Bronx’s district prosecutor Darcel Clark is dropping the ball, said the best police officer in the city on Tuesday.
The New York Police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, said that the northernmost municipality is late in Crack On Crime, calling Clark’s grass “the best absolute place” in the Grand Manzana to steal a car.
“And speaking of not consequences,” said Tisch, “if you are interested in stealing a car, the best absolute place to do so is in the Bronx. Why? Because Chans is good that he is only accused of criminal possession of Stole’s stolen criminal property.
“Car theft is a serious crime, so it must be accused as a serious crime,” he said in the Breakfast Forum of the City of New York City in Midtown on Tuesday morning. “And when you don’t charge properly … you end up leading the city in cars stolen by a wide margin.”
Car thefts fell 12% in the city in the first quarter of the years, but the Bronx is breaking the trend with a 3.6% increase in stolen vehicles, according to Tisch.
The statistics references of the New York Police crime by the commissioner were not immediately avializable for review.
The comments occurred following the new Tisch attack on crimes of quality of life, part of a plan to dedicate 2,000 police officers throughout the city to take energetic measures against the 311 most frequent complaints of New York.
The initiative was launched in Six City enclosures last week and will expand in the coming months.
“I am channeling the voice of virtuaxy every New York Police Police and New Yorker every day when I say: it’s enough, “Tisch said.” The laws of the state of New York, the laws of New York City and internal fiscal policies have handcuffed the police, exposed them to an unveivable risk and allowed again.
“But the good news is that a large part of this is extremely solucionable. It’s just a matter of doing it.”
Clark has been a frequent objective of critics who argue that the prosecutor is lax in crime.
The data of the State Division of Criminal Justice in 2023 showed that Clark’s office had the worst condemnation and dismissal rates in almost all the main categories of crimes in New York City, the post reported at that time.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Bronx DA office responded to Tisch’s comments saying that “there is a difference between what the police charge to trial and what we can prove in court.”
“Collection decisions are made with maximum integrity and we do not charge unless we have evidence,” the statement said. “Since Bronx is a center for the sale of stolen cars from other jurisdictions, continuously our intensified efforts to address car crimes and hold people responsible for them.”
The statement also said that the DA Office has a “productive association” with the Auto NYPD crime unit to address car theft focused on “long -term investigations and car theft equipment.”
“This approach allows us to interrupt the patterns of these crimes and prosecute vigorously.”