Latest news with #PaulMauro
Fox News
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Shooting at Capital Jewish Museum highlights rising wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes
The shooting of two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C., after a Jewish event Wednesday highlights the struggle American cities face trying to protect Jewish citizens and landmarks, which have repeatedly been targeted by radicals and terrorists over the years. Anti-Jewish hate crimes have soared to record highs, according to the Anti-Defamation League, citing FBI data. Massacres include the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018 and the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack Hamas launched on Israel. Large police departments, like the NYPD, have been focused on target-hardening efforts to improve safety in and around Jewish landmarks for years. "Unfortunately, over the decades, special attention has had to be paid when there is a Jewish or Israeli theme to these locations and events," said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD Inspector. "This was only heightened after 9/11, after the Tree of Life murders in Pittsburgh, after 7 October – after so many others." In New York, police have visibly beefed up their presence outside synagogues, the Israeli consulate and the Big Apple's own Jewish Museum. When there's even the perceived chance of a threat, the department will routinely beef up security around Jewish landmarks in the city. Some have a visible police presence all year. "The good news is that NYPD knows how to do this and, while nothing is perfect, they have developed great expertise in this area — often thanks to best-practices gleaned from partner agencies around the world," Mauro said. Many other departments have adopted the NYPD's protocols. Whenever attacks take place, police around the country are quick to announce increased patrols near places of worship. Despite years of police efforts, attacks continue, including a shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. The 31-year-old suspect, Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, is accused of fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy workers from behind after they left an event sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. Mauro told Fox News Digital that visible security measures may have influenced the decision to attack outside the venue rather than within the building. "The fact that the story is that he was pacing around out front, and that the event was going on right there, and then he decided to do it outside?" he said. "He traveled all the way from Chicago to do this?" He noted that the venue and organizers did have some security measures in place. The invitations were encrypted and limited. At least one off-duty MPD officer was inside for security. The officer, who was wearing a police vest, may have scared the suspected gunman from opening fire inside the building, he said. "I think he saw the security and said, 'I'm better off not going in there and getting shot myself,'" Mauro speculated. "He didn't decide to shoot it out. He decided to pull a Mangione. He wanted to live." Luigi Mangione, a 27-year-old Ivy League grad turned suspected killer, is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson from behind after stalking him in Manhattan. He allegedly had a manifesto outlining his disdain for the health insurance industry in his backpack when police arrested him at a Pennsylvania McDonald's days later. A possible manifesto from Rodriguez was being investigated by the FBI to verify its authenticity, Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed on X Thursday. The Jewish community has also taken its own measures to increase security. Texas resident David Katz, a former DEA agent and the CEO of the Global Security Group, uses his expertise on active-shooter response to train Jewish volunteers to protect their own synagogues on the side. "I can't believe, still, that someone could be pacing in an agitated manner outside a major Jewish institution and no one challenges the guy?" he told Fox News Digital. "No one calls the police to even interview him?" An outside presence is a key aspect of security that Katz teaches, he said. "In my synagogue, one of the volunteers would simply go out and say hi," he explained. "Engage the person and see how they respond. You look for body language clues while scanning for concealed weapons. We would have back-up volunteers ready to act. Everyone is armed and everyone is trained."
Fox News
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
PAUL MAURO: New Orleans jailbreak exposes flat out failures of federal oversight
Print Close By Paul Mauro Published May 20, 2025 The recent escape of ten inmates from a New Orleans jail is the latest wake-up call proving that federal consent decrees do more harm than good when it comes to public safety. The jail, part of the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office system, has operated under a federal consent decree since 2013—a full 12 years of federal oversight with little to show in terms of competence, safety, or accountability. This wasn't a jailbreak from a maximum-security fortress. These inmates—including several facing charges for violent felonies, including murder—simply walked out of a minimum-security facility that was staffed at 60% of the required personnel. It was hours before they were even noticed missing. As of this writing, multiple escapees remain at large. Consent decrees were originally intended as a way to reform abusive or corrupt police and correctional systems. But in practice, they often become sprawling bureaucratic disasters. Expensive, unaccountable, and slow to adapt, they tie the hands of local officials while encouraging a mindset of avoidance rather than enforcement. MASSIVE JAIL BREAK IN NEW ORLEANS 'IMPOSSIBLE' WITHOUT STAFF INVOLVEMENT, SAYS EX-FBI FUGITIVE HUNTER Adding insult to injury, the so-called federal "monitor" of these consent decrees is usually a private law firm—one that bills taxpayers for millions of dollars in oversight fees. These firms have no incentive to wrap things up quickly, and every delay becomes another invoice paid by the public, not for safety or reform, but for paper-pushing and partner bonuses. The truth is, once instituted, federal monitorships become essentially interminable, with new "concerns" surfacing from the worthies-in-charge whenever the decree is in danger of expiring. Some monitorships literally go on for decades. LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BLASTS 'PROGRESSIVE PROMISES' AFTER NEW ORLEANS JAIL ESCAPE That's why, under the Trump administration, an Executive Order was issued last month to review and wind down federal consent decrees imposed on law enforcement agencies across the country. The rationale was simple: let local officials do their job without long-distance interference from Washington lawyers and ideologues who have no stake in the neighborhoods affected. The New Orleans debacle offers a textbook case in how these agreements backfire. The consent decree for the jail, overseen by a federal judge and an out-of-town monitor, was supposed to improve conditions. Instead, it has delivered chronic understaffing, poor morale, and a culture of indecision. Because one result of consent decrees is often the inability to answer a simple, vital question: Who is running things? The left's obsession with de-carceration and federal micromanagement is proving to be yet another failed experiment in soft-on-crime governance. New Orleans just became its latest victim. All of this is unfolding as progressive politicians continue pushing the "decarceration" movement nationwide—another ideological train wreck that treats fewer jail beds as moral progress, regardless of public safety consequences. In New York City, for example, Rikers Island, the city jail, is slated to be closed soon in favor of scattered, "borough-based" jails – with a diminution of roughly 30% in available prisoner beds. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINION New York City locks barely locks anybody up now. We're going down 30 percent? At some point, we have to admit the obvious: systems engineered by federal judges, consultants, academics and law firms aren't delivering safety or reform. They're delivering escapes, lawsuits, public distrust – and cops and corrections officers fearful of doing their jobs without being second-guessed. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The left's obsession with de-carceration and federal micromanagement is proving to be just another failed experiment in soft-on-crime governance. New Orleans just became its latest victim. Let's hope there aren't anymore, as the escapees remain at large. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM PAUL MAURO Print Close URL
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber documented plans in chilling online posts before attack
Authorities have identified the perpetrator behind the weekend bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, as a 26-year-old suspect motivated by a fringe ideology known as "pro-mortalism." "Pro-mortalism," a radical offshoot of anti-natalism, views human reproduction as inherently immoral and embraces death as a moral corrective. According to federal and local law enforcement, the suspect targeted the American Reproductive Centers facility specifically to destroy human embryos stored on-site. Surveillance footage and online postings suggest he parked in the rear of the building to remain unnoticed, ingested drugs, and then detonated an explosive device – killing himself in the process. The FBI has classified the bombing as an act of domestic terrorism, citing the ideological motivation behind the violence that killed the suspect and injured four others. Palm Springs Bombing Suspect Identified Read On The Fox News App On its Facebook page, American Reproductive Centers wrote that all embryos "are safe." "I received a call saying there was a massive explosion that destroyed a couple of our buildings. My biggest concern was obviously my staff and the embryos we have in storage," said Dr. Maher Abdallah, the clinic's director. "Fortunately for us, our staff was unharmed and the IVF lab is intact, untouched, unharmed. The embryos are safe." Retired NYPD investigator and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro, through his publication Ops Desk, exclusively uncovered a disturbing trail of digital breadcrumbs left by the suspect, who had posted videos documenting his experiments with homemade explosives. The videos, posted on his YouTube channel but now taken down, captured the alleged suspect testing explosives in the desert as well as what appeared to be a garage. WATCH: The Ops Desk also revealed that he left behind a suicide note on an online forum populated by like-minded extremists. "I have made a 'device' that, once triggered, will activate after one hour and will ensure I never wake up again," he wrote. Fbi, Dhs Warn Of Possible Copycat Attacks After Nola Isis-inspired Vehicle Attack Officials have said that it is the first high-profile case linked to the pro-mortalist ideology and are now monitoring it as a potential emerging threat. Authorities have urged families and communities to remain vigilant for signs of ideological extremism, especially among those who may feel disenfranchised. As the investigation into the bombing continues, law enforcement is probing whether anyone else assisted or encouraged the suspect in constructing the article source: Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber documented plans in chilling online posts before attack
Fox News
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Deported Illegal Migrant Planned Terror Attack in Brazil? Paul Mauro Weighs In
Paul Mauro, Fox News Contributor, attorney, and retired NYPD inspector, joined The Guy Benson Show today to break down the violent brawl in Times Square involving minors linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, some of whom may now face deportation. Mauro also analyzed the attempted terror attack on a Lady Gaga concert in Brazil, reportedly planned by a migrant previously deported by the U.S. Mauro also slammed the scandalous provision quietly inserted by New York lawmakers to cover AG Letitia James' legal bills, and you can listen to the full interview below! Listen to the full interview below: Listen to the full podcast below:
Fox News
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Paul Mauro: Sanctuary City Laws In NYC Are Preventing ICE Agents From Getting The Bad Guys Out
Retired NYPD inspector Paul Mauro joins Fox Across America With Jimmy Failla to explain why the sanctuary city policies in New York City have not made the Big Apple a safer place to live. 'The bottom line is that you just really can't call ICE to get people out. So the result is, if you're a victim of a migrant criminal in one of these neighborhoods, and they know this the perps know it and so they prey upon their own which is an old immigration story in Americ, you can't go to the police because you know the guy's gonna get right back out because nobody goes to jail on this town and you're gonna be on the hook for having been a snitch quote-unquote and gone to the police. Never mind with the discovery laws that they changed which reveals to the defense if it's a serious case and it goes that far reveals to the defense and they run up to the trial the names of the witness where the witness lives everything the witness said, there's no protection for the witnesses anymore despite this supposed reform that Hochul has put in that's our governor. And so there's every incentive not to come forward and so I can guarantee you as we speak right now there are members of that very community primarily they're going to be from Central and South America who are being forced into human trafficking, prostitution, drug running, all kinds of malevolent activity at the behest of what we call snakeheads, you know, guys who run the immigration scam. And you know generally, I'm going to just say it, I am going to put a fine point on it, which is a talking point that progressives would love to elide, it is women. Almost always it's women. That's who dies, that's who gets victimized, that who gets coerced, and we're all to ignore that.' To hear what else they talked about, listen to the podcast!
