{"id":1711962,"date":"2022-10-26T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711962"},"modified":"2022-10-26T12:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:19:19","slug":"kathy-hochul-handwaves-crime-concerns-i-dont-know-why-thats-so-important-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-handwaves-crime-concerns-i-dont-know-why-thats-so-important-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul Handwaves Crime Concerns: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know Why That\u2019s So Important To You\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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-handwaves-crime-concerns-i-dont-know-why-thats-so-important-to-you%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=1711962&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 is up 15.2 percent in the last year<\/p>\n<p>    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D.) \/ 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 26, 2022 12:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>When pressed by her Republican challenger, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D.) in Tuesday&#8217;s New York gubernatorial debate dismissed concerns about her state&#8217;s crime surge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why that&#8217;s so important to you,&#8221; Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1585091523086979073?s=21&#038;t=kyYfRpzUJVPcO3TlaAPcTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> when Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.) pushed her to speak on crime and cashless bail. &#8220;Anyone who commits a crime under our laws \u2026 has consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kathy Hochul&#8217;s response to me tonight when I spoke about how we need to lock up criminals:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know why that&#8217;s so important to you&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>NYers are getting beaten, slashed, stabbed, and pushed in front of subway cars every day, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KathyHochul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KathyHochul<\/a> still can&#8217;t address crime in NY. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rXvGH6XuKd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/rXvGH6XuKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1585091523086979073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crime ranks as the top issue among likely voters in the gubernatorial election, <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to recent polling from Quinnipiac University. Twenty-eight percent of respondents listed it as the most urgent issue, followed by inflation at 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Hochul on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/\">downplayed the crime wave<\/a> in her state, calling it a few &#8220;high-profile instances&#8221; that caused a &#8220;sense of fear.&#8221; Yet crime in New York City is up 15.2 percent in the last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p00061\/september-2022-crime-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to recent NYPD data.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, Hochul responded to the crime concern by saying there is a need for gun reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no crime-fighting plan if it doesn&#8217;t include guns,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When pressed by her Republican challenger, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D.) in Tuesday&#8217;s New York gubernatorial debate dismissed concerns about her state&#8217;s crime surge.<br \/>\nThe post Kathy Hochul Handwaves Crime Concerns: \u2018I Don\u2019t Know Why That\u2019s So Important To You\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":1711969,"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-1711962","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\/1711962","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=1711962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}