Retired NYPD Officer Says Fear in NYC is ‘Palpable’ Amid ‘Disorder,’ ‘Decay’
Retired New York Police Department Sgt. Pete Panuccio, a 39-year police veteran, told Fox News that New Yorkers are living in fear in the crime-ridden city.
He shared with Fox, “There’s a sense of disorder, a sense of decay, and what I like to call palpable fear. Those are things you can’t quantify, but people are scared again.”
New York City leaders have touted crime reductions since the historically bloody 2020, which saw the most murders since 2011 among other violent crimes, according to New York City Police Department data. But Panuccio said a culture of lawlessness, which he blamed on permissive, progressive policies, exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic and has persisted ever since,
