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Zeldin will not win for several reasons.
a) He is a Republican and New Yorkers are too sophisticated to change.
b) He is a Republican and New Yorkers are too sophisticated to change.
c) He is a Republican and New Yorkers are too sophisticated to change.
CAPICHE?
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NYPost Opinion: New York must end cashless bail before the list of victims grows even longer
By Lee Zeldin
We all watched in horror last week as an SUV plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., killing six people and injuring more than 60.
The driver, Darrell Brooks, has a long and violent history, with charges and convictions for restricting or obstructing an officer, domestic abuse and rape over a 20-year criminal career. Just before the Waukesha massacre, Brooks was arrested after punching the mother of his child and running her over with his car
For that, Brooks was charged with recklessly endangering safety, bail-jumping, battery and disorderly conduct. Despite his lengthy rap sheet and known penchant for violence, he was released from jail on just $1,000 cash bail — a number the Democratic Milwaukee County district attorney has since described as “inappropriately low.”
How could such an obviously dangerous person be allowed back onto the streets? The answer lies with one of many radical policies progressives have adopted in their quest to undermine law enforcement: the elimination of cash bail
Despite fierce backlash from voters, elected officials and law enforcement, states like New York and Illinois have gone full-steam ahead, stripping judges of their power, hindering their ability to use their discretion to best serve victims and keep criminals off the street — with predictable and horrifying consequences.
We’ve learned the hard way that eliminating cash bail and handcuffing judges is a terrible idea to anyone with two brain cells to rub together. It has been almost two years since cashless bail was implemented here in New York state, and the list of those unnecessarily victimized by its criminal benefactors seemingly grows by the day.
Last weekend, a man assaulted a police officer with a stolen car on the RFK Bridge just three weeks after being released without bail following his arrest on third-degree grand larceny and third-degree criminal possession of stolen property charges.
A man facing felony arson charges went on to murder a mother and her daughter not even a week after being released without bail.
Another New York City man bragged to the police that he was going to be released without bail as he was arrested three times in 36 hours, and he was right.
An ex-convict who was convicted of attempting to kill a police officer was recently re-arrested for — you guessed it — attacking another NYPD officer and was freed without bail.
And these cases happened just over the past few weeks.
This problem isn’t a left-vs.-right issue. Since announcing my campaign for governor, I have been traveling throughout the state. Almost everywhere I go, I hear from people from all walks of life, regardless of political leanings, that they want cashless bail repealed.
Across New York, communities large and small are grappling with spikes in violent crime, police-budget cuts and political leaders hostile to law enforcement while taking the side of criminals.
Meanwhile, the city of Rochester is experiencing its deadliest year on record with no end to the bloodshed in sight. It’s beyond frustrating to see our once-quiet neighborhoods turn into war zones while the Democrats in Albany, for the sake of appeasing their far-left Twitter followers, ignore the pleas of everyday New Yorkers affected by the crime waves.
Fixing the violence plaguing our streets and keeping our communities safe starts at the top. Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature need to immediately repeal the fatally flawed cashless-bail law and give judges the power to keep criminals behind bars rather than roaming the streets.
Securing our streets is an issue that matters to each and every one of us, and there is plenty of bipartisan support for reforms that will empower law enforcement to do their jobs safely and effectively.
Our state has been forced to suffer through two long years of these radical, boneheaded policies, and New Yorkers have had enough. They’re tired of the attacks on our legal system, our brave men and women in blue and, most important, our public safety. If Albany doesn’t act, New Yorkers will — at the ballot box.
Republican Lee Zeldin represents New York’s 1st District in the House of Representatives and is running for governor.
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Some ideas are so stupid only a liberal, a progressive Democrat can hold them:
Police officers assist in investigating a shooting in Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 16.
By Jason L. Riley
Murder rose by nearly 30% last year, and Americans have been making it as clear as can be that they want more and better policing. The incoming mayors of Atlanta, New York and Seattle ran campaigns that prioritized public safety. A ballot initiative in Minneapolis that would have dismantled the police department was defeated soundly, and some of the strongest opposition came from low-income black communities. “Black lives need to be valued not just when unjustly taken by the police, but when we are alive and demanding our right to be heard, to breathe, to live in safe neighborhoods and to enjoy the full benefits of our status as American citizens,” explained a civil-rights activist from Minneapolis in a New York Times op-ed.
We are reminded almost weekly of the tragic failure of bail reform and other soft-on-crime initiatives that have frustrated the efforts of police, prosecutors and judges to keep suspects with long criminal records off the streets. The man charged with driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis., last month, killing six, had been released five days earlier on $1,000 bail in another violent felony case. The man charged last week in the fatal shooting of a music producer’s 81-year-old wife in her Beverly Hills, Calif., home is a career criminal who was out on parole. The suspect in the stabbing death of a Columbia University graduate student last week is a convicted felon and gang member who has been arrested 11 times since 2012, according to the New York Post.
Carjackings have become so commonplace in Washington that the local ABC affiliate is now offering viewers tips on how to protect themselves. Chicago and California have effectively decriminalized retail theft by raising the threshold for felony shoplifting. The result has been a rise in smash-and-grab robberies and store closures. There were 11 such incidents in and around Los Angeles between Nov. 18 and 28 alone, resulting in nearly $340,000 worth of stolen goods. Although 14 people were arrested, “all of the suspects taken into custody are now out of custody,” Michel Moore, the city’s police chief, told reporters. His hands are tied by a “zero bail” policy for misdemeanors and low-level felonies that is meant to reduce overcrowding in Los Angeles County jails.
Sadly, the streets aren’t the only places that have become more dangerous of late. The progressive war on law enforcement has also affected school safety. Following the death of George Floyd and subsequent nationwide protests, school districts from Minneapolis to Denver and Portland, Ore., moved to reduce or sever ties with police. In New York, where school safety officers are being phased out, 38 weapons were recovered over a three-day period from a high-school campus in Brooklyn earlier this month. The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s largest after New York, voted in February to pare down the number of school police officers by about 40%. In the aftermath, Larry Sand reports in City Journal, “108 assaults took place between August and October of this year, with 16 students requiring hospitalization. Police sources add that 44 weapons were recovered, including five handguns and 32 knives.”
Teachers who are constantly dealing with disruptive students can’t teach. And students who are worried about getting beat up can’t focus on learning. A disregard for safety exacerbates the racial achievement gap in school just as surely at it hampers upward mobility outside the classroom. If liberals such as Ms. Schaaf have finally realized the foolishness of putting their social-justice activism ahead of basic public safety, bully for them. But it shouldn’t have taken the senseless death of a toddler to change the mayor’s mind.
Thanks to the left’s indulgence of Black Lives Matter activism, cities are having trouble retaining and recruiting cops. Early retirements have increased, and the job has become more dangerous. Attacks on police officers have risen, and the FBI reports that the number of police officers killed in the line of duty between January and September was up by more than 50% over the same period in 2020. By pretending that the police are a bigger threat to society than the criminals, progressive policies are making the country demonstrably less safe than it’s been in decades. Hopefully, more liberals will pay a political price for what they’ve unleashed. Until then, we’ll all be paying.
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I am reposting this because not all my fellow readers look at every memo every day. I don't blame them nor do I expect them to do so.Though it may be their loss everyone has their priorities:
This is a link to one of my favorite regional artists. We own several of his early works and have visited with him in Folsom, La. He passed away last year. Rolland was one of the most accomplished and dearest artists I have come to know along the way. We have a watercolor of his wife, Stella, who he portrayed as a harsh fisherwoman when in fact she is a soft, dear and lovely woman.
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