This ceased to be a serious article when the author began downplaying how disastrous policies allowed Christina Lee's murderer to be walking free before he killed her, in addition to obscuring his criminal history.

The guy had, just a few months prior, randomly assaulted a subway commuter. The author claims it was "not clear what he did", even though his violent criminal history was widely reported in the aftermath of Lee's brutal slaying.

Ask yourself why this author is going out of her way to obscure the nature of Nash's violent criminal history.

Either she is a shitty journalist blogger who doesn't know how to use Google, or she is intentionally hiding details to fit her narrative. Going by her byline, it seems to be the latter as she appears to prefer innuendo over facts when writing advocacy pieces (which is all she does).

Assamad Nash assaulting a random subway commuter should have been enough to remand him into custody + mandate psychiatric evaluation, if we had a sensible justice system.

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On top of that, she then goes into how Nash had committed another crime shortly before murdering Ms. Lee. Again, she intentionally does not include what the actual crime was (damaging dozens of MetroCard machines in multiple subway stations) and instead speculates it could have been for squatting or accidentally damaging property.

And then there is this gem:

>Looked at from another perspective, if judges remanded suspects or set prohibitively high bail in the pettiest of crimes—damaged property worth a quarter of the cost of an iPhone, in this case—literally everyone arrested for anything would get sent to Rikers. How’s that tenable?

She specifies a specific crime, in this case property damage, but then shifts to "everyone arrested for anything" as a justification for why psychos who go around fucking up public property shouldn't be held pre-trial. Classic slippery slope fallacy.

No, detaining someone who goes around fucking up MetroCard machines doesn't mean every single misdemeanor offense leads to a Rikers stay. FFS.

Bringing back cash bail for more offenses isn't the answer. There needs to be a complete overhaul of the pretrial detention system so that psychos like the piece of shit who killed Ms. Lee are not allowed to just roam the city streets after assaulting people.

When people like this author obscure facts and misrepresent cases in order to push their talking points, it comes across as bad-faith hackery. It may be enough to fool gullible, low-information readers, which is probably the point given that is her audience, but she comes across as disingenuous to anyone who is even remotely researched on the cases mentioned.