{"id":1718711,"date":"2022-10-31T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718711"},"modified":"2022-10-31T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:19:20","slug":"hochul-says-gop-has-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hochul-says-gop-has-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul Says GOP Has \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 To Make Americans Feel Unsafe"},"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%2Fhochul-says-gop-has-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe%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=1718711&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>New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, who dismissed criticism of bail reform by insisting to GOP gubernatorial opponent Lee Zeldin, \u201cI don\u2019t know why that\u2019s so important to you,\u201d said on Sunday that the GOP had created a \u201cconspiracy\u201d to make Americans feel they are less safe.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul made her remarks when she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/31\/hochul-says-republican-crime-concerns-are-a-conspiracy\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a> by MSNBC\u2019s Al Sharpton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are master manipulators,\u201d she charged. \u201cThey have this conspiracy going all across America trying to convince people in Democratic states that they\u2019re not as safe. Well guess\u00a0what? They\u2019re also not only election deniers, they\u2019re data deniers. The data shows that shootings and murders are down in our state by 15% even in New York City, down 20% on Long Island where Lee Zeldin comes from, and it\u2019s the Republican states, where they have almost no restrictions on guns, because of the abundance of guns people are killing each other with more frequency. The safer places are the Democratic states,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMurders were down by 14% in New York City compared with last year, but all other major crimes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/04\/bad-guns-run-amok-as-summer-crime-surges-in-nyc\/\">were up<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including a 33% rise in robberies, police\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a>\u00a0show,\u201d The New York Post noted.<\/p>\n<p>Those statistics also showed an 11% increase in rape, a 14% increase in felonious assault, a 29% increase in burglary, and a nearly 39% increase in grand larceny.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Zeldin focused on bail reform in the state as he consistently attacked Hochul for supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the debate, Zeldin attacked Hochul\u2019s erstwhile support for cashless bail, saying, \u201cKathy Hochul supports cashless bail; as soon as it got implemented she was out bragging about it. She chose the champion of the Defund the Police movement and the architect of cashless bail, Brian Benjamin \u2014 yeah, that guy who got arrested and had to resign \u2014 that was her first big decision to make as lieutenant governor. We need to repeal cashless bail. \u2026 We need to make our streets safe again. I\u2019m running to take back our streets and to support unapologetically our men and women in law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York passed a major bail reform law in 2019 which barred cash bail unless there were a serious misdemeanor or felony. Defendants could not be held by judges based on whether the judge thought the defendant was dangerous. That law was reformed after public outcry in both 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/24\/new-york-democrats-bail-reform-00052207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>, \u201cWe never said that the cause of crime in the state is because of bail reform. That is too simplistic. That is a political slogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p00056\/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-july-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in August compared to July 2021, July 2022 found citywide shooting incidents had increased 13.4% and the number of murders citywide increased for the month by 34.3%.<\/p>\n<p>That same month, Hochul\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2022\/08\/08\/hochul-defends-bail-reform-as-zeldin-challenges-her-on-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>, \u201cI will look at all the data. I\u2019ve yet to see data that shows a correlation with a net increase in crime and the bail laws. Because it doesn\u2019t exist in any other city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Hochul mocked Zeldin for his focus on bail reform.<\/p>\n<p>Zeldin prompted Hochul\u2019s cavalier answer by declaring, \u00a0\u201cI stated that the first day that I\u2019m in office, I\u2019m going to declare a crime emergency and suspend cashless bail and these other criminal laws because there is a crime emergency. My opponent thinks that right now, there\u2019s a polio emergency going on but there\u2019s not a crime emergency \u2014 different priorities that I\u2019m hearing from people right now that are not being represented, from this governor who still to this moment, what are we, halfway through this debate? She still hasn\u2019t talked about locking up anyone committing any crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who commits a crime under our laws, especially with the change we made to bail, has consequences. I don\u2019t know why that\u2019s so important to you,\u201d Hochul replied.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/zeldin-attacks-hochul-for-supporting-cashless-bail\/\">Zeldin Attacks Hochul For Supporting Cashless Bail<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, who dismissed criticism of bail reform by insisting to GOP gubernatorial opponent Lee Zeldin, \u201cI don\u2019t know why that\u2019s so important to you,\u201d said on Sunday that the GOP had created a \u201cconspiracy\u201d to make Americans feel they are less safe. 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