Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the special bonus segment just for you podcast listeners,

an extra show every week. So everybody's happy that Jessica Tisch will stay on as the police

commissioner. People think that's the ideal situation. She's very good. And I'll take her over

anybody Mom Donnie might choose. But there are some people saying, you know, she's not the greatest police coming.

She's good.

She's not Ray Kelly.

She's not, I mean, there are some problems with the police department.

For instance, Central Park, the numbers are getting bad there.

Central Park goers are wary as serious assaults and sex crimes skyrocketed in 2025.

Many of them saying I don't want to walk alone anymore.

Serious assaults went up 58% in Central Park.

Yeah, just this year.

While reports of sex crimes other than rape shot up 150% according to NYPD data.

Also, there have been 19 felony assaults in the park this year up from 12 the year before.

Tom Moore, a superintendent at a building near the park placed the blame for the crime search on city and state politicians.

Yeah, so, you know, you can't just blame the police department or the police commissioner.

As he points out, it's the no cash, no bail that Cuomo stuck us with.

There's no bail.

It's a revolving door, and it's the same criminals over and over again. And every time they arrest somebody, it's a guy who's done this

a million times before and just gets, you can arrest them all you want, but they keep getting

released. Now, the other thing is that Park East Synagogue situation was just terrible. Worshippers

coming to the most prominent synagogue in New York, the Park East Synagogue, and the protesters

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