Bad Bail Reform
When a criminal is taken into custody, they’re locked behind bars for a reason: They’re a threat to the community. So, when bail reform advocates pushed through legislation in 2019 that eliminated cash bail and pre-trial detention for nearly all misdemeanor and many felony cases, the predictable happened. Violent crime skyrocketed in New York as criminals used their newly-minted get out of jail free cards with impunity all over the state.
This case study on how to encourage criminals to commit more crimes serves as a warning for what bail reform advocates will continue to push for, regardless of the overwhelming evidence showing that bail reform has a 100 percent success rate in increasing crime.
But beyond the numbers that prove the failure of bail reform, lies the true cost of these laws. It’s seen by the small business owners who are continuously robbed of their hard-earned livelihood by repeat offenders who burglarize their stores as they praise bail reform. It’s seen by the police officers, who patrol knowing that violent offenders are back on the streets before the ink on the arrest paperwork is dry. And it’s seen by New York’s residents, who live in fear as criminals who should be behind bars are free to roam their neighborhoods.
Bail reform has proven at every step of the way to be a failure for the police officers and the residents they’re sworn to protect, while becoming a boon for the violent criminals who are free to be arrested over and over again without so much as a slap on the wrist. End the charade and repeal bail reform.
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