Gov. Kathy Hochul said those who blame a recent rise in crime on changes to the state’s cash bail laws in 2019 are politicizing the issue for their own purposes rather than looking for real answers. Read more:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaking at a news conference on Wednesday.Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday said those who blame a recent rise in crime on changes to the state’s cash bail laws in 2019 are pushing a “political slogan” rather than looking for real answers.New York City Mayor Eric Adams and top NYPD officials held a news conference
“We never said that the cause of crime in the state is because of bail reform,” Hochul said during an Albany news conference on illegal guns. “That is too simplistic. That is a political slogan. That's all it is. It's ignoring the complexity of what we're dealing with and the fact that we've seen this [crime] surge all across America after this pandemic.”
Adams has called on state lawmakers to return to the Capitol before January – the scheduled start of their next legislative session – to pass bills that would give judges more discretion in setting bail.New York City Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference on Wednesday.At his news conference on Wednesday, Adams urged lawmakers and the many arms of the criminal justice system to work together and to focus on the small group of people who commit a large number of crimes.
“It takes time to develop,” Hochul said. “It also takes time to change a culture that has been the status quo for a long time, where judges have not been exercising the broad discretion that they have always had, but even more so now with the changes we pushed hard for and achieved.”
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