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Like California's bright ideas: "Let's just get more and more taxes for less and less services. We'll just abdicate the public responsibility for protection so we can squander more money on graft. Our voter base are just a bunch of lawless, idiotic third world vagabonds clamoring for free shit. They won't notice. They'll appreciate the 'get out of jail free' cards, and they prefer gangs and warlords rule, anyway."

142nd Arrest and 10 Pending Cases Scammer gets off without Bail under NYS Soft on Crime Act

A serial subway scammer with 142 arrests — and 10 pending cases — was express-tracked to freedom Monday when a Manhattan judge ordered him sprung under the state’s controversial bail-reform law.

Charles Barry — who authorities say has a history of running MetroCard-related cons on tourists and others — was ordered held on $10,000 bail last week, pending a hearing triggered by his most recent bust.

On Monday, Manhattan prosecutor Sarah McAteer sought to have Barry’s bail increased to $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond.

She cited his repeated failure to appear in court when ordered — including on Friday, when his bail hearing was initially scheduled.

“He was across the street. He was at the Manhattan Detention Center and he refused to come here,” McAteer said.
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But Barry’s Legal Aid lawyers argued he hadn’t been slapped with a warrant for failure to appear in court since Feb. 5, following his arrest for allegedly grabbing $20 from the hand of a 73-year-old woman using a wheelchair at the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station.

At the time, he was placed on supervised release under the bail-reform law, which bars judges from setting bail for most defendants charged with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Jay Weiner sided with the defense, but warned Barry, 56, that “you’ve got to appear in court.”

“Yes, I will, your honor. Yes, I will,” Barry answered.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/02/serial-subway-con-man-sprung-after-142nd-arrest-thanks-to-bail-law/

following his arrest for allegedly grabbing $20 from the hand of a 73-year-old woman using a wheelchair at the 34th Street-Herald Square subway station.

At the time, he was placed on supervised release under the bail-reform law, which bars judges from setting bail for most defendants charged with misdemeanors and non-violent felonies.

In what Court is a strong-arm robbery not considered a violent felony?

HeadSet says

In what Court is a strong-arm robbery not considered a violent felony?

It's the law in NYS. Judges have little power and situations in which they can impose bail now.

Democrats are Soft on Crime.

#fuckingmorons

NoCoupForYou says

Democrats are Soft on Crime.

They USED to be soft on crime. Now, they are crime co-conspirators, and not only enable, but prevent citizens from protecting themselves from crime by making self protection against the law. They will come after you if you protect yourself. The ordinary citizen is in the third world dunking booth, and the Dems are handing the scumbags the balls.

Ceffer says

NoCoupForYou says

Democrats are Soft on Crime.

They USED to be soft on crime. Now, they are crime co-conspirators, and not only enable, but prevent citizens from protecting themselves from crime by making self protection against the law. They will come after you if you protect yourself. The ordinary citizen is in the third world dunking booth, and the Dems are handing the scumbags the balls.

Because they are "socially friendly", duh:


“How many citizens who were robbed knew that the police , didn't even bother to look for the criminals, didn't even set a case in motion, so as not to spoil their record of completed cases-why should they sweat to catch a thief if he would be given only six months, and then be given three months off for good behavior? And anyway, it wasn't certain that the bandits would even be tried when caught. After all, prosecutors "lowered the crime rate"-something demanded'of them at every conference-by the curious method of quashing cases, especially if they foresaw that there would be may defendants. Finally, sentences were bound to be reduced, and of course for habitual criminals especially. Watch out there now .. witness in the courtroom! They will all be back soon, and it'll be a knife in the back of anyone who gave testimony! Therefore, if you see someone crawling through a window, or slitting a pocket, or your neighbor's suitcase being ripped open-shut your eyes! Walk by! You didn't see anything!“

...

"And there is always that sanctifying lofty theory for every-thing. It was by no means the least significant of our literary figures who determined that the thieves were our allies in the building of Communism. ... All this flowed from the One-and-Only True Teaching, which explained all the iridescent life of humanity ... in terms of the class struggle and it alone. . And here is how it was worked out. Professional criminals can in no sense be equated with capitalist elements (ie., engineers, students, agronomists, and "nuns"), for the latter are steadfastly hostile to the dictatorship of the proletariat, while the former are only (!) politically unstable! (A professional murderer is only politically unstable!) The lumpenproletarian is not a property owner, and therefore cannot ally himself with the hostile-class elements, but will much more willingly ally himself with the proletariat (you just wait!). That is why in the official terminology of Gulag they are called socially friendly elements."

“The Gulag Archipelago Two (1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation III-IV)” by Aleksandr L Solzhenitsyn