Thanks to “bail reform,” criminals in New York State are released over and over again after committing certain violent crimes, enabling them to commit more acts of violence. Like most examples of “criminal justice reform,” it makes the public less safe, to benefit criminals. Even before “bail reform,” New York state judges couldn’t consider the defendant’s dangerousness, only whether the defendant was likely to show up for trial rather than fleeing, in setting bail. Bail reform makes things even worse, letting some dangerous offenders out without even posting bail. Letting people out without bail is generally a bad idea, and mostly benefits repeat offenders, according to an economics professor, who notes that “the average person held on bail has multiple previous arrests and failures to appear.”
So criminals in New York are attacking women knowing they will swiftly be released from jail, even if they are caught.
“A Brooklyn school bus aide was sucker-punched by a serial attacker with multiple busts – knocking out her teeth and leaving her with a broken jaw that had to be wired shut,” reports the New York Post. Dulche Pichardo, 57, was coming “home from work at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a stranger took a swing at her…’He just punched me on the right side here, very strong,’ Pichardo told PIX11, adding that the brute never said a word.” Surveillance video shows her stumbling backward after the blow.
“I was surprised. I said, ‘What’s going on? Why did you hit me? Why did you do it?’ I didn’t do anything. No reason to hit me,” she said.
Pichardo lost three teeth and had her jaw broken — it has been wired shut. She also sufferered nerve damage from the injury, and additional facial fractures.
Her brother, who owns a nearby restaurant, chased down the attacker, 33-year-old Franz Jeudy.
Jeudy was charged only with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor — a violent offense deemed so minor that New York law doesn’t even require bail to be put up for an inmate to be released. He was released despite two previous arrests for assaults, such as an attack on a police officer in 2018, and another assault in 2019.
Jeudy is not the only victim of a random, unprovoked assault in New York City. Also on March 26, a man punched a woman in the head around 1 p.m in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan. The offender appears to have been in his 30s with a dark complexion, about 5-foot-10, and about 180 pounds.
These are just two of many recent examples of women being randomly punched by strangers while walking in New York City in daytime.
Halley Kate, an influencer with 1.1 million followers on TikTok, was randomly assaulted in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and blacked out as a result.
“You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face,” Kate said in a tearful video.
On March 27, police caught the assailant, Skiroky Story, a 40-year-old repeat offender with a long criminal record.
“Detectives were able to identify the man after he was previously arrested for similar attacks, only to be released back onto our streets. This incident will be his third arrest in the past six months,” noted the police department.
Another woman, Mikayla Toninato, was also attacked.
“I just got punched in the face, walking home,” she noted. “I was literally like leaving class, I turned the corner and I was looking down and I was looking at my phone, and like texting, and then, out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face.”
That attack occurred near the intersection of West 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
A video clip shows yet another assault on March 17, on a woman named Oliva Brand on Mulberry Street in New York’s Nolita neighborhood.
New York legislators have pushed through soft-on-crime laws, such as “bail reform,” in the name of fighting what they call “mass incarceration.” The word “mass incarceration” is misleading, as is explained in detail at this link. Progressive legislation to reduce incarceration by releasing inmates early is dangerous, because most inmates commit more crimes after being released, even when they are over age 40, and even when they have already served over ten years in prison. Most state prison inmates are incarcerated for violent crimes.
Shrinking prison populations by releasing inmates increases the crime rate. Even inmates who are no longer young tend to commit more crimes after being released. Nationally, 81.9% of all state prisoners released in 2008 were subsequently arrested within a decade, including 74.5% of those 40 or older at the time of their release. (See Bureau of Justice Statistics, Recidivism of Prisoners in 24 States Released in 2008: A 10-Year Follow-Up Period (2008-2018), pg. 4, Table 4).
The typical released state prison inmate has five prior convictions, according to Rafael Mangual, a criminal-justice expert at the Manhattan Institute.
Left-wingers falsely claim America has the world’s highest incarceration rate. It doesn’t. El Salvador’s incarceration rate is triple America’s incarceration rate, and its murder rate fell by over 90% after it increased its incarceration rate, saving thousands of lives.
