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Commentary By Hannah E. Meyers

Why New York’s ‘Discovery’ Laws Are Ready for a Redo

Governance, Cities, Public Safety New York, New York City, Crime Control

A generation ago, New York Democrats and Republicans essentially agreed that police were good, laws necessary, and criminal disorder unacceptable.

Since then, however, the Empire State’s Democratic Party has been overtaken by ideologues who believe — despite all evidence — that criminal justice is systemically racist, all incarceration is misguided, and that investing endlessly in social services will rehabilitate all criminals. 

In Albany, these dominant “progressives” have passed numerous laws based on the backward idea that chipping away at the robustness, flexibility, and efficiency of the criminal justice system will somehow make us safer. 

But as the country tilts right, New Yorkers are getting fed up with the results of “reforms” that intentionally shifted the balance of power toward criminals and away from law and order.

Citizens are demanding more secure subways and fewer violently deranged men returned to public streets. And they are starting to connect New York’s abandonment of prosecuting low-level crimes with the city’s growing sense of danger.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.

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