Residents in Jamaal T. Bailey’s State Senate district, which includes crime-ridden areas from the South Bronx up to Mount Vernon, aren’t happy with leftists’ new no bail laws and tiny sentences for even the most heinous offenders. Yet Bailey has co-sponsored State Senate Judiciary Chair Brad Hoylman’s radical empty-the prisons bill, S15A.
Take, for one example, Tyrell Taylor. In 2012, Taylor was charged with 45 counts of rape, sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment. He had, of course, previously been charged and cut loose on other sex crime charges. But in 2012 he was escalating to torturing and choking his victims. The community expressed outrage. But Tyler was then, thanks to some of New York State’s other criminal leniency laws, limited in the amount of time he would serve in prison. ...
