New York State Senator- "Bail reform failure keeps all of NY in danger"


Bail reform failure keeps all of NY in danger

by New York State Senator Tom O'Mara

October 24, 2024

It was just over a year ago, shortly after the enactment of a state budget that paid Albany Democrat lip service to the need to end New Y rk’s failed and dangerous bail reform experiment, when Gov. Kathy Hochul declared, “We are done with bail. We accomplished what we needed to do.”

Since then, it sure has looked like the governor meant what she said. She and the Legislature’s Democrat majorities have done nothing to fix a continually failing and exceedingly dangerous law that they put in place and that has turned the criminal justice system in this state upside down. 

The latest exhibit of their failure comes out of Western New York in Allegany County, where I represent a portion of the eastern half of the county. Recently, following a year-long investigation and surveillance operation of an illegal drug operation in a former factory in the small town of Cuba, local and state law enforcement executed a drug bust valued at more than $4 million. 

According to a former member of the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force, who was involved, it stands as the largest drug bust ever in Allegany County and one of the top three in Southern Tier history.

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Under Albany Democrat bail reform, the perpetrators could not be kept behind bars. Once again we’ re reminded that an outrageous and dangerous public policy currently defines criminal justice in New York state.

Law enforcement in Allegany County did not hide their frustration at the current system . . .

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