Op-Ed by candidate for State House John Cabello -
As a career law enforcement officer, I’ve had countless difficult conversations with victims and their families. Time and again I’ve promised to do everything in my power to make sure the perpetrator is brought to justice. This obviously comes as little comfort to victims and their families, but at least it’s a glimmer of hope in the midst of otherwise terrible circumstances.
But now it pains me to know I’ll have the same difficult conversations with victims and their families who can’t understand why a hardened criminal was empowered by soft-on-crime politicians. How is that justice?
When the State of New York passed a scaled-down version of the SAFE-T Act, an NBC News article detailed the fallout after one week. In the seven days after New York curtailed cash bail, a woman accused of committing acts of anti-Semitic violence went on to allegedly commit yet another act of anti-Semitic violence. In that same week, according to the report, “[A] serial bank robber, a repeat burglar, a man accused of manslaughter, [and] an alleged hit-and-run drunk driver” were all set free.
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