11/3/2022
Mom of slain NYC teen Brandon Hendrick blasts Hochul over bail reform: ‘She’s avoiding it’
Eve Hendricks — whose 17-year-old son, Brandon, was gunned down in 2020 — blamed inaction by Hochul and her fellow Democratic lawmakers for the crime rates that “are going up every day.”
“Maybe because it’s not their children that are getting killed,” Hendricks fumed during a pro-police rally in Midtown Manhattan.
“We need the governor to look into it. She’s running but she’s avoiding it — and that should be a big thing that is on her agenda.”
Hendricks’ comments came a day after NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Hochul hadn’t done enough to let judges to lock up dangerous defendants, saying, “From the very beginning, we have asked for changes to the bail reform law.”
Earlier this year, Hochul rejected a request by Mayor Eric Adams to call a special session of the Legislature to consider toughening bail rules for repeat offenders.
In August, the governor also shut down the possibility of addressing bail reform until after the Legislature reconvenes in January.
Hochul’s challenger, outgoing US Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Long Island), has pledged to immediately suspend bail reform as part of his tough-on-crime campaign platform.
Also during 77 WABC Radio’s third annual “Back the Blue” event on Thursday, the head of the NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association said that bail reform was “not working.”
“It’s quite evident that [since] the time in 2019 when these bail reform laws were enacted until now, there’s been an uptick in violent crime,” union president Paul DiGiacomo said.
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