{"id":1757771,"date":"2022-12-01T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757771"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:18:47","slug":"liberal-media-calls-for-an-end-to-covering-crime-because-its-hurting-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-media-calls-for-an-end-to-covering-crime-because-its-hurting-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Media Calls for an End to Covering Crime, Because It\u2019s Hurting Dems"},"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%2Fliberal-media-calls-for-an-end-to-covering-crime-because-its-hurting-dems%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=1757771&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The liberal media suddenly cares about crime. Oh, not the staggering toll on businesses and quality of life, or even the <em>loss <\/em>of life. No, they\u2019re upset that \u201cfear-mongering\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/10\/republicans-wipe-out-moderate-democrats-in-ny-red-surge\/\">hurt Democrats in the midterm elections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for that, they blame the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2022\/11\/the-nyc-media-might-have-cost-democrats-the-house.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NYC Media Might Have Cost Democrats the House<\/a>,\u201d laments New York magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/27\/nyregion\/republicans-election-ny-suburbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York\u2019s Seismic Tilt Toward the GOP<\/a>,\u201d the New York Times claims, was due to \u201cdoomsday-style ads\u201d and \u201cconstant media headlines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fact is, it was New York <em>Democrats <\/em>who cost Democrats the House, by pushing a flagrantly illegal gerrymandered election map, which, after being overturned by a judge, led to a more level congressional playing field. Add in an accidental governor more interested in raising money than debating ideas, and a spirited campaign by Republican challenger Lee Zeldin and, well, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>But setting that aside, let\u2019s consider their arguments \u2014 seven myths they push to claim that voters were \u201cfooled\u201d:<\/p>\n<h2>1. SURE, CRIME IS UP, BUT IT\u2019S NOT AS BAD AS IT USED TO BE! <\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIncidents of major crimes are higher in New York City and Nassau County than before the pandemic, though they remain well below levels seen in recent decades,\u201d the Times notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecades\u201d is a pretty vague term. Crime rates for 2021-22 have reversed a consistent decline in shootings and homicides since the mid-1990s, as well as drops in other index crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/new-york-city-most-dangerous-year-crime-1990-compared-2022-1750454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Newsweek had to go back<em> 32 years<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>to try to make a point about comparative safety \u2014 juxtaposing 2022 with 1990. And yes, in 1990 there were 2,245 homicides. In 2021, there were 485. So far this year, 391. But are we really comparing the worst year for crime in modern New York City history as a way to make people feel better? Overall crime is up 30% from last year. The average New Yorker doesn\u2019t want to see how bad things can get.<\/p>\n<h2>2. NEW YORK HAS <em>ALWAYS <\/em>BEEN THIS WAY <\/h2>\n<p>After education activist Yiatin Chu tweeted that she \u201cPaid $2.75 to be in a subway car with a loud and aggressive man threatening to hit his female partner. Switched cars at next stop to be in a public toilet \/ urine-odor, crowded car for the rest of my ride,\u201d the Times\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/19\/1619-projects-nikole-hannah-jones-mocks-nyc-moms-subway-safety-woes\/\">Nikole Hannah-Jones replied<\/a>, \u201cYes, yes. This was absolutely unheard on subways until two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Maybe not unheard of, but certainly more rare. There was a tremendous focus on improving the streets and subways under Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg \u2026 and yes, even Bill de Blasio. Because despite his absentee mayoralty, he understood that none of his socialist pipe dreams were possible if people didn\u2019t feel safe. So he kept the proactive policing of Bill Bratton and his acolytes. <\/p>\n<p>To the same point, the Times claimed that The Post \u201cSplash[ed] violent crimes across its front page, however rare they may still be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But we don\u2019t run stories about random pickpockets on the front page; there have been a number of recent crimes that have shocked the conscience. Here are some of the incidents that we covered in the past few months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 61-year-old FDNY lieutenant, a 24-year veteran of the force on her way to lunch, was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/29\/emt-in-serious-condition-after-getting-stabbed-in-queens\/\">randomly stabbed to death<\/a> in a frenzy by a madman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Eight innocent bystanders were <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/26\/a-city-we-now-fear-big-apple-bystanders-find-themselves-in-the-line-of-fire\/\">shot in one month<\/a>, including a 16-year-old girl and a 70-year-old grandma. All of them are black, many of them women. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A Hispanic woman was brutally beaten, randomly, in a subway station by a homeless ex-con to the point where <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/27\/queens-subway-attack-victim-could-lose-vision-in-right-eye\/\">she might lose an eye<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t give a s\u2013t,\u201d said Waheed Foster, the man who did it, and who also beat his foster grandmother to death. \u201cSo what?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A shoplifter was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/04\/meet-the-shoplifter-with-101-arrests-and-let-go-almost-every-time\/\">arrested 101 times<\/a> \u2014 and let go almost every time because of bail \u201creforms.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We covered other news during these months. The Queen died. We\u2019re sure the Kardashians did something. But according to Democratic activists and their media handmaidens, the fact that we decided these soul-crushing incidents were news was, to quote New York magazine, \u201chyp[ing] rising crime to an unreasonable degree.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>We believe that others have abdicated their responsibility to the public.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. THE VOTERS DON\u2019T EVEN LIVE IN HIGH-CRIME AREAS!<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe homicide spike did not reach into affluent enclaves of Westchester or Long Island; but the New York Post did,\u201d says New York magazine\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>This ignores a few issues. First, a good percentage of those voters commute into the city, avoiding the seriously mentally ill camped out in Penn Station or Grand Central. Or they may want to come into the city, to see a Broadway show, eat in a nice restaurant. At least they used to.<\/p>\n<p>But most importantly, does that mean that they shouldn\u2019t worry for the condition of their state overall? It is black and Hispanic New York City residents who bear the brunt of the majority of crimes. Progressives say white suburbanites are racist to worry about crime, but wouldn\u2019t it be racist not to care about the victims?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>4. CRIME ISN\u2019T THAT BAD, CHECK OUT THIS STATISTIC<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>Returning again to the \u201cWell, it ain\u2019t Mogadishu\u201d argument, New York magazine writes, \u201cNew York\u2019s murder rate remains less than one-fifth as high as it was in the early 1990s. By contrast, Philadelphia\u2019s homicide rate is at an all-time high.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Go was killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks at Times Square by a homeless man earlier this year.\" class=\"wp-image-24841228\" width=\"327\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=654 654w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=490 490w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=327 327w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=163 163w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1625170639457jpeg.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Michelle Go was killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks at Times Square by a homeless man earlier this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, thank goodness we don\u2019t live in Philly.<\/p>\n<p>But what so many of these reports ignore is that this isn\u2019t about pure statistics. <\/p>\n<p>Michelle Go was a 40-year-old woman standing on the platform at Times Square in early 2022 when a deranged homeless man <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/18\/vigil-for-times-square-subway-victim-michelle-go-denounces-anti-asian-violence\/\">shoved her in front of a subway train<\/a>, killing her. On paper, that\u2019s one homicide. In reality, it\u2019s a terrifying message to the subway riders of the city. Not to mention Asian Americans, who witnessed a 100%<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/21\/nyc-hate-crime-complaints-skyrocket-anti-asian-attacks-triple\/\"> increase in hate crimes<\/a> in the past two years. <\/p>\n<p>In Newsweek\u2019s comparison of 1990 and 2022, it quotes former Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, who throws cold water on reporting crime by pure numbers. \u201cFor the first time in my life, even in the late \u201980s and \u201990s when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year, I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around,\u201d Paterson told the WABC radio show \u201cThe Cats Roundtable.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>5. YOU\u2019RE JUST DOING THIS BECAUSE OF THE ELECTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Liberal pundits claim The Post only started highlighting crime in an \u201calarmist\u201d fashion to help Republicans. Sadly, these sorts of incidents have been making news for more than two years \u2014 since the pandemic and the passage of the no-bail laws.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, we ran the heartbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/cover\/july-28-2020\/\">funeral of a 1-year-old<\/a>, gunned down in gang violence. In February 2021, we ran a story about a woman<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/cover\/february-10-2021\/\"> shoved onto the subway tracks<\/a> on the front page; a month later, a piece about the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/cover\/march-30-2021\/\">increase in hate crimes<\/a> against Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg\" alt=\"The Post&#039;s coverage of the funeral of 1-year-old Davell Gardner after the toddler was killed in a gang shooting.\" class=\"wp-image-24841189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1830 1830w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1373 1372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=915 915w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=458 457w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/nypost_20200728_BRXP-3_001.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Post\u2019s coverage of the funeral of 1-year-old Davell Gardner after the tot was killed in a gang shooting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nothing has changed. Including the indifference of Albany legislators<\/p>\n<h2><strong>6. YOU\u2019RE BEING CRUEL<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>This week, The Post featured a man who was arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/29\/prosecuting-serial-shoplifter-wouldve-been-a-waste-of-resources-da\/\">33 times for shoplifting<\/a>, many of them at the same Duane Reade. Chronic shoplifting has exploded in the past two years, and the bail \u201creforms\u201d mean they\u2019re usually freed to rob again \u2014 and face little or no time in jail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image0-3.jpg\" alt=\"Wilfredio Ocasio has been busted for shoplifting 33 times since August.\" class=\"wp-image-24841290\" width=\"234\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=466 468w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=349 351w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=234 234w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=116 117w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image0-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Wilfredio Ocasio has been busted for shoplifting 33 times since August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Progressives frame this as \u201ca crime of poverty\u201d and are dismissive of corporate chains, telling them to just take the loss.<\/p>\n<p>But small businesses, family-owned businesses, immigrant-owned businesses \u2014 these are enterprises that can\u2019t just absorb the costs. We\u2019ve seen it in Portland, where<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/civic-affairs\/rains-pdx-closes-cites-employee-safety-crime-in-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> clothier Rains PDX shut down after 15 break-ins<\/a>. And even if you are a large corporate retailer like Duane Reade or Starbucks, how long before the danger to your employees or the losses to theft become too great to bear? Branches already have closed in the city. When there are no consequences, shoplifters will become more brazen. And three guesses what neighborhoods these companies pull out of first, a vicious cycle that leads to even more decay.<\/p>\n<p>These aren\u2019t crimes of poverty. These are career criminals fencing beauty products, likely to feed a drug habit. By coddling them, you\u2019re destroying neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>7. ERIC ADAMS IS TO BLAME<\/strong> <\/h2>\n<p>When Democrats and the media aren\u2019t blaming The Post, they are pointing the finger at Mayor Eric Adams, who \u201cput crime at the center of his campaign last year, thereby establishing a bipartisan consensus that New York was experiencing a crisis of public safety,\u201d New York magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablishing.\u201d You mean recognizing exactly what was happening? Adams won the race because he understood the moment. And we\u2019re heartened that this week he announced a plan to treat the homeless mentally ill, even if they must be forced into psychiatric beds to get better. Because letting a person who isn\u2019t in their right mind just live on the streets or in the subway is the opposite of compassion. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/eric-adams-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/eric-adams-4.jpg\" alt=\"New York magazine blamed Mayor Eric Adams&#039; tough stance on crime for \" establishing a bipartisan consensus \/><\/a><figcaption>New York magazine blamed Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 tough stance on crime during his campaign for \u201cestablishing a bipartisan consensus\u201d that NYC is going through a public safety crisis.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democrats had a better-than-expected midterms nationally, holding onto the Senate and flipping some state legislatures. <\/p>\n<p>They are sore because they lost the House by a slim margin, thanks largely to GOP gains in New York state. <\/p>\n<p>But any analysis as to why must go beyond slogans and look at the substance. It wasn\u2019t the <em>coverage <\/em>of crime that lost the midterms, it was crime itself. <\/p>\n<p>Stop blaming the messenger. Fix the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberal media suddenly cares about crime. Oh, not the staggering toll on businesses and quality of life, or even the loss of life. 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