A Zohran win could end the NYPD’s gang database — – Latest News
NYPD boss Jessica Tisch and her rank and file keep scoring spectacular wins in opposition to crime, thanks in no small half to the division’s gang database.
Yet Zohran Mamdani is vowing to scrap it.
Yet more grounds to wish he doesn’t turn into mayor.
Major crimes plunged 7% final month, vs. August 2024, the newest stats show — certainly it was general New York’s most secure August on file.
“In the first eight months of the year,” boasts Tisch, “the NYPD drove down shooting incidents and shooting victims to the lowest levels” in metropolis historical past.
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Subway crime has additionally hit “record lows, excluding the pandemic years.”
Tisch praises the gang database specifically: “Much of the violence” over the previous few weeks in The Bronx “is gang-related. We know who the gang members are, thanks to a Criminal Group database. And know where they operate,” so “[we’re] going after them.” Bravo.
These gang-related information have long confirmed very important, particularly when gang-on-gang assaults threaten to escalate.
This spring, Tisch credited it for serving to cops nab Tren de Aragua gangbangers who attacked police.
Yet since 2022, Mamdani has pushed to have it dismantled, siding with critics who declare it quantities to racial profiling, since most people in them are black or Hispanic.
D’oh: Most gangs are black and Hispanic; of course a gang database will replicate that.
Thing is, the victims of gang violence are nearly solely minorities.
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So scrapping this instrument — denying cops important data to ID potential witnesses and suspects — will harm blacks and Hispanics most.
Crime victims are invisible males, ladies and kids to Mamdani & Co.: Who are the actual racists?
Nor will Mamdani’s pro-crime measures end there: He says he’ll eradicate the NYPD’s elite Strategic Response Group; he received’t add cops regardless of the pressure’s scarcity, however as an alternative shift assets away from policing to a new Department of Community Safety that may depend on near-useless “violence interruption.”
On Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams boasted of the metropolis’s current crime-fighting successes, insisting, “Our public-safety plan is working.”
But it’s assured to stop if Mamdani takes City Hall.
