The city’s top cop said the criminal justice system is “imploding” as he highlighted a rise in shootings and killings on the city’s streets and slammed pols for refusing to support the Finest at an invite-only press conference at NYPD headquarters this week.
“You have to step back and look at this. You have a criminal justice system that is imploding,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea lamented during a small meeting with reporters Wednesday at One Police Plaza in Manhattan. “Imploding. That’s the kindest way to put it.”
Shea went on to point out that many criminal cases were “ongoing,” “stagnant” or “deferred.”
“Each one of those represents somebody not being held accountable and no consequences,” Shea said.
The comments come as the city is seeing a steep rise in shootings — though overall crime is actually down for the year 2.5 percent, according to NYPD data.