Three years after New York bail reform changes were hailed as a national victory to address unfair detainment, the state law and its effects are now a political grenade being lobbed from both the right and left amid surging crime.
But that hasn’t stopped political candidates from saying so on the airwaves, in mailers and at news conferences, especially as voters across the political spectrum signal that crime will be their top concern heading to the ballot box.
“It gives her a political headache without actually addressing the root of the problem,” he said. “It makes no one happy and gives her opponents from every angle a new round of criticism. She should literally fire whoever told her this is a good idea.”Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins have raised concerns about an overhaul of bail laws in New York.
The criminal justice reform movement embodied by the massive protests that swept New York and the country after the 2020 murder of George Floyd is butting up against concerns against rising crime. One of the primary goals of the reforms was to ensure that poor communities and people of color would not be disproportionately penalized by their inability to pay bail, especially for low-level crimes.
At first it seemed like Hochul, who is running for reelection less than a year after she took office in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s resignation in August, would avoid the debate.
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