states. we have close to 3,000 sworn police officers, sheriff s department, corrections officers, probation department and they re all doing their job but our state lawmakers are not. our state lawmakers passed a law that allows people to get out without having to post bail, even if they re a flight risk or a danger to society and i m going to fight against that. i will continue to go to our state capital, tell our governor and lawmakers that is not acceptable. will: we ll put it into context, and tell what your proposal to a leave the problem. here is the context, new york state s dale bail, july 2021, 20% of defendant es who committed crimes not bail eligible, in other words got out without bail, were rearrested while the case was spending, 2000 people rearrested a for violent felony.
429 for a violent felony with a firearm. to your home territory of nassau county, for the year 2021. 11,000 arrests. 9700 released without bail. of those, 1011 rearrested. that is 11% rate of recidivism while they re out awaiting their justice. 300 were let go without bail for weapon as offenses. what is your solution for alleviating problem. let me give you a more dangerous example. last week our police department took off the streets 100 illegal guns. 1/3 of the illegal guns our police department took off the street were by criminals released without bail in prior criminal activity. so it s a very dangerous. now what we re doing is, we re going to continue to up our policing and we re going to work very closely with our new district attorney but we need help.
we need our state lawmakers and our governor to reverse and repeal the cashless bail law. it gives criminals more rights than victims. makes it harder for our district attorney. it makes it more difficult for our police department. it is creating havoc like we ve seen in new york city this week, which is a terrible, terrible tragedy but keeps repeating itself. we had five police officers shot in just 22 days. that is not acceptable. it s crazy. will: well, here is hoping you can do something about it in nassau county in the state of new york as we re looking at, as mayor adams says the rivers that pour into the sea of this problem this seems to be a major tributary. so bruce blakeman, thanks for jumping on with us this morning. thank you so much. will: you bet. coming up, kindergarten are being taught black lives matter s guiding principles. dr. cale swain is here to react.
military weapons. they shouldn t feel threatened by anyone. they incited crisis. nato doesn t need to offer any concessions. we ll provide ukraine assistance they need to come back to deal with whatever threat russia imposes. we haven t done that sufficiently. that is why there are still 100,000 russian troops on the border. dan, i have to tell you a lot of americans are very skeptical what you re talking about. i m not saying you re not right. i don t know enough about the situation. i m trying like will and joey to take this all in to try to understand it. when i look at our country, our enemies, i think about china, i wonder is this problem that we have, the way we re fighting against russia in this so decisively is this going to push russia further closer to china? would we be better to triangulate that seeing china is our real threat? i think russia is a threat
onshore. one of the problems we don t talk about there are not enough truckers to get them from the ports across the country. we have another problem with truckers. further reducing truckers that can come through the lan ports t makes no sense. you talk about who bears the brunt, joey, truck drivers. you watching at home as well when the prices go up and store shelves remain barren. rachel: shows such glaring lack of priorities on the part of the biden administration. poll after poll will tell you that the american people s number one concern is inflation, clearly this is not going to help. as you said, will and joey, a vaccine mandate on truckers coming into our country from canada or mexico is not going to affect our covid situation. i have no idea why we re trying to coerce them taking the vaccine but that is what our government is doing. again, where s pete buttigieg? i m going to keep asking that question until shows up on