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in CrimeThe City Council goals to place extra hard-core criminals out on the streets
If you’re sad with town’s present elevated price of crime, simply wait: The City Council’s making an attempt to make sure extra of it, by springing arduous circumstances from jail. On Thursday, it passed a bill to arrange borough-based “jail inhabitants evaluation” groups to select inmates for “Get Out of Jail Free” playing cards. A […] More
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in CrimeGov. Kathy Hochul says she is ‘completed’ with overhauling bail reform following late price range
Gov. Kathy Hochul is hitting the brakes on overhauling money bail legal guidelines any extra after securing tweaks in the state budget authorised final week. “We are completed with bail – underneath the circumstances which might be earlier than me in the present day,” she told The Buffalo News in an interview printed Sunday whereas […] More
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in CrimeAlbany isn’t in a Staten Island frame of mind on crime
Staten Island DA Michael McMahon is rightly blasting Albany for refusing to repair the state’s disastrous criminal-justice legal guidelines. Problem is, the Legislature’s been refusing to hearken to anybody in legislation enforcement — prosecutors, cops or criminal-justice specialists (except they lean onerous left) — ever because it began down the “criminal-justice reform” path. Progressives’ overriding […] More
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in CrimeStaten Island DA slams NY state lawmakers for ‘band-aid’ tweak to bail reform
State lawmakers’ latest tweak to controversial criminal justice reforms is nothing greater than “a band-aid on a gaping wound,” Staten Island’s prime prosecutor stated Sunday. Richmond County District Attorney Michael McMahon stated the transfer in Albany final week to offer judges extra authority to set bail on prison instances gained’t be sufficient to deal with […] More
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in CrimeHochul received judges a bit extra energy on bail—however will they use it?
Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned the state’s remaining spending plan will loosen limits on cash bail. Even if she really will get her approach, will judges — particularly in New York City — really use that discretion to lock up extra clear threats to public security? The gov’s “conceptual settlement” with the Legislature’s leaders will apparently […] More
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in CrimeAccused serial legal will get supervised launch after tried assault of his personal grandmother
An accused serial legal with a decades-long rap sheet was given supervised launch Friday after his arrest for allegedly shoving his aged grandmother off a chair, The Post has realized. Kenneeth McDonald, 53, was charged with second-degree tried assault for pushing the 92-year-old girl on Tuesday so arduous she tumbled from a chair that had damaged, […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — April 16, 2023
Free to kill Regarding “Two slays in 2 days,” (April 12), New York’s obscene no-bail “reforms” and the irresponsible judges who “implement” them are instantly chargeable for two extra murders within the metropolis. Messiah Nantwi was arrested in February 2021 for allegedly capturing at police and initially held with out bail. Over the prosecution’s objections, […] More
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in CrimeHochul’s sensible push to repair insane criminal-evidence-sharing guidelines
Gov. Kathy Hochul is now pushing for vital new criminal-justice fixes as a part of this yr’s finances, on prime of the minor wording tweak she seeks to the cashless-bail regulation. Good on her. Because her bail-law tweak doesn’t go practically far sufficient — and lawmakers have been resisting even that. Hochul’s new plan is […] More
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in CrimeKey NY lawmaker Latrice Walker blocking bail fixes at odds along with her personal constituents
Whose Assembly? Her Assembly! A Democratic state legislator from Brooklyn claims she has adequate help to derail a planned revision of the state’s controversial bail reform legislation — regardless of the needs of individuals in her high-crime district. Assemblywoman Latrice Walker stated in an announcement Wednesday night time that her chamber’s Democratic majority “opposes any […] More
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in CrimeState Senate holds out on bail reform as Dems in price range impasse
ALBANY – Democrats within the state Senate look like resisting huge modifications to New York’s bail reform legislation — regardless of each rising crime and indicators that Gov. Hochul and the Assembly are inching toward a deal within the state price range. “Our bail reforms don’t have any correlation with a rise in crime,” state […] More
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in CrimeDoom and gloom is in bloom within the United States
Pay consideration. America is in bother. Minus establishing a proper declaration of struggle, the United States of America is being taken. No Communist Party, no firing an official shot, no spiritual zealot or dictator — however the best nation on God’s Earth is failing. Some of us received’t be right here to see it — […] More
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in CrimeAlbany has rewarded criminals at expense of black and Latino New Yorkers: DA
Mark Twain as soon as stated “History by no means repeats itself, but it surely does typically rhyme.” In New York State, we’re struggling by a kind of rhymes. In 1973, New York was coping with an epidemic of drug use, with options coming from two principal faculties of thought. The smart strategy was remedy […] More
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