NYC crime is much higher today than in 2019.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday Morning with Us is Nicole Galinis, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to The New York Post. Nicole, New York City. We’re on the edge the crime situation. No matter what does citistic to say, people are scared to walk around.

0:21 Speaker 2 What say you now, Yeah, good morning, John, and I can I can hear the siren in the background, so a fitting sound effects for our discussion. But yeah, I mean, there’s no there’s no question. Crime is much higher than it was that New Yorkers got used to. Between you know, twenty ten and twenty nineteen, we were flirting with only

0:44 three hundred murders a year. Felonies were at record lows. Today felonies are a third higher than they were back in twenty nineteen. So this is a very abrupt change in the public safety environment. Besides the felony, there’s just a lot of disorder. I mean, the mayor came in three years ago saying he would start by cleaning up

1:08 midtown disorder. You know, not major crimes, but the things that make people feel uncomfortable. You know, there’s there’s vending all over the sidewalk of Sixth Avenue, it looks like Canal Street. Uh there’s uh, there’s robberies. Uh uptick in in robberies and thefts that is driven by uh, the migrant population that’s that’s staying in these midtown hotels. You know,

1:34 the mayor won’t won’t release any data on this migrant crime. So it’s it’s up to the reporters to rely on partial data and unsourced reports. You know, if the city won’t give you information, you have to go and get the information yourself. And the incomplete data that we have it shows that the city, even before the migrant crisis,

1:58 was not dealing with this up taking crime very well. And now we’ve got a migrant crime crisis on top of the pre existing crisis that the city is just you know, not dealing with in a preventative matter. They would prefer that we just not even discussed these things.

2:18 Speaker 1 And I told some of the police higher ups that people are scared to wook around the night, and no matter what the statistics are, people don’t want to welcome night to go to drug stores or supermarkets, restaurants. It’s just people are scared and.

2:44 Speaker 2 Statistics are not very good. You know, we had you know, again. The Post report this week, You’ve got this fifteen year old migrant from Venezuela staying at one of these migrant hotels, admitted at least eleven crimes allegedly that he’s been arrested for as a minor. And these are serious crimes. I mean, the latest allegation was that he robbed somebody at knife point.

3:10 Somebody was walking in West Midtown, you know, thirty I think it was thirty eighth Street and sixth Avenue about seven point fifteen pm at night, and he was caught up by Puma Circle. So you know, these are the areas that were already weakened by the pullback and policing in twenty twenty, putting homeless people with mental illness in

3:33 support of housing and homeless hotels all through Midtown during the pandemic, and now putting people who have in many cases unsupervised teenage children that are vulnerable to recruitment by gangs. Putting these people in the same area where you know, if you have one person who’s committing at least eleven crimes and being put back out on the street after

3:58 each of these arrests, it is reasonable to think that this the locus of the migrant population is creating more than one person who is committing these crimes, and the arrests don’t stop it because the arrests aren’t even reported because they’re they’re miners, and they’re right back on the street again after the arrest.

4:25 Speaker 1 And so well, the arrests are down, I’ve said to people because police officers are not anxious to write them.

4:33 Speaker 2 Yeah, and they are making arrests. It’s just that you know, particularly if you’re a minor, but in the case of adults as well, they are out the same day or the next day until it escalates to a very serious assault with serious injury or attempted murder or murder. The criminal justice system is not taking these crimes seriously. So

4:55 and you know, this feeds into the presidential election because you have people say, oh, it’s all trumped up. It’s just a few apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado. You know, there’s not a lot of migrant crime. I mean, people can see in neighborhoods, whether it is midtown Manhattan or you know, smaller towns that have an influx of migrants,

5:17 whether legal or illegal, that this is really changing the public safety and disorder environments. You know, you just cannot absorb a high number of people with no federal government direction on do these people qualify for asylum? Will they get work permits? You know? What is what is the process here of letting millions of people into the country

5:42 in an unprecedented manner with no direction in when do they When are the court dates? What happens if they don’t qualify for asylum? What happens if they never get a work permit because they don’t qualify for asylum? I mean, the federal government has just just just transferred this issue to state and local governments that are not competence in

6:06 many cases, and they’re just not resourced to deal with it.

6:11 Speaker 1 What does the average person do?

6:14 Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean I think that’s something neither Biden nor Harris has addressed. I mean, I guess we’re pastime unblaming Harris for the huge mistakes of the Biden administration. I don’t think anybody thinks it was a good idea to just completely open up the borders to suppose it asylum seekers, although many of them have not even officially applied for asylum.

6:40 You know, the Syracuse track system tracks asylum seekers, the numbers do not match the number of people who have entered the country. You know, fine, that was a huge mistake. Can’t do anything about it now. But what is Harris’s plan for What do you do about the Roosevelt’s Hotel, What do you do about the Row Hotel? What do

6:58 you do with the thousands of migrants being attracted to communities throughout the Midwest because there are you know, chicken processing plants and other low wage laborers looking for for for workers who don’t have much of a choice. What is what is your plan for how these communities deal with public safety? How you process these applications much more

7:25 quickly and see if someone qualifies for asylum if they don’t, what is what is the process after that? You know from the federal government on what people.

7:37 Speaker 1 Are saying, why aren’t they vetting these people? And we’re getting murderers in and we’re getting all kinds of jail people that got let out of jails and venezuela.

7:50 Speaker 2 Yeah, you cannot have a migrant policy that is based on admitting people who have the fortitude to cross the border, because then you just get a population disproportionately made up of young men and young men just proportionally commit crime.

8:08 I mean, this is this is not you know, this is why people don’t want a college dorm in their neighborhood. I mean, you do not. It is not good policy to admit the large numbers of unattached young men with nothing to do, and we see that playing out across the country. Well, have an official refugee program where the

8:32 policy is to admit families. You don’t just admit whoever is young and strong enough to walk through the jungle.

8:41 Speaker 1 Nicole the leaness. We have a problem and I hope we get it solved in the near future. Me too. Well, thank you for coming on this Sunday morning, and we’ll catch you up again real soon.

8:53 Speaker 2 Sure are they soon? Talk to you later.