NYPD commissioner links crime spike to bail reform — says judges must be able to hold repeat offenders
This article is taken from the January 24th, 2020 edition of the New York Daily News. A rise in crime during the first weeks of 2020 is directly tied to bail reforms that took away New York judges’ discretion to lock up potentially violent offenders, NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea said Friday. It’s not the police department’s fault, he said — “either we forgot how to police New York City, or there’s a correlation” with the bail laws. Murders are down so far this year — the NYPD has counted 10 in the city so far in 2020, compared to 20 in the same period of 2019.
“In the first three weeks of this year, were seeing significant spikes in crime," Shea said. The overall crime rate is up 11%, NYPD Compstat data through January 19th shows. In raw numbers, the police count 5,043 serious crimes this year, up from 4,542 in the same period in 2019.
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