After every mass shooting, tough-on-crime types lecture that “this is not the time for politics.”
But apparently the day after the awful stabbings in Monsey IS the right to rant against bail reform.
This is the politics of mass incarceration.
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But apparently the day after the awful stabbings in Monsey IS the right to rant against bail reform.
This is the politics of mass incarceration.
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It has ALWAYS been ILLEGAL in NY to use bail to detain someone bc of risk of dangerousness. Was before the current reforms, still will be after.
Why? Because of the PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE.
It’s a bedrock principle—even if one never actually honored, ever—of our CJ system.
Why? Because of the PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE.
It’s a bedrock principle—even if one never actually honored, ever—of our CJ system.
What the reform law does it make it harder for judges and prosecutors to break the law.
And they do so openly. Darcel Clark, a former state judge and now the Bronx DA, proudly stated at a media-attended public event at Fordham that she took dangerousness into account as a judge.
And they do so openly. Darcel Clark, a former state judge and now the Bronx DA, proudly stated at a media-attended public event at Fordham that she took dangerousness into account as a judge.
I know your hot-take reply, I’ve heard a thousand tedious times: “easy to say from the safety of gentrified Brooklyn, make them live near you.”
Tedious.
Thousands suffer needlessly in Rikers daily, exposed to disease and violence from detainees and COs alike.
Don’t they count?
Tedious.
Thousands suffer needlessly in Rikers daily, exposed to disease and violence from detainees and COs alike.
Don’t they count?
The opponents of bail reform—most of whom surely have the benefit of never visiting a relative or loved one languishing in the hell of Rikers—are saying that better a hundred possibly innocent ppl suffer on Rikers than one (not yet proven) guilty person go free.
