New York's recent criminal justice reform has a "major flaw" in not permitting violators of breaking and entering from being held and this has handcuffed the police in protecting the city against looting in recent weeks, former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton lamented.
"Under the bail reform laws, criminal justice reform laws that the legislature passed in this state, effectively you cannot hold those people," Bratton told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "They have to be let go – and as [current NYPD] Commissioner [Dermot] Shea has said, they are out of jail before the officers processing them can finish the paper work: A major flaw in the flawed Criminal Justice Reform Act."
Also, Bratton noted to host John Catsimatidis, lawmakers are putting in laws they do not want police to enforce, like curfews, amid the George Floyd riots.
"The district attorney in Manhattan has indicated that he will not prosecute the people who were arrested for curfew violations as that as the only charge," Bratton said. "That is has been a part of the problem with criminal justice reform. We have laws on the books the police are expected to enforce, or turn a blind eye to.
"Well, if you want the police to turn a blind eye to them, then get rid of the law. Don't set them up for failure."
Eric Mack ✉
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