Another career criminal in New York goes on a killing spree
Zachary Faria
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A career criminal with a decadeslong rap sheet slayed people in New York City. In other words, it’s just another week in the Big Apple.
Roland Codrington was arrested on Christmas Eve after allegedly killing James Cunningham within 20 seconds of bumping into him outside the bar, slashing the man’s neck. He returned days later with a baseball bat and a pit bull and assaulted the female bartender because he “felt disrespected,” according to the New York City Police Department. He then allegedly stabbed two customers who stepped in to help her. They both survived, but Codrington allegedly killed Bruce Henry in a park shortly afterward.
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Unsurprisingly, Codrington has a long criminal history. That includes knife robbery and knife assault in 2006 and 2009, two assaults in 2012, criminal possession with a knife in 2013, two assaults with a weapon in 2017, assault with a weapon in 2021, and “some vehicle-related arrests” from this year. Most recently, he was released from jail in April 2021 after serving just three-to-six years for gun possession, which was not even the first time he had served time for gun possession.
Codrington even had a warrant out for his arrest before his stabbing spree. And yet, in typical New York fashion, Codrington was somehow out on the streets, free to stab multiple people right before Christmas, because New York can’t be bothered to keep career criminals off the streets no matter how many times they show they are violent, unstable, and incapable of being reformed.
This isn’t new. One criminal in New York City randomly punched a man and put him in a coma but was let out with no bail despite being a registered sex offender on lifetime parole for a sexual assault case. Another man had been arrested 41 times and had a history of unprovoked assaults but was out on the street, punching people in the face because he felt like it.
The New York City subway shooter arrested earlier this year had a criminal history stretching back to the 1990s. When Austin Simon, a man on parole for assaulting a police officer, threatened to assault and potentially kill a bodega worker, it was the bodega worker who was targeted by the city’s justice system for killing his assailant while defending himself.
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New York’s idea of “criminal justice reform” has been to ensure that most criminals are free to roam the streets with no bail whatsoever. New York City, in particular, cares little for targeting career criminals and cleaning up the streets, opting instead to let residents fend for themselves while hanging criminal charges over law-abiding residents for acting in self-defense.
Neither the state nor the city cares about keeping residents safe or making sure criminals face justice. The result is yet another killing spree that could, and should, have been prevented.