Mayor Bill de Blasio appealed to the court of public opinion Monday to raise public objections over what he deemed to be a slow-moving criminal justice system where courts aren’t moving fast enough to process new cases.
The mayor said the city’s courts were out of order when it comes to moving along non-gun violence cases through, chiding them for delivering only 18 trial verdicts in the first six months of 2021; by comparison, more than 400 were tried in the first half of 2019. The lack of action on these cases, de Blasio said, allows suspects to evade justice on technicalities and walk the streets to commit more crimes.
