NYC Homicides Hit 5-Year High; The Bronx Police Commander Retiring in Protest – IOTW Report

NYC Homicides Hit 5-Year High; The Bronx Police Commander Retiring in Protest

Newsmax: New York City’s homicide rate has reached a five-year high with the number of shootings increasing 42 percent from a year ago, city police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday.

Shea blamed a combination of a justice system which has been suppressed in producing criminal indictments; a deteriorated social safety net, which he claims is sending released prisoners into homelessness; bail reform laws that eliminate bail for most misdemeanor and “nonviolent” felonies; and case deferments, WNBC in New York reported.

“We cannot keep people safe without keeping bad, dangerous, people off the streets,” he said. “You have a criminal justice system that’s imploding. That’s the kindest way to put it.”

The revelation and statement by Shea comes as a police commander in the city’s borough of the Bronx has announced his retirement after nearly 30 years. Deputy Inspector Richard Brea is quitting because he’s not getting any guidance on how to get guns and drugs off the streets amid the department’s bid to reform following the riots… MORE HERE

7 Comments on NYC Homicides Hit 5-Year High; The Bronx Police Commander Retiring in Protest

  1. Dodge City without the cattle drives or sheriff but plenty of heavily armed gangs of rustlers and renegades immune from arrest to terrorize the “townies” that elected the biggest criminal of all to “run” the place.
    There is not enough popcorn in the world to watch this D- rated “movie”.
    You get what you vote for. May you enjoy the results to the full.

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  2. FAKE NEWS!!! Firearms have been outlawed in NYC since 1963!!!

    It’s the work of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL republican, honky-devil, cracka-ass WHITEYS, to besmirch this beloved, gun-free, utopian paradise, and undermine the wonderful gun bans that keep it so safe & peaceful!!!

    🙄

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  3. The paper quoted Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa as saying Brea told him, “I’m doing this and others may be following in my footsteps.”

    And you know what? No one will GAS. They’re relieved that these obstructionists are taking themselves out.

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  4. “We cannot keep people safe without keeping bad, dangerous, people off the streets,”

    That’s the problem, bad and dangerous people on the streets.

    So let’s talk about guns or drugs or something else to avoid having to go after the real cause, the bad and dangerous people.

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