Carey Gabay has worked in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration since 2011, first as assistant counsel and since January 2015 as first deputy counsel at Empire State Development.


The New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development is a public benefit corporation of the state of New York in the United States that has financed and operated several ambitious state projects by issuing tax exempt bonds.


What are the chances of getting shot in the head by a stray bullet?

In order to shoot the head, you have to have time, and distance. I'm no ballistic expert.

That does sound odd. I am scanning an article it reads that he is in a coma. Hopefully he pulls through.

So Mr.Gabay was the victim of a stray round(one of at least 16 fired) in a gunfight between two other men. He attempted to take cover in a parking lot when struck in the top of the head.

So simply a matter of wrong place, wrong time. Could have been a ricochet off pavement, concrete, a car, any manner of hard surface, or could have been straight from the muzzle of the weapon as someone simply fires off a number of rounds quickly in the general direction of his intended target.

The old saying that applies here is 'Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Worry about the ones addressed To Whom It May Concern.'

Of course never one to pass up an opportunity for more gun control rhetoric Gov. Cuomo calls for a 'national gun policy'. Gee, Andy here's a suggestion. How about a national criminal policy. You know, arrest them so that if they are in jail, they can't actually shoot anyone.

DUH!

Stop trying to excuse criminal behavior because people come from disadvantaged or marginalized backgrounds. Not everyone in the hood becomes a thug. Stop excusing stop and frisk as racist. Use it in statistically high crime areas, and guess what? Crime goes down. You catch people with guns, drugs, wads of unexplained cash, and so you make it tougher for crime to thrive.

Maybe look to prosecute exploiters of crime. Start busting people buying the deeply discounted flat screen TV's out of the back of a truck. Bust the numbers joints, the drug houses, the brothels. Don't tell me you can't find them. Any cab driver in town knows the dive joints. Any hotel concierge worth his name tag can find you a hooker, a card game, or a drug connection. Seriously, has no one on the NYPD ever travelled to another city?

If you can find a biker bar, you can likely buy a gun in an hour. At the very least you can buy dope. You just have to be willing to stand toe to toe with a guy who will threaten to gut you if you're a cop, and be willing to pay cash.

Well established bike gangs have a reputation to uphold providing quality goods for a fair price. Girls, guns, and goodies are all for sale.

Surely this can't be new and startling info to the NYPD, so what are the current crime fighting and crime prevention priorities preventing the bad guys from being targeted?

Stop trying to excuse criminal behavior because people come from disadvantaged or marginalized backgrounds. Not everyone in the hood becomes a thug.

Yeah politicians and their underlings seem to fair pretty well too. Clinton? Still not charged. Holder? Still not facing charges for giving guns to drug cartels. Lois Lerner? Still not facing charges for violating the rights of conservative taxpayers. Obama? Still not impeached for numerous crimes from aiding and abetting those already listed above, to not yet charged with treason for supplying weapons to al-Qaeda and ISIS.

No big trials for the bankers who blew up the economy by writing mortgages for people who had no business being given one. No one indicted for falsely reporting the national debt as exactly the same dollar amount for 150 straight days, even though the deficit grows on a daily basis.

Based on the fact that it seems following the law is for suckers, these stunning examples of honesty and transparency have created a culture amongst civil servants that the law doesn't apply to them either. Rogue cops who shoot first and ask questions later. Homeland Security who doesn't believe the Constitution exists within 100 miles of any U.S. coast or border crossing.

There are dozens of videos online of people being stopped, searched, questioned at ad hoc traffic stops and being asked to show proof of citizenship. They are then threatened and intimidated if they ask why, or if simply refuse to comply. These are not border entry points, these are roadblocks set up 25, 50, 100 miles away from the border and staffed by Homeland Security, state police, local cops. Just fishing expeditions in broad daylight, not even the 'DUI stop' at night.

The system has become tilted into what I call Boss Hogg territory. The corrupt mayor character from The Dukes of Hazzard TV show. Government, and those who work in it, seem to think there is no accountability anymore, and they can do whatever they want without fear of reprimand or prosecution.

I'm sorry, but do you live in Brooklyn?