Weekend horrors show NYC must have new crime policyBy NY Post Editorial Board
February 14, 2022
Another weekend, another raft of horrors: How many will it take for the Democrats who run the Legislature to pass the modest reforms Mayor Eric Adams requests?
On Sunday, police say, career criminal Assamad Nash stalked and stabbed to death Christina Yuna Lee, 35, in her Chinatown apartment, with chilling footage captured on security cameras. Nash has racked up at least 10 arrests since 2012.
Saturday night saw two men shot fatally in The Bronx. Friday brought a shoplifting incident turned violent in Manhattan as the thief attacked a female Duane Reade employee, plus an apparent anti-Jewish hate crime in Brooklyn.
Driving it all is the progressive soft-on-crime ideology, district attorneys committed to not enforcing the law and legislators determined to keep lawbreakers out of jail.
Christina Yuna Lee’s alleged killer, as noted, has a long rap sheet for petty crime. He was most recently arrested in January for damaging MetroCard machines across Manhattan. Prior to that, he was released after allegedly punching a man in a subway station.
In short, a textbook example of someone graduating from small crimes to large. And meeting no real resistance along the way. (He may be mentally ill, but New York’s progressives are committed to keeping the dangerously troubled on the streets, too.)
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