Removal of the budget of Hochul can contain crime and help the mentally ill – if police officers, judges who do their work

The legislative fixes governor Kathy Hochul to agree to the legislator in the budget that (finally) said goodbye this week, New York's problems with crimes and mental illnesses do not completely solve – but they are a beginning.

Even if it had to be embedded in a stunning expenditure plan of $ 254 billion, which speaks together by the taxpayers and has to rock the fiscal foot of the state.

Hochul brought the legislator to make some small corrections accessible to the “Discovery Act”, which rules for prosecutors to collect and share evidence with defense lawyers.

The “reforms” of this law of 2019 enabled defenders to be thrown terrible crime cases of ridiculous technical methods.

Now the judges have to evaluate the diligence of the prosecutors based on their general assembly efforts All necessary categories of evidence – and not everyone Single.

Defenders are now also exposed to a period of 35 days to accuse prosecutors, not to meet all rules.

Unfortunately, “violations” can continue to be rejected due to meaningless discovery, even if they have not affected the result of a case.

And New York judges, who too often prefer perpetrators to the victims, still have an enormous discretion, which is considered a violation.

And what to do against it.

Hochul made more progress in the expansion of involuntary engagement mentally sick.

Their corrections enable the authorities to ask someone to the hospital, not only if he is an immediate risk for himself or others, but also if he is damaging damage due to his “inability or rejection” due to his illness.

That is TRUE Compassion; It brings people the help they need, even if they are too sick to realize that they need them.

It also helps to protect the public from potential violence from mentally ill people who have not yet been classified as immediately.

Of course, the trick is both on discovery and involuntary accommodation to bring police officers, prosecutors, judges, doctors and administrators to do so understand The new laws and implement them loyal.

No criminal should be allowed to escape the consequences due to irrelevant technical violations. And it is important to bring people who suffer from mental illnesses from the streets and facilities that can best take care of them.

Here, too, all of this was stuffed in A Quarter million dollar plus Budget, which ruthlessly increases the state -financed expenditure by 9.5%, more than three times the inflation.

This ensures budgetchaos in the course of this year when Uncle Sam creates the Federal Aid to New York, not to mention the loss of sales from an economic slowdown.

At least there is some I hope to make the streets a little safer and treat the mentally more human – if the authorities hold out.