On Sunday night President Trump put New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on notice that he may bring in the federal government to control the city if the mayor cannot rein in the spiking violent crime in the president’s home town.
“Law and Order,” President Trump tweeted. “If @NYCMayor can’t do it, we will!”
Law and Order. If @NYCMayor can’t do it, we will! https://t.co/N88GX9Rkc9
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2020
Fox 5 New York reports as many as five people lost their lives to gun violence in the Big Apple, and there have been as many as 30 shootings within the last 72 hours. There were 13 shooting deaths total from all of last week.
Brooklyn borough president and former NYPD captain Eric Adams told local news he has not noticed a “level of urgency that should come from the city when you have a high level of violence.”
“I would hate to believe that we’ve become immune to violence based on the geographical location and ethnicity of the victims,” he added.
Fox 5 reports there has been an act of gun violence in every borough, leaving behind a bloody trail of 43 shooting victims total, ten times higher than the same weekend in 2019.
Since the beginning of the year there have been 1,087 gunshot victims in NYC compared to 577 from the same time last year, according to Fox 5. There have been 263 fatalities from shootings in New York so far in 2020, judged against 196 in 2019.
The explosion in violence compelled the New York Post to print an editorial titled “We Need Someone to Run for Mayor Who Will Save New York.”
“By the beginning of the de Blasio era, the murder rate had fallen by nearly 90 percent. Today, Gotham is plummeting at warp speed — yet it’s eminently savable,” the editorial read.
On Sunday, Fox Business reported thousands of residents are fleeing New York City as a result of the hardship of filling a record number of apartment vacancies, COVID-19 shutdowns, and the raging violence from demonstrations as well as unchecked street crime. 16,000 residents ran for the greener pastures of Connecticut alone during the first three months of the health crisis, according to the Hartford Courant.
President Trump has been an avid critic of Mayor de Blasio due to the civil unrest, riots, and unimpeded violence that emerged after the death of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police. Trump’s promise to deploy federal troops to Democrat-run cities has been met with pushback, as progressive legislators claim the agents only add to the tension in these areas.
In the meantime, New York’s mayor has taken the side of the looters and rioters before his own police force, critics say, as he painted murals to honor the Black Lives Matter mob, slashed the NYPD budget by over a billion dollars, and even saw his own daughter arrested while participating in mob action.
The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the nation’s largest police union, endorsed President Trump for reelection last week and recently posted on Twitter about the challenging week in New York that ended with a final count of 12 deaths and 69 victims.
“The reasons aren’t complicated,” the PBA wrote. “Our city politicians have demonized us at every turn and in the process stripped us of necessary tools to get guns off the streets. When cops are left handling crime with a ‘light touch,’ violent gangs step into the void and reign [sic] terror on NYers.”
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