NYPD Commissioner calls for an end to bail reform laws as NYC crimes soar

Closing the barn doors after the horses have bolted or in this case, murderers, rapists and criminals.

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NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell calls for an end to woke bail reform laws that let criminals walk free to reoffend as NYC crimes soar by nearly 60%

• New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell on Sunday called for an end to the state’s woke bail reform laws
• In an interview with WABC Radio’s John Catsimatidis, she said she thinks the law ‘is definitely part of the thinking that needs to change’
• She also decried the decriminalization of quality of life crimes, saying judges used to have the discretion whether to prosecute those
• Her comments come as the NYPD reports that crimes in February rose nearly 60 percent when compared to the year before
  The crime wave is now continuing into March with an attack at the MoMa and two attacks on homeless individuals over the weekend
• Mayor Eric Adams has already called for an end to the bail reform laws

By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com, 13 March 2022

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New York City’s top cop on Sunday called for an end to the woke bail reform laws that allow criminals who commit minor offenses to go free.

Speaking to WABC Radio’s John Catsimatidis on Sunday, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said: ‘The criminal justice reform law that took effect in 2020, I think, that is definitely part of the thinking that needs to change.

‘We can keep most of the important elements of the reform, but there are absolutely some things that need to be adjusted,’ she explained of the 2019 bail reform laws – which were rolled back in 2020 to add to the list of crimes for which bail can be set.

Sewell also seemed to decry the decriminalization of quality of life crimes, like turnstile jumping at the subway stations, marijuana use and drinking in public.

‘There are entire categories of serious crimes that we can no longer make an arrest for,’ Sewell told Catsimatidis. ‘We can only issue a summons.

‘We have used discretion in the past. Now we don’t even have that,’ she said.

Elaborating further, she added: ‘There are entire categories of crimes where we can make an arrest , but the judges are prohibited from ever setting bail – even if the same burglar or car thief commits the same crime every day and ends up in front of the same judge.

‘They used to have that discretion, and in many cases we don’t anymore.’

Sewell’s comments come amid a weekend filled with assault cases in the Big Apple, as the NYPD reports that the city’s crime rate was up nearly 60 percent in February, when compared to the same time the year before…….

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