THIS SUMMER HAS
REIGNITED
CONCERNS ABOUT
THE PAROLE SYSTEM.
IN ONE INSTANCE, A
ROCHESTER MAN
WHO'D JUST GOTTEN
OUT OF PRISON IN
JANUARY, IS NOW
ACCUSED OF KILLING
A THREE YEAR OLD
BOY.
CHRISTIAN GARZONE
TELLS US ABOUT THE
ONGOING DEBATE
OVER CRIMINAL
JUSTICE REFORM,
AND WHY SOME SAY
THE PAROLE SYSTEM
IS OVERWHELMED.
""
CG IN: Gates Police
Chief James
Vanbrederode says
reforms over the years,
--- whether for parole, or
even bail reform, ---have
led to more bad guys out
on the streets. On the
other side of this, civil
rights organizations are
saying isolated incidents
should not be used to
take away from the
larger narrative of
rethinking criminal
justice.
SOT (Chief James
Vanbrederode, Gates
Police)
IN: 00:59:32 OUT:
00:59:39
"The bottom line is
people are not in jail.
Whether they're out on
parole, or we're not
putting them in jail."
VO: Chief James
Vanbrederode of the
Gates Police Department
says the criminal justice
system in New York, -----
between bail reform,
overwhelmed parole
system, and jails at lower
capacity due to Covid-
19... ----is out of balance
right now.
SOT (Chief James
Vanbrederode)
IN: 01:00:24 OUT:
01:00:30
"The whole ideology of
keeping people out of jail
comes with a cost, right?
A human cost."
VO: Chief Vanbrederode
and I talked about one
recent case of a parolee
in Rochester, Anthony
Love, who pleaded not
guilty in the death of a
three-year-old boy. The
boy was found
unresponsive by law
enforcement and later
was found to have
multiple injuries. While
Vanbrederode says the
full details are not out,
these are the types of
that he can't help but
wonder about.
SOT (Chief James
Vanbrederode)
IN: 01:01:30 OUT:
01:01:38
"So all these individuals
that normally would be
incarcerated where we
know where they are and
they can't reoffend are
back on the streets."
SOT (Ashley Gantt,
NYCLU)
IN: 04:12:31 OUT:
04:12:37
"What we do know for a
fact is that the criminal
justice system that was
in-place before all these
reforms happened, didn't
work."
VO: Ashley Gannt with
the New York Civil
Liberties Union says
isolated criminal
incidents----should not
be used to attack recent
reforms. Any reforms
made have been done to
eliminate an ever-
growing problem.
Ashley Gantt (NY Civil
Liberties Union)
IN: 04:13:11 OUT:
04:13:17
"A lot of the crimes
people are talking about
are poverty-based
crimes. And instead of
criminalizing people for
being in poverty, let's get
to the root cause of the
issue."
VO: Gantt says that
could mean reallocating
some resources and put
them back into the
community.
Vanbrederode says if
that means "defunding
the police", we're already
hurting.
SOT (Chief
Vanbrederode)
IN: 01:02:54 OUT:
01:03:01
"That just means less
police cars on the
streets...,etc."
----------------
CG OUT: still working
this
CHRISTIAN THANK
YOU.
POLICE SAY
ANTHONY LOVE WAS
CHRISTIAN THANK
YOU.
POLICE SAY
ANTHONY LOVE WAS
CARING FOR THE
TODDLER IN JULY,
WHEN THE LITTLE
BOY BECAME
UNRESPONSIVE.
THE BOY LATER DIED
AT THE HOSPITAL
FROM HIS INJURIES.
TODAY LOVE
