{"id":1711327,"date":"2022-10-26T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711327"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:33:43","slug":"ny-gov-hochul-dismisses-crime-wave-as-few-high-profile-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-hochul-dismisses-crime-wave-as-few-high-profile-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov Hochul Dismisses Crime Wave as &#8220;Few High-Profile Incidents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fny-gov-hochul-dismisses-crime-wave-as-few-high-profile-incidents%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=1711327&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Crime in New York City has surged 15.2 percent in the last year<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/rsz_new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-covid-19-update.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rsz_new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-covid-19-update.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rsz_new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-covid-19-update-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rsz_new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-holds-covid-19-update-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tDemocratic New York governor Kathy Hochul \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><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<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\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 <i>New York Post<\/i> <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<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Crime in New York City has surged 15.2 percent in the last year  Democratic New York governor Kathy Hochul \/ Getty Images  Benjamin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1711327","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711327\/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=1711327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}