House Republicans expanded their witness list Friday for their upcoming crime hearing in Manhattan to six individuals, adding a Democrat member of the New York City Council and a victim of a brutal antisemitic assault.
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Holden recalled witnessing crime improve beginning with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and then seeing those improvements crumble in the last couple years following the state’s implementation of a sweeping bail reform law in 2020. Holden’s observation“I remember the city turning around, and we had, I think it’s 17 straight years of decline in crime until the bail reform, and then you couple that with DAs like Bragg and it’s a bad, bad recipe there,” Holden said.
Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, confers with committee ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler during a hearing on Capitol Hill, February 1, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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