Former New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson admitted that he has never felt less safe in New York City and discussed Democrats’ "blind spot" on crime in a recent radio interview.
Discussing the upcoming midterm elections in the state on Sunday’s "The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis," Paterson said issues related to crime still appear to be the most important to New Yorkers, as they have been in previous election cycles.
He also expressed hope that candidates would take those concerns into account. "For the first time in my life—even in the late eighties and nineties when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year, I never felt as unsafe as I do now just walking around and God forbid, sometimes we take the subway home from WABC, and you’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day," he said.
Paterson added that there is a small percentage of people within the county jail system in New York that are repeat offenders, getting arrested "20, 30, 50 times," and suggested that element is where changes to the criminal justice system need to be made.
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