Curtis Sliwa: New York can expect continued southern exodus if city can’t stop crime surge

Former Republican New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa sounded off Tuesday after a gunman opened hearth in a crowded subway automobile alongside the D, N and R strains in Sundown Park, Brooklyn earlier within the day.

Sliwa, founding father of the Guardian Angels, a volunteer group of residents who’ve a historical past of patrolling the subways and different drawback spots within the metropolis, instructed Fox Information that the day’s occasions and the town authorities’s continued refusal to completely help legislation enforcement and difficult legal justice insurance policies will solely exacerbate the southbound flight.

Sliwa, who grew up within the Canarsie part of Brooklyn, a number of miles east of the place the taking pictures occurred, mentioned the NYPD remains to be working with $1 billion fewer in assets than it was previous to the Defund the Police motion’s rise.

“We by no means have been in a position to get the cops again that we so desperately want, when this maniac attacked these folks,” he mentioned.

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“And bear in mind he had a Glock and he fired three pictures after letting out canisters of fuel in a crowded, closed prepare as folks scramble for his or her lives,” he added, calling commuting on the MTA’s underground community “like crawling into the stomach of the beast every day” amid the crime spike.

He famous that the thirty sixth Avenue station is the convergence of three essential strains – operating from Coney Island, Bay Ridge and Gravesend, all north into Manhattan. 

Sliwa mentioned a station of that significance and dimension ought to have reliably working surveillance cameras, which have been reportedly inoperable when the taking pictures occurred.

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“[The MTA] is a system that’s falling into the abyss, and the politicians simply maintain biking – crime within the subways as much as one hundred pc. You have to take {the handcuffs} off the police, flood the system – do cease and frisk, and return some civility to the subway system,” he mentioned.

“For those who do not, New York Metropolis won’t ever get well — and extra residents can be fleeing to Florida and Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee,” he mentioned.

Fox Information additional reported that police in New York and Philadelphia are searching for a “particular person of curiosity” recognized as 62-year-old Frank James. 

A U-Haul truck reportedly linked to James was discovered to have an handle on it from a facility close to the Looking Park neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, reviews mentioned late Tuesday.