remember all the looting and rioting we saw take place in new york city last year? local nbc here in new york is reporting that nearly half of those cases, half of them have been dropped by the d.a. s office and other charges were allegedly lowered to have no jail time. this as crime in the city continues a 42-year-old volunteer for the eric adams mayoral campaign was stabbed multiple times on sunday in the bronx. he was taken to the hospital for surgery. nearly every crime category is up from last year. homicides, rapes, hate crimes and shootings including this dramatic shooting from thursday where two children narrowly escaped gunfire. there is a lot to address tht mayor s race. the city defunded the police by a billion dollars last year. nypd disbanded the anti-crime unit. bail reform laws that everyone
decension, casting doubt on hillary clinton as a candidate and creating this cyber warfare we saw take place. we can no longer say that this was made up by anyone. this is real. it happened in realtime. as far as we know, it s continuing to happen. we ll talk about the president s reaction in a moment. ron, i want to get your initial thoughts on this indictment. i would just say three quick points to compound what we just said. the first point is, this explodes the idea from the president that this was a hoax. the whole story, it was china. it was some guy who weighed 400 pounds on his bed in new jersey. this was a detailed, comprehensive russian plan to sew discord and to help donald trump. second, this is a clear and present, ongoing danger. everything laid out here can be applied in the 2018 and 2020
to see, quite frankly, going forward how they re going to go back and address this issue of things that they may have could have done to intervene earlier and what those challenges may have been and what intelligence may have been gathered days before the rally last night and the unfortunate event we saw take place around this world today in charlottesville. yeah. now, sir, i know we don t have all the information for what happened in this specific incident, but what kind of information are these investigators looking for to determine if this was intentional or not? well, i don t know if that s going to really be a role the police to make that determination as rather this was intentional or not. i think the bigger question is going to be for us is where we are in this country as it relates to these issues that are very clearly still unresolved. i meant specifically about this car accident, but go on, sir. but in regards to the car
disappoints decision. we know that the inspector general has already looked at and documented the problems of private prisons, right? the financial incentives involved really corrupt and has produced really damaging effects, where you see private prisons having more assaults, more contraband, just more overall problems than the bureau of prisons and when the government itself handles prisons. so there s just no good to come of going back to a time where we had all of these abuses that we saw take place in private prisons. there s just no good to come of it, and when there is that kind of financial incentive, it really does have a trucorruptin influence usa today report many prisons contributed a lot of money to the pro-trump groups over the last campaign. christina swarns thaus for coming in. thanks for having me.
authorities pursue that as far as they go. i think we still have a responsibility to continue the work we did. first, had it not been for the work that the transportation committee did, we may not be here discussing this today, because it was the tenacity of the transportation committee and the information that it sought to get answers to that has even brought us here. that has opened this up and now the u.s. attorney s office is definitely interested in it. if we learn to stay in our lane and we look to the laws that are supposed to protect people from the kind of abusiveness that we saw take place, then that s our job. that s our job as legislators, making sure the right laws are on the books, that the laws are being followed. now, there s a whole there s a whole lot of stuff the u.s. attorney can look into, as it relates to this and a few other things that seem to be perking to the top, but i think, clearly, we can continue to do