Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has blamed Bill de Blasio for the city's recent surge in gun violence, accusing the mayor of 'surrendering' the city with hefty cuts to its police force as shootings surge across the US.
At least 41 people were injured and at least nine killed following a troubling spike of shootings in the Big Apple across the holiday weekend. A spokesperson for the NYPD said the majority of the incidents occurred within a 15-hour time period.
Shootings in New York City have doubled every week for the last three weeks. In the last seven days alone, the city has experienced a 142 percent surge in shootings compared to the same time period last year.
Speaking during a radio interview Sunday morning, Kelly blamed the cause of the chaos on de Blasio's decision to slash $1 billion from the NYPD budget earlier in the week.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea has previously disbanding an anti-crime plainclothes unit that had focused on stopping people and searching for guns.
'Here, the mayor eliminated the anti-crime units, which were probably the most effective tool that existed in the department for decades to fight violent street crime,' Kelly said. 'So that was a direct signal of surrender.'
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Over 600 black murders committed by other black in just 6 weeks. They are getting exactly what they deserve. Only the uncivilized and primal of society teach their youth that black lives only matter depending on who the killer is. God hates their ways and will continue this punishment on a race that acts so immoral and lies and follows the devil.
ReplyDeleteWell???? The great support (cutting $1Billion from the NYPD budget) by Mayor De BlameO would boost confidence - Yes?
ReplyDeleteFighting between the Mayor and NYPD Commish would boost confidence - Yes?
Citizens seeing how well things are portrayed would boost confidence - YES?
Criminal field- day, ABSOLUTELY!!!!
Damn Dems know NOTHING!
But remember folks, Black Lives Matter........ snicker
ReplyDeleteThis is great! They don't want the police around then they will have no choice but to live in the war zones.
ReplyDeleteNyc wasn’t bad under Rudy but upstate was pretty much safe. However the school system went full liberal 40 years ago and finally it destroyed the place. Now the nyc subways are more like a war zone. Bad. Cuomo lied got elected and raised taxes. Now his son is China China China loooover.
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Who doesn't want the police?
Blacks? Wrong. They need the police and know it. Many of the police are black. Wake up.
The bankers want to destroy America so they can print some currency and buy it up for pennies on the dollar. Once NY is thoroughly trashed beyond recognition, they will buy it up.
Then they will fund some politicians who will finance the police again, crack down on all of the riff raft, clean up the city and voila . . . New York, New York!
Simple.
Elites want the UN to make the rules to live by.
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