Across the state, opponents of the new law have publicized cases of suspects set free which they say demonstrate how doing away with bail allows dangerous criminals to remain on the streets.
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 charges for which judges would 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," he said. "I guess you can lock everybody up. But if you do that, the justice issue is huge and the cost issue is huge," Hertzberg said.
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