{"id":261517,"date":"2021-05-28T03:06:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomos-desperate-to-shift-blame-for-nycs-bloody-crime-spree\/"},"modified":"2021-05-28T03:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:06:42","slug":"cuomos-desperate-to-shift-blame-for-nycs-bloody-crime-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomos-desperate-to-shift-blame-for-nycs-bloody-crime-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo’s desperate to shift blame for NYC’s bloody crime spree"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo’s desperate to shift blame for NYC’s bloody crime spree<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cCrime, crime, crime,\u201d barked Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday, when asked to rank New York City\u2019s top problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cHo, ho, ho,\u201d said everybody else \u2014 at least those who remembered Cuomo\u2019s cowardice in the face of last year\u2019s George Floyd riots.<\/p>\n

Or his broad smile when he signed the 2019 criminal justice \u201creforms\u201d that loosed a whirlwind on the entire state.<\/p>\n

Or his stern cluck-clucking in 2020 when he demanded that every city in the Empire State slap hobbles on its cops or face ruinous state aid cuts.<\/p>\n

And criminals, being criminals, respond to feckless leadership with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

The Floyd riots were emblematic. Looters raged across Manhattan,\u00a0hitting everything from a downtown App<\/a>le store to Macy\u2019s Herald Square while busting up businesses and trashing buildings north well into the 60s.<\/p>\n

Police scarcely lifted a finger; Mayor Bill de Blasio stood in slack-jawed bewilderment; boarded-up buildings became the face of New York. And through it all, Cuomo was silent.<\/p>\n

A different governor \u2014 a better governor \u2014 would have had a National Guard convoy through the Lincoln Tunnel faster than de Blasio could say \u201cChe Guevara.\u201d But Cuomo, taking a cue from David Dinkins during the 1991 Crown Heights riots, chose to let the mob vent.<\/p>\n

This was entirely in character.<\/p>\n

As he said when he signed those criminal justice \u201creform\u201d bills in 2019, \u201cthe blunt, ugly reality is that too often, if you can make bail, you are set free, and if you are too poor to make bail, you are punished.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which might make sense up in Morningside Heights, in a Columbia School of Social<\/a> Work classroom, but not so much on Gotham\u2019s mean streets. Or on its subway platforms. Or in its iconic public spaces. Everywhere the guns are.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just the bail nonsense. Progressives applauded as Cuomo signed bills that, among other things, require prosecutors to tell defense lawyers where potentially damning witnesses live. Imagine that.<\/p>\n

Crime had already been rising \u2014 up 30 percent in 2019 \u2014 when Cuomo signed those bills. This supercharged the crisis. No wonder there was an explosion.<\/p>\n

The governor, clever fellow that he is, noticed. \u201cThere is no doubt that [\u2018reform\u2019] is a work in progress,\u201d he said. \u201cChanging the system is complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The scene where two people were shot inside the B\/D subway station on Grand Concourse at East 182nd Street in the Bronx on May 22, 2021. <\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not, actually. All you have to do is stop enforcing seemingly minor laws, or at least deep-sixing penalties, and \u2014 presto! <\/em>\u2014 you have the bad guys committing the big ones: murder, robbery and rape among them. And now the gangbangers are relentlessly strafing city streets.<\/p>\n

Surely Cuomo gets the connection \u2014 but, really, butter wouldn\u2019t melt in the man\u2019s mouth. Wednesday\u2019s crime diatribe was aimed at de Blasio\u2019s flaccid policing policies, which derive from a moronic worldview, and clearly the mayor had it coming.<\/p>\n

But what was Cuomo really saying? There is no mindreading necessary here: Nothing is ever Cuomo\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

Thousands shoved into nursing homes, with cataclysmic results? The feds made him do it.<\/p>\n

Caught leching on the help? The ladies \u2014 all 10 of them \u2014 should have known he didn\u2019t mean it.<\/p>\n

Now the worm is turning on crime, so it\u2019s time to pin the tail on the donkey in City Hall.<\/p>\n

Maybe it will work. Most likely not, at least in the long run. Cuomo is in a world of hurt, on multiple fronts. He has no friends; his one good buddy, Joe Percoco, now stews in federal prison. The Assembly, seriously or otherwise, is considering impeachment. Attorney General<\/a> Tish James has got a harassment\u00a0probe going. And the feds are looking into\u00a0the\u00a0nursing home debacle.<\/p>\n

And now the Empire State seems to have had it with the progressive approach to crime. Cuomo has been around long enough to know that voters can be slow to anger, but when that happens, things get ugly, as Dinkins discovered in 1993.<\/p>\n

Does the governor still harbor hopes for a fourth term? Perhaps. He will be lucky to get out of the scrapes he is already in. But if New Yorkers fully tumble to his role in their slowly cresting crime tsunami, his goose is cooked well and proper.<\/p>\n

So, time for Plan B: Lie, lie lie.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @rlmac2<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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“#Cuomo’s desperate to shift blame for NYC’s bloody crime spree” \u201cCrime, crime, crime,\u201d barked Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday, when asked to rank New York City\u2019s top problems. \u201cHo, ho, ho,\u201d said everybody else \u2014 at least those who remembered Cuomo\u2019s cowardice in the face of last year\u2019s George Floyd riots. Or his broad smile when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/cuomo-crime.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[107443,70430,71964,5042,72202,4953,4947],"class_list":["post-261517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-27-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-bail","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-criminal-justice-reforms","tag-new-york-city","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}