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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
There are too many criminals in prison and Mamdani wants to let half of them out.
Mamdani complained that the Adams administration had increased the number of criminals in Rikers Island by a thousand and claimed that “we can reduce that jail population to less than four thousand”. The infamous New York City prison has around 7,000 criminals on average and Mamdani cited a pro-crime proposal to reduce the number in there to only 3,700 criminals.
That would mean freeing some 3,300 or 47%, nearly half, of the criminals there.
Pro-crime policies such as eliminating bail already put most criminals back on the street almost as soon as they’re arrested. The limited number of criminals still being remanded are the worst of the worst. After years of being fed sob stories about shoplifters going to Rikers, Mamdani and the pro-crime activists trying to free half the criminals from Rikers aren’t even pretending.
Mamdani cited an article by an activist from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, once a fine institution that produced capable people, but that has become an academic hub for pro-crime activism.
Its proposals for cutting the Rikers population in half include no bail for first arrests “even in serious violent felony cases”, freeing three-quarters of criminals “facing violent felony charges”, exempting from prison those charged with a list of sentences that covers sexual misconduct, forcible touching, as well as sexual abuse in the second and third degrees, mandatory pre-trial release of criminals after a certain period, more early release for a variety of offenders including those who have committed assault and sexual abuse, and releasing criminals “who really do pose a flight risk” but offering them “employment assistance” to keep them from running away.
What is abundantly clear is that there is no way to significantly reduce the violent criminal population at Rikers without freeing violent criminals including some of the worst ones.
46% of the criminals at Rikers Island were charged with a violent felony.
After a decade of pro-crime policies and the mass jailbreaks of the COVID and BLM era, the only ones still in Rikers are the truly dangerous. The prison is full of repeat offenders, criminals who have committed horrifying acts against the public and the violently disturbed madmen.
And those are the ones whom Mamdani is proposing to set loose.
Past pro-crime proposals pretended that the only ones who would be released would be the misleadingly named “non-violent offenders” (in reality, the so-called non-violent offenders are often violent criminals who are being ‘charged down’ and have had violent crimes defined down to manufacture the illusion that crime is lower than it really is), but that’s no longer on the table.
Mamdani’s cited proposal has two separate sections that explicitly mention freeing violent criminals and several others that implicitly require mass releases of dangerous criminals.
The proposal endorsed by Mamdani as a strategy for clearing out the prisons complains that judges released only a quarter of criminals facing violent felony charges (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) while keeping around half in custody. It sneers at the “people’s perceived (and often misperceived) risk to public safety” when it comes to letting violent criminals loose.
What’s the actual risk?
Over the last 28 day period in New York City, murder is up 19%, rape is up 38.9%, the number of shooting victims is up 36%.
Crime, despite all the political pro-crime narratives, is getting worse. And people know it.
A majority of New Yorkers say that crime has gotten worse since 2020 and BLM riots. 70% want more police officers and most want an end to revolving door arrests and to see bail come back because “too many people are being arrested and immediately released into the streets where they commit violent crimes”. 61% oppose the general plan to close Rikers Island that was championed in the report cited by Mamdani and by the pro-crime lobby in general.
No polling has been done on the specifics of freeing half the criminals in Rikers, including many violent felons, but the public is unlikely to be in favor of such a mass jailbreak.
Even though a majority fear being the victim of a crime, Mamdani laughs at the idea of restoring public safety and bringing back a functional criminal justice system to New York City. “What purpose” does prison serve, Mamdani asked in one conversation, suggesting that people defend what the pro-crime lobby calls ‘the carceral state’ or the prison system “because of the way it makes them feel.”
The purpose served by the prison system is keeping criminals off the street. Earlier this year, a monster with 70 prior arrests, including smashing a 2-year-old girl in the face with a suitcase, smashed a woman’s head against a pole in the subway. The NYPD commissioner revealed that the crime wave was driven by repeat offenders arrested three or more times for the same crime.
What will those numbers look like if Mamdani frees a prison half full of violent criminals?
Murders and rapes are already up over the summer. Some lower category offenses appear to be down, but that’s only because they’re no longer being reported or charged. But the real crime wave is still coming. Every previous mass release of criminals has made New York City more dangerous and less safe. But the release of the worst of the worst may soon be coming.
And the price will be paid by children playing in parks, by tourists stopping to see the sights, by random people crossing the streets and by the most vulnerable, women, children and the elderly, being terrorized by the worst monsters who used to be kept locked away in prison.
Closing Rikers Island and freeing violent criminals will make New York City into Rikers as the city becomes one big prison in which the criminals are free and everyone else is locked up.
Hold him Liable and responsible for any crimes committed if he sets them free give him Life Without Parole, Pardons or Clemency
This POS is insane, he wants locking up his own good. He is a very evil & dangerous animal.
No bail for first arrests “even in serious violent felony cases” WOW!
What is a “FIRST TIME OFFENDER”? Most probably, it’s not their first crime but the first time they were caught, and likely not their last.
Yes, scumbags like them never stop until they get too old to keep up, and not always then. We would be doing society a favor by executing them wholesale.
Most large US cities have lost the means to govern. And the Democrat party is now pretty much a terrorist organization, or maybe even affiliates of foreign enemies (WEF etc.).
We cannot even get juries to do their duty.
The problem of releasing criminals among us while protecting those criminals and prosecuting us when we defend ourselves or others against them, shows how far the rule of law has fallen.
If we had law and order, then criminals would rarely be released. They would be swiftly and routinely eliminated from society by incarceration, execution, deportation, etc. Those who defend themselves or others against violent criminals would be swiftly exonerated. The particularly virtuous among these would have monuments made to remember and celebrate their heroism – people like Daniel Penny.
Giant statues to George Floyd would not exist.
We must do whatever is necessary to restore that nation. I am wondering if the will is finally developing after Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk.
When all is said and done, Mamdani’s Manhattan will be a city made up only of the elites who have private security, private limos and armed doormen. No one else will want to rub elbows with the criminals loose on the streets and on public transportation. Let the Manhattanites FAFO.
God help NYC. People, do not elect this madman.
As for yourselves get some kind of weapon anyway you can and train with it.
Beware the smiling face of evil.
As if I needed more reasons to avoid NYC. Sometimes people DO get what they vote for. I feel sorry for the people who aren’t dumb enough to vote for Moron Mommydaddy.
Zohran Mamdani being part the sinister Red//Green alliance wants free half of the criminals from prison :Likewise , he also wants to defund the police.
If that , Marxist, Mamdani , actually does become the next mayor of New York City and does those two awful things then there would be a crime epidemic there a drastic raise in crime especially heinous vile violent murderous crimes, as rapes and murderers along with rapes and the murder of the rapes victims. There would be more kidnappings and then along with that, many times, the torture and murder of the innocent people who had been kidnapped. Also more robberies and vicious violent assaults on peaceful people by hooligans and well as more vile sex assaults.
There would also be a sharp and awful increase of wife and child abuse. In addition there would be a terrible large inflation of riots along with the arson, looting and vandalism that is always part of it.
There would even in non-riots be an increase in home and business break- in’s with looting vandalism and physical harm committed against the peaceful people by thugs.
It might even be that this Marxist , Mamdani might intentionally want to increase crime to ruin New York City in the Marxist hopes that that fantasy to such crime chaos and mayhem would spread to other cities across the United States.
That would in with part of the Communist agenda of the philosophy of Marxism.
As Karl Marx had written “If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt shall I fling my glove in the world’s face, then I shall stride through the wreckage a creator !”
It would be funny if one of the released criminals solved our commie Mamdani problem for us.
Madmani is already building an army of street thugs to do all the terrorism for him.
Simple solution to this potential communist catastrophe – Revoke this muslim monster’s citizenship and deport him back to his native paradise Uganda. After all he is running on fomenting civic unrest and insurrection as his campaign. DOJ should designate this slick snake as a terrorist. Problem solved at least on a short term basis.
New Yorkers are about to find out. Good and hard.
By releasing dangerous criminals back into society, Mamdani is
getting the population adjusted to living under totalitarian
Communism or totalitarian Islam – where moving about freely
is constricted and people are always on edge or downright
frightened.
Mam-Dummy Ookie-Face this screwball will be the Death of the Big Apple if he gose further
lotsa ******* will find out if they are faster than Pb
Zohran Mamdani who is the soon to be the next mayor New York City is obviously part of the insidiousness subversive movement which is known as the “Red /Green Alliance.”
Mamdani with and being part of that Marxist/Islamic alliance upon entering of office of Mayor is a recipe for a future disaster for NYC.
What’s more Mamdani and other stealth jihadist Muslims, such as Ilhan Omar and Rashhida Tlaib are a recipe for a disaster upon America.
“….no bail for first arrests “even in serious violent felony cases”, freeing three-quarters of criminals “facing violent felony charges”, exempting from prison those charged with a list of sentences that covers sexual misconduct, forcible touching, as well as sexual abuse in the second and third degrees, mandatory pre-trial release of criminals after a certain period, more early release for a variety of offenders including those who have committed assault and sexual abuse, and releasing criminals “who really do pose a flight risk” but offering them “employment assistance” to keep them from running away.”
Yeah. Exactly who I don’t want as neighbors walking around me. Anybody who’s run into “career” criminals knows they’re the scum of the Earth. Many of them would just as soon stab you as look at you. I hate them.
Mandani is the evil they get. Their vote is the evil they do. The people get what they vote for.
Mamdani like all Socialists scum suckers needs his Brownshirts to intimidate Voters to vote for Democrats Only
I like the idea! It has real possibilities. But first, let’s mine bridges and the river, put a wall around the city, I think there’s already a blueprint that could be used. Escape From NY.