By West Side Rag
The New York Police Department put out a call on Wednesday for help in identifying a suspect who slapped a 71-year-old woman last month on the Upper West Side.
Around 6:30 p.m. on April 2, the woman was walking near Central Park West and West 100th Street when another woman walked up to her and slapped her in the face for no clear reason, police said.
The victim sustained minor injuries with pain and swelling in the face, but refused medical attention at the scene, according to police.
NYPD released a photo Wednesday of the woman wanted in connection with the attack.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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I know this sounds so obvious , but this sort of thing has to stop. We’ve lost our manners, dignity, and respect for each other.
But what can be done?
It’s futile to “blame the police,” it’s ridiculous to think our city council can do anything, and sloganeering is a waste of time, but as a society, we are slowly breaking down into a place none of us want to live in.
sounds like the woman who slapped the other woman might have mental problems and probably not about manners
“We’ve lost our manners, dignity, and respect for each other.” Like this sort of thing has not been going on for a long, long time?
What can be done????? A lot!!!!!! We need to vote differently as a start. These are violent criminals who are usually not arrested and when they are arrested they are released in 5 minutes. They must be arrested and jailed. And that will only happen if we vote differently. We need people in office who are not soft on crime. It’s actually quite simple.
What you’ve written is nonsense. That’s not how things work at all. There have been people in office many times before in many jurisdictions who were not “soft on crime” and it made zero difference. The factors responsible for a rise or decline in crime are way more complicated than you claim.
It won’t stop and is only going to get worse.
Vote better next time.
Perhaps next time not for a candidate synonymous with lawlessness and corruption. Just a notion.
In NYC politics the choices are limited.
Having received unfavorable feedback at my attempts to make humorouss comments about the conversion of the NYPD to a Social Work Organization I will forgo such witticisms and simply say that I believe that the current administration is an ineffective in terms of improving law enforcement in NYC. The Mayor lacks experience in many critical areas but is particularly stunted in his leadership of the city’s law enforcement efforts. I hope this direct critique addresses the concerns of the critics but any way you say it Mamdani is weak on law enforcement.
Speaking of “rhetoric”, some people want others to forget this:
“We don’t need an investigation to know the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.
What we need is to #DefundtheNYPD.”
– Zohran Mamdani
Now let the gas for the gaslighting flow.
In the four months that he has been in office, what exactly leads you to conclude that he is weak on crime??
How exactly is Mamdani “weak on law enforcement”? What did he do or fail to do that leads you to this conclusion? Or is it a vibes thing?
Really? How so? Do you have any specifics, or just rhetoric? And are you able to trace anything Mamdani has or has not done to the incident described here?
Just the usual cranky old rhetoric.
Why are we only hearing about this now? There may be administrative reasons, but peoples’ memories have faded over the past few weeks. Too bad.
The cops ran out of leads and need some help, that’s usually why.
That looks like the guy who grabbed my arm and pulled me on Columbus and 107th last year until I shoved him away. It also looks like the guy who threatened to punch me in the head last summer because I wouldn’t give him my lunch.
The OP says the slapper was a woman.
Look at the photo. Could be the same person
Male-presenting, I’d say.
UWS was safer in the 70s.
UWS was far more exciting and interesting in the ’70s, but safer it was not.
No sorry it was not
This woman assaulted a 71 year old. She should be apprehended by NYPD and thrown in prison for assaulting a senior citizen.
“should” being the operative word. If she’s caught, the charges will be reduced, she’ll be out on the streets, she’ll menace more people again, and progressive apologists will continue to make excuses for the current failed policies on crime.
I believe assaulting a senior is a felony.
It doesn’t help that every Friday at 5pm the group at 96th/Broadway forms and yells and yells and yells for an hour to make everyone feel more agitated and angry and angrier. Last year and the years before it was BLM and White Supremicism is Domestic Terrorism. Yes, but does the UWS, the most liberal neighborhood in Manhattan need to hear that? 4 years after George Floyd. Now it’s Anti-ICE and yelling out names.
Does that make everyone feel like getting along? 4 four years it was BLM. Now Black Lives DON’T Matter? What happened? Now it’s Anti-ICE for a year? Then what?
My point is all it is doing is making people angry, agitated, feeling hatred, and to someone already unstable, it takes effect. The people on the corner there have nothing to do but “protest” like it’s a social outing. And if they really cared, they would be out there in the snow and rain.
No matter what, it’s backfiring and tearing us apart.