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   Disenchanted with Democrats' far-left soft-on-crime policies, a   
   New York City councilman announced Monday that he is switching   
   to the Republican Party, the New York Post reported.   
      
   Bensonhurst councilman Ari Kagan, who began his first term in   
   office in January, is abandoning the Democratic Party, which he   
   says is responsible for New York City's crime surge.   
      
   "I believe right now, the Democratic Party is doing everything   
   possible in New York City to make everybody less safe," he said.   
   Kagan, in a statement Monday, specifically listed the City   
   Council's move to bar landlords from requiring criminal   
   background checks on potential tenants and its push to eliminate   
   solitary confinement as examples of Democrats' failure to   
   address public safety concerns. Democrats have a supermajority   
   on the council.   
      
   "The Democratic Party in New York was moving to [the] left at   
   such a speed I couldn't keep up," said Kagan. "It's not me   
   leaving the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party very quickly   
   started to leave me."   
      
   Crime rates in the city spiked 15.2 percent in the last year, a   
   number that Democratic New York governor Kathy Hochul tried to   
   dismiss as just a few "high-profile instances." New York City   
   mayor Eric Adams (D.) signed an order last week that allows   
   police to commit potentially dangerous mentally ill people to   
   psychiatric institutions. Liberals quickly slammed the bill,   
   claiming it would cause "trauma."   
      
   "Every month I found myself, like, ‘What am I doing in the   
   Democratic Party?'" Kagan said. "In my own district, in southern   
   Brooklyn, everywhere I knocked [on] the doors people [were]   
   saying, ‘When are you switching to the Republican Party?'"   
      
   Kagan is launching a general election bid against former ally   
   and fellow councilman Justin Brannan (D.) for a newly redrawn   
   Brooklyn district.   
      
   Published under: Crime, Democrats, New York City   
      
      
      
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