Exclusive – Actor Steve Buscemi was recently attacked in broad daylight in New York City, but such a brazen attack did not come as a surprise to Judge Judy Sheindlin. Because she knows very well how America got into this situation.
“Oh, I know how we got here,” Sheindlin said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital. “We got here because a few vocal people created a scenario where the bad guys were rewarded, and the victims were punished by the system.”
On May 8, police said Buscemi, 66, a former star of “Boardwalk Empire” and “The Sopranos,” was left with black blood running down his face on Third Avenue in Manhattan. New York City police later identified the suspect as 50-year-old homeless man Clifton Williams. He was charged with second-degree assault.
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According to , crime in New York’s transit system will increase by approximately 7% in 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. new york city police. Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul also sent the National Guard to the subways in March to help the NYPD check bags at entrances. According to the police department, the number of serious crimes in April decreased by about 2% compared to April of the previous year, and the overall decrease in crime led to a 30% decrease in murders and a 15% decrease in shootings. However, misdemeanor assaults rose 7% in the first few months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, The New York Times reported. report.
Cast of “Judy Justice”. LR (Sarah Rose, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Whitney Kumar, Kevin Lasko) Others are not Judge Sheindlin. (Michael Becker/Amazon Freevee)
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A woman who was the victim of a robbery incident Washington DC, crawled back to his home after the violence in the capital in February. The Metropolitan Police Department reported an increase in crime in 2023, with robberies increasing by 67% and overall violent crime increasing by 39%. Police data also shows that carjackings are rapidly increasing in Washington, D.C., with a 97.9% increase in 2023 compared to the previous year.
Sheindlin acknowledged that there are always reasons why criminals become criminals, but he argued that these backgrounds do not justify their actions.
“You know there’s always a reason for criminal behavior. They didn’t have a good upbringing, they didn’t have parents at home, they didn’t have one parent at home,” she said. “There’s always a reason. You have a mental illness, that’s why. You took drugs, that’s why. You took alcohol, your brain is exhausted… it doesn’t matter.”
However, she said, “There is never an excuse for bad behavior.”
“And when society started making excuses for bad behavior and responding to crime based on those excuses, society collapsed,” she added.
“You’re just as dead as someone killing you at 18 or 17,” Sheindlin said. “You’re as good as dead. And if you’re 17 and you kill someone, you’re not the same as 12-year-old kids in juvenile facilities…But in New York State, very few people are pushed aside. For example, increasing the level of criminal liability.
In 2019, New York enacted the Age Raise Act, raising the minimum age for defendants to be prosecuted as adults in criminal cases to 18. New York was previously one of only two states where 16-year-olds can be held criminally liable.
“Well, that’s ridiculous,” Sheindlin said. “If you have a family, you have a 65-year-old mother walking to the grocery store who gets hit in the head with a steel pipe by some crazy person for no reason and is killed, and they… Even if you’re 17, that person should never be allowed to walk the streets again because society won’t take a chance. ”
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Sheindlin also criticized district attorneys for going out of their way, without naming specific people.
“When you have a district attorney who has been indicted, their job is to do justice but keep the community safe…If you elect a district attorney who doesn’t know what his job is, they’re different. “You should look for a job,” she said. she said. “Fill up an ice cream cone somewhere. But don’t destroy the city. And don’t know what happened around New York City, Portland, San Francisco, what their job is. There was a district attorney. And the city is destroyed and people are leaving.” ”
“I think we should be smarter before we get lost,” she concluded. “Lost forever.”
The New York City Police Department recently identified Clifton Williams, 50, as the suspect who beat actor Steve Buscemi in a random attack in Manhattan last week. (Fox 5 New York)
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Since leaving Judge Judy after 25 years, Sheindlin is currently streaming the third season of Judy Justice on Amazon Freevee. She says the show is “more fun” because it includes what she used to do in family court: clerk and stenographer.
“Other than that, the people are the same,” she said. “The issue is the same, but it’s a little bit bigger, probably because the award has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000. So the quality of the cases is different. Sometimes they’re more important cases. I still We’re having a great time.”
Sheindlin is also an executive producer and one of the executive producers on Tribunal Justice, and episodes from Season 2 will begin streaming on Amazon Freevee.
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Asked if she still believed in society, Sheindlin said, “I have to,” but recalled a 1993 interview with Maury Safer on “60 Minutes.” During a discussion about the dysfunction of family courts, Mr. Safer asked Mr. Sheindlin what the future holds for it. It will be like this in 10 years.
“I said, ‘It’s worse,'” she recalled. “Worse. That’s what happened.”
“And 30 years later, are we in a worse place now, as a country and as a world, than we were in 1993? Absolutely, we are.”
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Fox News Digital’s Michael Lewis, Josh Commins and Laura Carrione contributed to this report.
