Not at all. If you read the article, you’ll see they found an increase in rearrests for those released on violent felony charges- aka the ones people care about.

If the politicians want to save bail-reform, then fix it so those with recent violenty felony arrests are not eligible. Give back the discretion for judges, especially those with a long arrest history.

You must be a lawyer because you are looking at this like a case you want to win and looking for a technical edge.

>it shows that a lot of critics have completely overblown the negative impacts of bail reform.

That difference is actually central to the criticism.

Because almost everyone cares about "how many crimes are being committed" a lot more than "how many criminals are out there".

so in laymans term this study is bullshit and the high crime we've been experiencing could very well be a few people committing crimes over and over and just getting released back on the streets?

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Let me ask you this, if the total population is 500 people and 400 people with misdemeanor cases, and none of the 400 got re-arrested compared post reform to 200 re-arrests pre bail reform. Then the remaining 100 people had violent felony cases, and bail reform caused the re arrest number to go from 50 to 75, that’s an overall decrease (250 to 75), but are we better off?

Came here to say this.

Not even this douchebag can find an apartment?

I mean if you have some research that shows these people are committing extra crimes in a way that distorts the numbers sure of love to see it.

There are some numbers in the study that suggest the opposite, that those who do re offend in the bail reform group go longer before re offending.

If you have some data I’m happy to see it, but tbh that point sounds like cope.

Never said otherwise, but poverty is by far the largest cause of crime because it also causes all sorts of other societal issues that cause crime. Homelessness, mental health issues, low-quality education, overpolicing, etc.

We should stop associating crimes and poverty.

Being poor is not a crime.

The 99% of people in poverty who never commits any crimes don't deserve this kind of stigma. It's time to stop perpetuating that.

You're making an emotional argument and an appeal to authority. The appellate court overturned the decision of the prosecutor and jury, so my appeal to authority defeats yours. If you want to say that you know more about the law than the appellate courts, then you are free to do so, but it would not hold much water because it's just your opinion supported by your emotions. At the end of the day, are you saying that the appellate court was wrong?

>In terms of overall crime rates, bail reform is mostly just an emotional issue.

That's not quite accurate (emphasis mine).

What's typically measured is not the quantity of crimes (via re-offenses).

They count the quantity of individuals that reoffend: if a single individual commits 50 crimes, that is counted as only 1.

That's a tangible difference on the streets, because most people care about "how many crimes are committed" a lot more than "how many reoffending criminals are out there".

I'm not sure if this guy is a goon or not, but there may need to be an audit (if there isn't already) of how many empty units there are in the city that are being held empty by corporate landlords to control inventory and rental prices. Maybe that's a bit conspiracy theory, but I still want that audit.

And why does he live in an Army base?

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/125.27

> the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim's death. As used in this subparagraph, "torture" means the intentional and depraved infliction of extreme physical pain; "depraved" means the defendant relished the infliction of extreme physical pain upon the victim evidencing debasement or perversion or that the defendant evidenced a sense of pleasure in the infliction of extreme physical pain; or

If you want to argue that what happened was not "especially cruel and wanton" that's on you. If you don't feel multiple people beating on someone is torturous, that's your opinion. The prosecutors and jurors thought so.

My point is you can't complain about these politician when you keep voting for the same party your encourage corruption

Some people have close to $1K per month I student loans. Medical costs can be rough. Life isn’t cheap in this country

If I had to guess I would say these are all strongly correlated with wealth too

The point is we should stop focusing on this guy no one cares about and hone our anger at whatever is wrong with our current system that are causing rents to be some damn high

yeah bc the republicans are batshit insane lmao. They nominated Lee Zeldin who is anti-choice and a literal insurrectionist.

But I was told people who make more want to pay higher rents!

Still don’t get how this dumb argument keeps getting repeated

Mandatory pension contributions, union dues, we have 2 cars as we don’t live in a borough with useable public transit, plus both constantly bringing materials to and from work. Utilities and just life events constantly (weddings birthdays etc).

Like I said we have enough to save but we don’t have a lot of disposable income at all.

Are those cars driving south on 6th ave in the graphic ?