Albany may finally be exercising some common sense on bail reform
What’s that? A bit of sense emanating from Albany? Be still our hearts! A day after a New York Post poll found that voters in Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s district…
Albany’s budget mess is just one reason why New Yorkers are leaving
The news from Albany is that there isn’t any. This is not a good sign. A too-quiet capital five days before a budget deadline could mean back-room dealers are secretly…
Sam Bankman-Fried can use cell phone without internet under new bail
Disgraced former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried will be allowed to use a cell phone with no internet as well as a laptop computer with limited functionality while he awaits trial…
‘Rapist’ out on streets thanks to NY’s soft-on-crime attitude
New York’s lax approach to crime has claimed yet another victim: a 21-year-old woman raped in her Manhattan apartment over the weekend, allegedly by a career criminal who in any…
New York, lawmakers must stop blaming rise in crime on poverty
Being mayor of New York comes with lots of media attention, but anyone who has held the job can tell you that the real power is in Albany, the state…
Al Sharpton helped create the crime crisis he claims he’s trying to solve
There’s a strange phenomenon in which about 100 arson arrests a year are of firefighters, creating the circumstance where they can receive adulation for extinguishing the chaos they manufactured. While…
NYC grocers demand clampdown on shoplifters as violent heists escalate
Thousands of independent grocers across New York City are forming a fast-growing political coalition to demand that elected officials and law enforcement clamp down on shoplifters, claiming that increasingly brazen…
Hope jailing serial NYC shoplifter is new start DA Bragg
Hey, look, everybody. Alvin Bragg is doing his job! Maybe Mr. District Attorney isn’t beyond embarrassment after all. Well, sort of doing his job. After Bragg’s office finally requested bail…
Ill-conceived bail reform laws have plunged New York into a state of chaos
This past August, I decided to leave my position as the administrative judge of Queens Supreme Court Criminal Term. This was a difficult decision, as I loved my job and…
Hochul was right to veto nonsense fentanyl bill — but real answers seem painfully far off
Gov. Kathy Hochul has finally made a correct public-safety call, vetoing a useless measure meant to stem the tide of fentanyl killing New Yorkers by . . . assembling a…