NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch raged Wednesday against an “unsustainable” revolving door of recidivism driving Big Apple crime — singling out a violent maniac with 70 past busts who allegedly tried to rape a woman on a train.
The city’s top cop ripped New York City district attorneys and 2020’s controversial state bail reform that she said put violent offenders back on the streets “over and over again.”
Tisch said NYPD cops last year made the most felony arrests in 26 years, only to see suspects spat back out by the criminal justice system.
“Before they can even finish that paperwork, their perp is back out on the street, immediately returned to the neighborhood and the people that they just victimized,” she told the crowd gathered at The Association for a Better New York’s “Power Breakfast” in Midtown.
“It’s demoralizing, it’s unsustainable, and it defies common sense.”
Tisch laid some blame on unintended consequences from 2020’s criminal justice reforms, but she didn’t let the city’s district attorneys off the hook, subtly digging at unspecified soft-on-crime policies by their offices.
Without naming prosecutors, she lamented that homeless career criminal Tyriek Martin, 34, was repeatedly dumped back on the street — even after more than 70 arrests, including for allegedly bashing a 2-year-old girl with a suitcase in Manhattan, and being deemed too crazy to stand trial.
Martin last week allegedly bashed a woman’s head against a pole in a train rolling into Times Square subway station and tried to rape her. He was indicted Wednesday on a rape charge.
Tisch noted prosecutors — largely in lefty Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, according to officials and sources — declined to press past cases against Martin.
“What are you doing here? How is not prosecuting a violent repeat offender in the interest of justice?” Tisch said.
A source close to the commissioner told The Post that the remark was meant to dig at prosecutors’ decisions that kept Martin on the street.
Tisch argued prosecutors too often dismiss cases through a procedural maneuver called “adjournments in contemplation of dismissal.”
She did credit all five of New York City top prosecutors, including Bragg, for pushing to change the state’s discovery, or evidence, law — arguing recent reforms have led to a shocking rise in accused criminals getting sprung loose on technicalities.
Tisch argued the city doesn’t have a crime problem so much as a surge in recidivism.
Last year saw an “unacceptable rise” in the number of people arrested three or more times for the same crime, she said.
“The increase was 61% for burglary, 64% for shoplifting, 71% for grand larceny, 83% for robbery, and 119% for auto thefts,” she said.
“I am channeling the voice of virtually every NYPD cop and everyday New Yorkers when I say: Enough is enough. Criminals in New York City – including violent, repeat offenders – continue to be given every courtesy. And the people of this city suffer as a result.”
— Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy and Reuven Fenton
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