In New York, dangerous teenage criminals will be set free before trial without bail

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hopes to "more than tripled" to increase the number of adolescents who will be released from city prisons before trial without bail, even if they were detained on serious charges such as armed robbery, assault and burglary.

New mayoralty guidelines for the Office of Criminal Justice will also "significantly" increase the number of adults who are eligible for release without bail, but will remain under control, according to a note that was sent to city judges this month.

Policy changes will take effect on Saturday, June 1. They will allow defendants between the ages of 16 to 19 to participate in the Youth Engagement Track program, which will allow the release of criminals to trial without bail.

First of all, it concerns “high-risk” adolescents accused of committing offenses or non-violent criminal offenses. But the list will be expanded to include first and second degree robbery, assault and burglary.

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These crimes are usually associated with the use of lethal weapons or the infliction of bodily harm to the victim.

“Based on 2017 bail data for the ages and charges listed, these changes should more than triple the number of defendants eligible for de Blasio's program,” wrote Miriam Popper, executive director of initiatives at the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice.

The new policy also raises the threshold at which defendants are assigned a “high risk” re-arrest.

Popper did not elaborate on how many accused criminals are likely to be released after the introduction of the new guidelines, but it is assumed that the innovation will allow "a much larger number of eligible accused" to receive a controlled release.

Adolescents participating in the program “are under intensive observation in the first month,” and must also receive psychological counseling, known as cognitive behavioral therapy.

For adults, the program “selects requirements for individual participants,” according to the Criminal Justice Administration website.

The expansion of the city’s controlled liberation program is part of de Blasio’s controversial plan to close the prison complex on Rikers Island.

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“In our city, we have already reduced the prison population by 30 percent. We are ending the era of mass incarceration in New York,” he told CNN's "State of the Union."

Although the decision to participate in the program will be left to the judges, many fear that they will have to accept the new, more lenient de Blasio standards, or they risk losing their jobs.

“There is enormous political pressure in this city, and it comes from the government of New York, from emboldened advocates,” said one court official. “The judges feel the pressure.”

A senior New York police official accused the de Blazio administration of adopting a new policy without thinking about the consequences, because "they do not live in neighborhoods where they rob and attack people."

“Without bail, criminals will think: 'I'm in and I'm out. Nothing will happen. So what’s the problem?” the official said. “People who have never been victims of crime don’t really think about the consequences of such a decision.”

This step is part of the criminal justice reform package that Governor Andrew Cuomo put forward as part of the April budget deal.

ForumDaily recalls crimes in New York that were reported this month:

• 25 May resident of Brooklyn killed his mother and seriously injured his father during a quarrel over his shoes.
• 21 May father left their small children in an unlocked car, and he went for a massage.
• 20 May is a crazy man tried to grab An 3-year-old girl who was driving a children's car on a street in Queens, New York, then he broke into the nearest house and stabbed a woman.
• 15 May offender opened fire on the crowded basketball court in the Bronx.
• 10 May teens in Brooklyn male cut up head, the wounds were deep - to the bones of the skull. Then the attackers robbed him and went to nearby McDonald's. There they ate $ 200 and paid off the victim’s credit card.
• 4 May on Williamsburg Street unknown attacked on the Jew, wounding him in the back of the head. The incident hit the video and became the second hate crime in the area.
• 10 teens who came May 4 party in a residential complex in New York, ended up in hospitals due to the fact that someone threw a caustic substance on top of them.
• On May 2, three-year-old Emoor Shavkator, the son of immigrants from Uzbekistan, was shot down to death at a pedestrian crossing van for transporting sweets. The child accidentally rolled onto the road on a scooter. The tragedy occurred in Brooklyn, in front of the boy's 25-year-old mother.

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