then seek retribution.

Barr blamed the reform law, which passed last year and was amended this year, as he celebrated a one-month halving of Chicago’s murder rate following the deployment of federal agents in the multi-city Operation Legend.

Barr blasted New York while condemning “revolving door” crime policies, which he said historically caused violence to spike in the early ’90s.

“People in the community will not come forward and engage with the police if they feel that someone about whom they’ve given information is going to be right back out on the street. They need to know that when the police take someone away, they’re not going to be there the next day to retaliate,” Barr said.

“In New York, for example, which had one of the best community policing programs in the country — it’s just an amazing program. It’s essentially falling apart right now because of the changes made in state law on bail reform, where people are just out on the street almost instantaneously, and their lawyers get access to the information provided to the police that served as the basis for the arrest.”

Barr also was attorney general from 1991 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush. He pointed to other factors behind a spike in violence in major US cities following unrest over the May police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

“I think the increases in crime, there may be a number of factors involved, but part of it is the emboldening of the criminal elements, the chronic offenders, and the perhaps withdrawal of the police in the wake of the attacks on the police,” Barr said. “A lot of these hoodlums on the street feel they have impunity to carry their guns out on the street. They don’t hide them anymore.”


     

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, rejected Barr’s allegation that bail reform resulted in greater lawlessness in New York.

“It’s a lie that has been fact-checked and discredited and this two-bit Roy Cohn impersonator should knock it off,” Azzopardi said.

The reform law passed, in part, because of concern about poor people languishing in pre-trial detention for minor offenses. The state legislature in April approved changes to the bail reform law that allow judges to impose bail for a wider range of criminal suspects, including for sex trafficking and grand larceny.

President Trump last week ordered Barr to develop within 14 days a list of “anarchist jurisdictions” that can lose federal funds for tolerating violent protests or defunding police amid rising violent crime. The same memo requires federal agencies to report a list of federal funds that can be pulled from New York and three other cities.

                                    


By metmike - Sept. 21, 2020, 6:41 p.m.
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When mayhem is ‘peaceful’: Welcome to Bill de Blasio-speak

https://nypost.com/2020/09/08/when-mayhem-is-peaceful-welcome-to-bill-de-blasio-speak/

By Post Editorial Board

 

September 8, 2020 | 7:58pm

"It was a bloody holiday weekend, with 28 shot across the city, 11 on Labor Day alone. Yet Mayor Bill de Blasio, answering a question on the shootings at a doubly illegal pre-dawn J’Ouvert, insisted: “Overwhelmingly we had a peaceful weekend in central Brooklyn.”

Tell that to the 6-year-old shot along with his mom early Monday morning while exiting a taxi — and to the two dozen other victims. The Police Benevolent Association gave the mayor’s “peace” some larger context, tweeting: “Last week we had 51 shootings and 14 homicides. That’s anything but peaceful.”

Any ordinary mayor would be outraged that the shootings continue, week after week, far above recent levels, not accepting it by talking of “minimal violence.” Are New Yorkers supposed to be happy at the lack (for now) of arson and looting?

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea needs a reality check, too. He told 1010 WINS that the weekend shooting total “was kind of in the range” of gun incidents in prior years.

Huh? Labor Day weekend 2019 saw 19 people shot in 16 incidents. This year’s 28 shot in 22 incidents is a jump of 40 or 50 percent.

The top cop told 1010 WINS: “With the way things have been going lately, I would deem that a success.” At least he added, “But we have a lot of work to do, clearly.”

He noted a truly good sign: The NYPD hit a 25-year high in gun arrests last week. But that follows a month that, The Post found, had firearm arrests down 20 percent over last year. Maybe it’s the result of Shea’s redeployments — beefing up weekend hours and restoring some semblance of the anti-crime units that the mayor forced him to shutter.

De Blasio, when he isn’t denying the carnage, blames the mayhem on a “perfect storm” of the coronavirus, sick cops, unemployment and closed schools.

Conveniently, he never mentions his role in signaling that New York is wide-open for lawlessness. Since only one in five shooting incidents results in an arrest, it’s too early to know what role his decision to empty Rikers of dangerous criminal suspects played. The state no-bail law is no help either.

If the mayor really wants to console crime victims, maybe he should offer them some of whatever it is that he’s smoking."