Posted on 01/23/2020 4:40:35 PM PST by karpov
Last April, the New York State Legislature passed an ill-considered set of criminal justice reforms that were buried in the state budget bill. As those reforms have taken effect, it has become clear that they present a significant challenge to public safety.
The New York Police Department favors criminal justice reforms and bail reform, but within a framework that is fair both to the victims of crimes and to those accused of committing them. The time has come to rethink these reforms to achieve the desired goal of a fairer criminal justice system that doesn’t undermine, but supports, public safety.
New York is not a jurisdiction that overincarcerates. Arrests are down 46 percent since 2013. Eighty-seven percent of arrested persons are released without bail within 24 hours of arrest. The city has the lowest jail incarceration rate compared to the five largest cities in the country, half the rate of Los Angeles and one-third that of Houston. The Rikers Island jail population is 51 percent lower since 2013 and down 74 percent from its high in 1993.
New York is now the only state in the nation that requires judges to entirely disregard the threat to public safety posed by accused persons in determining whether to hold them pending trial or to impose conditions for their release. In addition, the new law constrains judges from holding repeat offenders with long records of both crime and absconding trial. It eliminates cash bail and the possibility of detention for a wide array of offenses, including weapons possession, trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs, many hate-crime assaults, the promotion of child prostitution, serial arson, and certain burglaries and robberies.
According to our calculation, 738 people arrested on burglary and robbery charges in 2018 would have been released [...] under the new law
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Liberals will always be easy on criminals. This is because all liberals are criminals themselves. Liberals are “something for nothing” believers. That is the basic motivation of a criminal. “Something in exchange for nothing = criminality. It’s no more complex than that.
The politicians are just trying to shift the blame to the judges.
Black-robed tyrants should not have any power.
They’re easy on criminals because they hate you. They want you to be preyed upon. You deserve it. You embody every single thing they despise.
If they thought they could get away with it they’d kill you them selves. But they can’t, not yet anyway. So they knowingly loose the dregs of society on you, your family, and your friends to do if for them.
And they know you can’t do a damned thing about it.
See my tag line.
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Democrats want Red Flag laws and tough gun laws but they want felons caught with guns to get deferred adjudication and no bail costs.
Op-ed. I thought it was an editorial at first, that perhaps a few too many reporters and their families had been knocked on the head to like the present system.
Or maybe they even had a some sort of outrage on behalf of ordinary people.
But no, they let a cop say cop things.
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