Research has shown that increasing incarceration through harsher penalties is one of the least effective ways to improve public safety; including deterring retail theft. Thank you to Carl E. Heastie for urging the assembly to instead focus on comprehensive solutions that work.

This is huge! Let’s go!!!

Thank you Columbia Daily Spectator Manuela Silva Amira McKee for this excellent coverage of the race and my grassroots campaign for the 69th Assembly district

The CARES Act home confinement program has been a tremendous success, allowing 13,000+ people to safely return home to work & care for their families, with a less than 0.2% recidivism rate. The program has also saved taxpayers millions of dollars. npr.org/2023/11/30/121…

So excited for this campaign! #Eli4NY

NEW STATEMENT: Third Unnecessary Rollbacks to Bail Reform Will Not Improve Public Safety fal.cn/3xUCW

Such a profound loss. Marvin had seemingly endless reserves of energy, patience, love and kindness. He was a true force for good in this world. Rest in power.

Required reading: Matt Van Houten, Tompkins County DA, on the need to protect bail reform: lawmakers must reject “any and all efforts to remove the current standard… If we don’t protect bail reform, both justice and safety will be jeopardized.”

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Bail reform is working and helping NY families! Tell lawmakers in Albany to protect bail reform and prioritize evidence-based solutions that strengthen communities and advance public safety. #protectbailreform

Bail Reform = Crime Wave?

Most comprehensive study yet of rearrests in NYC shows Bail Reform actually reduced the likelihood that someone would get arrested again. So, going home was safer than sitting at Rikers.

My story on new Data Collaborative for Justice study: gothamist.com/news/study-sho…