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One of the most popular policies among “progressive prosecutors” is creating headaches for many police officers and attorneys.
“Because we are sworn to protect and serve the public, we sincerely hope that we will not be proven right about this new law,” the Illinois Law Enforcement Coalition said in a statement earlier this year. “Please don’t let us measure its dismal failure by the shattered lives it produces.”
The statement was in response to a new criminal justice reform bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in February. Among the provisions in the law is the elimination of cash bail by the year 2023.
No more bail for New York?
Monday, May 10, 2021 |
Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
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A newly-signed bail reform law does not seem to be working to the satisfaction of many people in The Empire State.
Dov Hikind of Americans Against Antisemitism is not happy with the law that was reportedly passed in order to make sure more people awaiting trial can be released pretrial, giving judges more discretion on how much is paid and in what form and whether they are released for zero bond. After an 11-day hate crime spree in the Bronx, where four synagogues are vandalized, some of them multiple times, the person who is responsible is arrested and charged with 42 individual crimes, Hikind details about a particular case.
We donât usually find ourselves on the same side of an issue as Mayor Bill de Blasio, but he was spot on when he praised a judge who tried to impose bail on an accused serial synagogue vandal. The accused, Jordan Burnette, would likely not have made bail and would have been locked up pending trial.
The problem, though, is that under the new New York bail reform law, enacted in 2018, cash bail cannot be imposed on perpetrators for most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies. (Burnette is accused of smashing windows and glass doors at four synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx during an 11-day crime spree.)