{"id":1279698,"date":"2022-02-07T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279698"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:22:47","slug":"ny-gov-kathy-hochul-no-data-that-bail-reform-is-causing-crime-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-no-data-that-bail-reform-is-causing-crime-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: No &#039;Data&#039; that Bail Reform Is Causing Crime Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-gov-kathy-hochul-no-data-that-bail-reform-is-causing-crime-wave%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279698&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NY-Governor-Hochul-and-Former-Mayor-Bloomberg-Pay-Their-Respects-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her support for the state\u2019s controversial soft-on-crime bail reform law as the crime wave continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking for the data that shows me that bail reform is the reason that somehow crime is going up,<i>\u201d<\/i><i> <\/i>Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-journal.com\/news\/page-one\/2022\/02\/hochul-addresses-furor-over-bail-reform-law\/\">said<\/a> in a Monday&nbsp;<em>Post-Journal<\/em> report. \u201cI\u2019m focused on what I have control over right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Center for Court Innovation, in January 2020 New York State \u201cput into effect sweeping criminal justice legislation, strictly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtinnovation.org\/publications\/bail-reform-NYS\">curtailing<\/a> the use of cash bail and pretrial detention, overhauling rules governing the sharing of evidence, and strengthening measures intended to ensure a defendant\u2019s right to a speedy trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This has resulted in criminals being put back out on the streets, according to a report <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/21\/heres-the-real-cost-of-nys-disastrous-bail-reform-laws\/\">cited<\/a> in a <em>New York Post<\/em> article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New data from the state\u2019s Office of Court Administration clearly shows that the \u201cfix\u201d did not go nearly far enough. The data cover arrests made from July 1, 2020, through Aug. 30, 2020, the first two months of the new law, and prove what many prosecutors and police have been saying: The rise in crime is due to repeat offenders being released back onto the streets after arrest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The<em> Post-Journal<\/em> reported on Hochul, who wants to be elected governor this year after assuming office when disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo stepped down after charges of sexual harassment:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>State Senate GOP Leader Rob Ortt and members of his conference, including Sen. Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, and Peter Oberacker, R-Otsego County, insist judges should again have the ability to set bail in cases where they believe the defendant poses a threat to community safety.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul drew sharp criticism from her rival for the Democratic nomination for governor, Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-Long Island, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-North Country.&nbsp;Led by Stefanik, six GOP members of New York\u2019s congressional delegation, in a letter to Hochul, called for her to \u201cprioritize public safety over irresponsible policies put forward by the far left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Sheriffs\u2019 Association and the New York State Association of Police Chiefs have also been firm in urging that judges again be given the authority to use the dangerousness standard in bail matters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBy refusing to add a dangerousness standard and to give judges more discretion, Hochul is standing against common sense<i>,\u201d<\/i> Suozzi said.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of Hochul\u2019s plans to address the crime surge, according to the <em>Post-Journal<\/em>, is to hire social media analysts \u201cas part of an effort to flag messages that could be preludes for acts of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also said there will be efforts to disrupt guns coming into New York from Pennsylvania, a state that has fewer gun restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The governor stated that&nbsp;a new state office, the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, will become part of the state Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201c<\/i>We are coming at this issue with all the resources we can deploy<i>,\u201d<\/i> Hochul told the <em>Post-Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her support for the state\u2019s controversial soft-on-crime bail reform law as the crime wave continues. \u201cI\u2019m looking for the data that shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}