{"id":34106,"date":"2020-07-25T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gov-cuomos-deadly-silence-on-de-blasios-policing-disasters-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T23:47:00","slug":"gov-cuomos-deadly-silence-on-de-blasios-policing-disasters-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gov-cuomos-deadly-silence-on-de-blasios-policing-disasters-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gov. Cuomo\u2019s deadly silence on de Blasio\u2019s policing disasters in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gov. Cuomo\u2019s deadly silence on de Blasio\u2019s policing disasters in NYC<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Gov. Andrew Cuomo just gave his favorite punching-bag another heavy workout, taking Mayor Bill de Blasio sharply to task for the anti-cop graffiti disfiguring public buildings all over Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Too bad he had nothing much to say about the anti-cop politicians uglying-up New York\u2019s public square. Or the spent-bullet casings littering city streets on any given morning. There\u2019s a connection between the two, you know.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling the mayor: Cleaning up the city is important. You have a lot of negativity in the air now. Positive progress, move forward,\u201d commanded Cuomo during a Manhattan press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n

It was another through-the-looking-glass moment for New York, New York \u2014 where shootings are up, arrests are way down and the pols all live with their heads in the ground.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that gun crime has exploded in New York \u2014 that the city suffered through its bloodiest June in 25 years, that a 1-year-old was murdered July 13 at a barbecue in Brooklyn and that while Gotham isn\u2019t quite yet Chicago, Baltimore or Philly, the trend line is terrifying.<\/p>\n

But then there\u2019s this, which hasn\u2019t been getting nearly enough attention: Between mid-June and mid-July \u2014 a period when the city was wracked by the shootings, by a double-digit crime increase and by violent civic disorder \u2014 arrests were down an eye-popping 62 percent compared to 2019.<\/p>\n

Specifically, gun arrests were down fully 67 percent. Normally this would indicate fewer guns on the street, but the municipal casualty count demonstrates clearly that something else is going on.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s that cops \u2014 no dummies, them \u2014 recognize fully the strengthening emergence of a political movement dedicated to insulating criminals from the consequences of their crimes. And that they are reluctant to fall victim to it.<\/p>\n

This seems completely to have skipped the attention of both Cuomo and the city\u2019s let\u2019s-pretend mayor. It also was as predictable as the sunrise.<\/p>\n

Albany\u2019s turn-\u2019em-loose bail \u201creform\u201d and the impediments to reasonable prosecution it imposed on district attorneys last year set the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

Official enthusiasm for the #DefundThePolice movement \u2014 including Cuomo\u2019s overreaching executive order imposing structural changes on local police departments statewide \u2014 didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

And then came the City Council\u2019s truly benighted criminalization of reasonable, tried-and-true arrest protocols for resisting suspects \u2014 legislation that Smilin\u2019 Bill de Blasio staged a road show to The Bronx to sign.<\/p>\n

The bill horrifies law enforcement professionals everywhere \u2014 Westchester County and the State Police, for example, have warned their officers not to engage with criminal suspects in the city. Westchester cops regularly cross over into the city, and Cuomo has stationed scores of troopers in Manhattan \u2014 so this is a big deal.<\/p>\n

And while the startling decline in NYPD arrests began weeks ago, it\u2019s equally true that the bill guarantees even fewer arrests in the future. This is fine if your goal effectively is to help criminals avoid jail but maybe not so hot if your child has just been struck down by a stray bullet at a family cookout.<\/p>\n

As for the cops themselves, it\u2019s all about choices:<\/p>\n