Attack a gov candidate, then walk free: Perfect proof that New York’s laws don’t protect the public

David Jakubonis was let out with out bail after attacking Rep. Lee Zeldin.
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David Jakubonis clearly has severe psychological points, however that’s hardly purpose for him to be strolling free after his alleged doubtlessly lethal assault on GOP gov candidate Lee Zeldin. Blame New York’s insane no-bail legislation and the progressive drive to maintain everybody out of jail.

All accounts say Jakubonis, 43, went after Zeldin (who’s additionally a sitting member of Congress) with bladed key-chain “decoration” like ones marketed as a self-defense device. But he was launched simply hours later, after Monroe County DA Sandra Doorley charged him with second-degree tried assault, which didn’t enable the decide to set bail, not to mention order him detained.

Right here’s the “logic” of Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie, Gov. Kathy Hochul et al: Zeldin fought off the assault (with assists from his working mate, ex-NYPD commander Alison Esposito, and Meeting candidate Joe Chennelly) and so didn’t truly get stabbed — so his attacker isn’t harmful sufficient to even let a decide think about locking him up.

Nicely, perhaps the decide might’ve had the choice if Doorley’s workplace had been more durable, and charged first-degree assault or tried homicide: A fortunate hit may need, say, severed his carotid artery.

However the prosecutor has embraced the “decarceration” motion: Dealing with a George Soros-backed progressive challenger in 2019, she declared, “I perceive that locking individuals up doesn't promote public security.”

Jakubonis tried to stab Zeldin at a marketing campaign cease in Perinton, New York on July 21, 2022.

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Which makes us a minimum of sympathetic to Andy McCarthy’s argument for a federal prosecution of Jakubonis.

Once more, it’s solely doable that Jakubonis belongs in a psychological establishment, not jail. However he shouldn’t be strolling unfastened: All of the details counsel he stays a ticking time bomb.

However New York’s authorities doesn’t favor locking up harmful loopy individuals any greater than outright thugs. Isn’t it ironic that one of the simplest ways to vary these perverse priorities is to vote for Zeldin?