Mayor Eric Adams releases statistics he hopes will bolster need for change to bail reform laws

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Mayor Eric Adams releases statistics he hopes will bolster need for change to bail reform laws
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Mayor Eric Adams is once again pushing for the state to change its bail laws, but AliBaumanTV reports bail reform advocates claim the mayor's proposal would endanger more people.

and Albany lawmakers to change the state's revolving-door justice system. He says he's not trying to change what he called the"righteous reforms" enacted by Albany. He just wants judges to be able to consider the dangerousness of a small group of criminals who do most of the crimes.

"In New York City, we've identified 716 individuals, 716 individuals, who are responsible for approximately 30 percent of the shooting incidents since 2021,"To further press the case of the so-called violence of the few, the NYPD released a list of the 10"worst of the worst." The person at the top of the list has 101 career arrests -- 88 since bail reform was enacted -- and 15 convictions, including three felonies and two violent felonies.

"Her belief that the judges have the tools that they need, yes, they have tools that they need. They're not using them," Adams said. "Ideas about who is dangerous and who is not, all of those things have led to the decimation of communities of color," Reid told CBS2's Ali Bauman."I was in there for a crime that I never committed and sat there on a $100,000 bail for over three years for them to say you know what? Not guilty, go home," a formerly incarcerated advocate said.

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