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An NYPD spokesperson said overall crime is down so far this year compared to last year, and added, “New Yorkers can count on the NYPD’s ongoing vigilance in every neighborhood.”
However, the spokesperson also noted, “Police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn’t track data pertaining to immigration statuses.”
As a result, the only people who have a full understanding of the scale of the problem are the police officers and court workers who see it day in, day out.
“I would say about 75% of the arrests in Midtown Manhattan are migrants, mostly for robberies, assaults, domestic incidents and selling counterfeit items,” a Midtown officer said.
He said the figure is an estimate because “you can’t be 100% sure [they’re migrants] unless you arrest them in a shelter or they’re dumb enough to give you a shelter address.”
“Most of the people we arrest are professionals — these aren’t their first crimes,” one law enforcement source said.
The cop added that the Biden-Harris administration’s lax border policies, combined with sanctuary city laws, have allowed the problem to fester.
“Crime would be down significantly if there was a wall and we could account for everyone who comes into the country,” the source grumbled. “And more importantly, throw them out if they commit a crime.”
The problem is made much worse by sanctuary city laws that mean New York cops aren’t allowed to work with ICE on cases in which they believe suspects are in the country illegally. Additionally, the NYPD says it is barred from tracking the immigration status of offenders.
This makes it almost impossible for authorities to get their arms around the problem, experts and sources on the ground say.
“New York City eliminated a tool to get rid of violent criminals. What a mess,” Jim Quinn, a veteran former prosecutor at the Queens District Attorney’s Office, told The Post.
“The sanctuary city law is pathetic. It’s disgusting. It’s crazy.”
Making matters worse, police sources say, word has gotten out in the shelters about the city’s lax bail guidelines — meaning migrants know they’re going to get kicked back onto the street quickly after they’re nabbed.
Meanwhile, Tren de Aragua — the vicious Venezuelan prison gang wreaking armed havoc around the country — has set up shop in NYC and is already tied to hundreds of crimes, including the shootings of two NYPD cops who were trying to arrest a member in June.
The very same pack of thugs has been arming up to facilitate further terrorizing the city, smuggling guns into city-run shelters in food delivery bags to evade metal detectors.
“Roosevelt Avenue and 91st Street looks like a scene from ‘Casablanca’ with all the vendors. You can buy food, clothes, toys, electronics, tools and get your car washed,” the NYPD source said of the mass-scale open-air bazaar that has sprung up along the sidewalks.
“The area has become a Third World country, and it seems like City Hall doesn’t care about the taxpayers who live and work here.”
He said Elmhurst, particularly the area along Roosevelt Avenue, has experienced a nearly 22% uptick in crime compared to last year — much of it migrant-related — putting it in second place for the worst increase of crime citywide, trailing only Central Park in Manhattan.
Business owners and residents of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst said they’ve watched helplessly as the neighborhood has taken a nosedive into a crime-riddled slum.
“People don’t want to come to the pharmacy because of the sidewalks here,” said Jenny Leal, pharmacist at Mi Pharmacia on Roosevelt Avenue, while gesturing to a row of at least 50 vendors who have set up shop in the immediate vicinity.
“The number of prostitutes have doubled in the last two months. They’re starting to act like they are part of the community now,” she said. “We see them every day, it’s like the same people wearing the same outfits. It’s really strange.”
City PBA president Patrick Hendry decried the out-of-control lawlessness taking root across the city, blaming the courts for failing to take a firm enough hand to combat it.
“Our justice system is already failing to protect New Yorkers and hold lawbreakers accountable, regardless of where they come from,” he said.
“But now word has gotten out that you can come to New York to commit crimes and attack police officers and be out the next day. That message needs to change in order to keep dangerous people off our city streets,” Hendry said.
A City Hall spokesman pointed to Mayor Eric Adams’ previous calls for the City Council to change the sanctuary city laws. Last week, Adams said, “Right now, we don’t have the authorization to be able to go and coordinate with ICE. We have to follow the law.”
The mayor’s office also said the city is working with the Midtown Improvement Coalition to better police the neighborhood.
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
The FBI crime statistics do not support these claims so it must not be true .
The Government would tell is if Illegals were a problem .
Puts head back in Sand .
originally posted by: chiefsmom
a reply to: AwakeNotWoke
Of course. There is nothing going on in Colorado. Nothing in California.
Nothing in Indiana.
14 Year old stabbed by illegal.
Note: he had been deported once already.
originally posted by: Moon68
originally posted by: chiefsmom
a reply to: AwakeNotWoke
Of course. There is nothing going on in Colorado. Nothing in California.
Nothing in Indiana.
14 Year old stabbed by illegal.
Note: he had been deported once already.
There you go again with your White Christen Nationalist extreme right wing rhetoric.
Prepare to be extradited to the EU for trial.
— the vicious Venezuelan prison gang
Nearly eight million people — more than a quarter of the population — have fled Venezuela in recent years, driven out by economic misery and political repression.
Nowhere is that exodus more staggeringly acute than in Maracaibo, which has been hollowed out by the loss of about half a million of its 2.2 million inhabitants — many of them adults in their late teens to middle age. (The population figure is based on surveys, since the government has not conducted an official census in more than a decade.)
originally posted by: nugget1
...
You have to wonder just how many have entered the US since nobody seems to care enough to count them
...
originally posted by: AwakeNotWoke
I'll add this:
I don't feel particularly sorry for NYC as an entity. Their retarded politicians have put the structure in place for this to happen, and their retarded voters have put those politicians in office. So, you get what you vote for.
It is a pity and a damned shame that what once was considered one of the grandest cities in the US is not a blight, but I hvae always believed that people get what they deserve.
At what point to people wake up and stop putting up with the abuse?
originally posted by: chiefsmom
a reply to: Moon68
LOL Yeah, that's me, Christian White Nationalist.
Flying scares me. They would not be able to get me past the TSA.
And while I know I'm considered a racist for pointing out these stories, I'm still waiting for all the people that claim this isn't happening, to go stay at these hotels, apartments and whatnot, to prove us all wrong.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find
However, the spokesperson also noted, “Police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn’t track data pertaining to immigration statuses.”
originally posted by: Dandandat3
originally posted by: xuenchen
Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find
However, the spokesperson also noted, “Police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses, or suspects and therefore the NYPD doesn’t track data pertaining to immigration statuses.”
If the police are prohibited from asking about immigration status ... how do the technocrats do a studdy that shows immigrants are less likely to commit crimes?