Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie (left), Senate Majority Chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins (heart) and different Albany lawmakers are against Mayor Adams request to amend the bail reform legal guidelines.
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The Concern: State leaders’ rejection of Mayor Adams’ proposed adjustments to NY’s Elevate the Age and bail legal guidelines.
I discover it totally deplorable and completely irresponsible of Democratic state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie to oppose Mayor Adams’ plan to amend bail-reform legal guidelines (“Hizzoner hits ‘blue’ wall,” Jan. 26).
Are they residing underneath a rock? Are they not conscious that judges are handcuffed and can't forestall criminals from going proper again out onto the streets to commit extra crimes? Criminals know this and are laughing on the police as they're hauled in.
Do Stewart-Cousins and Heastie genuinely want a revolving-door coverage, which advantages criminals and endangers society? I assumed their job was to serve the law-abiding residents of New York, not shield thugs. They're each disgraceful.
Bert Wedemeyer
Brooklyn
We have now an enormous drawback right here in New York: It’s the voters. The individuals who voted for Stewart-Cousins, Heastie and everybody in between.
Individuals must take an excellent, laborious look within the mirror and ask why they voted for individuals who don't worth life in any approach, form or type.
How anybody can justify the usefulness of bail reform, given the quantity of violence and the variety of repeat offenders who're wreaking havoc in our communities?
Each single one who voted for these progressive Democrats and believes they're a part of a sweeping ethical reform is kidding themselves.
Theresa O’Brien
Meville
In current weeks, attentive and New Yorkers have been shocked by horrible cop killings, mindless acts of deadly subway violence, declarations by a “woke” district lawyer that he received’t prosecute sure crimes and an epidemic of brazen daytime shoplifting.
We additionally see the smug unwillingness of Heastie and Stewart-Cousins to think about modification of the criminal-justice legal guidelines that introduced on this plague of criminality.
Hardworking, tax-paying residents didn't join this. More and more our governance is affected by a wedding of ideology and opportunism. This isn't wholesome, neither is it politics as normal.
Stanley Rubin
Recent Meadows
Whereas I applaud Adams’ efforts to get a deal with on the violent crime surge, he received’t succeed except our bail legal guidelines are dramatically modified.
In the event that they’re not, it is going to proceed to be open season on ladies and Asians within the subway, and cops will proceed to be murdered.
The bail-reform regulation must be repealed, not merely tweaked. Furthermore, New York judges want the discretion to set bail on a defendant who's a hazard to the general public.
I worry that neither of those adjustments will ever be accredited by the Democratic-controlled legislature or our governor.
So long as New Yorkers proceed to ship Democrats to Albany, the mayhem will proceed.
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Hicksville
Sen. Stewart-Cousins rejected Adams’ proposed adjustments to the Elevate the Age and bail legal guidelines as a result of they might disproportionately have an effect on “black, brown and poor defendants.”
If these teams are breaking the regulation, then they need to be held accountable to the total extent of the regulation. Race or funds shouldn't be an element.
A 16- or 17-year-old is sufficiently old to know proper from improper, and subsequently sufficiently old to be held to the regulation and the implications of their actions.
Mayor Adams wants all the assistance he can get. Assist him save our metropolis!
John Rossano
Oceanside
What are the voters in The Bronx and decrease Westchester pondering?
The Bronx has a excessive crime charge, together with Yonkers. The 2 politicians who management these areas have to be voted out. Heastie and Stewart-Cousin solely care about criminals, not law-abiding residents.
It's really mind-boggling that that is acceptable to those voters. Elections have penalties, and your life could rely upon it. Bear in mind: You get what you vote for.
Philip Vallone
Ossining
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