New Jersey overhauled its bail system under Christie. Now some Democrats want to roll it back. excerpt from Politico… Eight years ago, then-Republican Gov. Chris Christie teamed up with Democrats to pass a major overhaul of New Jersey’s criminal justice system, ushering through legislation that made the state among theRead More →
Arnold Ventures’ New Paid Mouthpieces Conclude The Public Safety Assessment Worked In New Jersey Despite A Feeble, Tenuous, And Unconvincing Justification And Strong Evidence To The Contrary Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), as we have repeatedly said, cannot concede defeat regardless of how bad things get. Read More →
Authorities: Ex-Con Allendale Burglar Who Fought Police Freed, Breaks Into Another House (excerpt from The Daily Voice 9/19/19) An ex-con from Allendale who fought furiously with police as they tried to arrest him for burglary three days after he was released from prison was ordered freed by a judge fromRead More →
BAIL REFORM: Released Hackensack Burglar Hits Same Business For 3rd Time, Police Say (excerpt from Hackensack Daily Voice 9/16/19) Less than a week after he was released for breaking into two area businesses, a habitual Hackensack offender did it again — at the same deli he’d burglarized twice before, authoritiesRead More →
Judge Releases Rockland Driver Who Rammed Police Car At GWB After Multi-Town Chase (excerpt from the Daily Voice Aug 18 2019) A Rockland driver who was captured by Fort Lee police on the George Washington Bridge after he rammed a patrol car at the toll plaza during a wild chaseRead More →
Heroin deaths up, heroin convictions down, police stymied: NJ lawmakers need to step in (JEFF EDELSTEIN COLUMN) “Bail reform is a disaster,” this very level-headed officer told me. “Part of bail reform was to keep non-violent offenders out of jail, and that’s good, but it’s turned into is catch andRead More →
New Jersey Bail Reform, the Numbers Are In: State Spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Get Worse Results As the New Jersey Courts take their annual trip over to the legislature to justify their budget this week, on the eve of the hearing they released a report that hasRead More →
Excerpt from NJ Spotlight, Feb 12, 2019 OP-ED: TASK FORCE NEEDED ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Tiffany Wilson was killed on a Newark street by her former partner. An algorithm had concluded he did not pose a risk to the community Just over one year ago, on theRead More →
Former Enron Executive Takes Credit for the Last 20 Years of Successes of New Jersey Criminal Justice Reform, Thereby Insulting All of the Bipartisan Good Work that Has Been Done by Others for Over a Generation As some statistics start to unfold in New Jersey post bail reform, reformers areRead More →
As the rest of the nation waits for actual proof that NJ Bail Reform has worked, proponents continue to cite New Jersey as the model for all things bail – with data that doesn’t prove anything. Former New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino, in a joint op-ed with Elie HonigRead More →
