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The leader of a prominent police union in New York City implored Gov. Kathy Hochul to stop “dancing” around the subject of the state’s bail reform law and take the side of law and order.
In the wake of the high-profile fatal shootings of NYPD Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, Hochul spoke during a Gun Violence Strategies Partnership meeting spearheaded by President Biden during his visit to the Big Apple on Thursday. The governor, touting a different law she signed months back addressing ghost guns in New York state, fell short of addressing the controversial issue of cashless bail.
Adams, who’s already seen six officers shot, two of them fatally, as well as two major fires in New York City barely a month since he took office, called on Hochul last week to make changes to bail reform. But at a separate press conference, the governor stood by the “fundamental premise” of the controversial legislation that took effect in January 2020 under her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
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“The governor needs to make a decision. Either go one way or the other. She’s dancing, and she’s not taking a stance on either side. And that’s not right, either,” Paul DiGiacomo, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, told Fox News Digital Thursday. “Take the side of law and order or take the side of no law and order – one or the other. You know, you can’t keep dancing.”
“And I’m going to call her out on that because people are dying at an alarming rate, and she’s the leader, she should be supporting our law enforcement personnel throughout the state,” he added.
Shootings and violent crime infamously surged in New York City in 2020 when the anti-gun plainclothes unit was disbanded under former Mayor Bill de Blasio at the height of the defund-the-police movement. Adams, fulfilling a campaign promise, brought…
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