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NYPD top cop Keechant Sewell says bail reform law ‘needs to change’

Commissioner Keechant Sewell joined a chorus of elected officials who have called for more restrictive bail laws following the reforms which eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor and non-violent felonies.

“The criminal justice reform law that took effect in 2020, I think, that is definitely part of the thinking that needs to change,” she said on “The Cats Roundtable,” hosted by John Catsimatidis.

“We can keep most of the important elements of the reform, but there are absolutely some things that need to be adjusted.”

Sewell also appeared to decry the decriminalization of quality-of-life crimes, such as turnstile jumping, marijuana usage and boozing in public.

“There are entire categories of serious crimes that we can no longer make an arrest for. We can only issue a summons,” Sewell said on WABC 770.
 
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NYPD top cop Keechant Sewell says bail reform law ‘needs to change’

Commissioner Keechant Sewell joined a chorus of elected officials who have called for more restrictive bail laws following the reforms which eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor and non-violent felonies.

“The criminal justice reform law that took effect in 2020, I think, that is definitely part of the thinking that needs to change,” she said on “The Cats Roundtable,” hosted by John Catsimatidis.

“We can keep most of the important elements of the reform, but there are absolutely some things that need to be adjusted.”

Sewell also appeared to decry the decriminalization of quality-of-life crimes, such as turnstile jumping, marijuana usage and boozing in public.

“There are entire categories of serious crimes that we can no longer make an arrest for. We can only issue a summons,” Sewell said on WABC 770.
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And I thought in this country you are innocent until proven guilty:confused:
 
Manhattan DA Bragg didn’t request warrant for man who later used gun in slaying: union boss

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office failed to request a warrant to confiscate a gun used in an armed robbery by a serial offender — who then fatally shot a man with that same weapon exactly a month later, a union boss alleged.

Tyrell Rodgers, 29, allegedly pointed the silver revolver at his estranged girlfriend and stole her cell phone while threatening to kill her on Feb. 8, court records show. He thenallegedly killed a man with that revolver on March 8 — after Bragg’s office failed to issue a warrant that detectives on the robbery case requested.

“Why didn’t DA Bragg’s office act?” Detectives’ Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo asked. “Why did another New Yorker have to die?”
 
How One Progressive Prosecutor Paved the Way for an East Coast Shooting Spree

A gunman suspected of killing two homeless men and wounding others in two East Coast cities in March would have been in prison at the time of the shootings if not for the work of one progressive Virginia prosecutor.

The office of Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney Steve Descano (D.) in December 2020 charged the shooter, Gerald Brevard III, with three felonies related to his attempt to abduct a hotel housekeeper and later break into a nearby apartment. The felonies—abduction with attempt to defile, burglary, and possession of burglarious tools—together would carry a minimum of 26 years in prison and up to a life sentence.

But six months later in June 2021 Brevard was a free man. Descano's office reduced the first two felonies to misdemeanors, and dropped the third entirely, the case file shows, allowing him to leave prison after just five months. Less than a year later in March, Brevard opened fire on the first victim of his shooting spree. In the course of the nine-day spree, he is alleged to have killed two homeless men and wounded three others in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Descano was among a coterie of left-wing prosecutors—along with Loudoun County's Buta Biberaj and Arlington County's Parisa Dehghani-Tafti—swept into office in 2019 by six-figure donations from George Soros. The Democratic megadonor's Justice and Public Safety PAC donated more than half-a-million dollars to Descano's campaign, helping him oust a 35-year veteran prosecutor in the Democratic primary before capturing office in deep-blue Fairfax County.
 
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