Adams calls NYC’s criminal justice system ‘laughingstock of our entire country’By Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding
June 6, 2022
Mayor Eric Adams lashed out at prosecutors and judges Monday for cutting loose suspected shooters to unleash more gunfire on the Big Apple’s streets — saying the “bad guys no longer take them seriously.”
The clearly frustrated mayor also fumed that soft-on-crime policies were turning the city’s criminal justice system into “a laughingstock of our entire country.”
During a news conference with NYPD officials in Brooklyn, Adams praised cops for being “laser-focused on the shooters” and making arrests but demanded that “the other team must do their part.”
“The courts have to prosecute. Judges have to make sure they stay in,” he said.
“Everyone has to do their part. If not, they go out and come back.”
Adams, a former NYPD captain, added, “And you know what’s interesting? You do a profile, the picture that’s emerging after the shooting, after the arrest, after being let go — You know what they do? They go do another shooting.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/mayor-adams-calls-nycs-criminal-justice-system-laughingstock/
