How Is that Bail Reform Being Received by the People of NYC?

At least one victim of crime is not happy. NYC cabbie savagely beaten on street fumes at ‘horrible system’ and Eric Adams: ‘Tell him die with the shame’

A 60-year-old cab driver was severely beaten. Two of his assailants were let off with a desk appearance ticket, because keeping violent people in jail is unfair.

Taxi driver Afzal Butt, 60 — who suffered chest, neck and face injuries in the shocking Manhattan caught-on-camera beat-down — blasted New York’s lenient bail-reform laws as a “horrible system” after a pair of his alleged assailants were issued a desk-appearance ticket and allowed to walk free.

“If they’re not going to put them behind bars, this is a horrible system,” fumed the cabbie, who emigrated to the US from Pakistan and has been driving a taxi since 2004. “I am hopeless and helpless with this system.”

Of course if Afzal Butt did anything to defend himself, the Manhattan DA's office would throw him in jail in a New York minute.

So given that no real consequences have been handed down, do you expect that behavior will change in any way? I certainly don't see why they should change their ways.

Butt had been pulling over to clean up food that an unrelated crew of scooter drivers tossed into his car when the group accused him of nearly hitting them, he said.

It took him 3 hours to clean the car from that food, when he wasn't able to work, plus the time due to being injured.

It sounds like New York City is quickly descending into chaos.

Civilization was nice while it lasted.

Things like this call to mind Hobbes and his book Leviathan, which is, in part, about what happens to society as a whole when law and order are not enforced by some governmental power. Under those conditions, that Hobbes called a State of War ...

the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

They seem to be the conditions that exist in NYC.