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according to the nonprofit’s stats, is $1 billion above the country’s most expensive jail system in the country. According to another report by the Vera Institute of Justice, entitled “The Cost of Incarceration in New York State,” a typical New York State county spent more than $225 per night to incarcerate a person, which is $82,000 per year. The nonprofit believes that this money could be directed to funding other services that would build communities and help prevent the need to incarcerate people in the first place. Total state and federal aid for all counties outside of New York City totaled $26.2 billion, made up of $20 billion of county budgets and $1.3 billion spent on county jails. According to the report, the median state county jail budget is $8.2 million. A Pew Charitable Trust report
THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS from last January showed that local plainclothes units are no different and spending on jails topped $25 billion in raise serious concerns. Mayor Adams nationwide data. The budget runs op- needs to hold officers accountable and posed to the failing crime rate and fewer ensure that officers who engage in mispeople going to jail. conduct are fired, not double down on According to Pew, between 2007 and dangerous policies from the past.” 2017 there was a 20% decrease in crime According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice and a 19% drop in jail admission, but Statistics, as of April 2021, it spends $81 not a reduction in jail spending. During billion a year incarcerating Americans. the same period, jail expenditures went Part of those arrests and incarnations up 13% while crime went down 20%, jail can be traced to infractions like prostiadmissions decreased by 19% and the tution, resisting arrest, fare evasion and jail population decreased by 4%. marijuana misdemeanors. All are things Kesi Foster, a spokesperson for Com- that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin munities United for Police Reform, said Bragg said in his day-one-policy memo that the mayor needs to act on the com- he wouldn’t prosecute unless they were munity’s demands to reduce the NYPD’s accompanied by another felony. budget size, scope, and power, take that They earn praise and denouncement. money and invest in disadvantaged Praise came courtesy of The Legal Aid communities. Society. “We know that historically new “The Legal Aid Society welcomes mayors come in and attempt to rebrand this memo as a substantive first step failed policing strategies,” said Foster. to reform an office that long resorted “Mayor Adams’ rhetoric around ex- to making excessive bail requests and panding stop-and-frisk and his commit- overcharging our clients,” stated Tina ments to bring back notoriously violent Luongo, attorney-in-charge of the crim-
inal defense practice at The Legal Aid Society. “Meaningful reform demands that these newly announced policies become standard operating procedure officewide, and we urge judges to not stand in the way of these long overdue and necessary reforms.” Denouncement of Bragg’s day-one policy came courtesy of Police Benevolent Association President Pay Lynch. “We continue to have serious concerns about the message these types of policies send to both police officers and criminals on the street,” Lynch stated. “Police officers don’t want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won’t prosecute. And there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face zero consequences. We look forward to discussing these issues with District Attorney Bragg, so that our members can do their job safely and effectively. We must all pull together towards one goal: a safer New York City.”
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