They’re starting to run out of excuses.
The mayor and police have repeatedly blamed a coronavirus-related court shutdown for the explosion of gun violence rocking the city — but firearms cases are making their way through the criminal justice system at the same rate as last year, a Post investigation shows.
The revelations come after The Post showed that the NYPD’s own data did not support those claims that bail reform and early prison releases over coronavirus were driving the spike.
“It’s a combination of things — bail reform, COVID releases from prison, court shutdown, which has Rikers [Island] at half of where they were,” Chief of Department Terence Monahan said in a July 6 press briefing, seeking to explain the 70-percent rise in shootings this year. Commissioner Dermot Shea and Mayor de Blasio have also blamed court closure for the uptick, with Shea calling the tie “indisputable” on Monday.
But the data tells another story.
In December 2019, as the city officials touted a record-breaking low in shootings, there were 2,285 open gun cases in Gotham with 13 percent of suspects awaiting trial, according to an analysis by The Post.
In July 2020, with shootings skyrocketing to 1990s-like levels, the courts had 2,181 open firearms cases and 10 percent in lockup — or 104 fewer pending gun cases, the data shows.
Additionally, of the 1,957 people facing gun charges out on the streets in July — which is 27 fewer than in December — only 2 percent, or 39 people, were busted again for a firearm, according to the data obtained by The Post.
There were also more gun and murder arraignments from April to June compared to October through December last year, with 819 over the three-month period this year compared to 642 last year, court data shows.
The buck continues to stop everywhere but on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s desk.
Hizzoner once again attacked the messenger Thursday rather than address a new Post article that found firearms cases are going through the criminal justice system at the
same rate as last year — refuting his claims that a coronavirus-related
court shutdown is most responsible for this summer’s surge in shootings
“I have not seen The Post article and I don’t always get accuracy from that publication,” de Blasio sniffed during a virtual City Hall press briefing when asked about the damning piece by a Wall Street Journal reporter.
In December 2019, there were 2,285 open gun cases in Gotham with 13 percent of suspects awaiting trial, according to the Post analysis based on NYPD and court data. In July 2020, the courts had 2,181 open firearms cases and 10 percent in lockup — or 104 fewer pending gun cases, the data shows.
There were also more gun and murder arraignments from April to June compared to October through December last year, with 819 over the three-month period this year compared to 642 last year, court data shows.
De Blasio tried to discredit those numbers — before realizing they came from his own police department.
“Anyone can try and manipulate a statistic,” he said.
When the Journal reporter pointed out the data were NYPD statistics, de Blasio refused to back down.
“It’s a publication that historically has provided inaccurate information. It may be accurate statistics in this case, but I’m just not going to be gentle about the point that when there is a history of inaccuracy and an axe to grind it’s worth saying,” de Blasio fumed at The Post, rather than addressing the issue at hand.
“There is no one claiming the court system is functioning as normal. There’s just no one doing it,” de Blasio flailed.
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More evidence that this is an illegal war being waged against America by democrats/communists...
Hoaxvid 1984 isnt simply some airborne global virus that kills vulnerable people.
Its probably 100,000 times deeper than that to the point where every conspiracy theory is true. And theres nothing you can do
Both sides are wrong. This is simple cherry-picked comparisons to arbitrary years and months using a simple percentage change formula taught to 5th graders by both de Blasio and the Post. These are not any meaningful stats but total garbage that does not explain or refute the given reasons for the spike in shootings.
So what are the reasons for the increase in crime? Could it be releasing criminals from jails in case they get the Wuhan coof, bail reform (that lets perps go free until trial) or cops not making arrests because if the perp resists, the cop gets arrested instead?
Of course not! That's silly to think criminals would commit crimes if released or be repeat offenders. Or notice cops not making arrests would inspire them to commit more crimes. It's all the fault of Orange Satan with his evil magical forces like systemic racism and y'know, reasons and stuff.
Or as Huffpoop claims: Orange man bad, there is no increase in crime and these aren't the droids you're looking for.
Orange Satan along with Boris and Natasha are using Russian mind control rays to make you think there is an increase in crime and that the demonstrations were violent when they totally weren't 'cause Huffpo said so.
Whatever else, don't listen to those naughty right-wing deniers who tell us the holy scriptures of progressive liberalism are disastrously wrong. If empirical evidence doesn't match what the infallible high priests of the left tell us is true, then a stubborn denial of reality will see us through.
Donald Cavaioli
This is why I love the NY Post. I have a home delivery subscription to support them. You ever notice when there's an article in the NY Post, stuff gets taken care of?
ME LOVE THE NY POST>
I see the usual Queens Fascist brigade are let out of their cages again. Next up George Google It The Fascist, Harry Drink Lots Of Chlorox Haller. Shame to think so many Americans died in WWII fighting fascism only for dumb ass baby boomers to elect one to the White House anyway. No wonder USA is the laughing stock of the world with so many binary brain buffoons allowed into the gene pool. Fuck off to Florida you Fascists. Mini Trump would love to have you. Otherwise I’ll set Willie Guthrie’s guitar on you.
The whole liberal world view is based off fake statistics and unrealistic world views.
It's funny how all of these separate local governments come up with the same ideas all at once. Liberalism is the public health emergency & All Lefties are absolutely obsessed with race.
“The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man. White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal.”
- Malcolm X
Guthrie and Seeger were A OK with Hitler until Adolph set his sights on their Uncle Joe.
So take that guitar and shove it up some Marxist’s ass.
The biggest reason for the gun violence in NYC is that cadaver you call your Mayor and the democrat party. I hoping all the dems in my beloved city run to NYC.
@ Bored With Fascists who wrote "Shame to think so many Americans died in WWII fighting fascism..."
Fascist. Moi? Surely you jest. Fascism is a variant of collectivist socialism. Adolf Hitler was a National Socialist. Goebbels, Roehm, the whole lot of them. Left wing to the core. You can read all about it in a book. (It's OK to use your finger moving along with the words while moving your lips.) Americans died fighting collectivist-to-the-core German socialism and Japanese militarism. Died to protect freedom, individual liberty, and entrepreneurial endeavor. Stalin and Hitler - no diff. The antediluvian analogs of the Crips and the Bloods
Rise ? "It's a Myth" - J.Nadler
Im afraid this country is ruined forever. We should have been paying closer attention to how our kids have been being educated in the past 10 years. We've trusted the democratic school system to do the right thing an they have brainwashed an entire generation of fascist traitors who are now blindly fighting for the takedown of this country.
Send the national guard in, REMOVE this MAYOR and send his stealing wife KNITTING !
People use your brains, dump your left wing mayors and governors before your cities turn into ghost towns. We still have a chance to keep our country.
Funny how every fascist commentator replays the same old lines from the same old playbook. Willie Guthrie "were A OK with Hitler" ? "Adolf Hitler was a National Socialist. Goebbels, Roehm, the whole lot of them. Left wing to the core" . Same old lies from the same old liars. Gorge"I Googled It somewhere"theFascist, you obviously didn't do well at school. The rest of your education probably came from too much free time watching Fascist News or reading other Murdoch propaganda. You've probably been living on welfare for a few years. Just as a FYI. Hitler and his buddies were extreme right wing fascists, similar to yourself, except with a brain. Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet are other examples of your kind (except with brains too). Yes, Communist and Fascist authoritarians are very similar. Modern day fascists would include Xi Jinping, Putin, Netanyahu, Trumpanzees etc. Unlike his followers, Trump just plays a fascist on TV. Now go back to your cave and watch Tucker or read Q.
As I see this problem, there are two central issues:
Eliminating the Street Crime Unit sent notice to the jungle that “we is now runnin da show”. Fear has a function in this realm. When certain types are not afraid of getting caught with guns and sent to prison, they go wilding.
An animal trainer will tell you “if –you-- are not in charge –the animal is”.
Another BIG problem are all these goddamn “easy gun” states. The child-minded killers on ours and other city’s streets aren’t getting their weapons from Best Buy or some bodega. They are being brought-in by the thousands from States with poor gun control laws, usually idiot red states.
Just as New York has so-far contained this version of SARS virus, you have places where idiots listen to talk radio and Donald Trump causing their infections to climb and eventually threaten us again. We now have to take extra measures to protect ourselves from terminally stupid populations where reality & science are ignored.
Rob in Manhattan
Hitler and his Nazi party were "National DEMOCRATIC Socialists," Bored with fascists writer. They were extreme leftists who surprised their constituents when Hitler announced his dictatorship. You are the one who needs to read history. It foretells your future in America.
Just Saying said...
@Rob in Manhattan said...
Demorat Speaker Piglosi of the House made the case that people should be flocking to San Francisco's Chinatown to combat Donald Trump's attempts to stop Covid-19 from spreading.
Fredo's brother sends infected COVID-19 patients to nursing homes !
Mayor DeBozo kept NYC schools open during the pandemic for many days !
Version of SARS virus = China Virus !
Another BIG problem are all these goddamn Useful Idiots from NYC.
@Bored with fascists said...
I watch Tucker and read Q. So What ?
The city has been brought to it's needs. DeBlasio is a coward
@georgetheathiest
dude, the Nazis were socalist like the DPRK is a democratic people's republic - i.e. in name only.
Dont tell people to read books while simultaneously showing such a lack of understanding in your own post.
The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man. White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his advancement, never for his own progress, he’s only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal.”
- Malcolm X
Did you google this and copy and paste?
Then what does this say about white conservatives like yourself then? You’re admitting then that you and white conservatives wish to oppress blacks?
“A lie repeated a thousand times will become the truth.” - Joseph Goebbels
"Did you google this and copy and paste?" No I had coffee with Malcolm and wrote it myself dumb ass ! How do you know I'm a conserative ? Oh you read minds too. GTFO snowflake...
"Dont tell people to read books" That's right erase history you jerk !
@Bored with fascists said... I smell a troll !
Some readers here on Queens Crap act as if people cannot see their Poisonous Rhetoric and False Narrative... We can, we do, and I have Popcorn.
To last Anonymous: Send the national guard in, and REMOVE BOTH criminally insane, corporate obedient sycophants, Bill de BLASS-hole AND Sonny 'CUOMIGULA' (a/k/a Little Andy 'Cuomosexual). They BOTH destroyed, dishonored, disgraced and DEVALUED New York State government with a vengeful impunity that remains unprecedented, to date. And, the public be damned (again and STILL). And, if THEIR actions don't magnify what it means to be un-American and ANTI-American——then, I don't know what DOES!
❝We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to public office.❞ ——Aesop
❝Learn to disobey immoral orders. Otherwise, you will reinforce more tyranny and oppression.❞ ——Anonymous
FEAR is the CURRENCY of CONTROL!
❝Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.❞ ——Rose Luxemburg
❝ALL tyrannies rule by force and fraud, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force.❞ ——George Orwell
❝The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.❞ ——Albert Camus
❝The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.❞ ——H. L. Mencken
❝Terrorism, first and foremost, is an instrument of statecraft.❞ ——Neil Kramer
❝The system cannot be fixed by the system.❞ ——Tom Morello
❝The media have now become the propaganda arm of the very wealthy.❞ ——Brian Emo
❝There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion.❞ ——Daniel Dennett
❝You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.❞ ——Harry S. Truman
❝Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is that they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.❞ ——Harry S. Truman
❝Today's America has become EVERYTHING that Hitler wanted his Germany to be: A fascist nation that holds the entire world at gunpoint. A nation where there are no free elections, the multinational corporations have merged into a few giant conglomerates cornering the market and calling the shots, and where the media are entirely controlled by the state, as the government spies on its citizens and the police terrorize them―in perpetuity.❞ ——Anonymous
❝It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion. ALL of the harbingers of collapse are visible: Crumbling infrastructure, chronic underemployment and unemployment, the indiscriminate use of lethal force by police; political paralysis and stagnation; an economy built on the scaffolding of debt; nihilistic mass shootings in schools, universities workplaces, malls, concert venues and movie theaters; opioid overdoses that kill some 64,000 people a year; an epidemic of suicides; unsustainable military expansion; gambling as a desperate tool of economic development and government revenue; the capture of power by a tiny corrupt clique; censorship; the physical diminishing of public institutions, ranging from schools and libraries to courts and medical facilities; the incessant bombardment by electronic hallucinations to divert us from the depressing sight that has become America, and to keep us trapped in illusions. We suffer the usual pathologies of impending death. I would be happy to be wrong. But, I have seen this before. I know the warning signs. All I can say is: Get ready.❞ ——Chris Hedges
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMp9SZT2Sk&feature=youtu.be
Hey the quote guy is back!!
It's Brian Eno, not Emo
I have been enlightened by "George The Fascist" (GTF for short) and the usual stream of QC fascists. Thank you for all this. So, Hitler and Co. was really a left wing radicals? I guess he and Mussolini ware going to reveal this to the world sometime after the war? How about Franco and Pinochet? Did Franco forget to announce his secret left wing beliefs all those years after the war? Wow, Hitler really did put on a good act. I should have known. So GTF, this being Queens, does that mean that everyone who lives here is a Queen?
Thank you GTF and Co. As well as providing some much needed amusement, I now understand the mindset of the local right wing fascists a little better. Hey I bet if we get attacked by some Saudi Arabian terrorists, you guys will come up with a great idea to go attack a rock in Iraq for revenge. Or even better, I'm sure you will reveal to the world that Covid-19 was incubated in Hilary Clinton's pocket book, and released just to get revenge on Trump. Or better yet, that Covid-19 is just fake news and all those dead people don't come close to all the people Hilary killed in Benghazi. But you'd be too smart for that wouldn't you?
Hooray quote guy promise you'll come back soon !
Russky Drussky said...
Ten little liberals
Started to whine
One choked on his tears
And then there were nine
Nine little liberals
Promoted such hate
One of them killed himself
And then there were eight
Eight little liberals
Said there's no heaven
One went to hell
And then there were seven
Seven little liberals
Were into black chicks
One didn't want one
And then there were six.
Six little liberals
Got out their knives
One got a paper cut
And then there were five
Five little liberals
Got a knock on their door
One had a heart attack
And then there were four
Four little liberals
Declared they were free
Down came the monument
And then there were three
Three little liberals
Didn't know what to do
One got a job
And then there were two
Two little liberals
Thought arson was fun
One caught on fire
And then there was one
One little liberal
Purchased a gun
He aimed at a Texan
And then there were none.
To JQ, my auto correct, spell check in human form: Yes, I know that it is Brian Eno; it was a typo. But, thank you for alerting me.
Irony of the day: Today, August 6, 2020 on Google there is a story reported by Jennifer Smith (of Dailymail.com) about how Sonny CUOMIGULA is now 'begging' city residents to return to Manhattan.
THIS from a criminally insane sociopath who bankrupted New York State LONG before the Coronavirus, and who robbed The TAPPAN ZEE Bridge of its historic, Dutch namesake to pay a disgraceful homage to his equally crooked-and-corrupt father, Mario. Hey, Sonny, it will ALWAYS be THE TAPPAN ZEE, you ungrateful ape, and why you aren't rotting in a putrid jail cell with ALL of your 'OTHER' New York State payroll pals, all of whom are already in the slammer - EXCEPT YOU - is one of those greatest, unsolved mysteries.
Face it, New York State residents, ugly government troglodytes like CUOMIGULA have raped, ravaged and tonsured New York State so completely, that it would take two public hangings for him to pay for his crimes against humanity (the second one after he reincarnates for the sold purpose of another public execution).
What delicious irony that this voracious, predatory and rapacious, tone deaf thief too every subversive action to murder my once great, third generation born and raised state, and now he is looking for help - ironically from the SAME people whom he left to rot, EN MASS, in obscurity.
Go hug a landmine, Cuomosexual - and, take your criminally insane brother and family with you!
Check it out HERE - a picture is indeed worth a thousand words: Collectivist left-wingers Josef und Adolf share a meal on Eintopf Sonntag (One pot Sunday) as do all in collectivist left-wing National SOZIALISTISCHE Deutschland. What's on the menu? Woody Guthrie Goulash. ("This grub is your grub. This grub is my grub.") Feel the (heart) Bern.
Collectivists of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your minds!
Yes he Sonny CUOMIGULA bankrupted New York State before the Coronavirus and I remember him boastfully talking about "Three" men in a room. Should now be three men in a prison cell !
@georgethefascist
By golly George, I think you have proven beyond doubt that Hitler was indeed a communist. Eating from a big pot with Stalin. Who would have thought. This is a true revelation. So he wasn't a fascist at all then? You may have uncovered something more important than the Obamacare Death panels, or Hilary's pizza parlor pedophile ring. I followed on your great leadership and uncovered more communists here, having a collectivist meet up. Communists I
Can you believe it? Winston Churchill, the hero of WWII was actually a communist. I'm sure your not surprised at Roosevelt, after all he was a liberal, which goes against your fascist nature.
Upon more digging, the conspiracy got bigger. I was shocked to find that Ronald Reagan, the union destroyer, was a closet communist too. Look here, I GOOGLED it.
Communists II I guess destroying unions was smoke and mirrors to make people believe he hated socialism.
Well done GTF, here's your prize, Your Prize
Keep on blogging.
Fascism = Communism. Both collectivist to the core.
"Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory . . . both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state." - Ayn Rand, Capitalism. The Unknown Ideal
The flumoxed Woody Guthrie burned his guitar after the Hitler-Stalin pact.
You can have the last word. I'm outta this page for now. Long Live Queens Crap!
@BWF. George the Objectivist's linked photo shows Adolf eating the communal meal indeed with a Josef but not Stalin - as you wrote - rather with Goebbels, a real bona fide Leftist. Use your finger and move your lips and read a goddam book.
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