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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Friday she recently had a “very direct” meeting with notoriously soft-on-crime Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to make it crystal clear just how badly skyrocketing recidivism is plaguing the Big Apple’s streets and subways.
“I had a very direct and clear meeting with him and his colleagues up in Albany,” Tisch told FOX5’s “Good Day New York” of her upstate meeting with the Bronx Democrat two weeks ago.
“What I can say is I was incredibly clear about the type of problem that we have and how profound it is.”
Heastie — a fierce supporter of the state’s infamous 2019 criminal justice reforms — has repeatedly helped roadblock proposed rollbacks of the controversial, progressive laws.
He has previously insisted that stiffer penalties don’t deter criminals and won’t help drive crime down.
But the NYPD boss said she was optimistic that she had — for the first time — hammered home the message to Heastie and his fellow state lawmakers that change is desperately needed in order to crack down on crime.
“Our criminal justice system in New York City, largely because of certain New York state laws, is a revolving door where there are no consequences, not just for crime, but violent crime and repeated violent crime. It is out of all control — and something has to give,” the commish said.
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