Another person is dead, thanks to the left’s unhinged commitment to keeping criminals out of jail.
Two thugs who dodged jail thanks to a “diversion program” have been charged with murder for gunning down a man in the Bronx on Jan. 6.
The two alleged shooters, Amari Oneal and Ali Mohammed, had been busted with a pair of illegal guns in August 2023.
Instead of putting them behind bars, prosecutors agreed to send them to the “Bronx Osborne Gun Accountability and Prevention Program,” another progressive criminal justice scheme designed to keep lawbreakers out of jail and on the streets.
After their arrest for a cold-blooded, execution-style murder, a flack for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office pleaded: “When we enacted these programs, we understood there would be risk, but we are combating gun violence from all angles and with preventive approaches in addition to prosecution.”
Got that? The criminal justice crusaders know their “reforms” will put innocents in danger, but go ahead anyway … because prosecuting criminals is bad?
And this case is far from unique.
Freddy Flores had been busted for grand larceny in 2023, but a diversion program left him free to shoot a toddler in the street last April.
Kamel Hawkins somehow qualified for a diversion program after allegedly assaulting a woman he had been stalking last October, then went on to shove a straphanger in front of an oncoming train in December.
And countless repeat offenders are turned loose thanks to New York’s insane bail laws and lenient lefty judges — like Johnson Earl, a career criminal with 14 prior arrests who was freed without bail after viciously beating an 83-year-old man for tripping over his foot on the subway.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has sworn to fight rampant recidivism with the power of the NYPD, but making the city safer will also come down to changing what happens after lawbreakers get arrested.
Stop giving repeat offenders endless chances to find new victims: Kill the “diversion” programs and get rid of the laws and judges that keep putting thugs back on the streets.
