AS IS THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Andrew Cuomo is playing with racial fire. “The irony is that Cuomo has done as much as anyone to transform New York’s relatively tranquil cities into bullet-pocked hellscapes.”

Plus: “There are more violent-crime victims in New York these days than there have been in decades — and that reflects anti-policing policies promulgated or encouraged by the governor who now tut-tuts Kentucky.”