Eric, you were there when we took crime down from 2200 murders a year to 500. Remember how we did it? We actually let the cops act proactively and backed them up. When they locked up violent thugs they actually went to prison. Listen to the guy who was at the helm and please wake up and knock this shyte off, embarrassing.
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After 21 lost days, Adams is just beginning to develop his plan to reduce crime.
40% up in serious crime, 70% grand larceny, 160% auto theft, probably a record for a new Mayor.
Not to mention children and police who seem to be open targets.
Stop the gun control political bull.
Criminals don’t register their guns.
Instead use constitutional Terry stops to seize guns from the bad guys, (as approved in my administration by AG Reno and DAG Holder because it was 400,000 or so fewer, a much greater rate of success and justification and can be done now not after a long study…check the records), demand Soros funded DA Bragg is fired and incarcerate criminals until we are safe.
That would be 21 days or more of victims too many, but a start.
The officers, rookie Jason Rivera, 22, who was killed and his 27-year-old partner, who was gravely wounded, were the fourth and fifth cops shot in the city this month.
WARNING: The following video may be disturbing to some viewers.WATCH: A police pursuit of a motorcycle driver came to a deadly end with a horrific crash at an intersection in West Hills West Hills is located in The San Fernando Valley, minutes north of Los Angeles (via @cbsla)
The officers, rookie Jason Rivera, 22, who was killed and his 27-year-old partner, who was gravely wounded, were the fourth and fifth cops shot in the city this month.
You know Eric, I was and I am still holding out hope for you. You wore the uniform, you had a front row seat to what was truly going on, regarding crime and violence in NYC. You rose the ranks and were out spoken and active on issues important to you. You wore the uniform.
Yet last night you let us down. You jumped on the Commie Democrat talking point that it is guns killing people and causing crime.
“It is our city against the killers,” Adams said during an emotionally charged press conference at Harlem Hospital, where the officers were rushed following the shooting. Adams called what happened an “attack on the city of New York” and “the children and families of this city.” The new mayor denounced gun manufacturers and traffickers “carving highways of death, destroying our communities” and blamed federal authorities for not stanching the flow of illegal firearms into the city.– Eric Adams
5 cops shot so far during your administration. A cop was killed last night and his partner is fighting for his life and you BLAME GUNS and not the predicate violent thugs pulling the triggers??? People who think like this allow these animals back on the street no matter how many times brave cops take them off.
Guns exist all over the USA, in conservative states and towns far more than NYC. Why then is it only in Democrat BLUE cities, where guns are ILLEGAL, that we have rampant gun violence??????
You and every other Democrat know the answer to that. All making them illegal does is to keep them out of the hands of decent, responsible people who actually OBEY THE LAW! No one is that ignorant to think releasing predicate violent thugs from prison and decriminalizing crime will not have a negative impact on violent crime stats.
Eric, your term is still in it’s infancy. Please don’t forget where you came from and what you learned as a NYC cop. You know what works and what SAVES LIVES. These violent thugs are killing black and brown people primarily, so if you need a Marxist “divide and conquer” talking point to run with, use that.
Take violent thugs off the street and crime will go down just like it did in the 90s. Not rocket science. You can’t claim ignorance like the lunatics running our Democrat shyteholes. Do the right thing for decent hardworking NYC residents in these neighborhoods and their protectors. Do your job and save lives Eric.
WARNING: The following video may be disturbing to some viewers.WATCH: A police pursuit of a motorcycle driver came to a deadly end with a horrific crash at an intersection in West Hills West Hills is located in The San Fernando Valley, minutes north of Los Angeles (via @cbsla)
The two Florida deputies who committed suicide within days of each other, leaving their 1-month-old son an orphan, had both been honored for saving people’s lives, according to reports.
St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen died Jan. 2 and Deputy Victoria Pacheco took her life “in the wake of Deputy Osteen’s death,” Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement this week.
Osteen, 24, who served in the US Marines, was awarded Deputy of the Year in 2020, a year after joining the department, WPTV reported, citing his personnel records.
“Clayton and Victoria were joy-filled, first-time parents excited about their growing family, enamored with their baby Jayce, and so in love with each other,” a statement says on a GoFundMe page for the child.
“Tragically, for reasons completely unknown and totally out of character, Clayton took his own life December 31st, 2021. Reeling from the shock of loss, Victoria took her own life two days later,” it continues.
Seattle, like most other Democrat-run cities across the US, has experienced a massive spike in crime thanks to radical, felon-first policies that have emboldened criminals like never before.
One of the most ridiculous of said policies, which drastically limits the situations in which officers can engage in vehicular pursuits, was implemented in the Emerald City last year.
It’s not exclusive to Seattle either. Because of these policies, criminal pursuits are essentially banned all across the state.
Naturally, the greatest (and likely only) benefactors of this, are the criminals.
On Wednesday, employees of KIRO Newsradio captured a shocking example of this new policy in action when they recorded a driver of a stolen vehicle casually driving away from several police officers who had surrounded the car with their weapons drawn.
The incident happened directly outside their studio in downtown Seattle.
‘Ambush-style attacks’ against officers were up 115% in 2021 compared to 2020
A “historic” 346 police officers were shot in the line of duty in 2021 — 63 of whom were killed, according to the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents more than 346,000 U.S. law enforcement officers.
“As we have said before, the recent erosion of respect for law enforcement and anti-police rhetoric has fueled more aggression towards police officers than what has been seen in previous years,” FOP President Patrick Yoes told Fox News in a statement.
The five states with the highest numbers of officers shot in the line of duty were Texas (43), Illinois (29), California (23), Georgia (19) and Florida (17).
“Ambush-style” attacks — when officers are shot at without any warning or opportunities to defend themselves — were up 115% in 2021 compared to 2020, with 130 officers shot in 103 ambush attacks.
Yoes encouraged Congress to pass the “Protect and Serve Act” of 2021 that would make it a federal crime to knowingly cause or attempt to cause injury to an officer.
“The attacks on law enforcement officers during 2021 were a harsh reminder that our law enforcement officers are not just in harm’s way due to the dangerous nature of their profession, but that they are the targets of cowardly individuals whose sole motivation is to injure or kill a law enforcement officer,” Yoes said. “Despite all of this, the brave men and women of law enforcement will continue to hold the line, stand in between good and evil, and work tirelessly to protect the communities they serve.”
More than a dozen major U.S. cities ended 2021 with either record homicides or the highest homicide numbers in two or three decades, including Atlanta (30-year record) and Chicago (25-year record), even as other violent crimes such as aggravated assault and non-violent crimes such as burglary decline in the same areas.
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