{"id":1593702,"date":"2022-08-08T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593702"},"modified":"2022-08-08T06:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:32:24","slug":"ny-gov-hochul-goes-to-war-with-states-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-gov-hochul-goes-to-war-with-states-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Gov. Hochul Goes to War With State&#8217;s Judges"},"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\">18<\/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-hochul-goes-to-war-with-states-judges%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=1593702&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><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve provided plenty of coverage here regarding the revolving door of criminal justice in New York State, particularly in the Big Apple. Everyone can see what\u2019s been happening and it\u2019s an open secret as to why this is going on. When the state passed a new \u201cbail reform\u201d law under the tenure of Andrew Cuomo, liberal prosecutors and district attorneys declared an open season on freeing suspects in all but the most heinous cases. The results were entirely predictable and in some cases, deadly. But the measure was so popular with Democrats when it was being enacted that none of them want to point the finger of blame in that direction. Instead, Governor Kathy Hochul seemed to try to blame the judges and prosecutors for \u201cnot understanding\u201d the law well enough and suggested the state provide funding to send those officials to educational seminars. To put it mildly, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/05\/war-ignites-between-kathy-hochul-new-york-judges-over-bail-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the judges were not wild about the plan<\/a> and a war of words has broken out in the media. (NY Post)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 ongoing effort to roll back the state\u2019s bail reform law has sparked a war of words between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York\u2019s judges over who\u2019s to blame for the state\u2019s revolving-door justice system.<\/p>\n<p>In a highly unusual move Friday, a spokesman for New York\u2019s Office of Court Administration responded to Hochul\u2019s proposal Thursday to have the state pay for judges to get schooled on the controversial statute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudges have received extensive training on the bail reform legislation, including all of its amendments,\u201d spokesman Lucian Chalfen said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, there is certainly plenty of blame to go around here and Mayor Eric Adams is correct about at least one thing. The problem isn\u2019t with the NYPD. They are arresting people in numbers not seen in years and they\u2019re doing so with far less manpower than they were promised. (Mostly due to early retirements and resignations of disgusted cops.) Part of the fault lies with the legislators who passed this bill and refuse to publicly admit what a train wreck it\u2019s been from the first day it went into effect.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul has talked a good game at times, going so far as to hold a private meeting with soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. She allegedly threatened to remove him from his position if he didn\u2019t start enforcing the law. But she hasn\u2019t followed through on that, nor has she publicly led the charge to repeal the law or at least modify it. <\/p>\n<p>But Bragg still makes many questionable calls and he\u2019s not the only dubious DA leading some equally dubious prosecutors around the city. One common complaint Adams has heard from retiring police officers is that the criminals are \u201cbeating the cops back to the neighborhoods\u201d after they are arrested. That doesn\u2019t create a very positive work environment inside the NYPD and they still lack a meaningful path toward disincentivizing crime among the city\u2019s gangs.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is going to undo a decade or more of bad policies overnight, but Hochul has it in her power to at least make a start of it. Call an emergency session of the legislature and repeal the damned bail reform law. Instead of trying to send judges and prosecutors to school, send them new guidelines freeing them up to demand significant amounts of bail for repeat offenders of any sort and particularly for those committing gun crimes, even if it\u2019s their first offense. Show the gangs that the candy store is now closed and they will be held accountable for their criminal activity. Crime won\u2019t stop overnight (or ever, really) but it will surely begin slowing down noticeably. Of course, I\u2019m probably wasting my breath here because any such actions would require the state Democratic Party to admit they had made a mistake. And when is the last time you saw that happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve provided plenty of coverage here regarding the revolving door of criminal justice in New York State, particularly in the Big Apple. 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