I wish typing this were a sick and twisted joke. Unfortunately it is not.
In Kathy Hochul’s New York you are set free with no bail for the heinous crime of disposing of body parts.
You’re then put behind bars only when you’re busted for shoplifting at CVS.
Let that sink in law abiding Long Island taxpayers.
No bail for dumping human body parts.
Lock you up for shoplifting while out free on bail for that sick crime.
This is no backwards bizarro world. It is the current sad state of the State of New York.
Police and prosecutors accused Amityville resident Amanda Wallace of hiding and disposing of hacked up body parts. She was hit with serious criminal charges related to evidence tampering and concealing a corpse.
I don’t know about you, but the last person I want walking around my neighborhood is anyone accused of dumping so many body parts down their drain that it clogged up the plumbing at their residence.
Worse, a young student found one of the limbs Wallace is accused of tossing, while the youth was on their way to school.
Sadly in the People’s Republic of New York, due to “bail reform” laws passed in 2019 that coddle criminals and make our communities less safe, the crime of concealing human body parts does not require a judge to keep you behind bars while you wait for trial.
This is the sole reason why Wallace and three others walked right out of court with nothing but ankle bracelets and freedom. In New York you can mutilate and dispose of a corpse and the law states you cannot be held behind bars without bail.
Unfortunately, judges have zero discretion to put criminals behind bars, regardless of the evil acts they are accused of.
The good news is, there appears to be a voice of reason surrounding this dismemberment madness.
New State Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick has proposed legislation making dismemberment and/or hiding a dead body a Class E Felony.
Had this proposed law been in place the four accused of disposing and dispersing of body parts might be behind bars and not eligible for bail. The legislation is also sponsored by State Senator Anthony Palumbo and Assemblyman Mike Durso.
That’s the good news.
Here’s the harsh reality of this ever becoming law: all three of these lawmakers are Republicans in Albany, where New York City Democrats and radical progressive socialists are in power.
Logic, concern for public safety, and keeping our Long Island streets safe are not priorities for the Democrats in power in Albany.
If you’re just as fed up as I am, we really only have two options to rectify the situation.
One: move. A lot of people are choosing this option, with more than 100,000 New Yorkers hitting the road for greener pastures according to the most recent Census data. This is the biggest out migration of any state in the nation.
Two: restore checks in balances in New York by electing a majority of Republicans in the State Senate and/or Assembly.
For most of Andrew Cuomo’s term as Governor, he had a Democratic controlled Assembly with the Senate Chamber controlled by Republicans.
This “check and balance” ensured that a more centrist type of legislation got passed in New York, including public pension reform and the tough on crime expansion of New York’s DNA database that helped cops catch more crooks. That DNA database required all criminals, regardless of the offense, to get swabbed in order to help law enforcement solve crimes.
Those days are long gone. Democrats control all three chambers. So the only alternative and best chance is flipping the State Senate to the Republican side of the aisle.
For this to happen, Democrats and Independent voters who are fed up with no bail laws and immigrants having more rights and better benefits than taxpayers must vote for Republican State Senatorial candidates.
If this takes place, checks and balances will be restored in the halls of the State Capitol, and Republicans can force Governor Hochul and the Assembly to compromise on any legislation getting passed.
That’s option two.
If that does not happen in this November’s election, then option one is your only choice.
Suck it up and suffer or pack your bags.