Weapons -- including a hay hook, a broken mop handle with a chain attached, and a meat cleaver -- seized in one day by security officers at five homeless shelters.
This frightening collection of knives was part of just one day of seizures at city homeless shelters — and helps explain why innocent New Yorkers are being slashed and stabbed all over town, law enforcement sources said Thursday.
The dozens of daggers, boxcutters and other blades filled one of five crates of weapons taken over a 24-hour period from five shelters in Brooklyn, sources said.
The haul included a hay hook, a razor-edged wood scraper, a belt studded with spikes, and a broken mop handle with a length of chain attached to it.
Cops are currently battling an 18 percent spike in year-to-date knife attacks, which sources have blamed on the hordes of mentally ill homeless people living on the streets or in city shelters.
“The lion’s share of random slashings are EDPs [emotionally disturbed persons] who are not getting the psychiatric help they need,” one NYPD source said.
Many of the seized cutting instruments — including the butcher knives and meat cleaver — clearly violate a city law that prohibits people from carrying “any knife which has a blade length of 4 inches or more.”
Shelter residents caught with illegal knives get handcuffed by safety officers employed by the Department of Homeless Services, then are transported to the local NYPD precinct for arrest and prosecution.
But the safety officers aren’t armed, and the shelters are so woefully understaffed that there can be as few as three officers per 100 to 150 residents, according to their union.
Teamsters Local 237 said the situation demands a change in protocol so the officers can carry handguns, Tasers, pepper spray and other defensive weapons.
Derek Jackson, the union’s law enforcement director, said the shelters were “filled with people smoking K2,” a synthetic drug that NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has said leaves users “totally crazy” and violent.
“The officers are terrified. It’s not safe for the officers,” Jackson said.
Modal TriggerCab driver Mustafa KadroPhoto: Lorena Mongelli
The city’s latest slashing victim, cabby Mustafa Kadro, blamed the surge in knife attacks on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s soft-on-crime policies.
“Now there is more freedom. De Blasio needs to be more upfront, more involved,” Kadro told The Post.
“When [Rudy] Giuliani was mayor, there were more quality-of-life laws and traffic regulations enforced.”
Kadro, 52, was slashed around 3 a.m. Thursday after giving three young men a free ride in Brooklyn because it was cold and they only wanted to go eight blocks.
Upon reaching their destination in Williamsburg, one of the passengers thanked Kadro for the lift before his buddy reached through the safety partition and slashed the driver’s forehead.
“We need more police,” Kadro fumed.
The mayor’s office said the city is aggressively confiscating weapons from the shelters.
“Shelter security is doing a good job rounding up all weapons, thus the five crates of knives,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Karen Hinton. “NYPD also is bearing down on knife arrests, just as it has with gun seizures. And, as the mayor said, NYPD has done such an effective job on reducing the number of guns, criminals are using other weapons. We have increased security at all shelters.”
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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