NYC mayhem continues: Over the weekend, a Times Square shoplifter injured a cop who was trying to take him into custody; a man was fatally stabbed in a Bronx subway station and two concert-goers said they’d been stabbed with a needle at a Union Square music event.
Oh, and the MTA saw a huge jump in subway robberies and felonies in Nov𒅌ember.
Other recent acts of violence and mayhem include:
- Gary Teasley, an accused pickpocket, with more than 30 busts, was nabbed again at Rockefeller Center — and released.
- Craig Tamanaha, the unhinged firebug who allegedly torched the Fox News Christmas tree, was released without bail, despite his history of low-level offenses.
- Davide Giri, an Italian grad student attending Columbia University, was fatally stabbed by a reputed gangbanger who minutes later stabbed a second person and was nabbed while threatening a third.
- A for reportedly walking too close to his tent in an encampment near the intersection of Herkimer and Perry Place.
- Augustin Santiago was shot dead outside a ꦜWil✃liamsburg subway station during rush hour.
- Overnight last Thursday, a man was killed and two others wounded in a Brooklyn shooting
Instead of tamping down violent street crime this holiday, Mayor Bill de Blasio has imposed new vaccine mandates on kids 5-11 years old, private school staffers and workers at private businesses, even though more than 89 percent of adults in the city have gotten at least one shot of a COVID-19 vacci൩ne.
He’s done little to address the spate of shootings and other violent crimes involving kids under 18, except to belatedly rush metal detectors to city high schools plagued by gunplay and stabbings.
In contrast, Mayor-elect Eric Adams delivered a tough-on-crime speech to a Police Athletic League audience and jeered the lenient bail-reform law that released Tamanaha back onto Manhattan streets: “Arson is a serious crime and judges should be able to look at the person in front of them on those violent actions and make a determination [on whether to hold him]. That is the missing piece.”
Adams reiterated his warning to ant🦋i-cop agitators: “We’re not going to surrender to those who are saying, ‘We’re going to burn down New York.’ Not my city.” He also vowed to revive the approach of two-time NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Despite the nearly two-year long uptick in shootings, murders and other crimes, de Blasio sticks to his “safest big city” line. But he’ll still go down as the mayor who reversed the city’s decades-long gains against crime — and finished by simply ignoring the crisis while posturing on other issues to bolster a hopeless run for higher office.