Fear of crime is driving a backlash against a new law curtailing cash bail in New York.
Since then, Cuomo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the leader of the state Senate ─ all Democrats who pushed for the new law ─ have said it needs to be changed. Cuomo’s office said he supports adding hate crimes to a list of offenses for which judges will be permitted to order a suspect held on bail.
"For every story that gets sensationalized, there are hundreds of people who have been able to keep their jobs and remain with their families while accused of low-level crimes." "I don't think there was a more difficult issue to work on than bail reform," Hertzberg said."It's hard to understand and easy to derail. The people you are fighting for don't have money or much of a voice." And there is always the fear of"one bad story, one bad actor" who could make bail reform look dangerous.
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