Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. Curtis Sliwa More Quotes by Curtis Sliwa More Quotes From Curtis Sliwa I hold the mayor completely responsible for this because he’s taken a wrecking ball to our police department. Curtis Sliwa Getting a basic fact like that wrong shows just how out of his depth Curtis is. Curtis Sliwa My response was, the city needs to take the money now, hire police officers, train them and get them out to the streets, subways and parks as quickly as possible because we’re in a crime emergency situation, and the one thing that’s not being addressed here is the hiring of more police. Curtis Sliwa To me, his invitation was purely political, it’s almost as if they decided we don’t want to hear from the Republican, even though in this arena Curtis Sliwa has more credentials than anyone who attended that White House conference, especially Eric Adams. Curtis Sliwa You can’t be for rectifying the crime problem if you’re not going to accept help in hiring police. Without more police, none of this can be achieved, although Eric Adams professes to be law and order, how can he claim that title when he told the president, ‘No?’. Curtis Sliwa It’s become a quasi red-light district. Curtis Sliwa To defund the police, take guns from police, and blame police for the growing crime problem is to render the police into a Reactive and not a Proactive force. This is not Nirvana. The followers of AOC, better known as All Out Crazy, want to weaken policing even more. The Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, the Father of modern day policing, is probably turning in his grave as these events unfold. Curtis Sliwa [But]during the pandemic, the Department of Homeless Services has broken its own rules on sex offenders and where they are housed over and over again, within the past month, 700 single, able-bodied males and 100 females have been moved into three hotels overnight. These are not zero-tolerance shelters meaning they are not searched for drugs, paraphernaliaor alcohol, only for weapons. Curtis Sliwa This has just frustrated the residents who were blindsided by this. Curtis Sliwa