NYT: Blame Pandemic for Huge Increase in Shootings This Year | Blog Posts
Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal. Twitter: @SethBarronNYC Criminal-justice “reform” in New York has turned our courts into a merry-go-round, with violent offenders free to jump off at will. The latest outrage took place in The Bronx, where 16-year-old Jordon Benjamin allegedly stabbed Amya Hicks in mid-December. … He only spent a few hours in a holding cell before being released on his recognizance, without having to post bail. It’s bad enough that an alleged knife-wielding thug who slashes neighborhood women got to gallivant out of jail. But the story becomes downright...