The Bronx has got to be the absolute best place in the city to live — if you’re a criminal.
Takia Walker must surely be glad she lives there.
Walker was nabbed for insurance fraud Sunday. Cops had hoped her arrest would spur her to help them find Julio Acevedo; he’s the guy who drove the BMW in the crash Sunday that took the lives of Nachman and Raizel Glauber and, a day later, their baby son — who was born as his mother was dying. Cops say she registered the car.
Yet, within a day, Bronx DA Robert Johnson dropped the case, “deferring” prosecution against Walker and demanding more evidence. Quick as a wink, Walker was on the street. Great for Walker.
Not so much for the cops — or anyone seeking justice for the hit-and-run deaths of the Glaubers.
That’s tragic. But it’s also all too typical in The Bronx.
Just yesterday, we noted how that borough’s prosecutor seems to hate prosecuting — turning away cases three times as often as the city’s other DAs. That infuriates victims like the family of murdered cook Eusebio De La Rosa. Though witnesses were set to testify against Angel Cruz, a key suspect in the 2011 killing, Johnson declined to charge anyone.
Of course, Cruz and Walker probably had less to fear than they might have thought: As we also noted, even when Johnson does try cases, he winds up losing far more often than other DAs in the city — and state.
The good news is that Acevedo said he was planning to turn himself in yesterday (no thanks to Johnson). The better news? The accident took place in Brooklyn — where Johnson has no jurisdiction.