The head of the NYPD opposed the state's progressive bail reform law. She said that before police finished their PERP papers it led to a “revolving door” system where criminals repeatedly return to the streets and release them.
NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tish said overall crime in the city has plummeted for the past three months, but serial violent offenders are still wreaking havoc for innocent New Yorkers due to the issue of recidivism.
She also said she was tearing the police leaders and the “refund police” movement. Tish also said the NYPD will prosecute crimes regardless of immigration and will not participate in civil immigration enforcement, which means democracy in line with local laws.
Jessica Tish, Carlton Macpherson, top right, Simon Marshall, allegedly pushed a woman against her death on a New York platform in the bottom right. (Reuters/Gina Moon, left, Barry Williams for New York Daily News via Getty Images, top right, wnyw, bottom right.)
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch (Reuters/Gina Moon)
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“New York state law enacted in 2020 will make the criminal justice system a high-speed revolving door and violent offenders over and over again,” Tish said Wednesday in a breakfast for the association for nonprofits aimed at improving the economic and social conditions of residents.
“Like the mayor and I said, your officers were at work and made the most felony arrest of 26 years in 2024. But before we finish that paperwork, they'll soon return to the neighborhood and the people they've sacrificed.”
“It's morale-lost. It's unsustainable and it denied common sense.”
She said that the NYPD made the most felony arrests in 26 years last year, but many were cut by the criminal justice system, she said.
Tisch was furious in the case of Tyreke Martin, a career criminal who was previously arrested 70 people. New York Post.
Repeated criminal Carlton McPherson is portrayed as he left his home at the 25th NYPD Territory Station in Manhattan, New York on March 26, 2024, under police custody. McPherson was charged with murder for randomly shoving the victim into a truck. (Barry Williams of the New York Daily News by Getty Images)
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Martin was arrested last week after Tish said he tried to rape a woman after assaulting her, but before the incident he had pending punching the woman in the face. When police arrested him with a bench warrant, the District Attorney's Office refused to prosecute the case, and the judge ruled out his warrant.
“What are we doing? Tisch asked, “This can't keep happening.”
She said in 2024, the number of suspects arrested three or more times increased by 61% for robbery, 64% for shoplifting, 71% for grand theft, 83% for robbery and 5,019% for automatic theft.
“I channel the voices of almost every NYPD officer and every day New Yorker when I said it was enough,” Tish was furious. “New York City criminals. New York City criminals, including violent and repeated offenders, continue to be given all manner of courtesy, and as a result, the city's people are suffering.”
Photo of 61-year-old Simon Marshall, allegedly driven a woman to her death on a NYC platform (wnyw)
Tish said February will mark its third month of double-digit decline in city-wide index crime, despite the issue of recidivism. So far this year, overall major crime has fallen by more than 15%, she said.
Despite these benefits, she said the troops are in the midst of the employment crisis issue and denounced the lack of recruits on the police movement's refund that began in 2020 after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis.
“This is not a budget issue. Mayor Adams gave us all the resources we needed and lit every class we wanted to bring in green, but the applicants were just not there. It wasn't long ago that people had been waiting for years to join the academy.
Kamel Hawkins, a recurring criminal, was charged with attempted murder last month, allegedly pushing a 45-year-old man onto a subway track while the train approached. (MTA)
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“Now we are pleading with people to actually take the exam. When they pass, we are in a hurry to hire them as soon as possible.”
She said that Beat police saw abuses cast on them given the toxic rhetoric emanating from the abuse movement.
“Many of the rhetoric that we are directed at the police is mean, and it's far from what I consider to be the most important and noble job that anyone can do,” Tish said. “And we have to look back because it's so easy. More cops on the patrol make our city safer.”
