{"id":1781492,"date":"2022-12-20T07:53:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781492"},"modified":"2022-12-20T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:50:18","slug":"nicole-gelinas-nyc-murders-are-down-but-not-for-women-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nicole-gelinas-nyc-murders-are-down-but-not-for-women-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Gelinas: NYC Murders Are Down \u2014 But Not for Women and Girls"},"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%2Fnicole-gelinas-nyc-murders-are-down-but-not-for-women-and-girls%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=1781492&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<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\"   style=\"display:none\">\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Three years ago this month, when three teen boys held 18-year-old Barnard student Tessa Majors down near Morningside Park and stabbed her to death, it was enough of an aberration that all New York was shocked. Such femicide in New York City is no longer so unusual. <\/p>\n<p>With 2022 nearly over, 74 women and girls have been killed this year, at least a seven-year high, even as overall murders decline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The increased danger for women and girls, on the streets and in their own homes, means we can\u2019t call this year\u2019s 11%\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decline<\/a>\u00a0in murders (through Dec. 11) an unqualified success.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, under Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD is aggressively targeting gang members and gun crimes in particular, and it\u2019s paying off, with shootings down 17% for the year.<\/p>\n<p>This success re-proves the obvious: Intense enforcement against crime, and at least a modicum of prosecutorial cooperation, will cut crime.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>But this leaves vast areas of the criminal-justice and mental-health systems still dysfunctional \u2014 and this year, women are paying the disproportionate price.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s 74 victims are a 12% increase over 2021\u2019s full-year total of 66. Between 2016 and 2020, the average number of female victims each year was 57, and the total in any one year never exceeded 63.\u00a0In 2020, even as overall homicide soared, the number of female murder victims\u00a0<em>didn\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>increase. But now it\u2019s catching up.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this year\u2019s overall murder decline, total homicides (men, women and children) are \u201cjust\u201d 27% above the full-year levels of 2019, before crime soared. This year\u2019s 74 female victims are a 25% increase over 2019, which saw 59 victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The higher tally is partly a function of New York\u2019s heightened random disorder and danger. In hindsight, Tessa Majors wasn\u2019t an exception but the start of a new trend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/nyc-mental-health-279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nyc-mental-health-279.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Go\" class=\"wp-image-25057362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/nyc-mental-health-279.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/nyc-mental-health-279.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/nyc-mental-health-279.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Michelle Go was fatally pushed off a subway platform by a mentally ill bystander.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least 11 women were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/06\/why-the-progressive-silence-on-violent-crime-against-women-because-it-hurts-their-pro-criminal-agenda\/\">murdered<\/a>\u00a0by complete strangers in 2022, from Michelle Go, pushed under the subway in January, to EMS Lt. Alison Russo-Elling in Queens in September, both by suspects with histories of mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>These stranger femicides were once rare. Over the four full years through 2021, \u201conly\u201d seven women and girls were killed by strangers.\u00a0And most women and girls are killed by people they know.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example is 16-year-old Saniyah Lawrence, knifed to death, allegedly by her jealous 18-year-old boyfriend,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/13\/slain-nyc-teen-saniyah-lawrences-grandmother-rips-her-accused-killer-boyfriend\/\">in early December<\/a>. Before Lawrence was Raelynn Cameron, 17, killed in Brooklyn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/27\/raelynn-cameron-17-shot-dead-after-refusing-gunmans-advances-at-brooklyn-party-prosecutors\/\">in October<\/a>\u00a0when she resisted an older man\u2019s sexual assault in an apartment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg\" alt=\"Saniyah Lawrence\" class=\"wp-image-25057369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/121222girlkilled16MATT-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Saniyah Lawrence was stabbed inside a Harlem apartment.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just because a killing happens behind closed doors doesn\u2019t mean it was unpreventable. The suspects in both Lawrence\u2019s and Cameron\u2019s killings have long and recent criminal records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And where is the talk from progressives about \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d when these two underage girls were casually killed for asserting their autonomy relative to a possessive or self-entitled man?<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s aspiring singer Keyaira Rattray-Brothers, also 17, whose murder was\u00a0<em>nothing\u00a0<\/em>if not preventable.<\/p>\n<p>Rattray-Brothers was one of two victims\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/mom-of-slain-17-year-old-girl-wants-ex-con-sundance-oliver-in-jail-for-good\/\">shot and killed<\/a>\u00a0in two separate Manhattan and Brooklyn shootings allegedly committed by Sundance Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>Though just 28 years old, Oliver had racked up 31 arrests and served prison time for violent robbery. But despite an arrest for gun possession in 2020 just after his release and another this year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/06\/accused-killer-sundance-oliver-a-one-man-crime-wave-since-he-was-12-sources\/\">he remained free<\/a>\u00a0on state parole.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/oliver-perp-walk-04-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/oliver-perp-walk-04-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sundance Oliver\" class=\"wp-image-25057380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/oliver-perp-walk-04-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/oliver-perp-walk-04-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/oliver-perp-walk-04-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sundance Oliver was accused of murdering two people and shooting an elderly man.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Rattray-Brothers\u2019 parents don\u2019t know whether she knew her killer or not; if not, she may be at least the\u00a0<em>12th\u00a0<\/em>New York woman killed by a stranger this year.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And there was 4-year-old Liliana Merdy, killed along with her two brothers, Oliver and Zachary, allegedly by their mother, Erin Merdy. Erin Merdy was in charge of the children, despite increasingly erratic behavior and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/brooklyn-mom-fell-acs-cracks-193600699.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent history<\/a>\u00a0with child-protective officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drugs, too, aren\u2019t helping. Jabari Burrell had no recent criminal record, but he was high on pot when he allegedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/10\/jabari-burrell-charged-in-nyc-triple-murder-of-three-female-relatives\/\">knifed three female relatives<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Hyacinth Brown-Johnson, Latoya Gordon and Patrice Johnson \u2014 in Queens in November. New York isn\u2019t just decriminalizing pot use but actively\u00a0<em>encouraging\u00a0<\/em>it, despite evidence that strong pot and violence, sometimes psychosis-induced, go together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keechant Sewell, New York\u2019s first woman police commissioner, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/03\/nypd-commish-keechant-sewell-blasts-sexist-put-downs\/\">keenly interested<\/a>\u00a0in gender-equality issues, and she should be.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s women and girls need her help in making them safe again \u2014 including speaking out when non-police failures, such as bail reform and unaccountability in mental-health treatment, prevent her from doing her job.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole\u00a0Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago this month, when three teen boys held 18-year-old Barnard student Tessa Majors down near Morningside Park and stabbed her to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781495,"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":[5458,8434,6060,9032,8436,7332,3819,3618,5605],"class_list":["post-1781492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-gelinas","tag-girls","tag-murders","tag-nicole","tag-nyc","tag-report","tag-riot","tag-women"],"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\/1781492","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=1781492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}