Letitia James anti-police bias leaves hero cops hanging and endangers us all

On Dec.19, 2025, a terrified woman in Rochester called 911 as her estranged partner, armed with a gun, tried to break into the house where she and her children were living.Two officers responded; the ex, Eric Davis, shot and wounded them both and fled.A few blocks away, Davis shot and wounded another police officer and a civilian.When Officer Nicole Amatore arrived at the scene, she took cover behind a tree and ordered Davis to drop his gun.He fired at her, striking the tree — and she returned fire, killing him.The entire incident took just 61 seconds, from the moment the first officers arrived, and Amatore was on the scene for a total of 10 seconds.All of it was captured on the four police officers’ body-worn cameras.In September, Gov.

Kathy Hochul gave Amatore the 2026 Police Officer of the Year Award, the state’s highest law-enforcement honor, for acting “quickly and decisively in the face of a deadly threat.”But in yet another example of the clown show that is Albany, state Attorney General Letitia James has not yet completed her investigation of the shooting — after nine months of probing.Saritha Komatireddy, the former federal prosecutor and underdog Republican candidate who’s running against James in November’s election, is rightly making a campaign issue of this dereliction of duty.But it’s been flying under the media’s radar — because the scandalous dysfunction of James’ office is no longer newsworthy.The attorney general’s authority to investigate any police-involved death is another gift of the last decade’s anti-cop craziness.But as an ideologically driven anti-police politician, James is needlessly slow-walking these investigations, leaving cops twisting in the wind for months and even years on end. The Office of Special Investigation’s annual report, which James issued last week, contained 41 investigative reports on all deaths caused by police — from shootings to car accidents to in-custody deaths. It took James’ ...