A former senior NYPD official said Sunday that state legislators had dropped an "atomic bomb" on the criminal justice system on bail in 2019, threatening to "break us." It set us back 10 years,” said the Reform Act.
Former Deputy Director of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism John Miller denounced the state's bail reform measures as "all ideology beyond common sense" and said the law was "a defender of those who committed crimes." said to have been promoted by
Miller, who retired from the NYPD a few weeks ago, said on radio's "Cats Roundtable" that 2018 and he said 2019 had the lowest levels of violent crime. . Passed in Albany.
"Then crime started to rise. Really he was 10 years behind when it came to shootings and murders, which is a shame," he said at the host of AM 770. One he told John Catsimatidis. "It's like getting a cure for a disease and then having the hospital take away the vaccine."
Miller said the state legislator "was on the shelf, We literally took all the proposals that couldn't be passed because people with common sense wouldn't let it happen, and we blew the dust off them and let them pass." all of them at once.
Critics of bail reform, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have denounced laws that allow repeat offenders to return to the streets and do not imprison those accused of violent crimes before trial.
Governor Kathy Hochul has suggested that judges are responsible for the ongoing surge in violence.
"[Legislators] rolled [the reforms] into one budget bill and sneaked it out in the middle of the night. We've been struggling with it ever since," Miller said. "I don't think anyone bothered to read it. I think it was an ideology that transcended common sense.
It's a complex ecosystem that is capable of , and I think there's a meaningful transformation going on there," he said. ``But you can't drop them all at once like an atomic bomb on a system that's complicated and you don't expect chaos. cops don't like it, and citizens don't like it, so that leaves one universe that thinks it's great, the advocates, they commit crimes and get caught in the system I'm an advocate for the people," he said. "And where are everyone else's defenders?"
