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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 from last January showed that local spending on jails topped $25 billion in nationwide data. The budget runs opposed to the failing crime rate and fewer people going to jail.
According to Pew, between 2007 and 2017 there was a 20% decrease in crime and a 19% drop in jail admission, but not a reduction in jail spending. During the same period, jail expenditures went up 13% while crime went down 20%, jail admissions decreased by 19% and the jail population decreased by 4%.
Kesi Foster, a spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform, said that the mayor needs to act on the community’s demands to reduce the NYPD’s budget size, scope, and power, take that money and invest in disadvantaged communities.
“We know that historically new mayors come in and attempt to rebrand failed policing strategies,” said Foster. “Mayor Adams’ rhetoric around expanding stop-and-frisk and his commitments to bring back notoriously violent plainclothes units are no different and raise serious concerns. Mayor Adams needs to hold officers accountable and ensure that officers who engage in misconduct are fired, not double down on dangerous policies from the past.”
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, as of April 2021, it spends $81 billion a year incarcerating Americans.
Part of those arrests and incarnations can be traced to infractions like prostitution, resisting arrest, fare evasion and marijuana misdemeanors. All are things that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in his day-one-policy memo he wouldn’t prosecute unless they were accompanied by another felony.
They earn praise and denouncement. Praise came courtesy of The Legal Aid Society.
“The Legal Aid Society welcomes this memo as a substantive first step to reform an office that long resorted to making excessive bail requests and overcharging our clients,” stated Tina Luongo, attorney-in-charge of the criminal 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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