The Anthony Cumia Show - February 16, 2026


Cooking the Crime Books ｜ 02-15-26


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8 minutes

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151.75775

Word count

1,308

Sentence count

63

Harmful content

Toxicity

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A New York City cop was stabbed and a suspect was shot, but no one has been charged. Is this a good or bad thing? And what does the mayor have to say about it? Plus, a new Fanduel Super Sub!

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
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00:01:04.020 Okay, then you want to look around.
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00:01:11.100 And
00:01:11.460 I was talking a little
00:01:13.460 earlier about the subway
00:01:15.280 crime being up 17%.
00:01:17.800 This was
00:01:19.480 a huge thing.
00:01:21.680 I mean, every New Yorker
00:01:23.340 was feeling like they were not safe in the subway anymore.
00:01:26.720 This harkened back to the old glory days of violent New York crime,
00:01:32.800 the 70s, the 80s, the crack era of the late 80s, early 90s.
00:01:38.900 People were petrified, petrified of going on the New York City subway system.
00:01:44.760 And people are petrified now.
00:01:47.660 And they have good reason.
00:01:48.920 we've watched people set on fire pushed in front of train tracks shot stabbed whatever else you
00:01:56.980 could possibly do to another human being uh it's being done there in the new york city subway
00:02:02.260 system so uh that stat coming up and this is in the middle of them crowing about crime itself
00:02:09.820 overall new york city crime dropping in the past month um i don't know i i know a lot of cops i
00:02:17.120 You know how they reclassify the brass and the mayor's office get together,
00:02:21.500 and they reclassify certain violent crimes into nonviolent crimes.
00:02:25.980 And this has been done forever, and it's just to cook the books to make them look better.
00:02:31.140 Hey, look, crime went down.
00:02:32.960 Ask the average New Yorker, do they feel that the crime has gone down?
00:02:39.260 Because I will take the buzz going around New York.
00:02:43.040 I will take the word of the people that that commute every day, that walk the sidewalks every day, that grab a slice of pizza or what have you.
00:02:52.320 I will take their word over any politician nonsense about how crime is down.
00:03:01.340 You know, it makes them look better.
00:03:03.640 They can't announce that crime is up.
00:03:06.660 It makes them look terrible.
00:03:09.020 So 17 percent in the subways.
00:03:11.740 and um there was a story the other day about uh a guy the the cops went to a call it was a domestic
00:03:22.020 call apparently a uh man was in in a house with some family members he had broken a glass there
00:03:30.640 was um yelling and whatnot and the police were dispatched uh when they arrived this guy came
00:03:37.860 charging at them with a knife and the cops shot him he did survive his injuries and was put in
00:03:45.840 the hospital one of the cops were stabbed and he was treated for his injuries and Zoran decided it
00:03:53.560 was a good look good optic to go to the hospital and visit the guy that stabbed the cop and over
00:04:00.980 the past few days he's been talking about how he doesn't think this guy should be prosecuted
00:04:06.740 The cuffs should come off of him, is what he's saying,
00:04:10.060 and that this is a mental health issue.
00:04:13.540 How is this supposed to bring crime down
00:04:18.700 when the mayor, who's in charge of the police department in a city,
00:04:23.460 goes around saying, yeah, we're not going to do anything.
00:04:26.260 I'll come visit you in the hospital.
00:04:28.620 I'll bring you a balloon, a Mylar balloon and get well soon card.
00:04:33.740 And there he was.
00:04:35.900 there he was bedside talking to the family saying no family should go through this
00:04:42.380 can you believe he said no family should go through what the family of this guy
00:04:47.820 that charged and stabbed a cop and was then shot and and lucky for him not killed and and all
00:04:57.720 zoran can say is a family shouldn't have to go through that so that's kind of um that's kind of
00:05:07.320 on the back burner here it's obvious that communist anti-cop anti-law and order zorman
00:05:14.280 danny that's what he's going to do but then the media asked him um what what dictates a call
00:05:22.680 where you would send a social worker or anything but a cop what is the criteria there because
00:05:32.680 as the reporter asks memdani and memdani just fails to explain how they uh they will know when
00:05:41.780 a dispute merits a cop or one of these social workers a domestic dispute there was nothing in
00:05:47.920 the call about a weapon nothing in the call about this guy being dangerous and under zorn memdani's
00:05:54.500 utopian world they would have just sent off some social work but they sent cops thank god this guy
00:06:02.700 came out with a knife and we know what happened so uh let's listen to memdani explaining to this
00:06:07.820 reporter uh the difference between a call that would merit a cop or a social work uh ac5 please
00:06:14.300 I know that you talk about the fact that the police can respond in these instances if there's
00:06:28.860 a weapon. But in this case, there wasn't a knowledge that there would be a weapon.
00:06:33.280 There was the charges were that he was breaking glass. And at the last minute when the cops came
00:06:38.500 in he pulled a knife out in the kitchen so how do you determine when the police can arrive if
00:06:44.700 the initial call doesn't say he's got a gun he's got he's got a knife what do you do and then if
00:06:50.180 it turns violent if a person's there without the ability to stop him what happens so i think there's
00:06:55.800 there's a few things to say here one is a lot of this is exactly the focus of the conversations
00:07:02.660 that we're having internally and developing out this department of community safety additionally
00:07:06.780 I want to make clear that a person experiencing a mental health episode does not always have to
00:07:12.380 be served first or exclusively by a police officer. It is important for us to have all
00:07:17.560 of the options available. And that's exactly what we're looking at. He did not answer.
00:07:22.580 What would the criteria be? You're putting people in danger when you send them on a call
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