enforcing the laws. she s says crime is not so bad. if you look at the 25 innocent people that have been shot, pushed in front of subways, assaulted on the streets, you know that she s not coming from the right place. neil: we re not making up the numbers. she said the numbers are exaggerated. the numbers are what they are. we report them. as a numbers nerd here, that s what i provide folks. anyway, howard safer, thanks very much. good seeing you again. i want to go to the other side of the country where we re getting federal charges being formally filed against the man that brutally attacked paul pelosi. let s get the late forecast christina coleman in san francisco. christina? hi, neil. yeah, according to this criminal complaint, the suspect admitted that he wanted to hold nancy pelosi hostage and possibly break her kneecaps. now he s facing two federal charges. one count of attempted kidnapping of a u.s. official.
association written a $25,000 check to governor hochul. lee zeldin was on with me on my weekend show and was as startled as everyone. take a look. we heard from a lot of nypd officers that are pissed off learning that their money went to kathy hochul who is pandering to these pro criminal allies in the state legislature. neil: all right. the pba itself says it does not have a position in the race. this was something that it did on its own separately. many the rank and file are saying whats going on? howard safer is the former nyc police commissioner. did you think of that? as of this date, no $25,000 check for lee zeldin. there s some very angry members within the association wondering how did that get done in the first place? well, i think you have to understand, number 1, the pba is not the police. the pba is the union.
all about. neil: another thing governor hochul mentioned as you know, howard, this idea that lee zeldin has one plan, talks time on crime but won t do anything about the guns. she says she s nod doing anything about bail reform either. where do you think this goes? well, i think if lee zeldin gets elected, the nypd is going to become much more assertive. they re going to go back to doing stop and frisk. they re going to do the things that made the city the safest in my tenure. if hochul gets elected, you ll see more pandering to criminals. as i said before, the only people that should be afraid of police are criminals. right now they re not. if they do something now, they get right back out on the street. we have to stop the madness and
direct assaults on police that were planned acts. this wasn t the officer bumping into somebody on a traffic stop. these were planned ambushes. i believe we are now seeing number 69 here in connecticut. this is a state of affairs and joe biden s america right now we continue to be attacked. we continue to be assaulted. violent crime is up in many communities across the country. voters are focused on the economy, crime and inflation ahead of the midterm elections, eric. eric: another minor the selflessness and the sacrifice of law enforcement officers in the line of duty. thank you alexis. steve eric and alexis for more on this bring in former new york city police commissioner howard safer. commissioner thank you for being here. it is an unfortunate store we have to cover. how do we stop this in the short-term and systemically systemically? works in the short term we have to do is we have to bring
back then, but we just heard about cities trying to refund police departments to deal with the police shortage. to former police commissioner howard safer. we did reach out to congressman nadler who, by the way, is my congressman, but we haven t heard back. howie, thank you so much for being here. commissioner, let me just i think it s a little late for the congressman to be saying that because this is what s happened so far this year. 2,465 police officers have filed to leave the department. and what s really troubling about this is that a lot of them have hanged up their holsters, if you can say that, before they reach the 20 years for a full pension. that number has actually skyrocketed 71% this year from the year before. so it s too late for nadler to come out now saying, oh, i didn t mean we should cut the police force, it s already happened. well, you know, jerry nadler is the height of hypocrisy. he s interested in one thing and