all right, these numbers you re looking at that show a big jump in crime from robbery to burglary, felony assault and particularly in the subways, up at least 14 1/2% in cases on subways north of 41%. reason enough for mayor eric adams to be hosting a crime summit at gracie mansion where the mayor lives. dealing with the issues head-on and the prior interview he says much of this is a perception problem, saying that better than three and a half million new yorkers take the rails and subways every day. the incidents are about half a dozen or so during that same time. be that as it may, the numbers are striking and staggering and they are getting worse, and solving them has proven very, very difficult to put it mildly. ray kelly is the former police commissioner of new york, the guardian group ceo. always good to have you,
they have stopped a 28-year-old mexican national at a port of entry with more than 14 1/2 pounds of could he cocaine stashed in her vehicle discovered by k-9 teams and screening, a reminder how the cartels are not just moving people across this porous border back here, but illicit drugs as well. casey stegall in texas. to the national control council president. good to have you today. let me get your take, brennan, what casey was reporting. numbers of surging, record numbers, how long does this go on? yeah, you know, let me get to that, but to keep in context, you see some florida flags behind me, i m in florida right now with congresswoman kamik, doing a good job to bring attention to this issue, i m from the southwest border,
but allows them to say we re against gun trafficking. bill: andy, let s show our viewers, dana mentioned new york. new york specifically year-to-date. major crimes up 44 rs shooting victims up 14 1/2, shootings 13, robbery 47 for new york. chicago year-to-date through april 3 total crime up 36% in chicago. l.a. up about 7%. robbery up almost 18. if the president is going to write a new rule, can that rule be effective given your previous answer, or will it be challenged and ultimately be mute? well, bill, it will be challenged. whether it will be mute. i doubt it will be mute. there is a lot of authority to the idea that federal government can impose serial number requirements. to go your basic question, the important question, does it have anything to do with stopping violent crime?
establish the purpose of what we are setting out to do, to make sure that this never happens again. i just put out a press release so you have the names of the members on the committee. again it was our hope we could have done this with a bipartisan outside commission, maybe one day that will be possible. it took 14 1/2 months for the 9/11 commission to be signed into law. perhaps this is on the horizon. in the meantime then and meantime now it will be a congressional investigation. then i happened to be co-chair of that investigation bipartisan and bicameral. it may be hard to do bicameral as they limit what we can do on
direction. campuses are using the war room, justice room. a reform in education is what i think the most important matter to do to looking to the campuses for unification of the country? shakespeare said, don t trouble the poor with begging. steve: taking on the cultural divide. what did you figure out at the end of the roundtable.? i call it wise guys. we call it bill and friends. who how do we people to understand the country, understand it, love it, love the traditions and ideals if we don t teach it? knows of what they get in school is criticism of america. but my specific question was, if this is where we are 14 1/2 months out from the election, with this kind of stuff being said about the president, this kind of divide, where are we going to be in a year?