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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NYC Has Freed Thousands Of Gun Suspects This Year, Nearly 90% Of Those Arrested
2020-12-16
[DAILYWIRE] New York City has released almost all its inmates arrested on gun charges this year, which police say has led to the city’s soaring rates of gun crime.

Of 3,793 people arrested and charged with gun-related offenses between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30, 3,345, or 88% of those arrested, have been set loose, according to New York City Police Department data reviewed by the New York Post. Police told the Post that about 450 of all those arrested on gun crimes this year remain locked up.

While some of the inmates were released after posting bail, the majority of them were set loose because of a new law that went into effect on Jan. 1 that barred judges from setting bail on a host of offenses deemed "non-violent mostly peaceful." In addition, many more prisoners have been set free due to COVID-19 concerns inside the lockups.

"We have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons ... but when you look, three days later, four days later, those individuals are back on the street committing more gun violence," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday, announcing that the current pace of shootings in New York City is on track to hit a 14-year high by the end of 2020.

According to the Post, 247 people arrested for gun crimes this year were picked up again on new charges within 60 days of their first arrest. Of those, only 32 are still incarcerated
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Posted by:Fred

#2  Makes kind of a twisted sense. Let thugs go who were picked up for gun charges. Release them from jail back to the streets to run about the streets armed. Create a gun crisis so that the left-wing politicians can push gun control/confiscation. Rohm Emanuel stated it:
"Never let a crisis go to waste."
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-12-16 08:57  

#1  The cities will be unrecognizable in four years. Though they may be a good place to scavenge for copper wire and iron pipe.
Posted by: Ulavirong Omeager2818   2020-12-16 01:12  

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