New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been held accountable for the crime wave in New York City on the traditionally media-friendly, liberal network MSNBC.
But The 11th House host, Stephanie Ruhle, interrupted the interview with Hochul to give chase and bluntly tell her, “We don’t feel safe.”
‘Here’s the problem. We don’t feel safe, you may be working closely with Mayor Adams, you may have spent a lot of money, but I walk into my pharmacy and everything is locked from shoplifters,” Ruhle said.
‘I’m not taking the subway. people don’t feel safe in this city. So maybe you’ve done these things. But right now we don’t feel well. We’re afraid we could be San Francisco?’
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been held accountable for the perceived crime wave in New York City in what would traditionally be friendly territory on the liberal network MSNBC
‘Here’s the problem. We don’t feel safe, you may be working closely with Mayor Adams, you may have spent a lot of money, but I walk into my pharmacy and everything is locked because of shoplifters,” said host Stephanie Ruhle
The back-and-forth took place during the 11th hour on MSNBC on Friday night
“We’ll never be San Francisco,” Hochul threw back. She said the “most horrific” crimes, that is, murders, and shootings were actually fewer than around this time last year.
Hochul added that she was taking steps to address the rise in crime in other categories, but Ruhle seemed far from satisfied.
“It doesn’t matter what happens in other cities or other states. The reason people don’t feel safe in New York is why they start saying, Kathy Hochul could be the right governor, right? It doesn’t matter what happens in Pennsylvania or San Francisco, you have to get votes from the New Yorkers. And safety is our top priority.’
The suspect walked out of a Manhattan neighborhood on Thursday evening after the alleged attack
Pictured: Carl Phanor, a 29-year-old homeless man, was taken into custody Thursday for raping a 43-year-old jogger in the West Village.
In the latest shocking incident, a woman was jogging at Pier 45, near West and Christopher Streets in the West Village, around 5:30 a.m. earlier this week when Carl Phanor, 29, grabbed her from behind and choked her until she passed out. . .
Phanor, who has 25 charges and is wanted for at least two other sex crimes, then took off her clothes, raped her and then fled on a Citi Bike with her headphones, cell phone and wallet.
The shocked victim was spotted by a fellow jogger and first responders took her to a nearby hospital.
Phanor is also wanted for an attempted rape in October, and the sexual assault of another jogger long Pier 40 in March.
He was caught at the Port Authority bus terminal after police found him with the latest victim’s credit cards at a Target in Midtown, buying Red Bull for $39.
Crime continues to be rampant in the Big Apple, with violent crime rising nearly 30 percent
It’s also because the crime rate in the city’s subways is now up 41 percent from last year, with homicides reaching the highest number in 25 years — with nine reported this year alone.
Crime in the Big Apple has risen since Hochul became state governor in 2021.
Critics say the rise is driven by repeat offenders released under the state’s lax reform laws in 2019.
The issue of crime could make all the difference in whether Hochul wins Tuesday’s election. She is now a neck-and-neck race with Long Island GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin.
In Kathy Hochul’s New York, law-abiding New Yorkers are forced to live in fear. Coming January, in Lee Zeldin’s New York, criminals will be the ones to live in fear.
Election day is in 5 days. It’s time to take back our streets,” the congressman added,” Zeldin tweeted earlier this week.
US Representative and New York Governor hopeful Lee Zeldin criticized Kathy Hochul government for latest rape incident and rise in crime in the Big Apple
Violent crimes have increased by almost 30 percent compared to last year.
This year, police have reported 1,384 rape cases in the city so far, an increase of nearly 11 percent from the same time last year.
The crime rate is also up nearly 14 percent, with 21,767 cases so far this year, and robberies are up more than 32 percent compared to last year.
Since the beginning of the year, 102,914 serious crimes have been reported, compared to 78,892 in the same period of 2021, the latest NYPD data shows.
While the number of victims of shootings and murders has reportedly fallen, the overall rise in violent crime has prompted the city to deploy its elite officers to areas of “high volume” crime.
20 districts get extra police to tackle rising crime rate, which has increased by 30% this year citywide
The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group is an elite unit dedicated to violent crime and protests
Plans to deploy the Strategic Response Group, which has been criticized for handing out BLM protests, are detailed in a police memo that also lists 20 districts that will receive additional officers to tackle rising crime.
They include eight districts in the Bronx, six in Manhattan, three in Brooklyn, and three in Queens, the United States After reported.
The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group is an elite unit deployed in areas where crime is on the rise.
The unit, which consists of ‘highly trained personnel and specialized equipment’, is also adept at crowd control and can be deployed at major events, including parades and protests.
It also covers “shootings, bank robberies, missing persons, demonstrations or other major incidents,” the NYPD says.
The city’s public transit system appears to be bearing the brunt of rising crime, with about 1,865 reported so far in 2022, up 41.7 percent from last year.
Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly claimed that there is just a “perception” that crime is spiraling out of control in the subways — even if he and Governor Hochul has spent millions of taxpayer dollars to improve the police and control the system.
Under pressure to tackle crime in the subway, Adams said he would bolster the transit system with more police and additional security measures.
The new initiative, Adams said, adds 1,200 extra shifts, or 10,000 more hours per day, to improve system security.
The plan came in addition to Adam’s original Subway Safety Plan, a $97 billion venture that has since grown into a $100 billion project after being implemented by the then-new mayor in February.
Under the plan, an additional 1,000 police officers were deployed on the subway to stop the already rampant violence, as well as teams of health workers in the city’s intricate underground network to fight crime.
Two people have been killed this year when pushed onto the track, with 25 cases in all so far