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Don't let Albany DA David Soares lose his job for bucking his party on justice 'reform'

Albany County District Attorney David Soares is one of💝 the most articulate and outspoken opponents of the 2019 bail “reforms” that propelled crime in 𒈔New York State to heights not...

Why even anti-cop pols should show their faces at Officer Diller’🃏s funeral to feel NYPD’s pain

New York City will bury another mur🅷dered police officer on Saturday.

Bail fail: Study shows that repeat crime INCREASED in New York because of justice 'reforms'

A new study of bail reform outside New York City — subur💞bs and upstate — shows that 66% of thꦐe people released under bail reform were re-arrested within two years... 

The 'How Many Stops Act' would be a disaster for the NYPD

Mayor Adams was꧋ right to veto the How Many Stops Act, and now the City Cou🎃ncil must vote to uphold that veto.

Hochul's lame plan to reduce NYC farebeating won't change a thing

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it loses $690 million a year from people jumping the turnstile or boarding buses witho🤪ut paying.

Comparing crime rates to 2019 show just how dangerous 'reforms' have been

Crime is down a statistically insignificant 0.77% this year compared to 2022, but it is a hefty 33.7% higher than it was iꦏn 20🔯19, before bail reform and discovery reform...

Press plays up ridiculous 'racism' charge in killing of Karina Vetrano, ignoring all the facts

It has become fashionable of late to attack criminal cꦫonvictions, regardless of the evidence, using “alleged” process 𓂃errors. 

🎃 Albany did absolutely NOTHING to make New Yorkers safer

 𒅌 I thought our legislators would l🗹ook at the carnage being wrought on our streets and the rampant criminal activity since these reforms took effect in 2020 and be responsible.

Bail 'reform' increased crime -- and misleading studies don't prove otherwise

A new report from John Jay College of Crimi💮nal Justice’s Data Collaborative for Justice screams the headline tha💦t recidivism rates have dropped thanks to New York’s 2020 bail-reform laws.

Crime in NYC still up 47.5% since bail reform♈ despite cops claims otherwise

The New York City Police Department issued a press release last week announcing a 0.4% reduction in “index” crimes for the year to date 2023 vs thꦿe same period in 2022.

NYC's rise in crime affects everyone's way of life

The bottom line is that crime in New York City in 2022 was 31% higher than in 2019, before criminal-justice reforms, with almost 55,000 more victims i🐈n 2022 than in...

New York's discovery laws are DESIGNED to let criminals go free

Of all the criminal-justice “reforms⭕” the Legislature passed in 2019 — on bail, discovery and parole and Raise the Age — discovery “reform” was the most pernicious.

 Is Bragg seeking a murder dismissal because of a $500K woke campaign contributi🎀on🌌?

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg should have recused himself from the Tracy McCarter murder case after his public position against꧙ prosecuting it earned him campaign cash.

Hochul and Albany would 🐲rather keep jails empty than have innocent victi🔯ms live

Keaira Bennefield would be alive today if her violent, predicate-felon estranged husband had been remanded when h🍃e savagely beat her inside her apartment a fe♏w days before he shot her.

Crime soared on Hochul's watch — and there's no 'denying' the data

Gov.🙈🌟 Kathy Hochul claims that people who are concerned about crime in New York are “data deniers” and “master manipulators.” She is wrong. 

I've had it — this former prosecutor is voting Zeldin over Hochul to fix New York's crime crisis

🍎  I h🌠ave had it. New York’s criminal-justice system may not be the national laughingstock that Mayor Eric Adams called it. (I’m not sure how many people in Idaho know about...

💞 Bail reform has failed, and advocates saying otherwise ignore the facts

It should be a simple thing to understand: If you have more criminals on the street, you have more crime. But Gov. Kathy Hochul and our political leaders keep s💮♚aying...

No, Gov. Hochul did NOT fix the bail fiasco — and the hatchet man proves it 🐻

Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders keep saying that they “fixed” the ඣbail laws and dealt with recidivists. That is si𓆏mply NOT TRUE.

Comptroller Lander claims bail reform hasn't caused more crime — but ignores all evidence it has

🀅 For the record, Mr. Comptroller, there were 319 murders in 2019, before bail reform took effect; there were 468 in 2020 and 485 in 2021, the highest ꦚnumbers since 2011. 

Hochul's so-called bail-reform 'fixes' won't do much for New York's many issues

Gov. Kathy Hochul is includi🌊ng a 10-point plan to change bail reforms in her revised budget proposal.