These days, New York City looks a lot like Gotham City.
America’s largest urban areas are falling into violent, lawless disarray as soft-on-crime politicians refuse to lock up criminals.
NYC is one of the worst.
The city has a decades-long history of high crime, but rates had hit a record low just before the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, they have skyrocketed. According to a 2022 poll of registered voters, 74 percent would say crime is a “very serious” issue (only four percent would say it is not very serious). By contrast, in 2017, only 33 percent said it was a very serious issue.
Part of NYC’s problem is that its progressive politicians have gone soft on crime.
This week, a 36-year-old man was arrested for brutally beating a man with a baseball bat. Less than 24 hours later, however, he was free.
Security footage showed the attacker approaching an unsuspecting 47-year-old man, pulling a baseball bat from his pants, and hitting the pedestrian in the head. The victim fell to the ground, at which point his attacker stomped on him before marching away.
Meet Karim Azizi, a NYC Manhattan man arrested over a caught-on-video assault in which he allegedly pulled a baseball bat from his pants and hit a man on the street in the back of the head. https://t.co/xSfTr95EGj
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) December 8, 2022
According to Fox News, prosecutors asked the court to set the bail at $40,000, but it was instead set at $7,500. The assailant’s girlfriend quickly made bail, and he was back on the streets.
A similar incident occurred in NYC earlier this year when a man violently threatened customers with an axe at McDonald's only to be released shortly thereafter, in this case, without bail.
The Manhattan Institute notes in a thorough report on crime in New York that the state reformed bail in 2019. Ever since, crime has gone up.
Jim Quinn, the author of the report and a former Queen County assistant district attorney, said he thinks “people are starting to realize that we made a mistake, and I hope that people in New York sit back and look at this and say, ‘We have to correct this, and we have to get back to some kind of sanity. Otherwise, the city is just going to fall apart.”
Unfortunately, because of woke, progressive politics our elected “leaders” are failing to do what is best for their constituents; they are failing to keep their cities safe. This rampant spirit of lawlessness must come to an end, and that begins by electing true leaders who will actually keep criminals off our streets.
