Red Bill De Blasio, Fredo II Andrew Cuomo: Gee, Maybe The New Law We Supported That Puts Out Violent Antisemitic Assailants Right Back Out on the Streets With No Bail Requirement Wasn't All That Great

Cuomo, de Blasio see the light on the lunatic new bail law

Mayor Bill de Blasio, say hello to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Clearly New York's ultra-progressive chief executives have arrived at the same place on the state’s absurd new arrest-and-release bail law: Scorched in the press, they now say change definitely is in order.

"There’s no doubt that this is a work in progress," says the governor who proudly signed the bail bill into law. "Changing the system is complicated."

You'd think communists would have learned that "changing the system is complicated" by now. You'd think the first 50 million murders would be a wake-up call.

De Blasio took a more direct approach last week, standing the new law on its head to ­remove an alleged violent anti-Semite from the streets.

What he means is that because the law said that the serial attacker of Jewish women could not be held in jail, New York resorted to the illegal measure of slapping a mental health hold on her. Not for medical or psychiatric reasons, but for strictly political ones -- the precious no-bail. no jail "reform" law could not be seen as doing that which it was specifically intended to do, that is, to let violent repeat felons back on to the street without even having to pay fees for court processing.

Now the mayor says he will help fix the law itself: "We are going to go to Albany once again asking the Legislature to improve that bill."

Well, maybe. He has a pretty short attention span.

But there is no doubt that drastic change is necessary ­before somebody gets killed -- a likely progression now that bail has been abolished for all misdemeanor charges and judges have lost critical discretion in isolating dangerous defendants.

When the city collapses, don't bother asking for bailouts.

posted by Ace at 01:48 PM

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