This is just pathetic. Crime is up in New York City, and high-ranking NYPD cops are blaming Occupy Wall Street.

Why? Because the NYPD sent so many cops to Manhattan to pepper spray peaceful marchers and arrest authors in cocktail dresses that there weren’t enough cops to send to actual high-crime areas. Because of that mis-allocation of resources, some people may actually be getting away with murder.

According to the New York Post,