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With everything in bloom and temperatures in the 70s New Yorkers went out to enjoy the city last weekend and violent criminals were there to greet them.\u00a0 Fox News reports<\/a> that thirty-one people were shot from Friday, May 21 thru Sunday, May 23, with six fatalities.\u00a0 One victim, a 34-year-old woman eating at a restaurant in Prospect Heights was hit in the face by a bullet fragment from an apparent gang shootout on Washington Avenue.\u00a0 The New York Daily News reports<\/a> that a 31-year-old man walking past the restaurant with his wife was also shot during the same incident.\u00a0 There were fifty shootings in the city last week, a 257% increase over the same week a year ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Over 2020 as we watched news broadcasts of cell phone video showing multiple incidents of NYPD officers being attacked while trying to make arrests or sitting in patrol cars, city leaders were busy releasing arrestees on zero bail and emptying out jails to protect criminals from Covid 19.\u00a0 Earlier this year, as part of a police reform package, the City Council eliminated qualified immunity for police accused of using excessive force.\u00a0 So-called criminal justice reform is increasing crime in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With everything in bloom and temperatures in the 70s New Yorkers went out to enjoy the city last weekend and violent criminals were there to greet them.\u00a0 Fox News reports that thirty-one people were shot from Friday, May 21 thru Sunday, May 23, with six fatalities.\u00a0 One victim, a 34-year-old woman eating at a restaurant in Prospect Heights was hit in the face by a bullet fragment from an apparent gang shootout on Washington Avenue.\u00a0 The New York Daily News reports that a 31-year-old man walking past the restaurant with his wife was also shot during the same incident.\u00a0 There were fifty shootings in the city last week, a 257% increase over the same week a year ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Over 2020 as we watched news broadcasts of cell phone video showing multiple incidents of NYPD officers being attacked while trying to make arrests or sitting in patrol cars, city leaders were busy releasing arrestees on zero bail and emptying out jails to protect criminals from Covid 19.\u00a0 Earlier this year, as part of a police reform package, the City Council eliminated qualified immunity for police accused of using excessive force.\u00a0 So-called criminal justice reform is increasing crime in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nA Spring Weekend in New York - 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