Bill De Blasio seemed surprised today that criminals who were let out of jail because the coronavirus would turn back to crime so quickly:







Here’s more from the NY Post:

It is “unconscionable” that Riker’s Island inmates who were released due to coronavirus concerns are committing new crimes, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. “I think it’s unconscionable just on a human level that folks were shown mercy and this is what some of them have done,” the mayor said during his morning briefing Monday, which came on the heels of a Post report outlining the issue. De Blasio said the number of re-offenders remains relatively small and said the city was “buckling down” on monitoring and supervising released prisoners. “We do see some recidivism. I have not seen a huge amount but any amount is obviously troubling,” he said. “We’re going to just keep buckling down on it, making sure there’s close monitoring and supervision to the maximum step possible. And the NYPD is going to keep doing what they’re doing.” More than 1,400 city inmates have been granted early releases due to concerns of the spread of coronavirus inside jailhouses, Hizzoner said. The Post reported Sunday that at least 50 of the newly released Riker’s Island prisoners were rearrested for new crimes in recent weeks — and in some cases were cut loose again.

Maybe it’s just the way De Blasio says it, calling it both “troubling” and “unconscionable” that they would commit more crime after they were shown “mercy”. But this is just another example of the left with an idealistic vision of the world getting slapped in the face by reality.

Ok I’ll give him some credit for putting in place a system to monitor these prisoners, but honestly this is what he should expect. And give it time because more of those who were set free will probably return to crime.