Nassau arrests fairly stable while crime surges across the state

                                                                               




Arrests in Nassau over the first three months of this year are down somewhat compared to the same period last year but are slightly higher than than the last quarter of 2021.

In other words, arrests seem stable in Nassau even as crime surges throughout New York.

In New York City, for example, major crimes increased 58 percent in February over the same month last year and 30 percent in March.

Nassau's first quarter bail reform crime report indicates that more than 80 percent of suspects arrested (mostly on larceny and controlled substance abuse charges) were released without bail -- about the same percentage released since bail reform took effect two years ago.

But rearrests are down for those released without bail.

While an average 11 percent were arrested again after being released without bail in 2020 and 2021, during the first three months of this year only 5.6 percent were picked up again.

It's too soon to see if there is any spike in suspects ignoring court hearings after being released without bail. 

Don't know what any of it means.

But maybe there is a reason why Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder was a member of incoming Republican county Executive Bruce Blakeman's transition team and was also honored recently at a Nassau GOP dinner.

The Nassau legislature directed that the police report bail reform arrests and rearrests quarterly after the Democratic progressive majority in Albany eliminated cash bail for all but the most violent crimes, starting in Jan. 2020. 

Since then, opinion polls have shown that voters do not like bail reform and blame it for rising crime. Anger of bail reform appears to have prompted a red wave on Long Island in the November elections.

One interesting aspect of Nassau's first quarter bail reform report is its accounting of arrests by race -- which is apparently a result of community activists demanding more information from Ryder about police reform in December.

As shown in the attached chart, most arrests were of black males, followed by white, Hispanic and Asian males. The racial breakdown is the same among females.


 

                                                                      



         



 


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