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| Gov. Hochul finally sees the light on public safety in NYC |
| 2022-03-19 |
| [NYPOST] Looks like Gov. Kathy Hochul has gotten the message on crime. Good for her — and good for New York, too. Hochul, as this newspaper first reported exclusively Thursday, has abandoned her puzzling timidity on public safety and is pushing legislation that would tighten New York’s notorious no-bail laws, target both young gunslingers and subway crime generally and beef up the state’s power to detain and treat the mentally ill — against their will, if necessary. And there’s the key word: necessary. It is necessary for Hochul to do this — just as it is necessary that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins face down their lunatic-fringe progressive caucuses and not only take up Hochul’s 10-point public safety plan, but not gut it in the process. That is, it is necessary that New York confront and defeat crime and serious civic disorder, just as it did a generation ago, and for the most fundamental of reasons: A society that will not do its best to protect its citizens from predation has no moral claim on their loyalty, their industry or their resources. Eventually, it will wither and fade — which is precisely where New York was in 1993. Hochul, up for a full term in the June primary, now seems to want no part of that. But why the change? |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 A plumber with no campaign budget knocked out a top Dem in NJ. The national environment is heavily in favor of GOP candidates. African American and Latino voters are giving the GOP a look. Hochul may still win, but the easiest path would be for her to remove the DA in NYC. That is the only way to restore order in the city. It is within the governor's power and only within the governor's power to remove the DA. I don't think she will do it. I expect the GOP candidate to pound the issue. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-03-19 22:45 |
| #4 I’ve read that the Republican candidate for governor actually has a real chance, but I know nothing more — not even his name. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-03-19 22:20 |
| #3 The NYC prosecutor is Soros-backed and has been put in place specifically to destroy the city so that the proles will accept The Reset. Hochul is not getting in the way of that as she is on the same team. She’ll orchestrate a pantomime of activity but accomplish nothing and blame somebody – probably conservatives. Biden will do the same thing regarding increasing American energy production. There will be a puppet show, but some vital element will remain blocked. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-03-19 20:48 |
| #2 Once again: 'The polling must be absolutely brutal" |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-03-19 15:00 |
| #1 All talk. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-03-19 08:41 |