Young New Yorkers should be protected from the inequities of the criminal-justice system, not demonized by the mayor for cheap political points. errollouis writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images When NYPD cops talk about the people they arrest, one often hears ugly slang like perps, mutts, psychos, and skels . It is a depressing exercise in dehumanization.
“How do we keep our city safe when the other parts of the criminal-justice system, they have abandoned our public-safety apparatus?” the mayor said. “We need to look at violent offenders, and this is a clear case of that.” Kudos to the lawmakers and other elected officials — including Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg — who are trying to keep New York on an even keel by following the law and refusing to play to the cheap seats.
Lopez “was one of the six initially charged with the rape of the person we know as the Central Park jogger and then saw the two other trials unfold and the other five convicted based upon statements that we now know have been recanted or forensic evidence which has now been shown to be unreliable,” Bragg told me. “Remember his age at the time; he was 15 when first arrested.
“What happened here is that the yields were so low. Ninety percent of these stops didn’t result in any further law-enforcement action — not a summons, not an arrest, nothing — just you’re free to go, but that’s after you’ve been held for 20 minutes and humiliated in the street” is how retired federal judge Shira Scheindlin, whose ruling ended the NYPD policy, once put it.
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