Who Does Bail Reform Help?

Democrats always support policies that Sound Good. Unless you think about them. From The Other McCain: Paying Attention NOW, Democrats?

A guy was arrested for attacking Representative Lee Zeldin, a New York Republican running for governor of that state. His attacker was released immediately because of New York's "no cash bail" law.

When Democrats embraced “criminal justice reform,” the consequences were predictable, especially to anyone who remembers the 1970s, an era of lawlessness that inspired movies like Dirty Harry and Death Wish. The basic idea behind New York’s misguided 2019 “bail reform” law was that it was racist to keep suspects locked up before trial unless they could find someone to post their bail. Why was it racist? “Disparate impact” — i.e., because more black and Hispanic suspects than whites were kept in jail. This is an interesting theory, but the Democrats who insisted on changing the law, to release most suspects without requiring cash bail, apparently didn’t stop to consider all the possible ramifications of this so-called “reform.” There has been a dramatic increase in violent crime which has been particularly harmful to blacks and Hispanics, there very people on whose behalf the “reform” was promoted.

Robert Stacy McCain thinks that Zeldin will win in New York. I don't believe that the people of NYC are that smart. They are "Progressive" and will never vote for a tough-on-crime Republican. Well, not for a few more years anyway.

But without a doubt, increases in crime hurt the people who are more likely to be victims of crime. But "tough on crime" doesn't sound good. Or something.

If there is a silver lining to this story, the would-be bad-guy was arrested by the FBI and is being held on federal charges. He did attack a candidate in the middle of a campaign.