Posted on 08/05/2022 8:35:48 PM PDT by lowbridge
The career crook whom Mayor Adams dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” as a symbol of the city’s revolving door of criminal justice has been identified as Harold Gooding, a 53-year-old serial shoplifter — who has been arrested 101 times.
“How many crimes do you think he really committed? Two hundred? Three hundred? A thousand?” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said at a news conference Wednesday.
“And guess what? He’s walking around the streets of New York City today, probably committing another crime as we speak.”
On Wednesday, sources identified Gooding as the unnamed person at the top of the NYPD’s list of the “Worst of the Worst” repeat offenders — let free again and again thanks to New York’s broken bail-reform law.
Gooding has served three prison terms, starting with a one- to three-year sentence for an attempted-burglary conviction in Brooklyn in 1994, according to state records.
Using the name Jamiel White, he was sent upstate again in 1996 for an attempted-robbery conviction in Brooklyn, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Gooding’s most serious conviction, for first-degree robbery in Brooklyn, got him a 10-year sentence in 2001, and he was paroled in 2008, records show.
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It’s a cottage industry!
How much more all other shoppers pay to make up for shop lifting losses?
An earlier edition of the Guiness Book of World’s Records
had an entry for the worst driver. The woman had one after another variety of violation after violation. Her license had long ago been revoked. Her last offense was reckless driving and totaling a police car.
It’s not Winona Ryder?
Prime candidate for double amputee.
Sing with me — “New York! New York! It’s a helluva town. The crime is up, but convictions are down. Democrats won’t ever crack down! New York! New York! It’s a helluva town!”
Connect the dots.
The complaining mayor has his own democrat political party to thank for the laws and policies responsible for this out of control criminality.
Yet here he is - still a staunch democrat.
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