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in CrimeDiscovery reform mustn’t be left on the NY funds’s chopping room flooring
New York’s pro-criminal legislative leaders rejected Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push, late in budget season, for some modest fixes to the 2019 legislation on pre-trial discovery. But the necessity stays pressing, they usually nonetheless have weeks through which to behave. Background: Lawmakers rammed the 2019 modifications by with out even consulting the state’s district attorneys, heeding […] More
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in CrimeYes: This IS probably the most lawless NYC has ever been
Yes, that is probably the most lawless New York City has ever been. After I asserted simply that eventually month’s House Judiciary Committee listening to on violence (although I restricted it to my 71 years within the metropolis), the media and lots of Democrats rushed to dismiss my claims. Murders were worse 30 ago, they […] More
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in CrimeLetters to the Editor — May 3, 2023
The Issue: The Legislature’s passage of a funds invoice that bans fuel hookups in new buildings. China is constructing as much as two coal-fired energy vegetation per week (“A Budget To Bust New York,” Editorial, May 3). New York state simply banned new fuel stoves and refuses to permit fracking within the very wealthy deposits […] More
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in CrimeMedia blackout on the true reason behind San Francisco crime
For The New York Times, the closure of San Francisco’s flagship Whole Foods — attributable to shoplifting, a machete-wielding repeat intruder and native addicts turning its bogs into taking pictures galleries — is “a illustration of some of the city’s most intractable problems.” Dead mistaken: These woes aren’t any historic, unsolvable mysteries of the human […] More
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in CrimeNYC DAs blast discovery reform tweak as ineffective, leaving adjustments to state path regulation in jeopardy
ALBANY — A reported state price range overhaul of discovery reform seems to have fallen aside after New York City district attorneys stated it could do little to cease a deluge of dropped instances. “The language on the desk is not going to have a significant public security influence,” reads a joint assertion launched Thursday […] More
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in CrimeState probes soft-on-crime NY Judge Naita Semaj over claims of abusive, unprofessional courtroom antics
The notoriously lenient Bronx judge recently under fire for freeing an alleged child killer with out bail has been beneath investigation by the state following claims of unprofessional and abusive courtroom conduct, The Post has realized — amid hypothesis she could possibly be pulled from dealing with felony instances. The Commission on Judicial Conduct opened […] 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 CrimeTough-on-Trump Bragg goes gentle on precise public menaces
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has no downside inflating dubious misdemeanor charges against President Donald Trump into felonies, but in the case of real-life profession criminals, even violent ones, he does the other — lowering felonies to mere misdemeanors. That’s what he did last week for Rodney Johnson, 53, who has almost 90 collars (sure, […] More
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in CrimeWhat about New York’s victims, Alvin Bragg?
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on taking office he wouldn’t prosecute even some very violent crimes. Almost instantly after he distributed his now-infamous Day One memo, two cops have been killed and some others shot. A 19-year-old lady was shot and killed working at a Harlem Burger King. He is incompetent, and we knew […] More
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in Crime‘Discovery’ reforms allow drunk drivers — but no repair is on the desk
On prime of every part else, New York’s misbegotten criminal-justice “reforms” have proved a boon to . . . drunk drivers. Yet fixing it isn’t even on the desk in Albany. Almost half of all drinking-and-driving offenses in Manhattan got tossed last year, 5 occasions the speed earlier than the brand new “discovery” regulation kicked […] More
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in CrimeDA Bragg tells workplace they won’t be intimidated after Trump requires protests
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg despatched an electronic mail to his employees Saturday saying he wouldn’t “tolerate makes an attempt to intimidate our workplace” after Donald Trump put out a rallying cry to his supporters forward of his potential arrest. The progressive DA’s memo comes hours after former President Donald Trump blasted Bragg’s workplace as […] 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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