Pregnant Louise Thompson cradles her baby bump as fiancé Ryan Libbey takes social media snaps after devastating fire at her homeĬaitlyn Jenner REFUSES to comment on Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's engagement in a snub to her former stepdaughter A subway criminal arrested for a misdemeanor rather than a felony wouldn’t go to prison, but he wouldn’t be victimizing anyone for a while, either.' As it turns out, muggers don’t pay the fare. 'We also quickly learned that the serious criminals committed petty crimes, too. 'But we knew that serious crime is more likely to occur in a lawless environment - and unaddressed low-level disorder signals lawlessness.
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'We didn’t mandate “zero-tolerance” enforcement, because broken windows as I’ve practiced it has always hinged on officer discretion,' Bratton said. 'Beat cops were proving that addressing little things before they got big worked,' he said.īut in today's climate of reimaging policing and the criminal justice system, this aggressive approach to reducing crime has 'fallen out of favor', although he argues that it shouldn't have. Just five days ago - on August 4 - a woman was executed in a brazen, point-blank shooting four miles away in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn.Ī female shooter got out of her car with a gun behind her back, casually walked up to Delia Johnson, a mom of one, and shot her in the back of the head in front of other people before getting back in her car and driving away.īill Bratton, former NYC police commissioner under mayors Rudy Giuliani and Bill de Blasio, pushed the 'broken windows' theory in a recent post on his website While de Blasio took his victory lap many New Yorkers are wondering if the program is actually working as the city is inundated with violent crime. 'There is more to do, but the NYPD is moving and making an impact,' de Blasio said. Overall since the safe summer program was launched in May, murders have gone down 26 percent, shootings decreased 10 percent and shooting victims are down 11 percent.
'The gang takedowns mean taking a lot of bad guys off of the streets and at the same time a lot of shooters off the streets, this is crucial,' de Blasio noted.
Rapes in New York City were up 3.1 percent so far this year, with 842 reported as of August 1, compared to 817 in the same period of 2020Īccording to the mayor, the summer month of July is usually one of the most violent in the city but the NYPD 'rose to the challenge' and was able to suppress gun violence and executed an impressive number of gang takedowns. In April, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his 'Safe Summer' program, a plan aimed at ending gun violence that focused on creating disincentives for young people looking to turn to guns by offering them positive alternatives.ĭuring his Thursday briefing, de Blasio proudly proclaimed that the program has been effective and said in the month of July the NYPD saw 'extraordinary successes' to curve violent crime. Shooting victims have rocketed by 12 percent year-on-year, from 944 between January and the start of August 2020, to 1,057 from the start of this year until last week. To date, there's been a 15 percent increase in gun violence over last year, which had the highest recorded crime stats in decades, with 900 shooting incidents so far this year, compared to 777 for the same period of 2020. The Big Apple - like many metropolitan cities across the US - has been plagued by gun violence. Anyone with information is asked to call or or NYPDTips at 800-577-TIPS. Police said there weren't any previous calls for criminal activity at this locationĪs of Sunday night, there were no arrests. The Brooklyn Garden Event Space on Wortman Avenue and the corner of Wortman and Georgia avenues are where the two shootings took place.
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