Creating a Lawless City: The Apple’s Crime Surge
I have seen the city in worse shape than this, having grown up here in the ’70s and ’80s (“Going back in crime,” Feb. 13).
But I am seeing a return to things that gave my parents PTSD.
The NYPD is not doing anything to curb violence. They are not enforcing any summonslevel offenses at all. They are doing less than they are paid to do.
The NYPD has become useless with the passing of laws that encourage crime, and because of a criminal-justice system run by judges and district attorneys who want no one incarcerated.
If New York City is not going to enforce laws, incarcerate criminals and seek to control violent crime, then why do we pay taxes for a police force that is powerless?
This city has lost the war on decency, and it has traded its dignity for nonsense social programs that encourage criminal behavior.
Brian Flynn
Brooklyn
Well, it’s déjà vu in New York City. If you look at the numbers, you can see that every kind of crime has gone up again.
Mayor Adams had promised in his campaign that crime would be his most primary concern. It sounded good when he said it, but unfortunately, it’s not happening.
With the migrant problem that he is facing in the city, which he cannot handle, all our other problems have worsened.
Adams has to start to line up his most important priorities and do what has to be done — and that’s to protect the people of our city from all this rising crime.
Until that’s done, the crime will keep going up with no end it sight.
Rob Johann
Queens
New York City is experiencing the perfect storm when it comes to crime. It is a combination of indifference by Albany legislators, woke district attorneys, impotent judges and a restrained police department.
Adding to all this are the weak sentencing laws for gun possession and the unbridled recidivism by repeat felony offenders.
We should consider raising the penalty for gun possession from one year to five, as in the UK. As for those repeat felony offenders, an estimated 3,000 or so, we can remove them via a threestrikes law.
I can hear the words of Rep. Lee Zeldin when he said he would declare a state of emergency, to the chagrin of Gov. Hochul. I think the time has come.
Phil Serpico
Queens
Crime has risen since last year. Felonies are at a record level.
Maybe now Mayor Adams will stop trying to convince us that crime is under control and the streets are safe.
Or will the sheep who voted him in continue to live in delusion?
Rob Cerone
Manhattan