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The Citizen
5 days ago
- The Citizen
Reckless driving not to be ruled out in crash that claims 3
Reckless driving not to be ruled out in crash that claims 3 According to a media statement released by the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, two men and one woman were killed instantly in a head-on collision involving a Sprinter Minibus and Quantum Minibus taxi, between the R555 and Mandela Drive in Middelburg. A light delivery was also involved. The three deceased were passengers in both taxis, and at least 14 people sustained serious injuries, including one driver. Three more people were slightly injured in the light delivery vehicle, including the driver. 'The occupants of the minibus were reportedly travelling from Mhluzi to work at one of the mines in Middelburg. The injured were transported by emergency services to nearby hospitals in Middelburg. The cause is not yet clear, however, reckless and negligent driving cannot be ruled out at this point,' Moeti Mmusi, media spokesperson for the department, said. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
New York Post
6 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Mamdani's anti-cop zealotry means crime and chaos for NYC — it's all in his agenda
Zohran Mamdani is one smooth talker. He claims he 'no longer believes,' as he did just five years ago, that the New York City Police Department is a 'wicked and corrupt' institution that must be 'defunded' and 'dismantled.' He says he really didn't mean it when he blamed 'the police themselves' for 'perpetrating an enormous amount' of violent crime, 'especially with regard to sexual violence.' He insists he was misunderstood when he tweeted, 'The NYPD is racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.' Bull. Mamdani will be a disaster for public safety in New York City if he becomes our mayor. A look at his agenda makes it crystal clear. First and worst of all, he'll add no police officers to the force — and will cut the hours of those who remain. The NYPD's 32,000-officer headcount is well below the 34,300 force of 2019, the safest year in more than 40 years. Index felony crimes are 26% higher today. The city has compensated for the reduced patrol strength via overtime, which pays for extra subway police patrols, arrest processing and investigations and keeping order at protests and public events. Yet Mamdani has long railed against police overtime and plans to eliminate it to fund his other programs — notably his Department of Community Safety. Reducing overtime without expanding the force means fewer police on the street, making the city less safe and more chaotic. Mamdani also remains full-steam-ahead on closing Rikers Island, which currently houses some 7,600 inmates — and replacing it with new borough-based jails containing room for just 4,100. (As a candidate for Assembly in 2020, he advocated building no Rikers replacement at all.) That will put thousands of the most dangerous repeat offenders in the city on the street, with 2,500 of them lodged in 'supportive housing' in a neighborhood near you, under the aegis of Mamdani's DCS. Mamdani has signed on to the Democratic Socialists of America's 'Agenda for Decarceration,' which calls for fully eliminating cash bail, repealing all mandatory minimum sentences, decriminalizing sex work and more. He has not repudiated those principles. We've seen this movie before: When the city released 2,000 Rikers inmates under 'bail reform' in 2020, crime shot up by 20%. When we released another 2,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic, shootings and murders doubled. Now the city's jail population stands at about 7,600, and crime has begun to slowly decrease. Mamdani's decarceration agenda will reverse that progress, as he pressures DAs to release defendants and drop prosecution of minor crimes. His enforcement policies, too, will handcuff police instead of wrongdoers. Incredibly, Mamdani would halt NYPD response to domestic-violence calls, claiming that poor police training escalates such situations. He'd have social workers respond instead. He opposes any consequences for turnstile jumpers, thereby making farebeating legal. Why pay? Mamdani opposes involuntary commitment of those with mental illness — you know, the guy sleeping in the subway or ranting at imaginary demons on the street. 'People should be allowed to make their own mental health care decisions,' no matter how delusional they are, he told The City. He'd further restrict City Hall's limited cooperation with federal immigration enforcement — meaning that he would release illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes onto our streets without informing ICE. And a Mayor Mamdani would do lasting damage to public safety via the judges he appoints to the Criminal Court bench. These judges, who set bail on criminal cases, will be taking their cues from the mayor — and will presumably be on board with his desire to basically do away with incarceration. Under state law, judges decide whether to set bail, and in what amount. What do you think Mamdani's judges will do? And all of this is to say nothing about NYPD morale under a mayor who sees its officers as racist, homophobic sexual predators. Recruitment and retention are difficult now; just wait until Mamdani takes office. Politicians can normally be forgiven some of the stupid statements they've made in the past, when they were pandering to the public will (or their perception of it). But Mamdani is no politician. He is a radical socialist and an anti-police ideologue. He truly believes what he said in 2020: When it comes to crime, he cares more about the 7,600 people in city jails — victims, he believes, of an evil capitalist system — than about the city's 8.5 million law-abiding citizens. Under his watch, Rikers will close, jails will empty, criminals will walk free, police officers will be second-guessed and police patrols will decline. We'll see fewer arrests made, fewer crimes solved and far more dangerous streets. But we'll all be comrades in the glorious Democratic People's Republic of New York City. Jim Quinn was executive district attorney in the Queens District Attorney's Office, where he served for 42 years.
The Citizen
30-06-2025
- The Citizen
1 dead, more than 14 injured in Hazyview crash
One person died and more than 14 others sustained serious injuries in a collision involving a minibus taxi and a Jeep on the R40 near the Sabie Road (R536) turn-off in Mpumalanga last night. Marius van Staden from PRU Paramedical Response says they were called to the accident scene at about 20:00. Lowvelder reports that the driver of the Jeep was declared dead on the scene, while the driver of the taxi was trapped inside the vehicle. Some passengers were reportedly ejected through the windows. 'The Jaws of Life was used to free the taxi driver, who was stabilised at the scene before being transported to a nearby hospital. More than 10 injured passengers were also transported to various hospitals by private ambulances. The cause of the accident is currently unknown,' he says. An investigation to determine the cause of the crash is underway. Moeti Mmusi, spokesperson for the Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison, extended wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured and sent condolences to the family of the deceased. Breaking news at your fingertips… Follow Caxton Network News on Facebook and join our WhatsApp channel. Nuus wat saakmaak. Volg Caxton Netwerk-nuus op Facebook en sluit aan by ons WhatsApp-kanaal. Read original story on At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
The Citizen
29-06-2025
- The Citizen
One dead, more than 14 injured in Hazyview crash
One dead, more than 14 injured in Hazyview crash One person died and more than 14 others sustained serious injuries in a collision involving a minibus taxi and a Jeep on the R40 near the Sabie Road (R536) turn-off on Sunday, June 29. Marius van Staden of PRU Paramedical Response said they were called to the accident scene at about 20:00. Upon arrival, the driver of the Jeep was declared dead. The driver of the taxi was found trapped inside the vehicle, while some passengers were reportedly ejected through the windows. ALSO READ: Two adults and a child killed on N4 near Mbombela 'The Jaws of Life was used to free the taxi driver, who was stabilised at the scene before being transported to a nearby hospital. More than 10 injured passengers were also transported to various hospitals by private ambulances. The cause of the accident is currently unknown,' he said. ALSO READ: Body of 22-year-old man recovered at Bourke's Luck An investigation to determine the cause of the crash is under way. Moeti Mmusi, spokesperson for the Department of Community Safety, Security, and Liaison, extended wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured and condolences to the family of the deceased. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
Time of India
29-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
'As if people like Mahatma Gandhi...': Republican leader says Zohran Mamdani has no idea how cops work
Zohran Mamdani earlier said he would redirect NYPD's budget and won't hire more cops. Amid a major meltdown over the victory of Indian-origin Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary of the New York mayoral election, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said Mamdani has no understanding about how the police department works, and that's why he promised to create a new Department of Community Safety separately from the police department. This would effectively neuter the police department if cops are forced to become social workers, Sliwa said to the New York Post, which reported apprehension over NYC becoming unsafe if Mamdani becomes the mayor. 'He has a weird notion of how policing is, as if it should be people like Mahatma Gandhi walking around, you know, functioning as a social worker. That does not work," Sliwa said. Zohran Mamdani's police reform positions Mamdani promised major NYPD reform, including redirecting funds from the police department towards housing, healthcare and mental health services. He said the NYPD's budget was bloated and harmful and community investment was more important over policing. Scott Munro, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Association, told NYP the city would be totally unsafe if Mamdani becomes the mayor. 'If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt, and nobody's going to want the job. It's going to put recruitment back five more steps,' Munro said. NYPD insiders said Mamdani clearly hates the NYPD, though he accepted round-the-clock police protection. Sliwa blamed the rise of Mamdani on Eric Adams' time in office, which was marked by scandals, and said he is not going anywhere, leaving the mayoral battle. "I'm in it until November 4," he said. 'We have to go after the hipster millennials and Gen Zers. It's the same group that Donald Trump appealed to," Sliwa said. 'There is no Zohran Mamdani if Eric Adams had done a decent job,' Sliwa said. 'He created the atmosphere so that somebody that nobody knew that was at one per cent in the polls back in February could suddenly win a Democratic primary against an iconic figure like Andrew Cuomo.'
