Gun Control, Liberal style: punish and harass lawful citizens, let the criminals go free

Suburban Sally: “Oh, we so very much care for the poor, we insist that their killers stay on the streets.”

NYC continues its catch-and-release program for armed gangbangers

…. The NYPD said the new Neighborhood Safety Teams made 25 gun arrests in their first three weeks since launching in March, but The Post was only able to obtain court records or information for 12 of the cases.

Of those 12, just one man remains behind bars — meaning 11 of the defendants are back on the street, including the four who were cut loose with no bail. The others had posted bail that was set in their respective cases.

One of the sprung includes Tyquise Bell, 23, who was allegedly nabbed by NST cops on March 30 in the Bronx after they spotted a 9mm Taurus pistol inside the lower leg of his pants, court records say. 

“I found it for sure. Two days ago. I’ve only had it for two days,” Bell allegedly told police during the bust, according to a criminal complaint. 

During his arraignment the next day, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office and Judge Srividya Pappachan, a former public defender and a Bill de Blasio appointee, agreed to spring him on supervised release because the charges weren’t bail eligible, records show. ….

Xayvion Rodgers, 19, was drinking out of a Casamigos tequila bottle around 1:30 a.m. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when an NST unit spotted a loaded 9mm pistol on him, court records say. 

Rodgers took off running from the cops and dropped the gun, which his co-defendant Robert Griffin, 19, picked up and shoved into a plastic shopping bag, the records show. 

Inside the bag was a loaded B6C Sarsilmaz pistol with one cartridge in the chamber and 12 cartridges in the magazine, court papers show.  

The duo was charged with second-degree firearm possession, a felony charge for which bail can be set, but during their arraignment, Judge Phyllis Chu freed them both on supervised release, records show. …

…[A] a Brooklyn judge sprung Marcos Malvar without bail following his March 26 bust by NST cops on felony firearm possession charges, according to court records.

Malvar, 21, was pulled over in a car that had drugs inside — and cops also turned up a loaded Hi Point Model CF .380 firearm, a semiautomatic weapon, with three rounds of ammo inside his bedroom dresser. 

He was also charged with criminal obstruction of breathing for allegedly choking his girlfriend, the mother of his children, records show. 

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The NSTs — a revamped version of the NYPD’s controversial anti-crime unit disbanded in 2020 and a key pillar to Mayor Eric Adams’ fight to curb gun violence — launched in March in response to the city’s surge in gun violence.

City Hall and the NYPD have so far given varying arrest data from the program’s first three weeks.

Most recently, on April 6, Chief of Department Ken Corey said the NSTs made 135 busts and that 67% of the suspects had a prior arrest record. Of the 25 gun arrests the NYPD said the teams have made, four of the suspects were juveniles, five had open felony cases and seven had been previously convicted of a crime.

Of the 135 total busts, which were for a range of offenses, 91 had prior arrest records, 57 had a prior arrest for a major felony and 21 were on parole or probation.

Of the dozen cases reviewed by The Post, Dwayne Davis, 44, was the only defendant to be held without bail after he allegedly shot someone multiple times on March 18 in the Bronx. He is charged him with attempted murder and felony firearm possession.

So far this year, shootings are up 10% across the city compared to the same period in 2021, with 354 reports of gunfire — a rate of more than three shootings per day. 

Before NYC bowed to the Left and ended enforcement of its gun laws, armed gangbangers didn’t roam the streets but their weapons stashed in nearby, convenient stash houses, brought out only in cases of severe provocation, like seeing the wrong gang colors in the hood, or similar cases of disrespect. Now they can carry openly, and do. You want more crime? This is how you get more crime.