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Feb 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s an amazing thing. *NYPD’s own data, as of today:* Murder, rape & sex crimes, robbery, assault, burglary, transit, theft, & hate crimes are all well below or back to pre-pandemic levels. Far less or no change since bail reform began. Eric Adams is lying to cage 1000s more.
No change. The same. 0% change. This year so far murders are down nearly 20%.
NYPD’s own data: Over the last 20 years (since 2001): An overall reduction in major crime of 36.6% in NYC. Murder, rape, robbery, burglary, grand larceny all down *significantly.* Between 20-70%. This decline has coincided w/ significant decreases in pretrial jailing.
Source: www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stat….

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Feb 5
THREAD: A few weeks ago, new Manhattan DA released a modest plan. To be bit fairer when charging & caging people. Police began lying, including to crime victims. Media amplified it. Before the plan even started, he caved. Criminal policy is made based on lies & fear. Not reason.
After new DA Alvin Bragg announced he’d—on a case by case basis—stop the practice of charging non-violent commercial theft as *violent robbery*, NYPD lied to two storeowners who actually were violently robbed that there was nothing they could do. They wrote a NY Post opinion.
After new Manhattan DA announced he’d think more critically about pretrial caging & prison for simple gun possession (no use) given the racist impact & reasonable fear for safety, NYPD blamed it for the police *shooting deaths* of 2 officers. A widow called him out at funeral.
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Feb 4
TRUTH & JUSTICE BRIEFING: Fox & other outlets are exploiting survivors of crime & their families. "The grief & suffering of these families is incredibly real. Using them to push false narratives is exploitative." 2 recent cases highlight this pattern. More:justicenotfear.org/debunk/fox-new…
"In 2 recent stories, Fox News exploited mothers whose lives have been directly affected by violence. Fox repeated the women’s positions— based on the same misunderstandings of the law that have been aggressively and intentionally circulated by anti-reform groups—as fact."
"In the first case recently used by Fox News, a mother was in the car with her 11-month-old daughter in the Bronx when a stray bullet struck the baby in the face. There is no evidence tying bail reform to this senseless gun violence."
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Feb 4
THREAD: My latest op-ed. After the shooting deaths of 2 NYPD officers, I thought about how alternatives to policing could actually prevent these kinds of tragedies. Right now we can't overlook this question: "Did the officers have to be there at all?" More:thenation.com/article/societ…
Just days after deadly shooting in Harlem, Mayor Eric Adams released a plan on gun violence. More police. Stricter enforcement. Told us: “NYPD is our first line of defense against gun violence.” Adams responded to this tragedy by disregarding the very lessons it contains. More:
Officers Jason Rivera & partner Wilbert Mora were shot after responding to a routine call. From a mom asking for help diffusing an argument w/ her son. She calmly told 911 she wasn't in immediate harm. "What if she had a different option than to call 911"thenation.com/article/societ…
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Feb 3
THREAD: Critical breakdown from @JusticeNotFear of Eric Adams most recent lie to blame bail reform for "violence." All while exploiting a teenage minor, whose story & image are now being shared widely in overtly racist, Willie Horton-style attacks. More: justicenotfear.org/debunk/mayor-a…
"The facts of the teen’s case, to the extent they are agreed upon by all, are that he was shot when a gun he was carrying accidentally discharged when he was tackled by police, the bullet hitting the teen in the groin before exiting his body and grazing a police officer’s leg."
"Although the teen and an officer were both non-fatally injured in an accidental shooting, even according to police, Mayor Adams says that the teen was “accused of shooting at” an officer & is vague about the officer’s condition (he survived)."
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Jan 29
WATCH THIS. *Hundreds* of NYPD steal subway fare & walk through exit gate. W/o masks to boot. Laughing at bystanders. NYPD tickets or arrests 1000s of mostly Black & brown people for this. Taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for police on subway. 2 systems.
Exactly. Then turn around & accost people who can’t actually afford $2.75. And we spend a fortune to support this wasteful, violent practice instead of just investing in affordable or free fares for those who need them. I’ve been right here. Screaming about this costly injustice.
Mayor Eric Adam’s wants police “omnipresent.” Here is what policing on subway normally looks like. Exact violence & mayhem on subways. Here, maskless NYPD cops pushed a man out of the subway after he asked them to wear masks. One of so many examples.
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THREAD: Melissa Lucio has maintained her innocence on Texas death row for over 14 years. Shell be executed on April 27, 2022. For murder of her 2 y/o daughter Mariah.⁠ *But Mariah wasn’t murdered.* She died after an accidental fall down steep stairs. More:innocenceproject.org/petitions/stop…
Texas is scheduled to execute Melissa Lucio for a crime that never occurred in less than 90 days. Melissa, like nearly 70% of exonerated women, has been convicted of a crime that never took place (events that were actually accidents, deaths by suicide, or fabricated).⁠
Melissa is a survivor of sexual abuse and violence that she has endured her whole life beginning age 6. Her history of abuse makes her especially vulnerable to coercive tactics and falsely confessing.
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