Mamdani Wants to Free Half of Criminals
There are too many criminals in prison and Mamdani wants to let half of them out. Mamdani complained that the Adams administration had increased the number of criminals in Rikers Island by a thousand and claimed that “we can reduce that jail population to less than four thousand”. The infamous New York City prison has around 7,000 criminals on average and Mamdani cited a pro-crime proposal to reduce the number in there to only 3,700 criminals. That would mean freeing some 3,300 or 47%, nearly half, of the criminals there. Pro-crime policies such as eliminating bail already put most criminals back on the street almost as soon as they’re arrested. The limited number of criminals still being remanded are the worst of the worst. After years of being fed sob stories about shoplifters going to Rikers, Mamdani and the pro-crime activists trying to free half the criminals from Rikers aren’t even pretending. Mamdani cited an article by an activist from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice,...