Posted on 11/04/2019 6:54:56 PM PST by cann
There’s controversy ahead over new criminal justice reforms.
Cash bail will be eliminated Jan. 1 for hundreds of offenses, and some defendants could be let out earlier and given rewards to get them to show up to court, CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported Monday.
State judges will no longer require cash bail for most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies like selling drugs or burglarizing a home, and the state says nearly 900 city residents in jail now will be released starting mid-December.
Bail bondsman Ira Judelson said he’s already seeing fewer arrests.
“We’re going to have a major public safety issue on our hands,” he said. “It’s basically like going to school without a principal, without guidance counselors, without teachers and let students be in school and say ‘fend for yourself.'”
Republican Assemblyman Mike LiPetri said he expects around 500 inmates on Long Island to be freed.
“This is a travesty of justice,” said LiPetri. “These are criminals in our communities who have solicited sex from children. These are criminals who solicited drugs in our neighborhoods such as heroin, opioids, fentanyl.”
A law enforcement source told CBS2 a city program will offer those released incentives meant to encourage them to show up in court such as Mets baseball tickets, a subway pass or a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card.
A spokesperson for Gov. Andrew Cuomo told CBS2 he expects the reforms to be implemented appropriately, however the governor’s office doesn’t have any involvement with the city’s rewards program.
The Legal Aid Society which provides government-funded attorneys for defendants is filing motions for eligible clients immediately so they can be released as soon as possible.
“We’re talking about people who’ve been presumed innocent. We are talking about people who there’s no public safety risk or assessment or threat,” said the group’s Marie Ndiaye. “At the end of the day, it comes down to how much money does this person have in their wallet.”
Opponents like Judelson are asking the governor to take another look at the offenses covered by the legislation and reconsider before the new year.
The office of Mayor Bill de Blasio told CBS2 safety was his top priority. With regards to offering gifts to those released, substantial research shows offering defendants incentives, instead of sanctions, encourages good behavior.
CAN YOU DIG IT
Remember the move “Escape from New York”?
I bet it’s going to be a lot like that soon.
What stupidity. Show up to court for free sports tickets and go to jail for a year, what a deal!. I think the perps would rather just buy their tickets with their stolen cash and not do the time. It is what I would do in their situation.
Leftism is a mental disorder.
That’s one way to get people to go to Mets games.
What could possibly go wrong?
Classic demonic liberal insanity...at its very best.
They’re mentally deranged....
“I’ll show up in court and willingly serve a lifetime prison sentence if you promise NOT to send me to a Mets game!”
A promise of weed, coke and hookers in a private cell for a couple of hours after the court trial would bring them in by the the boatload..
commit a crime get tickets to the Mets?
nice trick when half the people in NYC can’t afford to buy tickets to the Mets for themselves.
The Baseball Furies will love it.
I’m sure this makes perfect sense to some liberal nut.
Give ‘em 3 hots and a cot. Maybe 2 hots.
How do they know what gifts will incentivize people? Different people have different tastes. Will they be given a choice?
“I don’t want a Mets ticket. I’m a Red Sox fan.”
“I want an iPhone XI.”
“All I get is a stinkin’ five dollar gift card to McDonald’s? Gimme a pass to one of those power-lunch places, where the big-shots go. How do you expect me to get rehabilitated - I ain’t got no connections.”
From the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat! However if you do you get 2 tickets to a Mets game.
Adam: the woman made me go.
This reminds me of a profound statement that my then aged great aunt made, that I’ve remembered for 40+ years:
I haven’t seen it all - but I’ve seen enough”.
She died a few years later.
+1
Trump is releasing thousands of federal prisoners. Almost all of them pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, so we have no idea what crimes they actually committed.
65% of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to 1 million ex-convicts. Since most Florida ex-cons are Black or Hispanic, the state will turn reliably Blue when this becomes law.
Total insanity.
Now she’s seen everything.
Not good for the franchise,
“here we are on a beautiful day at shea with a stadium full if convicted felons rapists and murderers”
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