New York City appears to have experienced a surge in shootings this week after the New York Police Department announced that it was eliminating its plainclothes anti-crime unit.
The New York Post reported that since Monday, there have been 28 incidents and 38 victims reported, compared to a total of 12 shootings for the entire week at the same time last year. The Post added, “There have been 97 shootings this month so far, compared to 89 for the whole month of June last year.”
“This is what the politicians wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” a law enforcement official told The Post. “All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.”
The apparent increase in shootings comes after the NYPD announced at the start of the week that they were disbanding their plainclothes anti-crime unit, and would reassign the approximately 600 police officers in the unit to other positions.
“When you look at the number of anti-crime officers that operate within New York City, and you look at a disproportionate, quite frankly, percentage of complaints and shootings — and they are doing exactly what was asked of them,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “It will be felt immediately throughout the five district attorney’s offices, it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect.”
Shea noted that the decision came from him, and that he thought “it’s time to move forward and change how we police in this city.”
New York City Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the announcement as being “very powerful” during a press conference the following day.“It’s permanent,” de Blasio said. “It’s a decision – look, Commissioner Shea and I have talked for a long time, literally for six and a half years about all the changes needed in this department and we’ve been steadily implementing them, and what we find is that these reforms work, they help us fight crime in a better way, and they bring community and police closer together.”
“So, this is a permanent change,” de Blasio continued.
Emphasis mine to emphasize what a stupid, incompetent, cowardly, moronic idiot deBlasio is. They talk about removing the qualified immunity for cops; why can’t the idiot deBlasio be sued for personally causing the deaths of the victims of these shootings? Particularly since legally protection one’s self with a weapon is made intentionally difficult if not impossible for most NYC citizens.
POLITICS RUIN EVERYTHING AN COST INNOCENT LIVES WHEN WILL THIS ALL END?
So, after 6&1/2 years worth of talk, the decision was to cut the anti-crime (plainclothes) unit then crime ballooned.
Since, obviously, the natural consequences of disbanding this unit never came up in all that time, what did they discuss?
so sad to bad! nyc will become a shit hole like san fran, la., chi., minneapolis all run by democraps. over $500 million is damages in minneapolis and there are no plans to rebuild the city. what is hilarious is that p.c. shea has been in office only one year but de blasio, lying sack of shit , indicated a 6 1/2 years conversation with the pc. what a pile of leftist political garbage.
The Big Apple way too many worms just another city ruined by Liberals and Liberal Democrats