BY: Keith S. Shikowitz, Investigative Reporter
You were talking about how in certain regulatory meetings, they brought everybody to the table, all the stakeholders. Well, with the no bail laws, they didn’t do that. They brought only the defense attorneys and the Democrats to the table. That’s how we ended up with the over 400 crimes being taken off of the bail, the bail.
You know, to make it a chance bail policy, you know, no bail, which has led to a lot of problems in New York.
safety being one of them. What can we do with this?
“I am unequivocally, I would vote unequivocally for any bill that would repeal cashless bail anything that supports our law enforcement agencies and protects the civilians of New York State. Cashless bail policies are an abject failure. We have police officer Jonathan Diller in Queens March of this year, I believe in instead of playing catch with his son and going old with his bride who was given an inspector’s funeral because of those policies.”
These are dangerous to the civilians that these are, are good for the criminals and bad for us and, and you don’t. This, does not only impact the minority neighborhoods, this is impacting the entire state. I don’t care where you live and the nice areas or the poorer areas. This impacts everyone. We need to give the judges back the discretion to put people in jail and keep them in jail when necessary to take that discretion away from the judges has again an abject failure.
With the plethora of school shootings across the country, many districts in an effort to prevent this from happening in their schools, have put more school resource officers in the schools and are utilizing retired police and military officers in these positions. What do you feel about having like retired police officers in buildings armed?
Lapolla thinks that’s a good idea. “First of all, you have to train people trained individual. I know people are getting hired to do that. They’re trained, professionally trained, retired police officers, law enforcement agents in the schools we understand the world we live in right now, especially with what we just discussed prior to that. So we know the threats are real. They become very real. Having that, that level of protection. No, I’m not in favor of giving teachers guns. No, I don’t think that’s necessary for that. I mean, my daughter is a teacher but the idea of having my grandchildren protected well, in school, professional,, law enforcement agents retired or even training someone, I don’t care how they, they would structure. Does it have to be retired?”
“Anybody that would be professionally trained and obviously well vetted and, and go through who they, the background checks and all that. Teachers having guns is a totally different discussion, but the children deserve protection. As do the teachers and the staff.”
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What can you, what do you think you can do with your allies in the Assembly and Senate to help stem this tide of illegal immigration and migrant crime?
“A couple of things. First of all, it is a federal issue, the immigration crisis, the southern border, if you will, it’s, it’s opened, but we also have a northern border too in New York. So we have to focus on that too. I would encourage the governor, I made public comments about this as well to assist in closing that border as well.
We are a sanctuary state which we just acknowledge New York City is a sanctuary city. Cuomo introduced it a few years back. I think with, if I’m not mistaken, strictly with an executive order, it could be repealed by the legislative assembly and Senate, but the super majority refuses to do so. We had a law that was introduced this year by both chambers, but all the Republicans could do was to get a public statement.”
“In New York City, an illegal immigrant came into the city, came in here illegally committed a crime. He was arrested but because of cashless bail, he was going to be given a court date but since he’s an illegal immigrant, he’s not sticking around. He goes to Georgia, and he brutally murders young Laken Riley, a 22 year old nursing student.”
“Now they had a bill on the legislative docket already. They renamed it in honor of Laken’s Law. Now, a high ranking Democrat Assemblyman. His excuse for not supporting that is because he doesn’t want to stop the American dream from happening for these illegal immigrants. Now, my grandmother from Ireland, my grandfather from Italy, they had, they lived the American dream. My grandmother raised her Children. My grandfather went to Colombia [University]. That’s, that’s the American dream. These illegal immigrants, the murderer that took out Laken Riley, they came to pillage and plunder. They didn’t come for the American dream and we’re witnessing atrocious things in Aurora, Colorado that that’s yet to come here.” He stated.
What sets Tom Lapolla apart from Chris Eachus? Why should people vote for him over Eachus?