NYPD commish Tisch rips DAs, Albany on unsustainable revolving door of violent criminals going back on streets

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 reforms 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 of 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 the Times Square subway station and tried to rape her.He was indicted Wednesday on a rape charge.Tisch noted that 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...

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