New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledges a spike in shootings is alarming but wants to reassure people the police department is handling the problem.
The mayor held a question-and-answer session Tuesday, a day after the release of police department figures showing shootings in the city are up 9 percent from the same period last year, from 403 to 439.
But de Blasio wants to keep the violence in perspective. He notes shootings were limited to about a dozen precincts, were largely gang-on-gang violence and were reminiscent of a similar pre-summer spike that was decisively quelled a year ago.
Starting next week, 330 police officers will be pulled from their usual duties for special patrols to handle the spike and manage other violence predicted during the hotter months.
(AP)
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Thanks Bloomberg for discontinuing Stop & Frisk. Enjoy the fruits of your labor!!
Just curious! You were the mayor for 12 years – why did you wait till the last few months in office to discontinue the very successful program? Is it, just perhaps, cuz you enjoyed the low crime numbers and you knew that Stop & Frisk was a largely contributing factor? Huh? Huh?
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Bloomberg didn’t have much choice but even if he would have NOT stopped it – De Blazio would!
Yes the police can handle it well if you a leftist nut job will put back stop and frisk. If not there will be more murder on your shoulders. Warn your son when seeing black teens and early 20 to watch for guns and knives.Blackk lives don’t matter to you because you took the cops tools away