GOP Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis has demanded President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland feed Gotham to help the city in the fight against rising crime.
“We tell you to assist our police force to deploy additional law enforcement officers in New York until our communities now face this daily and growing threat of gun violence,” said the lawmaker at Freshman Staten Island In a letter written on 7 May, both men were written. With the post.
“While this increase in crime must be controlled at the local level, partisan ideology has clouded far-reaching decisions in the leadership of our city and state.”
Malliotakis aired the letter to his colleagues in New York City and Long Island, but only one fellow freshman, Seville, L.I., was joined in the call by Republican Rep. Andrew Grabarino.
“New York City summers have historically been violent,” the letter continued. “Compared to the same week on 25 April, 19 April last week, there was an increase of 250 shootings up to 25 April last month, compared to 14 last year, shooting 50 people.”
The missile was thin in specifics, however, with his office clarifying that Malliotkis wanted to see “federal law enforcement officers from appropriate agencies” – the National Guard – not send him to New York City to assist the NYPD. She also wants the Department of Justice to pursue a US Attorney to prosecute federal gun crimes.
“As we have seen in other cities that have experienced unprecedented levels of gun violence, the federal government has sent officers from the ATF, FBI, DEA and US Marshals Service,” Malliotkis told the Post. “If the mayor is not allowing the NYPD to do its job, residents should step in for safety, bring criminals on the road and keep this growing problem under control.”
Between 2019 and 2020, shootings in the Big Apple increased by 97% from 777 to 1,531, with murders increasing from 319 to 462 to 44% according to the NYPD.
Good weather has also led to an increase in sexual assaults, which jumped 322% in the first week of April 2021, compared to the same period last year.
Due to the increase in crime, the NYPD has been slapped with police-induced cuts, including a one billion dollar budget cut last year. Once-critical police teams, like its undercover anti-crime unit, have been disbanded.
The letter did not go well at City Hall.
“I know Nicole is new, but she should know that New York City already has a federal law enforcement partnership,” said Mayor spokesman Bill Nehardt. “If she wanted to make New York City safe, she would have voted for an incentive bill to help families across the city.”
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