Posted on 02/16/2020 5:15:12 AM PST by karpov
ALBANY, N.Y. — A serial bank robber who struck again four hours after he was released from custody. A wall of white faces in police uniforms, filling the State Capitol steps in protest. A protected witness bludgeoned to death.
These are some of the images and incidents that have been used in what has become one of New York’s most divisive political battles in years: a bitter, often racially tinged debate over the state’s new bail and discovery laws. Since the changes went into effect, law enforcement officials across the state have drawn attention to crimes committed by people freed without bail.
The battle has spread beyond the state’s borders, with Attorney General William P. Barr recently speaking against the new laws, which ended the use of cash bail in a vast majority of criminal cases.
The incessant pressure seems to have had an effect: Earlier this week, Democratic leaders in the State Senate circulated several proposed changes to the law, offering to give judges more discretion in deciding whether to keep accused criminals in jail.
Those proposals surprised and incensed members of the Democrat-dominated Assembly, exposing a schism in the party ranks, which just a year ago was reveling in big wins in the 2018 elections and a succession of long-sought progressive policies.
That era of good feelings seems to have dissipated.
“I don’t need any fake-ass legislators allowing fear-mongering,” Assemblyman Michael Blake, a Bronx Democrat, said at a raucous protest after word of the Senate plan emerged on Wednesday. “We will not go back on bail.”
For reformers, the changes to the bail law were long overdue and deeply important: The new law would mean that thousands of people in jail awaiting trial would be released, allowing them to return home, safeguard jobs and families
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NYT, your anti-white racism is sickening. They are policemen who care more about reducing crime in New York than you do.
New York is being killed by those who insist on kowtowing to the poor.
If you can’t make bail, don’t commit a crime
The poor by doing nothing have destroyed society
Democrats are too stupid to survive. Let them destroy themselves. Shoot any of them who try to leave their self-created trash dump. Otherwise they, like any pestilence, will infect other places.
Getting repeat offenders off the street? Didn't some guy name Giuliani try something like that? How did that work out? /s/
In Rochester NY, they did away with the red lights cuz the folks getting the tickets were either poor or government employees.
Hmmm, no progress on the Green Light Law, either.
Moderates, my gluteus maximus.
This State once magnificent that is going down the tubes fast. Guess we can thank the government school system and the politicians who were suppose to have our interest at heart but were more interested in lining their pockets. This can be seen with this bail law and many others.
Question: How can this insanity be turned around?
“How can this insanity be turned around?”
It won’t unless and until the monolithic Black vote splits.
Welcome to the fruits of democrat party control.
No great loss since the red light cameras were nothing but a way to make money for the city. Even a stopped clock or Lovely Warren is right sometimes.
.... and to recommit their same crimes and new crimes. What's to fear?
The state thinks more favorably of the criminals than they do they innocent citizen victims. Typical liberal democRAT mentality.
Unintended consequences of not-so-well-thought-out policies.
“Otherwise they, like any pestilence, will infect other places.”
It’s too late.
Agree...Except they were removed for the wrong reason. AND they should have never happened in the first place. They were supposed to prevent accidents. That didn’t happen and in fact a couple places had more than usual. AND they had short yellows...and they got caught.
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