{"id":442122,"date":"2022-05-05T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bail-reform-is-scarier-than-the-nycs-ghost-gun-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:07:09","slug":"bail-reform-is-scarier-than-the-nycs-ghost-gun-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bail-reform-is-scarier-than-the-nycs-ghost-gun-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bail reform is scarier than the NYC&#8217;s ghost gun problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a232993b62f7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a232993b62f7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bail-reform-is-scarier-than-the-nycs-ghost-gun-problem\/#%E2%80%9CBail_reform_is_scarier_than_the_NYCs_ghost_gun_problem%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Bail reform is scarier than the NYC&#8217;s ghost gun problem&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bail-reform-is-scarier-than-the-nycs-ghost-gun-problem\/#Gun_crisis_goes_deeper\" >Gun crisis goes deeper\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBail_reform_is_scarier_than_the_NYCs_ghost_gun_problem%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Bail reform is scarier than the NYC&#8217;s ghost gun problem&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Bob McManus\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Police say Edison Cruz of the Bronx has been trying hard to go to jail, which is not easy to do in New York City. He kept getting arrested and they kept letting him go and, so really, what\u2019s an up-and-coming convict to do?<\/p>\n<p>Kill somebody, police say. And shoot two innocent bystanders. With a \u201cghost gun\u201d \u2014 a handgun assembled illegally from mail-order parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, persistence does pay: After three previous ghost-gun-related busts \u2014 followed by two instant releases under New York\u2019s insane bail laws and then a timely bail-out arranged by a Bronx \u201calternative justice\u201d group \u2014 Cruz was free finally to make the big time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He now stands accused of second-degree murder, manslaughter and weapons charges \u2014 a list likely to grow as authorities finish sorting the spare parts he allegedly used to build untraceable weapons.<\/p>\n<p>As a hobby, police say.<\/p>\n<p>That last should scare you. It\u2019s not like New York needs a new source of illegal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, which is worse \u2014 ghost guns themselves, or a legal system that sets someone free three bloody times following arrests for building ghost guns?<\/p>\n<p>The guns can\u2019t be tolerated, certainly. But reasonable people should have scant patience for rhetorical deflections, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1002\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image0-1.jpeg.jpg?w=1002\" alt=\"The weapons recovered from Cruz's home.\" class=\"wp-image-22146437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image0-1.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1002w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/image0-1.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=501 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\"\/><figcaption>Edison Cruz, who has been arrested three times since 2020, allegedly used a ghost gun in the Bronx shooting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Gun_crisis_goes_deeper\"><\/span>Gun crisis goes deeper\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ghost guns are the bugbear of the moment, because only a lunatic would defend them. And because it is much easier, and far less controversial, to blame them for New York\u2019s blood-spattered sidewalks than it would be to bring the full force of the law down on the core problem \u2014 the trigger-pullers.<\/p>\n<p>There is no hoarier clich\u00e9 in the American conversation than \u201cguns don\u2019t kill, people do.\u201d But its depressing ubiquity doesn\u2019t make it any less true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Thus, no gun-violence policy is going to succeed if it isn\u2019t focused as squarely on criminals as it is on weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams seems to get this, sort of. He has undone a lot of the damage inflicted on the NYPD by his predecessor. Gun crime seems to have leveled off a bit \u2014 although it remains <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>allingly high compared to pre-pandemic levels, and the summertime-carnage season is rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n<p>But even he seems caught up in the rhetoric of the moment. He\u2019s constantly rattling on about ghost guns \u2014 and if his \u201cend gun violence\u201d tuxedo at the Met Gala the other night had a point, it was not aimed at the people who matter.<\/p>\n<p>They would be the Albany establishment \u2014 Gov. Hochul and a legislative leadership responsible for the so-called \u201creforms\u201d meant to lighten the burden on New York\u2019s criminal class. And they persist in this mischief, despite poll after poll showing that crime is squarely atop the list of New Yorkers\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Adams should exploit this.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/edison-cruz.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Edison Cruz mugshot.\" class=\"wp-image-22146414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/edison-cruz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/edison-cruz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/edison-cruz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/edison-cruz.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Cruz allegedly shot a man to death and wounded two others in the Bronx.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He might ask Hochul \u2014 rhetorically if not face to face \u2014 if she\u2019s comfortable with the fact that Edison Cruz was free to commit murder after three separate arrests on ghost-gun charges, with no significant sanctions in sight.<\/p>\n<p>And if she\u2019s not comfortable, what does she plan to do about it. Her answers, in an election year, should be instructive.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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He kept getting arrested and they kept letting him go and, so really, what\u2019s an up-and-coming convict to do? 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