Does bail reform need reform?
By
Susan Arbetter
New York State
UPDATED 6:41 PM ET Jul. 27, 2021
PUBLISHED 5:26 PM ET Jul. 27, 2021
PUBLISHED 5:26 PM EDT Jul. 27, 2021
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Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt and his counterpart in the Assembly, Minority Leader Will Barclay, have both spoken out against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to declare a state of emergency around gun violence. But Ortt told
Capital Tonight that criticism of the governor’s actions in no way means that his conference doesn’t take gun violence seriously.
"Our criticism of the declaration of emergency…is not a denial of a very real threat of increased violent crime. That is a real thing that we take very seriously," Ortt told