By: Don Driggers
New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently held a “mayoral summit on criminal justice”, a series of meetings with New York City District Attorneys, meant to address crime and bail reform.
“We’re having an issue around the infrastructure of our criminal-justice system,” Adams told members of the press during a recent conference call, referring to the discussions between his office and district attorneys, law enforcement agencies, judges and advocates over the weekend. “This antiquated infrastructure is impacting on the ability of New Yorkers seeking justice on both ends of the spectrum.”
One major resource the mayor hopes will reduce the cycle of incarceration are so-called Care Vans. Officials also hope to introduce what they called “care vans” to greet defendants as they come out of their first court appearances and offer them mental-health resources, Chief Counsel to the Mayor and City Hall Brendan McGuire said.
“We’re obviously just coming out of this, and so we’re still formulating the list of urgent action items,” McGuire told reporters.
David Meyer of The New York Post writes City Hall held the summit just two days after the mayor blamed the news media for fueling a “narrative” that New York City and its massive subway system are unsafe. Violent crime was up 39% in August citywide compared to 2019, according to NYPD.
On Sunday, Adams downplayed the role of bail reform in the city’s crisis of crime and recidivism, echoing comments from earlier in the weekend that there are “many rivers in the sea of violence.
“Any time we engage in this conversation around the criminal justice system, people highlight one term, and that is ‘bail reform,’ the mayor said to The New York Post.
A straphanger randomly shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks was left traumatized to the point of being suicidal, his mom said Sunday — while blasting Mayor Eric Adams’ latest plan to try to curb soaring transit crime.
Audrey Martin, whose son David Martin, a 32-year-old Upper East Side waiter, suffered a broken collarbone and painful bruises in the Friday afternoon attack on an L train platform, railed to The Post, “Mayor Adams is completely not in touch with what’s going on”.
As crime rates are still at alarmingly high rates, attacks on the subway are happening seemingly more often than ever. A straphanger randomly shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks was left traumatized to the point of being suicidal, his mom said Sunday — while blasting Mayor Eric Adams’ latest plan to try to curb soaring transit crime.
Audrey Martin, whose son David Martin, a 32-year-old Upper East Side waiter, suffered a broken collarbone and painful bruises in the Friday afternoon attack on an L train platform, railed to The Post, “Mayor Adams is completely not in touch with what’s going on.
“The Democrat party in general has a “crime problem”, as far left, extremist policies have become dominant. Ideas of “equity” “white privilege” and other extremist policies and theories have taken over the thought process of AG’s, Democrat City Council members, mayors etc. Adams is not the worst as far as deranged, wokeness, but he goes by one of the key Democrat planks, never mention crime, mention only gun violence, even though much of the crime in NYC, are not gun crimes”, a GOP activist told TJV.
