2022, and given $200,000 bail, despite a history of gun charges. police union blasted the judge for granting him bail. critics have panned the bail reform law as too lenient and criticized manhattan s new district attorney says he wants to stop prosecuting lower level crimes and bring down the incarceration rate. he attempted to clarify policies yesterday after backlash. prosecuting regardless of felon. any use of a gun to rob a store by definition is and must be and will be treated seriously. what we need to focus on like a laser, truly violent activity that is destabilizing too many of our communities in manhattan. angry city leaders are
prosecute crimes, no more life without parole for murder, they are going to prosecute drug crimes as possession at a time when we are seeing fentanyl, the leading cause of death among 18 to 45-year-olds. it s completely outrageous and they have to stop and i hope our politicians here in new york, my colleagues are listening to the words of the widow crying out for support for the nypd. it is crushing to listen to her, to see these young lives gone and to hear the pain in her voice and the frustration, too, over these policies. it sounds like there is some bipartisan coming together on making some changes there. we have heard the mayor, eric adams, democrat, talk about this, about bail reform, giving judges more discretion and when they make decisions about letting people out. i want to read something from new york state senator jessica ramos, a democrat. she says blaming the bail reform law for the national gun control crisis is the latest in a long history of fear mongering dog
roll back the policies and to correct what is wrong with the bail reform law, we will continue to see lawlessness. i blame that directly on district attorney bragg. his policies benefit nobody. carley: and governor kathy hochul is putting bragg on notice. she tells the new york post editorial board she knows full well the powers the governor has and she will have a conversation with bragg to make sure we are all in alignment. next week president biden heading to the big apple to meet with eric adams and ways to fight gun violence, carly, todd. todd: they don t want to wait a week but demanding action and answers right now. our next guest did something about it. take a listen. there is no reason why the these two officers had to die appear they were babies. i stay up at night and try to figure out who s fault is this? time to take back our city.
on bond, the mayor blamed bail reform. john: we ll be watching that rally tomorrow as well. jacqui heinrich checking this off tonight on crime, new restrictions and protocols are in the works for law enforcement tonight, the biden administration considering a crackdown on some of the tools and practices used by federal agents at a time when morale and law enforcement is that dangerous levels. correspondent david spunt reports from the justice department. crime is high an officer morale is low, top officials at the justice department are working on a presidential executive order aimed at making multiple changes to policing, fox news reviewed a draft document confirmed by sources familiar with the order scheduled to be released sometime in the coming weeks, likely march. the first page of the draft weighs out a theme, it is time we acknowledge the legacy of systemic racism in our criminal
million to help fund community policing and violence intervention. the murder rate in new york city is up 53% over the last two years. so too is other crimes. burglary up 17%. car thefts up 92%. biden s plan won t help with the soft on crime policies pushed by democratic leaders and progressive district attorneys. democrats in new york have so far shown little appetite, sandra, to change the state s bail reform law, which the mayor here has been pleading with them to do so. just last week, a 16-year-old somewhat shot and nypd officer was released on bond. one more thing, sandra. despite the fact that 6,000 illegal guns were taken off the street, new york city experienced its highest murder rate in a decade. sandra in. sandra: the numbers are astonishing. bryan llenas in new york. thank you. what does my next guest think of the president s plan that he laid out today?