It’s alarming to see New York’s judicial system coddling violent criminals at the public’s expense. Violent offenders, some with shocking records, are released without a second thought, often before their trials even begin. In a city struggling with rising crime, these judges are failing us miserably.
Woke NYC judges are cutting ‘dangerous’ perps loose at an alarming rate
These are the worst — and wokest — judges in New York City when it comes to protecting the public from violent suspects.
These criminal court jurists set violent offenders loose ahead of trial at an astounding rate — with some springing alleged perps more than 80% of the time, according to a Post analysis of pretrial detention data from the Office of Court Administration.
The analysis looked at 96 judges who handled a minimum of 25 cases in the first six months of 2024 where the top charge at arraignment was a violent felony. Nearly all such cases are still bail-eligible, even after radical criminal-justice reforms were enacted by Albany lawmakers in 2019.
One of the city’s most egregious practitioners of this junk justice is Queens Criminal Court Judge Wanda Licitra, who only set bail five times and had no suspects held in pretrial detention in 34 violent felony cases spanning January to June 2024, the latest available data.
Licitra even set loose a feces fiend accused of smashing poop into a straphanger’s face on a subway platform — who cursed her out in court to boot.
