Knife attacks on the subway this week.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Congressman Peter King, and he is one common sense guy, and he’s been in Congress for twenty eight years in New Yorker. All his life is his father was a police officer, and he is very very much concerned about what’s going on in New York and what’s going on with law and order. Congressman King,

0:20 tell us about your concerns and what keeps you up at three o’clock in the morning.

0:26 Speaker 2 Yeah, John, as you said, you know, you and I both grew up in New York City. I grew up in Queens, went to a high school in Brooklyn, worked in Manhattan, went to college in Brooklyn, and I lived on the subways, constantly changed back and forth, and you know, maybe you keep an eye out in case something was happening.

0:42 But I never recall in all those years hearing any pattern of stabbings or assaults. Where we have now just in the last week, I’ve lost track. I think of at least five, six, seven stabbings, some fatal on the subway system. One sailant last Sunday he stabbed three women in the legs on Sunday. And again when you look

1:04 at him, he had a record he had five fire arrests, one for rape, one for souls, other crimes he’s accused of. He has mental illness, and there’s this revolving door a seems, between asylums or mental care and then people committing crimes, they go in to court, they’re back out in the street, they’re committing more crimes. They don’t get the mental health

1:26 care they need. And it’s and again it’s one thing. There was one one act here or there, or an isolated event. They will in the city, this big something’s bound to happen. But this is such a pattern, such a repeated pattern, which really struck to me several points.

1:41 One about how we have to do more as far as the mentally ill. Technically, judges should not be putting people back on the street, and so I believe there’s no more capacity for violence, and keep them for the maximum sentence. That’s what it takes to keep the crime rate down and to protect innocent people. But also it

2:00 reminded me how many people are willing to look the other way if they saw what happened to Daniel Penny when he was the Good Samaritan several months ago, and now he’s facing fifteen years in prison. So it appears as if all of the what should be the sensible parts of our society going in the wrong direction. The

2:23 police hands are tied, the judges can’t give the sentences that they feel should be given. When a person does do the right thing and comes to the defense of innocent people, he ends up being threatened to a jail.

2:36 And you have people with mental illnesses, and it’s a terrible thing. I’m not making fun of anyone with mental illness. Must be a terrible situation for them and their families. But they shouldn’t be out on the street, and especially if they after one violent act of crime, they should be Everything should be done to make sure they’re not

2:54 back in the street until there’s a really almost definite chance that the mental illness is gone or under control or being adequately treated. Because right now, I mean, I would say you jother was your done and daughter, or they were in high school age, or your wife at any stage, even though I wouldn’t take on Margo anyway,

3:14 I’m just saying that you won’t have your wife.

3:19 Speaker 1 Well, that’s why New York City is not opening up, no matter how good they’re putting out. All kinds of press releases. Crime is down, muggings are down down. Nobody believes it because nobody wants to ride in the subways, because they don’t want to take a chance. I mean people being thrown off the oh you know, you know,

3:43 off the your stations, and and being being thrown in front of cars, being dining, dying on the third rail. I mean, people want to feel safe, and New York City will not open up until people feel safe.

4:00 Speaker 2 I agree, John, you mentioned pushing people on the off the platform. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of that happened so recent years. Maybe there was an occasional fight or something, but now it’s almost like it’s a pattern that again, people who have this mental illness, people who have just drained for whatever reason, of stamming people,

4:20 pushing them off the platform onto the tracks. These are horrible, horrible crimes. And you’re right, I mean there’s certain areas, there’s certain things that certain places where you should feel safe. And the subway system for years was so safe, I mean, it was everything was under control. But now, first of all, there’s not enough cops. Secondly, when the cops are there,

4:41 the hands are tied, and now they’re even tying the hands of civilians. And again, I just think I know that the mental hospitals, many of them were closed down several years ago. And also we had the whole concept of releasing back into society as many mental patients as possible. Well, the fact is, if they’re not ready for lights, and

5:04 if they can’t be properly survailed, then you’re not doing them or society an you’re good by putting them back on the streets where they can commit violent crimes, really violent vicious crimes. So, I mean, I just can’t image from walking up down a subway and stabbing, stabbing women in the one woman apparently almost also leg have aplatonica

5:24 to stop the bleeding. It’s it’s a terrible situation.

5:30 Speaker 1 Terrible and uh uh, so what do we have to do? I mean, the mayor is going to be mayor for for what two more years? Three more years? Then the governor’s going to be governor for four more years. Does that mean New York dies in the meantime? I mean San Francisco is dying, Chicago is dying. Is that is

5:51 that the fate that New York is going to be?

5:55 Speaker 2 I would hope not. You know, when you turn on the television of Monday morning and they give the recap of what happened in Chicago over the weekend. How many people shot, how many people did, how many kids shot, how many senior citizens attack. Then you look at San Francisco.

6:11 It looks like something out of a bad movies in the nineteen sixties, when you know enemy aliens have taken over. So it looks terrible, people looking like zombies in the streets, and the streets filthy, dirty and drug use in the open.

6:27 You know, I had faith in Eric Adams. I had hoped for Eric Adams by that way. He was the only Democrats saying the right thing. And he still has done, I mean, at times a good job, but he has to be more consistent. And here’s going to I think it’s a real loss that keishon Seoul. The police commissioner

6:45 is the resigning, because you need someone like that, and you need to give that commissioner and you know, you know the rights to do it what he or she has to do to bring security back back to the streets.

7:00 Can’t keep trying to hands the cops. You can’t. Don’t have a state legislature which is refusing to do anything, really anything seriously to tighten up the bail laws to that. And now they have it that you can bring lawsuits to open up your your lawful convicted almost whatever you want to. Uh, it’s wow.

7:22 Speaker 1 Aren’t these people. Aren’t these state legislators and these people realize what’s happening to us cities is going to be no city left.

7:32 Speaker 2 I don’t know if looking the other way, this is his discussion I have with my wife, folks and Rosemary, she says, you know what are these people are looking at? And I they must be looking at the world through different eyes. They must be so locked into a progressive ideology that they don’t see any of the bad consequences,

7:47 the many bad consequences that are occurring because of their you know, their policies. I mean starting I guess several years ago at the Bailly Form, then defund the police. Then Hope added to that the PP is wrong, and somehow he proves himself right. And I think the ultimate one was Daniel Penny going back to that where you’re

8:08 always telling for you, if you see something, do something, step being help your fellow man. And he did that and now he’s facing fifteen years in jail. So it seems like everything is going in the wrong direction. I hate to be negative. I know that the business community wants to come back in New York. Tourism need tourism.

8:25 But the more people see this, the more difficult it is to bring people backwards. Now.

8:30 Speaker 2 I’m not moving out of New York. I’m staying in New York. I live in Long Island, work in the city drawn and you know, if you’re working somebody ABC. My whole life has been here. But you know, so my daughter, if you moved to North Carolina, and more and more younger people are moving down south or out

8:45 west where they feel is a better opportunity to get a job. They were taxes. And that’s the irony with you know, with these depressions. One because their clime policies. It’s innocent people in the the most part. Innocent people in the low into me and a NIEU suffer the most.

9:01 Everyone suffers, but people in the most communities group of the most of the business. These people move out like your tax revenue with them. Business is closed. People move jobs. It’s terrible.

9:12 Speaker 1 Congressmen, we stand side by side. Let’s try to do this. This is November it’s fifty one out of fifty one UH City Council seats are up. Let’s stand side by side and try to make a difference and tell them that we want we want New York back.

9:29 Speaker 2 I’m with you, John, absolutely, talk to.

9:32 Speaker 1 You again real soon. See you on Monday, and God bless America.

9:36 Speaker 2 Thank you, John. Let’s enjoy Sunday. Thank you, thank you.