lowest crime in recorded history in new york city. the lowest prison population in a generation. and the fewest number of arrests. after criminal justice reform, shootings doubled, murder went up by 38%. prison populations increased, and here is the secret. can you be specific about how you define reform? what a defining as a reform? it was so much more sweeping than just bail reform, it was a series of discovery law changes, bail reform, entire sets of charges you could just give them a ticket, so this came in a package in the middle of the night, stuck into a bit budget bill and passed. here is the secret. prior to this, when we had all that low crime and low prison populations, low jail populations, both, 85% of people arrested by the new york city police department went to arraignment, and walked out of the courthouse. either on a low bail that they could afford, or released on their own recognizance.
the dirty little secret here, the second one of tonight. number one, before criminal justice reform we had the lowest crime in recorded history in new york city, the lowest prison population in a generation and the fewest number of arrests. after criminal justice reform shootings doubled. murder went up by 38%. prison populations increased and here is the secret. can you be specific how you define reform just so the audience knows. it was so much more sweeping than just bail reform. it was a series of discovery law changes, bail reform, entire sets of charges that you were no longer allowed to arrest somebody. you could just give them a ticket. so this came in a package in the middle of the night stuck into a budget bill and passed, but here s the secret. prior to this when we had all that low crime and low prison populations, low jail populations both, 85% of people arrested by the new york city
parties need to do a better job addressing crime and it s an issue for so many people that s truly a matter of life and death. all the legislation lately has been about the offender and lowering jail populations or lowering prison populations. and it s not working. it does feel like a lot of propaganda, talking points election season and we re left out here to just deal with the stuff when the election is over and kind of how it s been from the local level all the way up. there is one more debate scheduled in the race. whitmer continued to lead in the polls and dixon believes her standing will only improve as the election gets closer. and thank you very much for that. mark meredith in michigan. the fact of the matter is, crime is running rampant in this country and this isn t a fox fixation, the numbers underlie what i say because across the board they re increasing, pretty much across the country. there s a reason for that, but the biggest of all tends to be the fact that so m
even the animal shelters, the prison populations. they are all humans and they are all deserving of our mercy and our grace and our care and support, and i worry so much about all of those who are behind, especially those who have stayed behind to ensure the care and safety of others. all of those first r first resp, we are there for you, as well. kayleigh: you do this for a living, you do weather. my husband and i, our power went out this morning. i have friends texting me from a 60-mile radius of their power going out. now you have a quarter of a million people in this state who lost power before the storm even hit, which is remarkable if you pull up the charley trajectory. i can t forget driving through punta gorda and seeing the effects, life changed forever. amy: the less coastline, we have never seen a title flooding like we are seeing right now.