Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Nassau County

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

Bill talks about a new report naming Nassau County the safest in the nation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, so there is a study. I love these studies, don't you? From new U.S. News and World Report about the safest counties in America. And in New York and New Jersey, we have a ranking. All right? So according to U.S. News and World Report, the safest county is Nassau County. Congratulations, Bruce Blakman. Right?

Now, that's amazing because Nassau County, as you know, borders New York City. So how could Nassau County be the safest county? And it's because the police here, one of the highest paid police forces in the nation, are good. And the DA and the justice system is not woke. and they punish people. So the drug dealers in particular, they hang out in Queens, they don't come to Nassau County with the narcotics.

Because if they're busted here, they have to spend time in jail. If they're busted in New York, they're out in a couple hours. That's it. Enforcement. Nassau, number one, very impressive.

To me, I live in Nassau. number three on the list rocklin county and i think it's because uh so many cops live in rocklin so you don't want to mess around in rocklin county number six westchester all right very affluent county um i'm not surprised by that ranking um the county executive is a democrat George Latimer, and George apparently doing a good job. Number eight, Putnam County, just north of Westchester, Republican County Executive, Kevin Byrne. And nine is Bergen County, New Jersey, Democrat James Tedesco.

So Bergen has surprised me. I used to live in Bergen County. My grandmother and my mother was born and raised there. and my grandmother lived there from eons. And in the past, the counties close to George Washington Bridge have been just a wash in narcotics, drugs, everywhere, and that drives up crime. Apparently in Bergen County, and I haven't studied why, they've got a handle on it. So once again, NASA number one, Rockland 3, Westchester 6, Putnam 8, Bergen 9. Now, that's important, obviously, because social disorder is what's crippling New York City.

I mean, I don't, I'm a big New Yorker. You guys know that. Born in Columbia Presbyterian on the Upper West Side, bordering Harlem, Raised in Levittown. I've lived all over the country, but I came back to New York. I got two houses, one in Nassau, one in Suffolk. And I think it's a shame what's happened to this state. I don't want to move out, got the deepest roots you could have.

A lot of my friends have moved out, but I'm going to hang as long as I can hang. And Nassau County, you know, I do the county favors when asked. I think they're on the right track here. And if criminologists in New York gave a hoot, they come to Nassau and kind of check out our system. Look, we don't have the poverty in Nassau that they have. in New York City. I understand. Everybody understands that. Poverty leads to drug addiction, alcohol addiction leads to crime. That's the pipeline. We don't have it, but we have a lot of social problems, a lot of new people who are in, we're born overseas in Nassau and Suffolk County's.

And, you know, the social problems here are fairly intense. But the system, the criminal justice system has been able to deal with them in an effective way. So why wouldn't Adams send all his people to Westchester and Putnam and Nassau even over to Bergen County and up to Rockland? Find out what's working? No, because they don't care. That's why. Anyway, I thought that information was very, very useful.