{"id":334,"date":"2020-01-02T11:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2020-01-02T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:19:59","slug":"news-scan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"News Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Violent Crime Up in NYC<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Big Apple experienced a spike in shootings and homicides in 2019, breaking a four-year streak of declines.\u00a0 Wes Parnell and Thomas Tracy of the New York Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policeone.com\/patrol-issues\/articles\/nyc-ends-2019-with-a-jump-in-shootings-and-homicides-WddXsx4ij4vYPjTu\/\">report<\/a> that homicides were up by almost 8% last year, which was the first increase since 2017.\u00a0 The head of the Police Benevolent Association predicted that recent policies benefiting defendants would continue to drive the crime rate up.\u00a0 Police unions were also warning that a new law taking effect on January 1 which eliminates bail for most misdemeanors will also encourage more crime over the year ahead.\u00a0 But city officials see the uptick as a statistical anomaly and Mayor de Blasio said that he would address the increase and &#8220;turn this situation around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent Crime Up in NYC:\u00a0 The Big Apple experienced a spike in shootings and homicides in 2019, breaking a four-year streak of declines.\u00a0 Wes Parnell and Thomas Tracy of the New York Daily News report that homicides were up by almost 8% last year, which was the first increase since 2017.\u00a0 The head of the Police Benevolent Association predicted that recent policies benefiting defendants would continue to drive the crime rate up.\u00a0 Police unions were also warning that a new law taking effect on January 1 which eliminates bail for most misdemeanors will also encourage more crime over the year ahead.\u00a0 But city officials see the uptick as a statistical anomaly and Mayor de Blasio said that he would address the increase and &#8220;turn this situation around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>News Scan - Crime &amp; 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