A Penny For Your Thoughts, One Dollar For Your Pain
The primary purpose of revolving doors is energy efficiency. They function as an airlock, preventing conditioned air from escaping and unconditioned air from entering the building. This helps maintain the interior temperature, reducing heating and cooling costs. Additionally, revolving doors improve traffic management by allowing simultaneous entry and exit. They can also enhance the architectural aesthetic of buildings.
Revolving doors may be beneficial for energy efficiency, and they may enhance the architectural aesthetics of a building, but they suck when it comes to the criminal justice system.
Yet, in every Democratic city, they figuratively install one at all police stations and courthouses. When liberals aren’t screaming to defund the police, they are demeaning the police force by returning criminals to the streets at such an alarming rate that they are putting the general public at risk.
On August 8, 2023, Tina Moore was sucker punched in the stomach as she walked to work. Moore is a reporter for the New York Post who leads the outlet’s New York Police Department bureau. The man who committed the assault is a thug named Kamieo Caines, and in an article on Saturday, Moore revealed that he had finally been captured.
It took two years, prompting Moore to ask a question that “thousands of NYC crime victims” before her have also wondered: “What took so damn long?”
“I took a photo of Caines on Chambers Street and Broadway moments after he slugged me as we passed each other at around 10 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2023. He didn’t say a word after hitting me and took off toward the nearby No. 1/2/3 subway line. I gave the photo to detectives.”
Here’s the kicker: Caines wasn’t arrested for punching Moore; he was arrested for attempting to “sell drugs to an undercover cop just before he was collared.” When he was arrested, he was holding “17 vials of crack and seven baggies of heroin.”
His bail for the drug bust was set at $200,000. His bail for punching Moore was set by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office at $1.00.
That’s right, after two years of waiting, Bragg’s office once again assaulted Moore’s sensibilities by setting the bail at only $1.00.
Moore explained:
“Police were only able to charge Caines in my assault because cops were actively seeking him in the drug case, which kept the clock in my case legally ticking, a police source told me.”
Moore said that police looked for Caines, but that their “hands were tied because of criminal-friendly bail reform.”
“No judge would have held him for simple assault — a misdemeanor. Since bail reform laws passed in 2019, the offense hasn’t been bail eligible — and police know that all too well.”
“Even if officers arrested Caines two years ago, he would have been right back out on the street. The system’s revolving door is one of the things that frustrates police officers and has so many of them racing for the exits.”
As a reporter for more than 20 years, Moore has written “plenty of stories about crimes.”
“Stories about random assaults exploded since bail reform went into effect in 2019, since my attack, I notice them all.”
“New York needs to do better by me — and all the other victims of crime in this city.”
Needs to do better is one of the great understatements of our time. Caines had been arrested 20 times before this arrest and was on parole when he attacked Moore.
Revolving doors suck at police stations and courthouses.
