Yet Another Democrat Policy Self Detonates

[Weatherman2020]

I don't think Democrats are capable of thinking through their plans / actions Before they act...

Like who would gave thought publicly declaring there would be no legal consequence for homeless people pooping on sidewalks, in public parks, and even in stores would result in turning their sidewalks into toilets, unsanitary conditions, increased disease, etc...

Who'd athunk it?!

You let violent felons out, then you call for gun grabbing because of the increased violent crime.

Wrong. The bail law only applies to non-violent criminal defendants and misdemeanor defendants..

New York’s Upcoming Bail Reform Changes Explained

Releasing violent felons is a Republican thing. You’re thinking of the Republican Kentucky Governor who recently pardoned and released 400 perps including rapists and murders.

Today’s news, ignoramus:

 

[FA_Q2]

I don't think Democrats are capable of thinking through their plans / actions Before they act...

Like who would gave thought publicly declaring there would be no legal consequence for homeless people pooping on sidewalks, in public parks, and even in stores would result in turning their sidewalks into toilets, unsanitary conditions, increased disease, etc...

Who'd athunk it?!

You let violent felons out, then you call for gun grabbing because of the increased violent crime.

Wrong. The bail law only applies to non-violent criminal defendants and misdemeanor defendants..

New York’s Upcoming Bail Reform Changes Explained

Releasing violent felons is a Republican thing. You’re thinking of the Republican Kentucky Governor who recently pardoned and released 400 perps including rapists and murders.

The OP is about Democrats saying they need to reverse it because violent people are getting released. From Leftist Yahoo News:

“As of January 1, the state’s new criminal-justice reforms took effect, including a law that compels judges to free thousands of arrested defendants, many of whom have committed violent crimes or are serious flight risks.”

New York’s Bad Bail-Reform Law

Actually the article you refer to is from the ultra-conservative National Review, it is just reprinted in Yahoo News. New York State Bail-Reform Law Won’t Work | National Review Barry Latzer, the author of the article, admits that the law does not apply to violent felonies but some are slipping through the cracks because they are were not labeled VFOs, Violent Felony Offenses.

Latzer bemoans and concludes that "Top-down, arbitrary decision-making by state government simply won’t work." However, don't many states have that top-down decision making under mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

The law needs tweeting and he is not altogether wrong that judge's should have some discretion.

The law is in general garbage and should have never been written. These types of blanket changes do need to be tweaked, they need to cease to exist. I fail utterly to understand how anyone in their right mind thought that releasing people that are charged with stalking, assault, burglary, arson and robbery was a good idea. That is nuts.

Why Abolishing Bail for Some Crimes Has Law Enforcement on Edge
"Under the new law, judges will no longer be able to set bail for a long list of misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, including stalking, assault without serious injury, burglary, many drug offenses, and even some kinds of arson and robbery.

Thousands of people currently in jail awaiting trial across the state will be automatically released, and about 90 percent of new defendants each year in New York will remain free as their cases move through the courts."

90% seems like they seriously overshot too. The other rather asinine part of this is the complete non-existence of the part of the narrative actually covering the problem itself:

"In New York, the inequities of the system were crystallized when a Bronx teenager named Kalief Browder spent three years on Rikers Island because his family could not raise $3,000, only to have charges dropped in 2013 for lack of evidence. He later took his own life."

This has realized almost no air time that I am aware of. Of course, this asinine law does not address the actual problem here. Bail is not the problem in the above or even the bail amount - a homeless person could raise that in short order begging let alone a family wanting to get their son out of prison. The problem is that no one anywhere should ever be sitting and waiting on bail for 3 years before the case makes its way through the court.

Want to make a law or policy that is actually effective here - fund the courts properly and give them the resources to reach their CONSTITUTIONALLY REQUIRED duty - a fair and SPEEDY trial.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I don't think Democrats are capable of thinking through their plans / actions Before they act...

Like who would gave thought publicly declaring there would be no legal consequence for homeless people pooping on sidewalks, in public parks, and even in stores would result in turning their sidewalks into toilets, unsanitary conditions, increased disease, etc...

Who'd athunk it?!

That's where you're wrong! They WANT to collapse civilization, this increases their power.

 

[HenryBHough]

Aw shit.

Somebody reminded 'em about how Dukakis blew the election.