Mayor Eric Adams urged state legislators in Albany on Wednesday to toughen bail laws and make changes to Raise the Age legislation as he advocated for the needs of New York City.
Testifying during a remote hearing on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s $62 billion executive budget plan — on what has come to be known as “Tin Cup Day” in Albany, when the mayor presses the state on city budget priorities — Adams reiterated his calls for changes to the state’s bail laws to allow judges to send dangerous perps to jail.
He said the “targeted amendments” to the law should be aimed at those “accused of perpetrating
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