{"id":1464412,"date":"2022-05-05T05:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464412"},"modified":"2022-05-05T05:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T09:15:59","slug":"as-murders-reached-unprecedented-highs-top-dem-recruit-backed-motion-to-end-cash-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-murders-reached-unprecedented-highs-top-dem-recruit-backed-motion-to-end-cash-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"As Murders Reached Unprecedented Highs, Top Dem Recruit Backed Motion To End Cash Bail"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fas-murders-reached-unprecedented-highs-top-dem-recruit-backed-motion-to-end-cash-bail%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=1464412&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Cincinnati councilman Greg Landsman worked to release criminals, pull funding from police<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCincinnati councilman Greg Landsman (D.)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 May 5, 2022 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A top Democratic congressional recruit in an Ohio swing district backed a motion to end cash bail in Cincinnati as the city experienced an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; homicide spike.<\/p>\n<p>As a Cincinnati city councilman in April 2019, Greg Landsman submitted and approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati-oh.gov\/council\/meeting-agendas-minutes\/minutes-of-council-meetings-july-3-2020-and-earlier\/april-17-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion<\/a> to eliminate cash bail for nonviolent misdemeanor cases. Nearly one year later, the Democrat introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/city-egov2.cincinnati-oh.gov\/Webtop\/ws\/council\/public\/child\/Blob\/55987.pdf?rpp=-10&#038;w=doc_no%3D%27202000440%27&#038;m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second motion<\/a> that called for such offenders to avoid arrest altogether and instead receive a &#8220;citation to court.&#8221; And in June 2020, as homicides reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2021\/01\/20\/cincinnati-police-update-council-crime-stats-record-high-homicides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unprecedented high<\/a> in the city following George Floyd&#8217;s death, Landsman took the policy a step further\u2014he signed onto <a href=\"https:\/\/city-egov2.cincinnati-oh.gov\/Webtop\/ws\/council\/public\/child\/Blob\/56460.pdf?rpp=-10&#038;w=doc_no%3D%27202000720%27&#038;m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another motion<\/a>\u00a0that endorsed ending cash bail altogether and called for &#8220;public pressure&#8221; on the surrounding county to do the same. Landsman told the <em>Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em> he supported the measure because Floyd&#8217;s death &#8220;changed something&#8221; in him.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly two years later, Landsman is the Democratic nominee to unseat Rep. Steve Chabot (R.). Though he must win over swing-district voters to win the race, Landsman&#8217;s crime policies are more closely aligned with his party&#8217;s most liberal members. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), for example, in November\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/aoc-rails-against-excessive-bail-after-waukesha-massacre\/\">called<\/a> for a &#8220;federal intervention&#8221; against the use of &#8220;excessive bail.&#8221; Just one day earlier, Darrell Brooks allegedly plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., while out of jail on an &#8220;inappropriately low bail amount.&#8221; The rampage killed 5 people and injured at least 48 others.<\/p>\n<p>Landsman&#8217;s crusade against cash bail is not the only time the Democrat endorsed soft-on-crime policies during the summer of 2020. In June of that year, Landsman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/top-dem-recruit-in-ohio-swing-district-wrote-proposal-to-defund-police-amid-homicide-spike\/\">penned a proposal<\/a> to pull $200,000 in funding from Cincinnati&#8217;s police budget. Just weeks later, the city suffered its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2020\/07\/01\/50-killings-6-months-gun-violence-rages-cincinnati\/5354946002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth double homicide<\/a> of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Landsman&#8217;s proposals to end cash bail and defund police did not stop the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politics1com\/status\/1478853824303583233?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recruiting the councilman<\/a> to challenge Chabot. In March, the committee <a href=\"https:\/\/dccc.org\/dccc-announces-changes-to-its-2022-house-battlefield-names-first-round-of-candidates-to-coveted-red-to-blue-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added Landsman<\/a> to its &#8220;highly competitive Red to Blue program,&#8221; which it says &#8220;arms top-tier candidates with organizational and fundraising support, strategic guidance, staff resources, candidate training, and more.&#8221; The DCCC&#8217;s press release announcing the move said Landsman &#8220;has dedicated his career to making life better for children and families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Landsman did not return a request for comment. According to a 2020 Manhattan Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/reforming-new-yorks-bail-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, bail reform policies such as those championed by Landsman have &#8220;led to the release of a number of dangerous defendants, many of whom were later rearrested for offenses committed while awaiting the deposition of their cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DCCC&#8217;s support for Landsman may have deterred other Democrats from entering the race against Chabot. Landsman did not face a Democratic challenger and formally emerged as the party&#8217;s nominee following Ohio&#8217;s Tuesday primary elections. The councilman has raised roughly $562,000 to Chabot&#8217;s $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Landsman is not the only defund the police supporter with ties to the DCCC. In May 2020, for example, committee digital strategist Nijeria Boone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dccc-strategist-abolish-police-terrorist-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labeled<\/a> police a &#8220;terrorist group&#8221; and called to &#8220;abolish the police&#8221; because &#8220;they were created to capture runaway slaves.&#8221; DCCC chairman Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) has assured voters that Democrats do not support defunding the police, an accusation he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/defund-police-tactics-question-makes-democratic-campaign-arm-head-testy-with-joe-scarborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> a &#8220;Republican talking point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Cincinnati councilman Greg Landsman worked to release criminals, pull funding from police  Cincinnati councilman Greg Landsman (D.)  Collin Anderson \u2022 May 5, 2022 5:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464412","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\/1464412","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464412\/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=1464412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}