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OneLegUpAlex News: PreTrial Detention in NYC is NOT RACIST, IT KEEPS US SAFE! 10-18-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, I have
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  Speaker 1: not been able to react to the debate between Curtis
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  Speaker 1: Zoron and Cuomo, but I have to say this. I
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  Speaker 1: have to say this. If the polling shows Cuomo is
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  Speaker 1: lower than before the first debate, my prediction here on
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  Speaker 1: one look up Alex News before the second debate is
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  Speaker 1: that Cuomo will drop out. That's just a hunch. I
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  Speaker 1: feel that he will be able to He will say Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I don't have a pathway, and he will leave
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  Speaker 1: it up to Curtis Versusmumdanni. That's maybe I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's wish well thinking, but that's what my subconscious
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  Speaker 1: tells me. And that's what I'm telling you here on
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  Speaker 1: one look up Alex. But there was one topic that
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted them to talk about because here at Hellgate,
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading about the Hellgate NYC article. New York City
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  Speaker 1: judges have a tool to help them rule on pre
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  Speaker 1: trial detention. Why are they ignoring it to make racially
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  Speaker 1: skewed decisions? That's what Nick Pinto writes at the decision
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  Speaker 1: to ignore release recommendations for black defendants, and You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be surprised with my thoughts on this after I'm done
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  Speaker 1: with this commentary, but the story goes reducing the number
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  Speaker 1: of people locked up pre trial in New York City
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  Speaker 1: jails over the first two decades of this century was
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  Speaker 1: made it possible to contemplate closing Rikers Island and replacing
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  Speaker 1: it with a smaller, more humane, pro based jails. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: this is a leftist, uh left leaning outlet and a
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  Speaker 1: left leaning article, but I want to read on because
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  Speaker 1: I want to know more about the try of the tool.
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  Speaker 1: The city's Criminal Justice Agency has a statistical instrument extremely
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  Speaker 1: good at predicting whether someone will come back to court,
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  Speaker 1: and here's my thought on that. Why can't judges use
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  Speaker 1: that instrument to actually make sure those who do not
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  Speaker 1: and are not going to come back to court for
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  Speaker 1: their trial. You might think I'm hard to say this,
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  Speaker 1: but why don't they use it to lock up the
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  Speaker 1: convicted instead of let them out before their trial. The
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  Speaker 1: problem with bail reform is that this trial pre trial
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  Speaker 1: stuff leads to convicted felons out on the street because
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  Speaker 1: they won't come back to court, and the wishful thinking
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  Speaker 1: of these judges to have them come back to court
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  Speaker 1: release them, but maybe another crime or to what we committed.
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  Speaker 1: So I think this instrument should be used. And this
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  Speaker 1: Hellgate NYC laments that they're locking up people who are
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  Speaker 1: likely to make the next court date on their own. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think judges don't want to take a chance. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to take a chance. That's that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I applaud the judges that aren't willing to take
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  Speaker 1: a chance that someone will come back to court, because
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  Speaker 1: I say, in the meantime, ten or more crimes could
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  Speaker 1: be committed in the interim, So why shouldn't the judges
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  Speaker 1: use these tools to actually keep our cities safe. Helgate
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  Speaker 1: NYC judges are deviating from the recommendations of the tool
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  Speaker 1: more for black and Hispanic people. Mean that even though
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  Speaker 1: judges have racially a neutral mechanism for considering pretrid attention,
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  Speaker 1: they're choosing to lock up people of color disproportionately anyway.
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  Speaker 1: In cases with violent felony charges where the assessment that
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  Speaker 1: instrument recommends that someone be released, judges are setting bail
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  Speaker 1: black people at a rate fifty one percent greater than
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  Speaker 1: for white people. Low rates of judg audicial alignment study show,
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  Speaker 1: especially when the tool recommends are producing both accessively and
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  Speaker 1: racially inequitable use of supervision bailing attention. Look to the
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  Speaker 1: judges that don't listen to this tool, I commend them.
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  Speaker 1: Why should a violent felony charge be released on their
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  Speaker 1: own cognizance when they could literally commit another crime two
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  Speaker 1: or three times. I didn't know this tool existed till
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  Speaker 1: hell Get, NYC. But I don't mind it because if
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  Speaker 1: judges were to release everyone before their trial need, the
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  Speaker 1: city would be less safe Holgate, NYC. That's right, the
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  Speaker 1: city would be less safe. So I think judges, and
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  Speaker 1: why I mentioned should be part of the debate is
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  Speaker 1: this should be a question to all their candidates. Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe that someone who has a violent criminal record
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  Speaker 1: should be released before their trial and not locked up?
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  Speaker 1: And Zorn would probably say absolutely, and Cuomo and Curtis
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  Speaker 1: might waiver, But I think Cuomo would sort of do this,
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  Speaker 1: that and the other dance around the question, and I
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  Speaker 1: think Saliva would be very hardcore about the answer. But
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  Speaker 1: that's the question. Do you believe a violent felon, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of color, should be let out before their trial and
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  Speaker 1: hopes they don't come in another crime again? Howgate NYC.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that they're locked up before their trial so
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  Speaker 1: they don't have another chance to commit a crime or
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  Speaker 1: two or ten before their trial date. Call me harsh,
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  Speaker 1: call me whatever, racially skewed, but this will go for anybody.
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  Speaker 1: The problem with Bell Reform was that these criminals were
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  Speaker 1: back out on the street before their trial, were let
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  Speaker 1: out too early. And look what's happened. Look what's happened now.
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  Speaker 1: I like the Curtis and then I hit Cuomo on
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  Speaker 1: the Bell Reform, saying he was the governor that did it.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, it's very much true. But of course Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: said that's not me, blah blah blah. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: deny it. But if they're gonna if there's a tool
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  Speaker 1: out there that judges have to go by, then I
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  Speaker 1: hope judges use the tool wisely, but also go with gut.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like analytics. Analytics supposed to tell you if
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  Speaker 1: a person's gonna come back to court when the judge
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  Speaker 1: might know they're sitting in front of the judge having
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  Speaker 1: committed of a violent felon, and we're supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: upset that they're locked up. No, no, no, that's not
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  Speaker 1: the city that what I grew up in. That's not
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  Speaker 1: the world we grew up in. We shouldn't be upset
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  Speaker 1: or lamenting the fact that someone who's convicted with a
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  Speaker 1: violent felony, especially is locked up before their trial. They
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  Speaker 1: need to be because there's a very good chance it
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  Speaker 1: could happen again and again and again, and under Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: we would have misdemeanors instead of violent felony charges. He
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  Speaker 1: would really lower the sentencings system or whatever you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it, from felony to misdemeanor. That's a problem
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  Speaker 1: that we have to avoid. So judges that are using
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  Speaker 1: the tool and still going with their instinct, I love it,
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  Speaker 1: they need to do more of that. We have to
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  Speaker 1: take into consideration pre trout the tension when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to violent felonies specifically, and for how get NYC and
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  Speaker 1: other activists to lament that just shows they want more
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  Speaker 1: crime in NYC. But it's good to know how the
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  Speaker 1: other side thinks, isn't it. It's good to see the
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  Speaker 1: other side writes about this, isn't it? Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be getting if we don't alert people
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  Speaker 1: to hey, this is out the left is thinking right
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  Speaker 1: now then how will we be able to affect change
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  Speaker 1: in the election. We won't be. So I do believe
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  Speaker 1: that someone's convicted of a crime or arrested and sentenced
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  Speaker 1: however you want to say it, and then released back
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  Speaker 1: on the street. It's a mistake. It's a mistake. And
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  Speaker 1: so thank you hellgated in m I say, for existing
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  Speaker 1: to show how you the guys think over there. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't agree with you on that, but I'll still
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  Speaker 1: talk to your notifications because I want to hear how
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  Speaker 1: you guys are thinking. It's very interesting some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff you guys have, But on this one, on this one,
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  Speaker 1: pre trial detention is always necessary so that they don't
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  Speaker 1: go out and commit crimes before they're actual trolley And
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  Speaker 1: that's all I gotta say on that. You're one look
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  Speaker 1: at Alex were a couple of weeks away from election,
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  Speaker 1: and just know if this is how one article thinks,
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  Speaker 1: there's a whole swath of people that think like that
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  Speaker 1: among Donnie's trying to get their vote, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to be again the pole in the whole craziness and say, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: pre trial detention is necessary for violent criminals. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want them back out on the street before their trial,
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  Speaker 1: committing ten or more crimes. That's how we've gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the disaster in the first place.