Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to share his reaction to Washington D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announcing he has withdrawn a controversial criminal code bill, which would have lowered maximum penalties for certain crimes such as burglaries.
“I think we’re beginning to penetrate the sort of common consciousness, for lack of a better term. I think it got down to the man in the street. People are starting to realize that, you know what, all that rhetoric sounded great, etc.. But it’s a failure and let’s not ride this failure out any longer because let’s just declared a failure now and start to backpedal, because if we just keep going, it’s just going to get worse. And, you know, I was talking to somebody who hasn’t been in the city for a while. I’m just using New York as an example. She moved down south to a rural area. She comes back, she hasn’t been here in about ten years. And she’s a lefty, she’s a liberal, die in the wool Democrat. She was appalled by the condition of the city. She said, couldn’t believe the state it is in and the term she used was apocalyptic. And that is after Adams has begun cleaning things up a little bit. So I don’t understand what they’re voting for. I don’t see what the end game is here. And I think we’re hitting a tipping point. So let’s see if the moral courage and political courage is there to start to undo this.”
Paul also explains what lawmakers in New York State could be doing differently to address the crime crisis. Listen to the podcast to hear what else he had to say!
