NEW YORK
New York Post
By Post Editorial Board
May 13, 2018
Does New York City — with its once-unimaginable record-low crime rates — still need private (but city-funded) citizen-patrol groups?
The question became more pressing with the arrest Thursday of Jacob Daskal, politically wired president and co-founder of the Boro Park Shomrim, on charges he repeatedly raped a 15-year-old girl over a period of months in his home.
It’s not the Brooklyn group’s first brush with the law, either.
Last year, Shomrim official Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein was sentenced to 32 months in prison for bribing cops on a regular basis to get hard-to-obtain full-carry handgun permits for paying clients, including some with criminal records.
The group itself has been accused of violently beating suspects it apprehends. And Daskal reportedly was able to arrange for Orthodox Jews arrested for minor crimes to avoid being booked through the system.
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