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Arrow The Effects Of New York’s Bungled Criminal Justice Reforms Are Already Hitting Home

The Effects Of New York’s Bungled Criminal Justice Reforms Are Already Hitting Home
By: Jazz Shaw - HotAir News - 01-28-20
Re: https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-sha...-hitting-home/

The “year of the perp” (as it’s being called by the NYPD) is well underway in New York City and around the rest of the state. Under the newly enacted bail reform laws, criminals are being shuffled into jails and courtrooms and then back out onto the streets so quickly that the cops are getting dizzy just watching them. This new way of doing things has resulted in anger and frustration among many of the more law-abiding residents of the state, but thus far no solutions are being offered. The other criminal justice reform measures, including turning all evidence over to defense lawyers within fifteen days of an indictment, is also complicating matters. And as the NY Post reports, dealing with this new state of affairs is beginning to cost the taxpayers money. A lot of money.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t the barrier to fixing last year’s botched criminal justice reforms — but he’s still showing no sign he’ll lead the way.

Notably, the gov’s budget admits one point that he and the Legislature’s Democratic leaders have denied for months: The “reforms” mean crime labs and district attorney’s offices need a ton of cash.

The new law requires prosecutors to turn over all evidence to the defense within 15 days of arraignment or indictment. That’s a huge burden: Until now, it’s often taken months for labs to process crime-scene evidence, and it often wasn’t even necessary, because the defense cut a plea deal first. Most cases never even go to trial, after all.

Whether it’s overtime for the police officers and detectives or premium costs for laboratories to rush back evidence analysis from crime scenes, the bills are adding up fast. And much of this is pointless, anyway. As the report notes, the majority of criminal cases never even go to trial. If the prosecution’s case looks strong enough, a plea deal is usually put on the table and we avoid the need for a trial. Then the evidence all disappears into a locker. But now, under the new law, they have to pay to process pretty much everything.

The overtime question also covers security for witnesses and victims. In the past, anyone thinking of offering testimony could remain relatively anonymous, particularly if a plea deal eliminated the need for a trial. But now the names of both the victim(s) and potential witnesses have to be turned over to the defense rapidly. And particularly in cases involving gang violence, “snitches” aren’t very popular and can wind up in trouble, so officers have to be assigned to protect them.

All of this comes on top of the string of serial burglars and habitual bank robbers cycling through the revolving door of the justice system and hitting one target after another. People are getting increasingly fed up and venting their anger in public meetings.

And yet, at least so far, the Governor hasn’t offered any possible remedy except to consider making an exception for perpetrators of hate crimes, particularly those committed against Jews. That’s great for our friends in the Jewish community, but doesn’t do much for everyone else putting up with all of the mayhem.

When will the Governor and the Mayor of Gotham finally come out and admit that they completely dropped the ball on this? And if they refuse to do anything about it, will New York’s voters keep sending this same collection of clown car occupants back to office again next November? Insanity is famously described as doing the same thing over and over again while somehow expecting different results. The Democratic stranglehold on New York City and the state government has brought us to this sorry state of affairs. Don’t expect them to bail you out if you keep rewarding them with more electoral victories.

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Wilson and Herrnstein (1985) put forward a biosocial theory of criminal behaviour. They argue crime is caused by a number of biological and social factors. ... Herrnstein and Murray (1994) argue the main cause of crime is low intelligence, which they also see as biologically determined.
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What is the most common white collar crime?
White collar crimes also include identity theft, mortgage broker fraud, bribery, embezzlement and tax evasion. These crimes are some of the most common types of white collar crimes.
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In criminology, a political crime is an act or omission prejudicial to the interests of the state or government like espionage, sedition and treason. Political crimes generally arise from political disturbances. It includes offenses arising from attack on the political order.
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Political corruption means the abuse of political power by the government leaders to extract and accumulate for private enrichment, and to use politically corrupt means to maintain their hold on power. However, abuse of political power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is not considered political corruption. Political corruption takes place at the highest levels of the political system, and hence it can be differentiated from administrative or bureaucratic corruption. It can also be distinguished from business and private sector corruption.

Political corruption can be of two forms. The first one is which includes both accumulation and extraction and where government officials use and abuse their hold on power to extract from the private sector, from government revenues, and from the economy at large. Some of the examples of the above mentioned form of corruption are extraction, embezzlement, rent-seeking, plunder and even kleptocracy ("rule by thieves").

The second form of political corruption is one in which extracted resources (and public money) are used for power preservation and power extension purposes. This usually takes the form of favouritism and patronage politics. It includes a favouritist and politically motivated distribution of financial and material inducements, benefits, advantages, and spoils.
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The political corruption data on crime is huge and most common place until caught. It is the most deviate type of crime as it affects the entire countries principles and to the world order.

The last description sorta nails it - and this type of crime will continue should one think they could beat the system. Once caught of course everybody else is to blame for his/her actions.
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