ALVIN BRAGG HOUSE JUDICIARY HEARING | PAUL DIGIACOMO OPENING STATEMENT

Paul DiGiacomo, president of the New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association, has been among the most vocal critics of state bail-reform measures that critics say allow more dangerous criminals back onto the streets, where the NYPD is forced to deal with them.

“The same people are being arrested over and over again for violent crime,” he told the committee. “They need to be held in jail. There has been a reckless disregard for the law that has led to unprecedented gun violence, robberies, car-jacking, home invasions, burglaries, shoplifting and disturbances by the mentally ill.”