The New York Police Department blamed the state’s new bail reform laws for the crime spike in the city this year.
The police force for the largest city in the country said 482 people who were cut loose after being arrested in 2020 reoffended. Those reoffenders were responsible for 846 new crimes, and 299 of those crimes were considered “major” felonies, including one murder, according to NYPD statistics.
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