[NYP] NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said.
The pair met for about 30 minutes behind closed doors at One Police Plaza in Manhattan, with the tête-à-tête occurring as President Trump has taken a keen interest in boosting public safety in the city — including by potentially deploying additional boots on the ground in the five boroughs.
The president has already sent armed National Guard troops to crime-riddled Washington, DC.
But the Big Apple’s top cop politely pointed out to Bondi that city crime is at record lows, sources told The Post.
[NY Post] A speaker at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) summer meeting on Monday urged Democrats not to copy President Trump’s tough-on-crime approach – arguing that migrant crime, carjackings and other public safety threats “don’t matter to that many Americans.”
Insha Rahman, the vice president for advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, made the shocking statement as she framed Trump’s Washington, DC, crime crackdown as a “huge opportunity” for the Democratic Party.
“You want to talk about the crime issues voters care about,” Rahman explained to Democrats, as she shared the results of a recent poll commissioned by Vera’s political advocacy arm, showing which types of crimes respondents believe will most impact them personally.
The poll from the George Soros-funded think tank showed gun violence at the top of the list (36%), followed by homelessness and public drug use (34%), muggings or assaults (34%), opioids and fentanyl abuse (31%), retail theft (29%), carjackings (29%) and migrant crime (28%).
“Where does Trump go?” Rahman continued. “Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.”
“Don’t take the bait because most Americans are more worried about how we are going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us – that’s what you should be talking about.”
Even though nearly a third of Americans, according to Vera’s own polling, expressed concern about the “lurid” crime Rahman accused Trump and Republicans of hyper-focusing on – she implored Democrats not to talk about those issues.
“Don’t take the bait and talk about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don’t matter to that many Americans,” Rahman said.
The Vera Institute VP suggested Democrats should instead discuss “the policy proposals that we think work,” and specifically cited “cashless bail.”
From the lady’s information page at the institute:
Insha Rahman is the vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice and the director of Vera Action, an independent but aligned 501(c)(4) sister organization. She leads the development of Vera and Vera Action’s advocacy priorities and campaigns, partnering with governments and communities to end mass incarceration, fight for immigrants' rights, ensure dignity behind bars, and build safe, thriving communities for all. Insha is a nationally recognized expert on criminal legal reform and has been quoted as an authority in dozens of media outlets. Over the past year, she has spearheaded a national effort to win the narrative on safety, accountability, and justice and to counter "tough-on-crime" rhetoric, especially during elections.
Previously, Insha was a public defender at The Bronx Defenders.
Outside of Vera, she serves on the boards of the Aspen Institute's Criminal Justice Reform Initiative and Dignity and Power in Action, Dignity and Power Now's 501(c)(4), where she is the chair.
Insha holds a BA in Africana studies from Vassar College and a JD from the City University of New York School of Law.
[NYPOST] For all his Trump-deranged bravado, Democrat Senator Adam Schiff >...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to rgw Debate in 2024...> , the notorious Russia-hoaxer, looked like a frightened rabbit caught in the spotlight Sunday morning when he appeared on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' to deny the mortgage fraud scandal that has embroiled him.
He should be nervous.
A grand jury in Maryland is weighing criminal indictments for Schiff over alleged mortgage fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and false statements to financial institutions that were uncovered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, claiming he certified both a Maryland property and a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, condominium as his primary residence for tax and mortgage purposes.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and at least two other unnamed people are facing similar allegations, which carry potential jail terms up to 30 years.
''It's patently false and the president knows it,'' blustered Schiff, claiming FHFA head Bill Pulte was ''essentially doing the president's bidding against me, against Letitia James [and] against this person on the Federal Reserve.
''Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics.''
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... Schiff's attempts to dismiss the allegations against him as ''retribution'' or part of a campaign of ''lawfare'' by an ''authoritarian'' president are not only hilariously hypocritical but miss an important point.
Mortgage fraud is a serious matter that affects us all.
Banks offer significantly better rates and require smaller down payments for primary residences because they deem them lower risk than investment properties since homeowners are less likely to default on the home they live in.
If enough people falsely claim investment properties as their primary residence, lenders inadvertently carry higher risks that could see the collapse of the entire financial system, as happened in the 2008 global financial crisis, when widespread fraud and inadequate regulation led to a wave of defaults.
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This will all work out for them. I hope they keep with their highly successful strategies.
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[NYPOST] Videos of the nation's capital being swept clean of homeless encampments in just one week may have Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns adding Washington, DC, to the unofficial list of top-10 U-Haul destinations.
In Los Angeles, the problem of tent encampments has persisted for almost 20 years.
They began to pop up after city officials settled an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit in 2007 by agreeing to stop enforcing a ban on sitting, lying or sleeping on the sidewalk.
More lawsuits, settlements and court rulings led to the entire city and much of the state becoming the site of homeless encampments on sidewalks, streets, freeway embankments, overpasses, underpasses, median strips, parks, parking lots, public plazas, beaches, bicycle paths and concrete flood-control channels.
One lawsuit against the city and county of Los Angeles over the failure to shelter the downtown homeless population despite massive spending is in its sixth year in the courts.
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The cognitive dissonance over this in CA right now must be epic.
[NYPOST] President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending cashless bail by threatening to revoke federal funding for jurisdictions across the country, The Post has learned.
Attorney General Pam Bondi will provide Trump with a list of the no-cash-bail jurisdictions that could end up targeting states like New York, cities such as Washington, DC, or other localities with lax bail policies.
''Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced,'' a White House memo on the executive action states.
Arresting repeat offenders for new crimes after they've already been freed without bail is a ''waste of public resources and obvious threat to public safety,'' the memo also noted, citing instances of violent mostly peaceful mostly peaceful offenders being released onto the streets, only to be charged again.
On Aug. 11, the president called on Congress to tighten laws around cashless bail so criminals would not be cut loose without posting a cash bond before their trial.
[NYPOST] Alleged MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia was again detained by ICE Monday — as he faces the possibility of now being deported to Uganda.
''Today, ICE law enforcement arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia and are processing him for deportation,'' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
''President Trump is not going to allow this illegal alien, who is an MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser, and child predator to terrorize American citizens any longer.''
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Just get this over with. Flush this POS
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The Uganda angle is sort of funny, but some NGO will meet him and fly him somewhere else. I would rather see him in a Tennessee jail but as long as he is gone that suits me.
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I wonder if the prospect of being deported to Uganda is an incentive for South American illegals to self-deport back to their own native countries, rather than run the risk of being sent, willy-nilly to Africa...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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>...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation" Elected to rgw Debate in 2024...>
