ALBANY – New York’s state of emergency “is one of self-inflicted harm caused by Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and their failed leadership,” Republican Hudson Valley State Assemblyman Colin Schmitt (R, New Windsor), said Thursday.
Schmitt was responding to Cuomo’s war on gun violence that he announced this week.
“By ending cash bail, closing Rikers Island, defunding the police, and making the state parole board into a turnstile that is releasing murders, rapists, and other violent criminals back onto our streets, they have placed the safety of every New Yorker in jeopardy,” Schmitt said. “Instead of political grandstanding, Governor Cuomo should reconvene the state legislature and repeal each and every measure that they passed which has led to the unprecedented surge in violent crime we are experiencing. Solving the public safety crisis is not hard or complicated, it just requires commonsense.”
