Bail 'Reform' Had Exactly the Impact You'd Expect on Crime

In a recurring theme in the debate over New York’s criminal-justice reforms of recent years, the outfit Data Collaborative for Justice offers a new study meant to show the no-bail laws worked — when its numbers indicate the exact opposite:

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Among the most worrisome criminals, they boosted crime. To alarming rates.

As former Queens prosecutor Jim Quinn explains in The Post, the study — which focused on parts of the state outside the city — openly admits that two out three defendants freed under bail reform despite recent prior arrests got picked up for new crimes within just two years. ...

And get this: Nearly half (49.3%) were hauled in for new felonies — a quarter (26.2%), violent ones.

Ed Morrissey

People respond to incentives. If we remove the disincentives for committing crimes, we get a lot more crime. When we increase those disincentives, at some point people either refrain from committing crime or we keep them in prison so that they can't violate the rights and property of law-abiding citizens. Progressives are the only cohort of the population that can't grasp that lesson from millennia of human behavior. 

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