{"id":1710514,"date":"2022-10-25T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710514"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:34:30","slug":"kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul Downplays New York Crime Spike: \u2018High-Profile Instances\u2019 Create \u2018Sense of Fear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Crime in New York City has surged 15.2 percent in the last year<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic New York governor Kathy Hochul \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/benjamin-wilson\/\" title=\"Posts by Benjamin Wilson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Benjamin Wilson<\/a> \u2022 October 25, 2022 1:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p>New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) dismissed her state&#8217;s crime wave as a few &#8220;high-profile instances,&#8221; even as crime in New York City spiked 15.2 percent in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said Monday these few incidents have created &#8220;a sense of fear in people&#8217;s minds.&#8221; Yet the most recent New York City Police Department data <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p00061\/september-2022-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a> a 22.7 percent increase in burglary and a 21.5 percent increase in grand larceny auto last month compared with a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul is running against Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) in an increasingly close gubernatorial race. Recent polling averages have Hochul up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/governor\/ny\/new_york_governor_zeldin_vs_hochul-7749.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just 6 points<\/a> in a contest that former governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) won by more than 22 points in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference Monday, &#8220;Hochul got defensive when a reporter asked if she&#8217;d pivoted to the critical issue of crime so late in the campaign due to the ground she&#8217;s been losing to Zeldin in the polls,&#8221; the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/24\/kathy-hochul-dismisses-nyer-concerns-on-violent-crime-wave-as-sense-of-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is a fair assessment of what has been going on, it&#8217;s been a continuum of informing the public on what we&#8217;ve been doing,&#8221; Hochul said.\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it is accurate characterization to say we just started talking about crime.\u00a0\u2026\u00a0I am not letting the political theater out there affect what we&#8217;ve done. This is not a new issue for me and I think that&#8217;s well-established.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With just two weeks until Election Day, crime <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ranks<\/a> as the top issue among likely New York voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) dismissed her state&#8217;s crime wave as a few &#8220;high-profile instances,&#8221; even as crime in New York City spiked 15.2 percent in the last year.<br \/>\nThe post Kathy Hochul Downplays New York Crime Spike: \u2018High-Profile Instances\u2019 Create \u2018Sense of Fear\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1710518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}