revealed the shocking stats<\/a>: 63 transit terrors with more than 5,000 busts among them, for crimes ranging from robbery to assault to sex crimes.<\/p>\nYet, thanks to lenient judges, the no-bail law and pro-crime prosecutors who drop or downgrade charges, the vast majority are still walking the streets \u2014 only about five are now locked up.<\/p>\n
Cops are well-acquainted with these chronic menaces and do their part to get them off the streets, making quick busts when one of them breaks the law (again). <\/p>\n
But they\u2019re spat back out almost as quickly as the NYPD can haul them in, often after getting less than a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n
The rap sheets of this rogues\u2019 gallery of street scoundrels are eye-popping.<\/p>\n
Take Carlos Baez-Caban, who\u2019s racked up a total of 48 arrests, one for allegedly biting a rider while stealing her phone: He\u2019s out on probation and still walking the streets.<\/p>\n
Or Shaquille Clarke, whose arrests include pressing his groin area against one woman and punching another while robbing her: He\u2019s also free as a bird, despite getting busted for another crime while on probation.<\/p>\n
Matthew Leon, a serial predator arrested for sex-related offenses a whopping 13 times, wasn\u2019t kept behind bars after he allegedly groped a woman\u2019s breasts and buttocks on the L train; only after an arrest for reaching inside a stranger\u2019s pants and top this spring was he finally held.<\/p>\n
These are the sickos with whom soft-on-crime leaders expect New Yorkers to share a subway car or bus, all in the name of \u201cjustice reform.\u201d<\/p>\n
Passive, pro-crime prosecutors throw gasoline on the fire: Last year, 62% of subway felonies were downgrades to misdemeanors in The Bronx, while the Manhattan DA\u2019s office declined to prosecute 69% of misdemeanor arrests.<\/p>\n
What exactly do Gov. Kathy Hochul, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg or other electeds have to say to the New Yorkers who have been robbed, groped or assaulted by one of these serial offenders?<\/p>\n
The answer seems to be \u201cput up with it,\u201d because consequences for criminals are at odds with the left\u2019s anti-cop, anti-carceral ideology (which Hochul and other \u201cmoderates\u201d either can\u2019t or won\u2019t fully confront).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani seems to think these recidivists just need greater access to government services, and they\u2019ll magically change their ways.<\/p>\n
Except if that tact was ever going to work, it would have by now: These criminals have been through the system thousands of times collectively; countless social workers, public defenders and other miscellaneous city workers have crossed their paths. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s likely the only intervention the government hasn\u2019t tried is keeping them behind bars.<\/p>\n
The only way to ensure that these repeat offenders quit preying on New Yorkers: Stop letting them go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No wonder crime on the subways continues to be a scourge: The same lawbreaking fiends keep being cuffed,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,50145,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,1269,28714,68717,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-212938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-criminal-justice-reforms","11":"tag-editorial","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-opinion","20":"tag-subway","21":"tag-subway-pervs","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115174646529893444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}