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Andrew Cuomo never heard of the no-bail law; he’s proud of ending an “injustice”; it was the other guy; someone faked his name on it; it never happened in the first place.
The ex-gov is whiplashing himself all over the place on his record of criminal-justice reform as he pretends against all evidence — and sanity — to be the pro-public-safety mayoral candidate.
“We don’t have cashless bail” in New York, Cuomo said (with a straight face!) last week after President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to cut federal funding to areas that embrace the pro-crime “reform.”
Sorry, Andrew: Tell that to 94-year-old Audrey Hawkins. She was trying to catch the E train in June when serial criminal Edwin Wright bashed her in the head — just a few months after his arrest for assaulting a child . . . and rapid release because his charges weren’t “bailable.”
Other times, Cuomo resorts to other lies, insisting for example that the (all-powerful?) state Legislature warped his noble vision: He had wanted “judicial discretion” in there, but lawmakers overrode him.
No-bail passed as part of the state budget, which is assembled in weeks of negotiations and compromise; if the governor (easily the most powerful of the “three men in a room” that cut the final deal) really wanted something, he could get it — albeit at the expense of something else he wanted.
Not to mention that this noble son of Mario and Matilda called for cashless bail long before he signed it into law.
In his 2019 “Justice Agenda” — right after the part where he demanded that we “legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana” — Cuomo thundered, “Let’s end the injustice in our criminal justice system. The first step is to replace the cash bail system. . . . We need to take the cash bail system and end it once and for all.” --->READ MORE HERE
They finally got him — but forgive me if I’m not popping the bubbly.
The monster who randomly sucker-punched me in the gut while I was walking to work two years ago was arrested on Aug. 18 — and given an insulting $1 bail by infamously soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Luckily, he’s behind bars on Rikers Island — because he allegedly tried to sell drugs to an undercover cop just before he was collared. That case was given to Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and bail was set at $200,000.
Kamieo Caines, 36, a violent recidivist with 20 prior arrests who was on parole when he attacked me, wasn’t caught for two years — and when he finally was, the statute of limitations on my assault case had already run out.
Police were only able to charge Caines in my assault because cops were actively seeking him in the drug case – which kept the clock in my case legally ticking, a police source told me.
But Caines was always their top suspect, cops told me. So I, like thousands of NYC crime victims before me, am forced to wonder: What took so damn long?
I took a photo of Caines on Chambers Street and Broadway moments after he slugged me as we passed each other at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2023. He didn’t say a word after hitting me and took off toward the nearby No. 1/2/3 subway line. I gave the photo to detectives.
His parole officer even confirmed his ID to cops after my assault. But I wasn’t able to pick him out in a photo array at the precinct stationhouse.
Cops looked for the ex-con, but their hands were tied because of criminal-friendly bail reform.
No judge would have held him for simple assault — a misdemeanor. Since bail reform laws passed in 2019 the offense hasn’t been bail eligible — and police know that all too well.
Even if officers arrested Caines two years ago, he would have been right back out on the street. The system’s revolving door is one of the things that frustrates police officers and has so many of them racing for the exits.
It’s even more infuriating as a victim. --->READ MORE HERE
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