Over the weekend, New York City saw a sharp uptick in violence with seven murders, causing the New York Post to assign blame to judges who have overturned stop-and-frisk-based gun convictions and the 2004 rollback of strict, Rockefeller-era drug laws. On Fred Dicker’s radio show today, however, Governor Andrew Cuomo directly stated that he’s not on the same page.

“I saw the editorial in your paper today [that] touched on that Fred,” he said. “I haven’t seen any causal relationship between those court decisions and what happened recently. So I don’t know that there’s any factual connection.” Read More