City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Jamaica) remains steadfast on the closure of Rikers Island by 2027 but some members of the Queens delegation as well as the Mayor Adams administration are less convinced.
“I don’t think there’s a way for it to be done,” Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Ozone Park) told the Chronicle.
Last Thursday, the Council held a preliminary budget hearing for the Committee on Criminal Justice and the city Departments of Probation and Correction testified.
Ariola asked Correction Commissioner Louis Molina if, given the fact that the city jails population is nearly double what would fit in the borough-based jails, it would be possible to house them there.
“If we are at today’s number whenever borough-based jails would open or if that number is higher, then it would be physically impossible to house all those individuals within our jail system if our capacity was at 3,300,” Molina answered.
“We would need to come up with alternative solutions of where those individuals would be housed. Now, we could get to a place where we can see declines in the population,” Molina continued.
He said two things are needed: for the adjudication of justice, which is under the control of the state, to be faster and for more hospital capacity for those with mental illness.
“Just recently, we had someone who was waiting to be sentenced and that defendant was in our custody for six years for an attempted murder case,” said Molina. “And when you have almost a thousand people charged with murder in a backlogged court system, then the flow of those defendants is not quick. So ... we are thinking about what are going to be the alternatives if our jail population continues to stay high. And the other thing we’ve talked about a lot this afternoon is mental illness. If the state does not increase the capacity to be able to treat mental illness, and if we’re going to continue to designate via the courts mental health patients with the designation of criminal defendant, then they are a justice system responsibility. If we want to treat them as hospital patients, then we need hospital capacity to do that.”
Molina has said in the past that the jail population could, in fact, rise by 1,000 people by next year.
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Progressive Democrats are like small children. They think that because they weally, weally want something, that it can just happen because... magic. Like green power (impossible), crime reduction by decarceration (ludicrous), men being able to have babies cuz they feeeeellll like it (insanity), and on and on. They are a very dangerous combination of hopelessly ignorant about the real world, viciously partisan and spiteful, and power mad.
It's not going to go well.
Jail need to stay open, if some "poor inner city youth of poverty" or some thug with 3 or more prior offenses don't like jail don't commit crime.
...LOCK ALL THESE BASTARDS UP too dam bad!!
Some sonof'faa bitch grabbed my door handle at the Tremont ave red light to the Hutch today.
Door was locked I burned rubber, lucky was no pedestrian or traffic in the way.
Yes, one of the usual looking suspects. It seems it always that way.
Ever since one of these bike assholes in spandex came up from behind and grabbed my mirror to hitch a ride, I have placed proximity sensors in the rear quarter panels.
Today that paid off, its Planet Of The Apes out their.
-Joe
Just send them all to Florida. It might raise the average IQ.
They got to keep it open for the Orange Headed Criminal enterprise.
Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg is scheduled to finish his 5-month Riker's incarceration around April 19. Press reports state he was not in the general population but assigned to the infirmary unit.
Empty words emitted from empty heads.
Marxist-Socialist revisionists will never stop
Thanks be to Soros
The future is bleak for America
Proud to be a Tennessea soon....
Reform Bail Reform !
NYC is a Freaking Mess ! Get out while you still can...
There is no explaining Leftism. They write the rules as they go along.
The prisoners are running the asylum !
Prove Me Wrong...
This is a mental crisis, sad to see the left enables these individuals. Sad.
First of all, Rikers is surrounded by five different waterways which creates especially violent vortices making escape extremely dangerous and was chosen for this precise reason. Second the idea of putting prisoners in their neighborhoods contravenes the psychological benefit from being in prison, that is, to be away from the people and environment that drives you to crime so that you may break the habit. That is why folks go to drug rehab and prison far from home. BlaBlasio turned that on its head. This approach only increases criminality.
They should keep a spot open for the darling of the right, Clarence Thomas, while they are at it.
Don't worry with the soft on crime DA nyc has, there will be nobody left in prison to begin with. They will all be running around the streets.
Don't worry, NYPD is working as efficiently as possible. NYPD milking overtime
Now that the Democrats and the Republicans have decided that they’re soft on crime, we don’t need Rikers anymore.
People are starting to wise up to democratic run cities and as they move out their economies are going to tank.
All Dem run cities are in real trouble right now. It's being reported as a new problem but it's not. Covid subsidies carried their balance sheets. Now that money is ending budget cuts will be huge and a Commercial a Real Estate problem is on the way too. All Dem cities will be looking for bailouts as they crash blaming covid, not their terrible mismanagement.
Don’t forget about defunding the police. Great plans.
They wanted to have their cake and eat it too... So, eat up!
Looks like that program to reduce crime is working like a charm, like all the other government programs.
If the maggots in the city council can close it and make life miserable for the rest of us and gratify their need to feel good about themselves, they will close it.
Liberalism is all about making themselves feel gratified...
This site is going the way of 'My Space'.
Prove me wrong ...
People in France have more balls than we the Sheeple in the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqki_HI1ZRY&ab_channel=TheJimmyDoreShow
NYS needs to be dragged into court for civil rights violations. Equity is discrimination no matter what Democrats claim.
Qtip said...
#TDS is a mental condition. Prove me Wrong...
@"People in France have more balls than we the Sheeple in the United States"
I have to agree. The French still have strong ties to Socialism and take less crap from their corporate overlords than we do here.
Here, the sheeple still fall for the same ole baloney about, "If you work hard, you'll succeed". That used to work. Now it's, "If you work hard, your CEO will get a bigger bonus, and your job will still be outsourced to India".
What part of "innocent until proven guilty" do you commies not understand?
My butts been wiped said...
The ability of most NY Democrats to lie and cheat the Sheeple knows no bounds.
A Classical case of disinformation.
I’m waiting for the legacy media to tell us that it’s illegal for us to read any of this.
Send them to their new homes with their friends in china.
The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year.
We’re headed for crises we haven’t seen in decades.
Better to keep it open.
I get the feeling we're heading back to times like the 1970s.
Really,
Do you expect anything different from a dem/Marxist/crime bud-lite drinking liberal city?
Being a Democrat means never to have to say you were wrong and sorry for it.
heading back to times like the 1970s.
Heading back?
I remember most of the 70s well, those were great times when compared to now. I take them back any day over NYC in 2023
We already been back to those days for at least 12 months.
Have you been sick in bed, temporary blind or on a long vacation?
Actually its far WORSE then those 1970s days, this is more like the war and crime zones of Columbia, Venezualia, Costa Rica. Including the Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall days
I wonder how long before the brazen criminals, stop traffic, board & seize and rob whole bus and train cars of people at gunpoint.
Then shoot or beat them about the head with the guns.
---I think that's coming, because all the criminals & gangs now know thanks to democrats they can no longer be arrested, searched or stopped by the cops unless they killed somebody or threatened a politician.
The scumbags also know a good 99% of citizens are un-armed and cant get carry permits which makes things even worse.
All the good law abiding people are now easy free meat, hostages. Its the greatest time ever to be a criminal.
This current criminals paradise is more like downtown Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City during the war.
The same think is happening in every progressive democrat run city, this "experiment" is failing big time and lawmakers in Albany, the Governor, Mayor and DA will never call the national guard because that would mean conceding to total failure, major embarrassment and loss of future elections.
I know some cops.
They now say: TO LATE, we are now completely outnumbered, unsupported and treated like shit. The worst ever bro.
It so bad we really need National guard on the streets, Cops given back stop & frisk, choke holds and qualified immunity. That is the only way to get the criminals back behind bars now, the only way to fix this.
If the criminals "don't like jail" "don't like handcuffs" and wanna rob, kill, steal cars, fight and have shootouts with police too dam bad if they get hit with a bat yielding bystander saving somebody, killed, shot or choked to death wile resisting or evading arrest.
-Joe
To clarify
My Uncle now nearing 90 was in Vietnam.
He says NYC is the same dam thing he saw on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City back in the 1960s.
Criminals jumping of mopeds and robbing people in broad daylight on crowded streets, shops robbed, shootings, stabbings etc.
All the same shit we have now.
My uncle also added it wasn't until the President Ho Chi had enough, realized it was out of control and getting worse and asked Vietnamese generals and American military for help. This gave the military authority to assist the police, arrest criminals, muggers and problem people. This also allowed them impose curfews in the worst areas, and to shoot back, civilians, young criminals, on foot, on mopeds or not.
Crime instantly dropped over 90%, It worked !!
Both this mayor and governor doesn't have the guts & balls to do what its gonna take to restore any kind of order. This is gonna get much worse as the weather warms with more hours of people are out on the street, moving around doing what was once normal summer activity etc
-Joe
Without rules,
There's chaos...
NYC It's where criminals go to get benefits
Let me finish the headline: And is released on no cash bail in less than 2 hours, then gets a MEDAL from Mayor Adams
America: Land of the Indoctrinated Lobotomized Sheeple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oF1yx6rSNw&ab_channel=LionelLegal
Hochul should fire Bragg
If Zeldin was elected Bragg would have been gone and we would be on the road to recovery. But NY voters seem to be ok with high crime and high taxes. Enjoy the chaos you created.
Where will the "NY's Boldest" hang out and sell their wares if Rikers closes down?
@"If Zeldin was elected..."
We would have a gun free for all in the city. He'd also have his head stuck up the vagina of every woman in the state, policing everything that goes on there.
So much for freedoms ...
@"NYC It's where criminals go to get benefits"
Very true. TrumpTurd got all the benifits in the world here.
@"Anonymous Joe said...
Thank you, Joe. I think Hitler, Communist china, and Kim whatever in Korea have the same policy towards crime. Maybe that's why Trump loves those type of people. You don't like people, just exterminate them.
Some people call this fascism, others call it Trumpism or Right Wingnut'sm, or just plain old dictatorship with whatever "isim" you want to tack on.
@"Do you expect anything different from a dem/Marxist/crime bud-lite drinking liberal city?"
Yeah, "real Mericans" don't drink bud-light. Kinda strange, as I always thought that the only reason New Yorkers had pickup trucks was for carrying crates of bud-lite, Cheetos and their fat asses. Now I know that they don't really drink the bud-lite, they just use if for target practice.
I wasn't born here, so I never acquired a taste for Bud, Bud lite or any other "xyz"-lite. It's low grade piss that you wouldn't feed to a pig.
Thankfully, New York has Five-Boroughs brewery and some other great breweries, rather than that Red State Rubbish.
@"America: Land of the Indoctrinated Lobotomized Sheeple"
Yeah, it's been like that since Joe McCarthy. Meatball Ron and his enablers are his current day clones.
"Land of the Indoctrinated Lobotomized Sheeple"
They are brainwashed from birth.
"Lobotomized Sheeple" Hate Freedom !
We need inspector Callahan back on the force.
Wasn't defunding the police supposed to give us a new era of equity and justice?
"I always thought" No you can't think !
CNN Brain fog can be a terrible thing.
@“ Wasn't defunding the police supposed to give us a new era of equity and justice?”
It never happened and wouldn’t make any difference. They do diddly squat anyway.
If democrats says it’s true, it’s a lie
@"Meatball Ron" Are you a racist ? Your hateful comments help us find out who are the real racists among us.
You don't like people, just exterminate them.
No, thats not what Joe's post said.
Stop steering the narritive like progressive trained & brainwashed college kids and democrats do
Joe basicly says.
1-take the handcuffs & chains off the police.
2-Its OK to exterminate killers and toss the repeat criminals in jail or insane in the nuthouse where they belong.
This system worked !!!
Its the goverments duty to protect its people and obey the 2nd amendment so innocent civillians can protect themselves when the cops arent around..
If one:
"dont like handcuffs"
"dont like being arrested"
"dont like jail"
"cant afford bail, like balonga sandwiches THEN DONT TO THE CRIME.
---or claim "POOR ME I hade 5 babys with 5 different deadbeat inmates and cant support them unless I help myself by stealing"
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