By Carol Tannenhauser
Ask your bail reform questions of the ones who helped shape the law, and find out how redistricting will affect the Upper West Side, at a forum this Tuesday, presented by the UWS Coalition of Block Associations & Community Groups, featuring:
State Senators Brad Hoylman and Robert Jackson
State Assembly Members Danny O’Donnell and Linda Rosenthal
In addition, an expert on Manhattan’s new district lines will explain how they impact UWS representation in State government.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 / 6:30-7:30 PM
If you have any questions for the forum, please submit them to upperwestsidecoalition@gmail.com
Click here to watch the YouTube live stream (advance registration not required)
Bail reform can only be revised or reversed from Albany. This is only people talking to themselves / the wall. As much as I blame DeBlasio for the downward spiral of NYC, the tsunami of crime came after Cuomo passed bail reform two years ago.
Wait, these four electeds in attendance are precisely our reps in Albany (sadly), proud parents of bail reform along Astoria’s Senator Gianaris (lead sponsor of the bill). They are precisely the crowd who should answer our questions – and hopefully fix the mess they created.
1)They won’t directly answer your questions (politician double-talk) 2)They won’t fix it. At all.
The anti-police rhetoric has consequences.
This bail reform needs reform!
Agree!
Hi WSR, there’s a problem with the link to submit questions. It opens an empty WSR page instead of opening an email draft with their address. You may wanna clarify that emails with questions should be submitted to upperwestsidecoalition@gmail.com
Thank you, we clarified. Address is indeed upperwestsidecoalition@gmail.com
The police have been blaming crime on bail reform since the day it went into effect, hardly credible. Moreover, they just make statements; they don’t release data to the public. I heard Alvin Bragg at a public forum say that he has seen the numbers, and the argument that the crime increase is caused by bail reform is false. The police always blame everything but ineffective policing for crime. Why does the public keep buying into false narratives?
Bail reform opponents are fond of citing percentage increases for various crime stats as well as “policy making by anecdote”. We need the context of the actual numbers — historically low crime in the 20th and 24th — a handful of incidents create huge percentage increases. Unquestionably we have a crisis of homelessness/untreated unsupervised severe mental illness. Society’s failure to devote adequate resources to dealing with those problems (which economic/real estate development education system/health care system failures have caused) has nothing to do with bail reform. Tabloids, NYPD, and the financial and real estate elite are blaming bail reform. It’s all too convenient. Look in the mirror. This is the city that you “built”. Don’t blame it on bail reform — blame on our housing and health care policies.