"This ‘conceptual budget agreement’ announced solo by the governor, relies on false conceptions of public safety, disconnected from the data or the reality of what will help New Yorkers be and feel safe. There are real crimes, real victims, and they deserve real solutions rather that political ones.
"Quality, deeply affordable housing and strong tenant protections, dropped from this budget in favor of rolling back bail reform yet again, help make communities safer. Bolstering our public school system makes young people safer. Increasing wages to a more liveable level and expanding economic opportunity makes neighborhoods safer. Yet instead, this budget agreement focuses on means of sending more Black and Brown people to dysfunctional and deadly Rikers pretrial.
"Thankfully, and despite what you may hear from Fox News, the New York Post and our executives, violent crime is trending downward in New York City after a pandemic-driven spike. But by focusing for the fourth year in a row on bail, the governor knows that if that trend continues, she can claim credit for a false approach to public safety. If it doesn’t? She knows she can always go back for a fifth year."
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