How Is That Free-bail Working Out?

In Chicago they ask for a small payment. New York doesn't even ask for a token amount, they just turn people loose. Freed gang member goes on crime spree after injuring cop: sources

A reputed gang member who was freed without bail despite attempted-murder charges allegedly went on a crime spree that included dragging an NYPD officer with a car Friday — enraging the city’s top cop. [SNIP]

Newson, 32, allegedly ran amok for nearly 12 hours after cops approached him behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz with excessively tinted windows that was blocking traffic near Rockaway Parkway and Willmohr Street in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn at around 3:30 a.m., sources said.

The judge, a rookie who the Bar Association rated poorly, put this guy back on the streets without any bail, because "supervised release" was the best option. For who, exactly?

At least he didn't kill anybody.

First he dragged a cop with a vehicle when they tried to stop him. The officer was treated for his injuries and released.

About 90 minutes later, Newson allegedly broke into a house nearly 15 miles away on Grassmere Terrace in Far Rockaway, where he smashed his way inside by breaking the lock on the door, sources said.

He terrorized the residents of the home a 66-year-old woman and her son, for some time. The woman had been trying to help Newson’s girlfriend and her mother.

He left and stole a Jaguar sedan and headed to Long Island.

He was arrested on Long Island. Maybe the judges in Suffolk County are more realistic.

(See, I can pick on New York as well as Chicago!)

Because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair.