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Here’s What’s Happened in NYC Since the State Ended Cash Bail on January 1
 [REDSTATE] During a presser on Thursday, the New York Police Department reported that "major crime is up 22.5% this February over a year ago." And they "attribute the spike to the bail reform pushed through the state Legislature in Albany last year, which is releasing people who have been arrested for one crime to go out and commit another." The NYPD told news hounds:In the first 58 days of 2020, 482 individuals who had already been arrested for committing a serious (felony) crime such as robbery or burglary were rearrested for committing an additional 846 crimes. Thirty-five percent, or 299, were for arrests in the seven major crime categories‐murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and grand larceny auto‐that is nearly triple the amount of those crimes committed in the same 58 days in 2019. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea told the group, "Each number represents a victim." Even de Blasio admits it. He said, "There’s a direct correlation to a change in the law, and we need to address it, and we will address it." He added that he was "absolutely confident it would be addressed in Albany in the budget due April 1." The problem with the law is it "deprives judges of the discretion to keep behind bars criminals who remain a menace to the community." The Wall Street Journal addressed this law in an editorial: Some on the political left, including a coalition of public defenders, claim the cops are deliberately manipulating the figures as "scare tactics." Ditto for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who is blaming the New York Post, which refuses to take dictation from the city’s progressive powers. Mayor de Blasio is having none of it. "They’re wrong," he says. Polls show support for the bail reform dropping fast, and New York’s chief judge says it is the only state in which judges do not have the ability to consider whether a defendant poses a credible risk of danger before releasing him. There is a simple fix that would take care of the biggest problem: Give judges the ability to weigh this risk before letting people out. If Albany doesn’t fix this, we hope the voters run them all out office. Posted by: Fred 2020-03-10 |
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