Posted on 02/08/2020 9:49:35 AM PST by karpov
Sen. Bernie Sanders called for an end to cash bail across the country at the Democratic debate on Friday night, saying there are hundreds of thousands of people locked up because they cant afford a several-hundred-dollar fee.
Sanders made his call to end bail as the candidates debated Americas criminal justice system and how it affects minorities in the United States.
Most people dont know this. Tonight in America, 200,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything. Two hundred thousand people because they cant afford the 500 bucks they need to get out of jail, Sanders said.
That is outrageous. We are going to end cash bail in America, he added.
Sanders comments came as New York state passed a criminal justice law that went into effect on Jan. 1, ending bail for a number of misdemeanor and non-violent felony offenses.
The law has been blasted by law enforcement officials and elected officials in the city, with NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea saying in January that a rise in citywide crime since the start of 2020 is linked to the bail-reform law.
In the first three weeks of this year, were seeing significant spikes in crime. So either we forgot how to police New York City, or theres a correlation, Shea said.
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No Cash Bail ! ?
Okay.
No Bail, then. That make you happy?
And the libtard progressive ‘fundamentally’ changing America and utter idiocy continues......
Great idea!
Is cash bail still OK when they’re not debating?
This commie’s head has enough crap in it to fertilize a rose garden.
There is a multi-faceted push to make this universal...
And even worse.
Cosponsors: H.R.5383 116th Congress (2019-2020)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3814809/posts
The mutants demonstrating on the NYC subway last week weren’t just protesting higher fares; they wanted police removed from the trains.
Many already want to get rid of laws and law enforcement already.
De Blasio admits NYC crime jump is linked to bail reform
New York Post ^ | February 7, 2020 | Sam Raskin and Gabrielle Fonrouge
Posted on 2/8/2020, 9:44:01 AM by karpov
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Mayor Bill de Blasio linked a recent crime surge in the Big Apple to the states controversial overhaul of bail laws Friday, after spending a week dancing around the matter.
We had, for six years, steady decreases in crime across the board. Theres not a whole lot of other environmental things that have changed recently, Hizzoner told WNYCs Brian Lehrer on new CompStat data that shows crime has soared since the new laws took effect at the start of 2020. It sort of stands out like a sore thumb that this is the single biggest new thing in the equation and we saw an extraordinary jump.
Of course theres always a possibility this is plain statistical variation, that happens sometimes, he added. But I think its pretty clear that theres only one new major piece in the equation.
The controversial law bars judges from setting bail to hold criminal defendants for most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies cases. Its come under intense criticism from law enforcement officials and prosecutors.
De Blasio again reiterated his support for giving the judges the power to lock up defendants they believe are a danger to the public while awaiting trial a position thats left him at odds with the bail overhauls top backer, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx).
I think judicial discretion should be clarified so that there are very clear checks and balances, so that we avoid any inkling of bias entering into the process, but I think a system predicated only on the question of flight risk misses the fact that there are some individuals who are just consistently, by their own actions, and by the proof of due process, consistently creat[ing] a threat to their neighbors, de Blasio said on the show.
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