Gov. Hochul on Fallen NYPD Officer Diller: We Worked Hard with the Legislature Last Year to Change the Bail Laws

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HOCHUL: "Thank you for having me back on the show. Yesterday and today the day of the funeral its been a heartbreaking experience for all New Yorkers. We mourn with this family, especially a young widow with a 1-year-old son who will me raised without his father because of the horrible acts by a brazen criminal. I went to the wake to meet the family and speak to everybody from his wife and mother, faux everybody is upset and there’s a lot of anger, there’s anger about how these individuals who commit crimes over and over are back out on the streets again. So, that is one of the reasons we worked hard with the legislature last year to change the bail laws so that the judges have more discretion and there’s a lot of complicated factors here but I understand the outrage of the family. I do. We are working hard to keep crime down. Speaking of our efforts, you know what we have done in the subways. We were there to talk about it couple weeks ago. We deployed the national guard which there’s a lot of criticism of. These are people that are a presence. Crime has gone down since we added them to the force that — the mayor has brought in reinforcements. It’s necessary to calm it all down. We changed the laws last year. Repeat offenders are down 40%. We are getting more guns off the street but we have more work to do and that’s why my plan before the legislature brings more money for law enforcement, district attorneys, diversion programs, alternative courts to get young people off the streets and this to programs before they get hardened and places we can never pull them back from. It’s complete. It’s something that we are focused on day in and day out. Today we mourn the life of this wonderful young man who was willing to put his life on the line to protect all of us so we can sleep better at night. We respect police and law enforcement here in the state of New York."