Op-Ed: New York's bail reform disaster could become election issue: A story that’s beginning to boil over in New York is about to become a major issue in the 2020 election.
That is, unless the Democrats can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
That issue is the controversial bail reform law pushed through the New York State legislature by Governor Andrew Cuomo late last year. The law eliminates cash bail on the argument that cash bail discriminates against poorer defendants.
But critics of the law have been warning for months that eliminating bail was sure to put too many criminals with violent tendencies back on streets, even if they weren’t currently under arrest for very violent crimes.
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