His widow told The Post that the thought of Vice President Harris winning the White House would be making the NYPD’s “superman” feel “sick to his stomach.”
Bronx Warrant Squad Detective Joe Lamm was only 45 when he was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2015, four days before Christmas. This was Nayak’s third deployment overseas with the Air National Guard while a member of the NYPD.
He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for placing himself between the killer and his team members, bearing the brunt of the explosion and saving other airmen from potentially fatal wounds, according to the award citation. Five other airmen were killed in the attack outside Bagram Air Field.
The married father of two — who earned his nickname for chiseled good looks and courage while repeatedly serving overseas and working in the tough NYPD squad charged with hunting down criminals — has joined the Harris-Biden administration’s ” “Lack of support for us” would have been rejected. Our military and police departments across the country, said Christine Lamm.
“Joe wanted to see Trump in office,” she said. “He saw a lot of things overseas and he was confident that Trump could deal with our enemies.
Lamm, a staunch Trump supporter, said, pointing to the Biden administration’s “disastrous withdrawal” from Afghanistan, “If this administration continues, a lot of lives will be lost abroad and locally.”
The 51-year-old met and hugged President Trump as he laid a wreath for her husband in Midtown Manhattan in 2019.
She now avoids the Big Apple, she said, because of the violent consequences of criminal justice reforms.
The Westchester County resident said, “Criminals are being locked up and slapped on the hands and being released with no bail, and once again, this is the policy of our Democratic officials for the most part. Is.”
Lamm blamed local liberals who have passed criminal justice reforms that have handcuffed police and made people less safe. Bail reforms, tougher investigative rules and “raise the age” law reforms have made it harder to arrest bad guys and keep them in jail.
“They are brought to the streets not once, not twice, many times and again and again,” he said. “So I don’t understand how we are allowing this to happen, how the current administration, from the presidency to local agencies, are allowing this to happen.
“I’m really scared for my children, for their safety and for their future,” said Lamm, whose daughter is a 25-year-old Arlington, Virginia, police officer, and son is a middle-aged 13-year-old. School students.
While the Democratic Party points to an FBI report that crime declined nationally in 2023 — and that NYC reported a decline in most major crimes — opponents say the FBI’s national data is incomplete because many cities Do not share your data, and heinous crimes are being committed by migrants amid the increase in illegal immigration. In New York City, where hundreds of migrant arrests have taken place this year, felonious assaults and rapes have increased by 5% and 16%, respectively.
Lemm is troubled by illegal immigration and actually hears migrant flights coming from border states at the airport near her home in the middle of the night.
“I live close to the Westchester County Airport,” she said. “I know they’re moving migrants across the country, and you know they’re coming through the borders, and they’re arriving not just in the border states, but across the country.”
Lamm, who voted for Trump in the primary, believes the US should support its allies internationally – especially Israel – but focus at home.
“We need to focus on the United States,” the mother said. “We do more work for other countries than for America.”
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