{"id":347104,"date":"2021-10-01T03:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T00:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-has-some-nerve-bragging-of-progress-in-cutting-down-on-shootings\/"},"modified":"2021-10-01T03:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T00:10:55","slug":"de-blasio-has-some-nerve-bragging-of-progress-in-cutting-down-on-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-has-some-nerve-bragging-of-progress-in-cutting-down-on-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio has some nerve bragging of \u2018progress\u2019 in cutting down on shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#De Blasio has some nerve bragging of \u2018progress\u2019 in cutting down on shootings<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/lga-airtrain-12.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s hard sometimes to imagine how some politicians look themselves in the mirror: Last week Mayor Bill de Blasio touted his administration\u2019s \u201cprogress\u201d in reducing shootings. Never mind the continual horror stories, like the gunfire that left two 16-year-olds, Jaden Turnage and Cahlil Pennington, dead in separate incidents this week. Or the fatal stabbing this month of a 17-year-old, allegedly by a 15-year-old who\u2019d been freed despite a gun charge.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio deceptively cherry-picked numbers to show that five of the city\u2019s eight patrol boroughs saw fewer shootings in 2021 compared with 2020. The five \u2014 Brooklyn North, Brooklyn South, Manhattan South, Queens North and Staten Island \u2014 had a combined 474 shootings so far in 2021, vs. 584 for the same period in 2020. Trouble is, they had only 284 shootings in 2019, so they\u2019re still almost 200 shootings above 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the other patrol boroughs \u2014 Queens South, Manhattan North and The Bronx \u2014 saw 674 shootings this year, 140 more than in 2020 and almost 400 more than in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Citywide numbers tell the true story: By this time two years ago, there were 680 shooting victims in Gotham, but that number <em>more than doubled, <\/em>to 1,376, over the same period last year. In 2021, it\u2019s even higher: 1,381.<\/p>\n<p>Murders soared from 235 deaths, year to date, in 2019, to 340 in 2020 and 336 this year, a 43 percent jump. The mayor seems h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y that the crime rate is leveling off at those hideous 2020 rates. A normal person would be alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>De Blasio brags that gun arrests are up 23 percent over last year, marking the most such collars since 1996. We\u2019re supposed to take comfort in this? <em>Total <\/em>arrests are down almost 60 percent since then, so why more gun arrests? It\u2019s because more people are carrying guns on the street; they no longer fear the police or courts.<\/p>\n<p>When gangbangers and criminals carry, the risk of random shootings rises. Street fights, bar fights, territorial disputes, grudges all get settled with shootings, not fists. And because a shooter\u2019s aim is not always accurate, passersby and neighbors get shot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>And what happens to these gun arrests? NYPD statistics show only 18.5 percent (not even one in five) of those nabbed for possession this year are in custody. The county with the lowest incarceration rate for gun possession: Brooklyn, with 13.1 percent, which \u201ccoincidentally\u201d is the county with the largest number of gun arrests and shooting victims.<\/p>\n<p>The county with the second-lowest rate: The Bronx, at 18.9 percent, which also \u201ccoincidentally\u201d has the second-highest number of both gun arrests and shooting victims in the city. When the likelihood of going to jail for gun possession is low, bad people will carry guns.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the face of this carnage on the streets, our politicians insist on more inmate releases. De Blasio wants more people let loose to solve problems he created at Rikers. Last week, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill to im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely release almost 200 parole violators. The new bail laws and city release policies have already set 2,000 people free since January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Crime started to rise dramatically as these inmates were freed, even before COVID. Now the Rikers population hovers around 6,000, but the city plans to reduce it to just 3,300 so it can close Rikers and build \u201ccommunity jails.\u201d That means another 2,700 career criminal inmates will need to be released.<\/p>\n<p>These are not turnstile jumpers and marijuana smokers \u2014 there are no such offenders at Rikers. Rather, they are seasoned criminals: repeat offenders with lengthy records.<\/p>\n<p>Our legislators have spent the past 10 years claiming New York\u2019s criminal-justice system was broken, even as it reduced both crime and incarceration to historically low levels. Now their \u201creforms\u201d have truly destroyed the system. It is their work, insidiously labeled \u201ccriminal-justice reform,\u201d that has ruined the system and is ravaging neighborhoods across this still-great city.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe our legislators should spend more time visiting the almost 1,400 people shot this year in this city or the graves of the 336 people murdered. They won\u2019t, but you\u2019d think the mayor would at least have the decency to be honest on his way out the door.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Quinn was executive district attorney in\u00a0the Queens DA\u2019s office, where he served for 42 years.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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