NYPD (New York Police Department) veteran Wilbur Chapman has claimed that "no consequences" is causing an issue of "repeated behaviour" in the US.
He joined Patrick Christys on GBN America to discuss rising crime in New York, warning there is “a lot more violence” on the streets of the Big Apple.Explaining the change Chapman said: "There was a change in state law in terms of bail reform, on one hand, and getting rid of immunity for police officers. So police officers took action and it wasn't deemed appropriate.
"They wouldn't be indemnified. So that caused some hesitancy. But on the other side, in order to overcompensate for what the local legislators thought was an unfair bail policy and incarceration policy, they erring on the side of being much too lenient.
"Unless someone commits a heinous crime, a very vicious crime, violent crime, they can't be held without bail or high bail set.
"So all of these property crimes is the ones that I articulated before those breaking into stores and looting, doing other things, their property crimes.
"As a result, these people who commit these crimes are being released on their recognizance and they're coming back and becoming recidivists.
"So you have a small segment of the population that are repeat offenders, but nothing is being done to them. As anybody who knows in law enforcement, if there are no consequences, you will have repeated behavior."