{"id":1718847,"date":"2022-10-31T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1718847"},"modified":"2022-10-31T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:04:29","slug":"kathy-hochul-republicans-have-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe-in-dem-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kathy-hochul-republicans-have-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe-in-dem-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Hochul: Republicans Have \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 To Make Americans Feel Unsafe in Dem Cities"},"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\">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-republicans-have-conspiracy-to-make-americans-feel-unsafe-in-dem-cities%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=1718847&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\">Comment comes as crime spikes in New York governor&#8217;s state<\/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 31, 2022 5:00 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Even as crime has emerged as the top issue among likely voters in the New York gubernatorial race, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul called people who mention it &#8220;data deniers&#8221; and conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are master manipulators,&#8221; Hochul told MSNBC&#8217;s Al Sharpton on Sunday, referencing Republicans who point to her state&#8217;s crime surge. &#8220;They have this conspiracy going all across America to try and convince people that in Democratic states they&#8217;re not as safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> by Quinnipiac University, crime ranked highest among New York voter issues, with 28 percent of respondents selecting it as the most urgent issue facing the state. When this year&#8217;s rates are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criminaljustice.ny.gov\/crimnet\/ojsa\/GIVE%20Monthly.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> with the five-year average of 2017 to 2021 at the same point, shooting incidents resulting in injury or death in the state have jumped up 23.8 percent this year. The amount of individuals killed by gun violence, meanwhile, is up 45.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downplayed<\/a> the issue as a few &#8220;high-profile instances&#8221; creating a &#8220;sense of fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crime in New York City is up 29.64 percent compared with this time last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the latest city statistics. While murder is down 13.8 percent, robbery is up 32.4 percent, rape is up 10.9 percent, and hate crimes increased by 12.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul&#8217;s comment comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kathy-hochul-handwaves-crime-concerns-i-dont-know-why-thats-so-important-to-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said<\/a> she did not understand why crime &#8220;is so important&#8221; to her opponent, Republican Lee Zeldin. The two are in a closer-than-expected race, with Hochul up 6.8 points,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/2022\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em>. Former governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) won by more than 23 points in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as crime has emerged as the top issue among likely voters in the New York gubernatorial race, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul called people who mention it &#8220;data deniers&#8221; and conspirators.<br \/>\nThe post Kathy Hochul: Republicans Have \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 To Make Americans Feel Unsafe in Dem Cities 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-1718847","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\/1718847","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=1718847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718847\/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=1718847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}