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De Blasio To Release Violent Criminals From Jail Because They Are Disadvantaged

TFPP Wire By TFPP Wire
Published May 29, 2019 at 6:10am
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New York City Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio is handing certain “disadvantaged” violent criminals a get out of jail free card and the police are furious.

The progressive mayor and longshot candidate for the Democrat presidential nomination unveiled the plan this week and it is dangerous.

The plan would triple the number of teenagers who are allowed to be let out of jail sans posting bail and it includes those charged with armed robbery and assault.

“First of all, we’ve had so many people languish in jail because they couldn’t afford bail and that was unfair,” the mayor said.

“We’ve had mass incarceration that was harmful to the whole society,” he said, which would make sense if they were arrested for having marijuana, not armed robbery, CBS New York reported.

The mayor said it will create a fairer society and will insure that teens, “are being redeemed, not just locked up.”

To some, it sounds like a man trying to burnish his progressive credentials on the presidential campaign trail. Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch called it, “pandering for votes during his quest for the presidency,” claiming “‘Progress’ like this will doom this city and crash its economy by making our streets dangerous once again.”

And Lynch is not the only one with reservations.

In an op-ed piece, O’Neill called on the Legislature to fix mistakes in a state bail reform law that goes into effect in January to allow judges to demand bail for people, “who represent a danger to others.”

Is this idea insane?

O’Neill argued that the no-bail law, “will make the work of disrupting criminals and deterring crime much more difficult.”

The mayor agreed with O’Neill on that, saying when asked if such an approach would give the appearance of speaking out of both sides of the mouth, “There are so many people who are not a threat who should not be held simply because they cant afford the bail and there are other people who could be a threat.”

The Vera Institute’s Insha Rahman argues that keeping people out of jail unless they are convicted reduces recidivism.

“Keep them in the community, where we know people actually have a higher likelihood of success staying out of trouble than if they’re incarcerated,” Rahman said.

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