The brazen partisan hypocrisy among Democrats and their liberal media allies regarding crime and law enforcement is so grotesque you have to wonder if they have shame.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has flooded the New York City subway system with 750 National Guard members and an additional 250 law enforcement officers, whose only job it appears to be is to check the purses of women trying to get to their jobs. This is being done in collaboration with Mayor Eric Adams, after New York’s bail law and New York City’s allergy to prosecuting criminals has left subway users scared about being assaulted or pushed in front of a train by repeat criminals.
Rather than having the additional officers patrol for actual crimes, or rather than prosecuting the repeat criminals that have caused this problem and keeping the subway clean and safe, we end up with this. Hochul and Adams are playing security theater, treating the everyday, law-abiding civilians of New York City like criminals because they and their fellow Democratic politicians don’t want to treat the criminals like criminals.
Liberal media is marching along dutifully to all of this. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) proposed in a New York Times opinion piece sending in the National Guard to quell riots by actual criminals, the New York Times staff revolted. They forced out the opinion editor over it while they hysterically claimed that the piece put black staffers’ lives in danger. Mara Gay, a member of the editorial board, repeated that exact line in response to Cotton’s piece.
What does New York Times editorial member Mara Gay think of New York actually using the National Guard to check purses on the subway? She’s in favor. After all, according to her, the National Guard being asked to stop violent rioters will put black New York Times staffers in danger, but it will also help “subway riders feel safer” by emptying their bags at checkpoints.
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To play the classic game of “if a Republican did this,” you could imagine how Gay and other New York Times staffers would react had a Republican mobilized the National Guard to do bag checks on the subway. That Republican would be accused of militarizing the subway and, yes, putting “black people in danger” as well as “other Americans standing up for our humanity and democracy,” according to Gay.
It is brazen hypocrisy offered in defense of performative protection that is only necessary because the Democrats in charge dropped the ball for years leading up to it. All of it is designed to help Democrats in New York ahead of the 2024 election. That is why Hochul has ordered it, and that is why media figures like Gay are not launching into more hysterical screeds about the National Guard’s presence.