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Gov. Hochul said Monday that Jordan Neely’s death in Manhattan a week ago offered a “wake-up call” to government officials on the urgency of the mental health crisis gripping New York and the nation.
The good news is that Gov. Hochul stood her ground and got the Legislature to agree to further reform to pretrial detention laws that, since being hastily forced through in 2019, have been fixed and fixed again. The bad news is that even the thrice-amended bail law refuses to learn lessons from just across the Hudson, where New Jersey had the good sense to get rid of cash bail entirely and give judges a clearer standard related to the risk a defendant presents to the community.
Ardila has been facing pressure to step down since a pair of women came forward earlier this week to accuse him of making unwanted sexual advances at a party.