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:
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.
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