NYC Knife Attacks Due to Good Policing, Says Mayor | Total Conservative
While critics are disturbed about New York City returning to its crime-filled, dangerous pre-Giuliani past under the liberal guidance of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the mayor himself says an uptick in knife attacks is actually a sign that his NYPD is improving the city.“I’m not a criminologist,” de Blasio said of the slashings. “But I can safely say that guns are being taken off the street in an unprecedented way. Some people, unfortunately, are turning to a different weapon.”Since the beginning of the year, there has been a 20% increase in the number of slashings – many of them random attacks by criminals using knives, razors, and other cutting implements. But while a correlation in reduced shootings would seem to provide some measure of support for the mayor’s argument, crime in general is way up in 2016. Furthermore, while shootings have fallen this year, they’re still higher than when de Blasio came into office.Law enforcement experts who spoke to Fox News said that de Blasio’s crackdown on illegal guns had nothing to do with the rise in slashings: “These criminals didn’t just start carrying knives out of the blue or because of the guns getting taken — I don’t believe that for a second,” former NYPD Detective Scott Prendergast, who runs the private investigation service Cornelius Investigations, told FoxNews.com. Instead, Prendergast blames the rise in knife attacks on de Blasio for ending “stop-and-frisk,” a policy in which police officers stop people based on suspicion and frisk them for weapons or other illegal items.
Source: NYC Knife Attacks Due to Good Policing, Says Mayor | Total Conservative
