New York’s revolving-door justice for serial perps extends far beyond the no-bail law.
A body being removed from a lower Manhattan apartment building after Wei Hou, 41, allegedly murdered his 76-year-old mother on Dec. 20, 2025.New York’s revolving-door justice for serial perps extends far beyond the no-bail law: “Diversion” programs are yet another way progressives keep dangerous offenders from facing serious consequences — with deadly results.
Hou was sentenced to two years in prison for third-degree possession of a controlled substance in June of 2025, but instead got sent to a 90-day drug treatment program and released in October.Chinese cars are cheap — but the real costs are too high, getting diverted to a “gun accountability and prevention” program instead: Cut to January 2025, when they were charged with shooting a man execution-style in The Bronx. Then there was the sicko who was released on the condition that he receive mental-health treatment after raping a 14-year-old in 2023 — only to Other blue cities have seen similar results: In San Francisco, a homeless drug addicted with a mile-long rap sheet was enrolled in a diversion program when hereasonable enough as a rehabilitative alternative to incarceration that might save taxpayers some money and keep low-level offenders from serving hard time.diversion actually works for — or whether tiny pilot programs that “prove success” can effectively scale up.Soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors are using diversion programs as cover to keep even the worst repeat offenders out of prison, and the innocent New Yorkers they’reTennis legend supports criminally sanctioning US companies that take Venezuelan oil
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