We’ve heard of second, third and even fourth chances — but 11?
Last Friday, Bronx Judge Craig Ortner chided Tammie Moore, a woman accused of pummeling an elderly woman in an unprovoked attack, that her alleged crime was “egregious” and warning her she was “out of chances.”
Then he cut Moore loose on “supervised release” anyway, despite prosecutors’ request for $30,000 cash bail or $90,000 bond.
“Out of chances” apparently means: We might start taking your crimes seriously REAL soon now.
Or maybe not.
Moore had 10 prior arrests under her belt before this assault, yet was still on the streets; she can hardly be quaking in her boots over the chance of ever facing any sort of accountability.
She knows what every law-breaker in New York City knows: Criminals get treated with kid gloves; victims are simply collateral damage of the left’s crusade for “justice reform.”
Moore’s alleged co-attacker, boyfriend William Ballinger also got sprung with no bail, by another judge, Eugene Bowen, despite his eight priors, including for drunk driving.
The duo, both 32, allegedly punched the 82-year-old victim multiple times before throwing her on the ground and stomping on her, sending her to the hospital.
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If that callous violence doesn’t meet the standard for getting locked up, what in the world does?
Waving two accused granny-beaters back onto the streets is debased, but that’s evidently “justice” in the eyes of all too many loony-left New York judges.
Then again, those judges are products of the same political machines that elect the lawmakers writing our get-out-of-jail-free laws.
New York’s justice system won’t start holding violent law-breakers accountable until the voters start holding the electeds accountable.
New York City’s crime problem has to be solved at the ballot box: It’s plainly not getting fixed in the courts.