Gov. Kathy Hochul talks about criminal court a lot. I have never heard her talk about housing court. To fend off interference by President Donald Trump, Hochul is complaining that criminal court judges are not using her bail reform law to keep certain suspects in jail pending trial. This is getting a lot of ink, even though no one has been able to show that bail reform enacted during the Cuomo administration, or Hochul’s reform of that reform, has had any impact on crime. Meanwhile, injustice in New York’s housing courts is a regular occurrence. Even tenants’ advocates dislike it. […]
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