All news on the topic: Criminal Justice Reforms

The Big Apple's shoplifting epidemic is costing retail workers their jobs, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday.

Good news: In his first year, Mayor Eric Adams’ NYPD has managed to start bringing homicides down. Transit crime has been falling, too. Bad news: On basically every other front, crime is winning.

Juan Velez just got busted for another alleged act of vandalism: Brutally hurling a rock against a Lutheran church in Queens.

Kudos to Governor Kathy Hochul for taking at least one meaningful step to address the state's disastrous bail reforms. However, there's still a lot more work to be done to curb New York's rampant crime

Progressives in Albany pretend the truth on crime is hard to determine; their denial would be laughable if it didn't empower so much needless suffering.

Mayor Eric Adams was correct to emphasize several critical areas — "employment, security, housing, and care" — during the State of the City speech on Thursday

Mayor Eric Adams gave Gov. Kathy Hochul 14 separate shout-outs during his "State of the City" address — which laid out an agenda to improve the quality of life for the city's "working people."

Two cheers for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s sudden discovery of surging crime — though that could drop to one cheer, or none, if she lets the Legislature steamroll her again.

As the far-left Working Families Party works to oppose Mayor Eric Adams' plans ahead of June's City Council primaries, all reasonable New Yorkers have a responsibility to support him

Teen violence keeps escalating, but Governor Kathy Hochul remains unresponsive regarding one of its significant contributors: the 2017 Raise the Age legislation

Progressives in Albany are ignoring the message from Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders at the Anti-Crime Summit last week.

A report by Manhattan Institute researcher Hannah Meyers cites an alarming citywide spike in criminal cases that wind up getting dismissed.

Lawmakers expressed outrage over the shoplifting crisis that's killing local businesses — including by calling for the return of 1990s-style law enforcement.

"Teflon Con" Charles Wold has avoided imprisonment even after over 30 burglary arrests on his criminal record. This time, Brooklyn prosecutors managed to make the charges hold

Last year proved to be another very deadly one for America’s law enforcement officers, with more than one murdered on average every single week.

Just 327 unrepentant crooks accounted for 30% of the Big Apple's 22,000 shoplifting arrests last year, the NYPD said Thursday.

Steve Fanady has been in custody at Cook County Jail in Chicago since June, with a $10 million bond due to indirect civil contempt related to a divorce case from 14 years ago. According to his family, Fanady, who uses a wheelchair, has faced mistreatment during his time there

The billionaire Pritzker family of Chicago are a secretive dynasty who are now key backers of bail reform and the transgender movement.

With lawmakers still refusing to let judges consider a defendant’s "dangerousness" when deciding bail, Mayor Eric Adams is focusing on keeping repeat offenders off the streets. That’s smart, particularly with thieves — many of them career criminals — terrorizing city shops.

A new city analysis shows that a huge chunk of high-income earners fled in 2020. Yet progressives refuse to hear the alarm bell: They’re pushing to “tax the rich” yet again instead.

In a new example of concealed bias, Friday's front page of the New York Times featured, "Democrats Blame Adams for State Defeats."

Cashless bail isn’t the only Albany “reform” fueling New York crime and criminal-justice chaos; so, too, are the tougher new requirements for prosecutors.

It seems you can be found with 20,000 fentanyl pills and still go free, due to New York's requirement for judges to enforce the "least onerous" pre-trial conditions for the accused. Will the state's leaders ever choose to address this issue?

Congratulations, Gov. Kathy Hochul: You claimed victory over Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin on Tuesday, becoming the first woman ever elected governor of New York.

Governor Kathy Hochul expressed frustration about being questioned by the press on Monday as she geared up to conclude her surprisingly tight contest against Republican opponent Lee Zeldin