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NY: Gov. Signs New Parole Reform In New York
NEW YORK (77WABC) — New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins Wednesday said that adding a “dangerousness” standard to New York’s law that largely ended cash bail requirements for many criminal charges would be too subjective.
“We did assure the mayor that we would continue to work collaboratively,” she said on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. “The reality is there is a national spike in crime. It’s not just here.”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams hit a brick wall in his meeting Monday with top lawmakers including Stewart-Cousins in his push for bail reform as crime escalates in NYC. Majority democrats in the state legislature are refusing to allow judges to remand a pre trial detainee if the defendant is considered too dangerous to be released.
Limiting cash bail to a list of violent felony offenses was meant to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial. However a spike in violent crime in recent months has led to calls for changes to the law.
