Empower cops: imprison criminals

To the editor:

Crime figures released by the NYPD show that recidivism is being treated as the price we have to pay in order to prevent non-racist disparate impact of policing on minority citizens. Not only is this patently unfair to honest, hardworking victims of these repeat offenders and predicate felons, it is clearly hypocritical politics that is patronizing to law-abiding minority citizens.

We now know that NYC’s top criminal recidivists have been arrested (and released) 485 times since the bail law changes (including no cash bail) in 2020. When we consider the 485 arrests of just 10 criminals in less than two years, we know that they probably committed many more crimes for which they were not apprehended and arrested. An educated guess might be that each of these career criminals committed at least three additional crimes which would add up to around 2,000 crimes committed by 10 recidivists since January 2020.

In addition, the NYPD reported earlier this month that just 716 people were responsible for 30 percent of the 2,400 shootings since 2021.

Clearly the cops are on the job and have continued to enforce the law and make arrests, notwithstanding the anti-police crowd that want to defund and “castrate" the police, and blame the NYPD for the “disparate impact” of law enforcement policies on minorities in NYC.

With prosecutors and judges apparently too willing to tolerate the status quo, it’s up to lawmakers to change the bail laws and put predicate felons and criminal recidivists in prison. We can’t allow non-racist disparate impact on minorities to prevent effective law enforcement in New York.

Michael J. Gorman