Hochul's hilarious Council on Community Justice shows she's nothing but Gov. Gaslight

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/hochuls-hilarious-council-on-community-
justice-shows-shes-nothing-but-gov-gaslight/

Here’s an ironic coincidence.

Just about the same time a random maniac was beating people with a board
at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared
it to be Pretrial Probation and Parole Supervision Week in the Empire
State.

Good move, Kat!

Because everybody knows that there can never be enough pretrial probation
and parole.

Especially when random maniacs are beating people with boards everywhere
from Buffalo to the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

But wait — there’s more.

Hochul also dipped into her sack full of non-solutions and pulled out a
task force — the go-to deflector shield for clueless public-policymakers
everywhere.

So your streets are filling up with bullet-punctured teenaged gangbangers;
your straphangers are battered and bloody; your shop shelves regularly are
stripped bare by thieves; your parks are full of overdosing junkies and
there’s a tourist-stalking, knife-wielding lunatic wandering loose in
Times Square?

Not to worry: Gov. Gaslight’s spanking new State Council on Community
Justice will soon be studying the problem.

Its mission? “To further improve effectiveness and fairness of the state’s
criminal justice system.”

Now the last time Albany tackled “fairness” in the criminal-justice
system, it was 2018, and the result was a statewide explosion in violent
crime that persists to this day.

One mark of this can be found on curbsides all across the state — those
sad little arrays of rain-spattered teddy bears and guttered-out votive
candles memorializing murdered teenagers.

These also speak directly to what happens when the English language is
turned inside out to support dogma-driven policy.

Really, no one is against criminal-justice “fairness” in the commonsense
meaning of the term: equal application of the penal law for accused
criminals on behalf of crime victims themselves.

But what happens when “fairness” is redefined to exclude victims from
consideration — and then to judge outcomes based primarily on racial
identity and ethnic-group membership?

Well, street-corner murder memorials happen. Yes, they’ve always been a
thing — but so many?

By now, anybody who cares about these issues is familiar with the
argument: African Americans and other minority-group members are
disproportionately drawn into the criminal-justice system — with
personally disastrous outcomes.

Largely absent from the discussion — then and now — is the sad fact that
African Americans and other minorities disproportionately commit street
crime; take that into consideration, and the statistical disparities
simply evaporate.

More important — and, indeed, tragically — the victims of street crime
themselves are overwhelmingly African American or other minorities.

This made no difference: Infamously, New York’s criminal codes were
neutered in 2018, and, quite predictably, crime erupted.

Again, all of this is common knowledge — and while right now there is an
understandable focus on teenaged killers and their peer-group victims,
that’s not news either.

The Manhattan Institute’s Hannah Meyers, for example, notes that after
Albany raised the age of criminal responsibility in 2017, youth crime
ballooned. She reports a 204% increase in violent youth crime — and an 80%
hike in teenage murders — immediately following that “reform.”

And the trend — or maybe it’s the new normal — persists: Just last week,
three teens were shot by a young gunman during an apparently gang-related
argument in Times Square.

This doubtless accounts for the current focus on teen violence, but
earlier this month all eyes were on a fatal stabbing in a shoplifting-
plagued big-box drugstore; before that it was subway vigilantism — and
heaven only knows what the next outrage will be.

All that’s certain is that there will, of course, be another outrage.

Which is why Kathy Hochul’s new Council to Study the Possibility of Maybe
Someday Putting a Few Truly Bad People in Prison has such high comedic
value.

Not the Council on Community Justice part; that is funny.

But the notion that progressive New York would entertain repopulating its
relatively empty prisons — even a little bit — is hilarious.

More jail time isn’t the only remedy, of course. Far from it.

But it was a big help the last time predators were feasting on innocent
New Yorkers — and African Americans and other minority-group members were
among that policy’s principal beneficiaries.

Do the crime, do the time is about as fair as it gets. Effective, too.

The wheel has been invented, Gov. Gaslight. Embrace it.

Email: b...@bobmcmanus.nyc


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