SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026
Also, Gotham crime runs rampant: This very morning, we were surprised to learn what Mayor Mamdani has done.
How will his term as mayor turn out? We have no idea! And of course, he's only been mayor since January 1. How much could he have done?
How will his tenure turn out? We plan to wait and see! But he has already let crime "sort of run rampant" in New York City—or so Rachel Campos-Duffy, the genial co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, told Fox viewers this very morning, early in the 7 o'clock hour.
Right at 7:08 a.m., Campos-Duffy delivered that newsflash, referring to "the crime that Mamdani has allowed to, you know, sort of run rampant in the city because he doesn't care about that."
Moments later, she turned to extremely familiar ground, saying that "his instincts are Communist. They're Bolshevik."
At 7:11, she said that one of Mamdani's policies is "very Communist." But so it goes on this Fox News Channel program, which we would be willing to classify as an imitation of life.
How will the Bolshevik mayor's term turn out? We're willing to wait and see! We can show you what we found when we checked the surprising assertion that the mayor has been letting crime ("sort of") run rampant in New York City's streets.
When we googled the surprising claim, an infallible news source—"AI Overview"—instantly told us this:
"As of April 2026, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration reported record-low crime stats in his first 100 days, including significant drops in murders and shootings."
So said AI Overview! When we clicked to the source for the Overview's claim. we found this transcript of an April 2 press event about this important topic:
Transcript: Mayor Mamdani and NYPD Announces Fewest Murders, Shooting Incidents in Recorded History for First Three Months of the Year
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani: Good morning, everyone. It is a pleasure to be here with you at 1 Police Plaza and to be joined by so many committed public servants. Thank you to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch for your leadership and your partnership. I also want to extend my gratitude to Chief of Department Mike LiPetri and the members of the NYPD executive staff.
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The data we are releasing today should be encouraging to every New Yorker. The numbers tell a clear, indisputable story: our approach to public safety is working. Crime continues to decrease in New York City.
In the first three months of the year, New York City has recorded the fewest murders and shooting incidents since we began tracking these numbers, decades ago. This quarter, we saw 54 murders across the five boroughs, a drop from the previous record low of 60, set in 2018. When you compare these figures to last year, which had already set historic lows for gun violence, murders fell by a significant 28 percent. Year-to-date, the murder rate is down by more than 57 percent in Brooklyn, [and] more than 44 percent in Manhattan, and there have been no murders on Staten Island in 2026. In fact, it has now been 178 days since the last murder on Staten Island, the second-longest period in recorded history.
Additionally, overall crime in public housing fell 7.2 percent year-to-date and reached record lows for murders, shooting incidents, shooting victims and robberies. None of that is accidental. It is a direct result of the hard work and commitment of so many in this room...There is always more work to be done, as we can see in the 11.7 percent rise in hate crimes across our city, with the largest increase being of anti-Muslim hate crimes, a 140 percent increase, as antisemitic hate crimes continue to comprise more than half of the total number.
Major crime is down in nearly every category, however, across our five boroughs. The Bronx leads the city in overall major crime declines, with a 9.4 percent decrease. And I want to thank every member of the NYPD for all that they do to keep every corner of our city safe from violence.
You can read the full transcript yourself. When we googled, we saw no reports challenging the accuracy of those data. As you can see, this editorial by the anti-Mamdani New York Post accepted the numbers as accurate.
Our conclusions go something like this:
If you read the anti-Mamdani New York Post, "The first quarter of the year saw the fewest murders and shooting incidents in recorded history, plus excellent news on subway crime, retail theft and even record lows in murders and robberies in public housing."
That's what readers have been told by the anti-Mamdani New York Post. But if you watched this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend, you were told that the city's very Communist, Bolshevik mayor is letting crime run rampant, driving tourism away!
Can a modern nation function this way? You're asking a major question. But she always knows where the Bolsheviks are, and her two co-hosts play along!
"We plan to wait and see!"
ReplyDeleteMe too. I don't live in NY, but Mamdani is a very exciting figure for those of us on the left. A jolt to the status quo, perhaps. But like all leftists in the Democratic party, he's sure to continue to be sniped not just by Republicans (a given) but by Democrats who wish above all else to maintain the status quo, even, or maybe especially, if he proves to be an effective leader.
Leroy
A major aim of communism is to diminish inequalities, which then inherently would lower crime rates.
ReplyDeleteSo Fox News gets it right in that respect, although they seem confused about what bolshevism is.
Mamdani is a pragmatist, a centrist progressive, a reformist, not a Leftist.
ReplyDeleteThe Right wants to portray him as a wild eyed commie in an attempt to move the Overton window towards the right.
This effort will likely backfire, although not spectacularly so.
Americans have largely moved on from Red Scares, it’s no longer particularly relevant, regardless of how much Fox News clings to it.
FOX preaches to the converted.
ReplyDelete"Can a modern nation function this way? You're asking a major question."
ReplyDeleteWE are not asking that question. Somerby asks it.
We are living in a modern nation that considers itself a democracy in which people of various views get to express themselves freely and where differences of opinion are resolved through voting in elections. In other words, our nation is designed specifically to tolerate different ideas and lack of agreement. So, we Democrats who value democracy don't get all hysterical, the way Somerby does, just because Fox and its various hosts and guests express views different than our own. And yes, they tell lies. Our system allows truth to emerge from such diversity of statements. Somerby has never appreciated that.
We do not want to be run by an authoritarian news monitoring arm of govt that screens out what someone somewhere believes to be lies. That would be the only way to prevent Fox from doing what it does. But we can and should trust that if we point out the lies, others will rethink their devotion to Fox and stop watching it. Not Somerby, of course.
And yes, a modern nation can be run our way. The problems we face today are because Russia funded interference in our election system and put a puppet into the presidency, breaking laws in the process. We need to figure out how to get rid of an illegally elected charlatan like Trump. I trust that once he is removed from office, we will go back and close the loopholes and charge the criminals who allowed this to happen.
Buried in those stats is the fact that anti-Muslim hate crimes have increased in NYC. Is it a coincidence that Mamdani is Muslim and that the right is attacking him in the press this way? Perhaps the very people decrying Mamdani's effectiveness are the cause of the only identified increase in NYC crime.
ReplyDeleteBREAKING The illustrious Mary Trump, Daily Howler's most esteemed expert on mental illness, says the WHCA shooting was staged.
ReplyDeleteThe anti-Trump fuss seems to have inspired another assassination attempt on the President.
ReplyDeleteThat bed Republicans made comfy, David?
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