It’s Bash-A-Cop Week in the Big Apple.
A gaggle of New York’s newest made that clear over the weekend: The so-called asylum-seekers — all from Venezuela — battered two cops in Times Square Saturday; four were arrested, processed and cut loose without bail.
A fifth was in custody Wednesday afternoon and police said three more were in the wind.
It’s shocking — but it’s the new normal.
Gotham’s criminal-coddling City Council certainly underscored that point Tuesday — overriding Mayor Adams’ veto of a bill meant to turn cops into report-writing robots.
These may seem to have been discrete events, but fundamentally they were not.
Yes, punks have been punching police officers since forever, and politicians naturally pander.
What’s new is that today’s pols are pandering to the punks, while the public pays the price: Blame it on progressive politics, and expect more of the same.
Saturday’s drama was straight-forward enough: Police say the border-hoppers were loitering in Times Square around 8:30 p.m. Ordered to move along, they attacked and beat two officers, then fled.
They all need to be deported, promptly — but that’s a torturous process, so doubtless the attack will go down as just another insult to the notion of an ordered society.
Sort of like a couple of weeks ago, when Sahara Dula, 24, of Brooklyn rammed a cop with her Lexus – “I did it on purpose . . . F-ck the cops” – and walked bail-free on a low-level assault charge.
The list could go on, but why bother? Nothing speaks to the point as eloquently as the City Council’s override of Adams’ veto of the so -called “How Many Stops Act” — a pernicious piece of legislation intended to serve two main purposes:
- Deflect street cops from what should be their main task — maintaining public safety — by burying them in paperwork, and;
- Disrespect Adams by torpedoing a core campaign promise — to reverse rising crime rates by siccing cops on criminals.
The override parallels state-level legislation meant to take the heat off criminals — the 2019 bail “reform” bill and related changes to New York’s penal codes — that immediately preceded the crime wave Adams promised to counter.
If this seems circular — that is, all part of a depressing cause-and-effect cycle — it’s because it is. Ease up on criminals, and you get more crime; that seems simple enough.
The thing is, however, when cops are punished simply for being cops — and when cop fighters don’t get what’s coming to them because the law won’t allow it — the result is fewer good cops and generally diminished quality policing.
What goes around really does come around — and the public suffers.
The Times Square border-hoppers need to be rounded up and sent packing back to Venezuela — as a matter of simple justice, of public safety and as a message to criminally inclined newcomers who see cops as punching bags.
If only we could send the City Council with them.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
