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Meanwhile the mayor, also a Democrat, has repeatedly pushed for changes to the bail reforms, claiming they have helped lead to a small number of people committing a disproportionately large portion of crimes. “It is my firm belief that every single New Yorker deserves to feel safe and to be safe in their communities — whether it's the local bodega owner worried about shoplifters, the mother who worries about her kids walking home from school, a young woman traveling late at night on the subway or a community that overall just feels under siege from the day after day specter of gun violence,” Hochul said at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood.
A smattering of Democrats in the Legislature voted against the bail-law changes, including Brooklyn Assemblymember Latrice Walker, who helped lead the push to reform the bail process in 2019.Public defenders also opposed the changes, issuing a joint statement Wednesday calling them “unconscionable.”
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