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New York’s utter criminal justice madness

By
Post Editorial Board
Published Jan. 14, 2020, 7:21 p.m. ET
For over seven months, we’ve been warning about the madness of the “no bail” law that kicked in Jan. 1 — yet we’re still shocked at how fast the outrages are now piling up. How bad does it have to get before New York lawmakers move to protect the public?
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For over seven months, we’ve been warning about the madness of the “no bail” law that kicked in Jan. 1 — yet we’re still shocked at how fast the outrages are now piling up.

From today’s news alone:

  • Police believe that serial bank robber Gerod Woodberry hit a sixth Chase branch on Tuesday. And if he’s arrested again, the law mandates his rapid release — again.
  • A grand jury has recommended Tiffany Harris, sprung twice in three days for assaults on passersby, be charged with three felony hate crimes for one of her recent attacks — yet she’ll still walk free Jan. 22 at the conclusion of a court-ordered psych evaluation, because the hate-crime charge isn’t one of the few that allow a judge to require bail.
  • Jordan Randolph, 40, was freed Monday after being charged in a drunk-driving crash that killed Jonathan Flores-Maldonado, 27, in Suffolk County.

Meanwhile, judges have plainly gotten the message to not require bail even when the law allows it: In a single day last week, Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Marguerite Dougherty released at least three defendants facing violent felony charges with no bail.

One was an active-duty US Army soldier accused of firing a rifle out a window in Dyker Heights. Another allegedly shot two rounds at a vehicle, sending one woman he’d targeted to the hospital, in a drug-related attack that sparked a reprisal shooting, which, in turn, injured three innocents. In each case, prosecutors wanted $100,000 bail.

A related madness: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “sanctuary city” law. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say they asked the city to hand over illegal immigrant Reeaz Khan, who’s now accused in the savage fatal beating of 92-year-old Maria Fuertes six weeks earlier, after his arrest for attacking his own father — but the NYPD never honored the detainer request, ICE says.

We’ve supported rational criminal justice reform, but New York politicians refuse to stop there — to the point of protecting clear menaces.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie still insists there’s no need to fix the no-bail law. And Senate Democrats on Tuesday pushed yet another criminal justice reform, automatic parole hearings for convicts over 55.

How bad does it have to get before these lawmakers move to protect the public?