Posted on 10/20/2019 4:39:08 PM PDT by karpov
Thursday, the New York City Council will vote on the latest proposal to close the centralized detention facilities on Rikers Island and replace them with a borough-based jail system. The baseline estimate of how many inmates that system will be expected to accommodate by 2026 was recently revised down to just 3,544 — about half of its population today.
When one considers (1) the seriousness of the charges most city jail inmates are facing, (2) the level of violence those inmates engage in behind bars and (3) the potential for future crime increases, one thing becomes crystal clear: There is simply no way to cut the average daily jail population — which the city itself has described as “more violent and difficult to manage” — that much more without leaving dangerous criminals on the street, where you can be sure they will continue to diminish the quality of life in their neighborhoods.
According to the most recent data from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, 62 percent of the city’s pretrial jail population is facing violent felony charges; 30 percent are facing other felony charges. Just 8 percent of pretrial detainees are facing misdemeanor charges. The vast majority of these inmates are repeat offenders.
Historically, about 75 percent of the city’s jail inmates have previously been admitted at least once. For an idea of how cutting the number of jail inmates facing felony charges by about 2,500 (roughly 50 percent) in less than seven years will play out, just think back to last week when Randy Santos — who was out on bail thanks to anti-pretrial detention activists, despite his violent history — allegedly bludgeoned four people to death in Chinatown.
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The Dope from Park Slope.
And don’t you dare harm them when they mug you!
Maybe they can go into politics and run against the (D) incumbents?
Cities only want to ticket these days. It pays the bills.
Is Paul Manafort still there?
New York, you say?
Good!
Is this about the potential real estate value of the island?
People, you just move them to a different prison—not to the streets!
smh
How will this affect Global Warming? Because evidently that’s the only thing that matters.
“Closing Rikers Island will leave thousands of criminals free to roam the streets”
Thousands MORE criminals to roam Gothams’s streets.
Trump Tower and Presidential Library
Wow,I never thought NYC would ACTUALLY turn into “Escape from New York” status.
Mark Simone is convinced that some major developers are behind this.
MY GOD!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY WHITE FELONS THIS WILL RETURN TO STATEN ISLAND!?!
About 6.
Once again, the liberal idiots in the liberal boroughs vote themselves a death sentence.
Is the Congress going into recess again?
But who’s more dangerous? The criminals from Rickers island or those that run and own DC?
Give ‘em a map to DeBlowhole’s house.
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