Mayor Eric Adams is expected to lobby for tougher bail laws during his much-talked-about first visit to the state Capitol on Monday.
Hizzoner is meeting with state legislators, including Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, in Albany at 10 a.m. as violent crimes continue to rise in New York City, which has been blamed in part on lax bail reform.
The first month of 2022 recorded a 38.5 percent increase in nearly all major crime categories — rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and car thefts — in a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to data released earlier this month.
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