NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: No ‘Data’ that Bail Reform Is Causing Crime Wave
Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her support for the state’s controversial soft-on-crime bail reform law as the crime wave continues.
“I’m looking for the data that shows me that bail reform is the reason that somehow crime is going up,” Hochul said in a Monday Post-Journal report. “I’m focused on what I have control over right now.”
According to the Center for Court Innovation, in January 2020 New York State “put into effect sweeping criminal justice legislation, strictly curtailing the use of cash bail and pretrial detention, overhauling rules governing the sharing of evidence, and strengthening measures intended to ensure a defendant’s right to a speedy trial.”
This has resulted in criminals being put back out on the streets, according to a report cited in a New York Post article:
New data from the state’s Office of Court Administration clearly shows that the “fix” did not go nearly far enough. The data cover arrests made from July 1, 2020, through Aug. 30, 2020, the first two months of the new law, and prove what many prosecutors and police have been saying: The rise in crime is due to repeat offenders being released back onto the streets after arrest.
The Post-Journal reported on Hochul, who wants to be elected governor this year after assuming office when disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo stepped down after charges of sexual harassment- READ MORE
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