Soft on crime policies result in more crime in New York
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How bad is New York City’s real crime problem?
Look at the hideous new recidivism numbers pointed out by Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at their year-end crime-stat press conference Monday.
Since 2018, the city has seen recidivism skyrocket: Among offenders with three or more arrests in a single year for the same crime, numbers are up a whopping 147% for those charged with felony assault and 119% for grand larceny-auto.
Grand larceny saw a 71% jump in recidivists; the rise was 64% for shoplifting and 61% for burglary.
These are not good people who stumbled into crime by bad luck.
They’re not victims of poverty or any other social ailment.
They’re hardened and hard-core repeat offenders, committing crimes with what is clearly ever-increasing enthusiasm and impunity.
Like subway slasher Jamar Banks, who had racked up 54 arrests for various violent and property crimes, yet was roaming loose prior to an underground knifing spree that injured two in two separate incidents.
Why are people like Banks left free to commit ever more crimes?
Why do they feel they have the space to do so?
Because in Gotham cops and prosecutors are hobbled by city and state laws meant to keep crooks free and happy while constraining the people responsible for public safety.
Above all, the state’s disastrous 2019 bail-reform law: Being picked up and let go because their crimes no longer qualify for bail is a signal feature of the recidivists Adams and Tisch highlighted.
Or the discovery “law “reforms” that hamper prosecutors with insane paperwork requirements (that one’s so bad even Democratic legislators want to see it changed).
These recidivism numbers blow up the progressive lie that violent crooks are good people caught in bad situations.
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To stop the crime the perps need to be incarcerated. The failure to do that only leads to more crime. It is a simple concept that politicians used to understand. Apparently in New York, they must have thought that being soft on crime would lead to less crime rather than more. Now they know that is not the case. They need to get back to tough prosecutions.
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