Cashless bail, like peaceful war or hateful love, is a contradiction in terms. What it actually means is a revolving door in which criminals are out almost as soon as they’re arrested.
Here’s a poster boy for cashless bail in New York City.
A career crook Mayor Adams once dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” and the symbol of NYC’s revolving-door justice system is still circling back on crime — his staggering rap sheet is now 134 arrests long, The Post has learned.
Harold Gooding landed on the front page of The Post in August 2022 as the person atop the NYPD’s “Worst of the Worst” list of repeat offenders — and he only had 101 arrests at the time.
He’s been busted another 33 times in the 33 months since that report, records show.
He’s not alone. Criminals are let gone as soon as they’re arrested and then they commit more crimes.
A serial shoplifter who’s been arrested nearly 100 times was busted in Times Square after resorting to his old ways — on the same day was released from jail, authorities and sources said.
Christopher Dornfeld, 33, was let loose after his most recent arrest and expected to report for residential treatment, but when he didn’t show up, police caught the shoplifting recidivist allegedly stealing $267 worth of merchandise from an H&M in Times Square Wednesday night, according to cops and prosecutors.
Some are violent and dangerous criminals.
A career criminal with nearly three dozen prior arrests — including attempted murder — slashed a Manhattan cafe worker in the neck when the employee tried to give him the boot Wednesday afternoon, cops said.
Cashless bail is a pro-crime measure, it’s a dangerous fraud fueling a massive crime wave.
That telling number includes perps who’d been nabbed for violent felonies, then rearrested and released for committing new crimes.
And get this: Nearly half (49.3%) were hauled in for new felonies — a quarter (26.2%), violent ones.
Per NYPD stats, just 327 people were responsible for 30% of city shoplifting arrests in 2022. Bail reform created a revolving door for these repeat offenders, and retail theft is now killing shops large and small across Gotham.
President Trump is right to end ‘cashless bail’. It’s not about ‘defunding the police’, it’s about reopening the prisons. Public safety won’t ever return until criminals are behind bars.
When criminals are out as soon as they’re arrested, crime never ends.
