NYC Mayor Adams tones down bail reform rhetoric in apparent pre-election boon to Gov. Hochul

Mayor Adams dialed down his tough talk on the state’s bail reforms over the weekend after maintaining for months that they’re to blame for the city’s crime uptick — extending a pre-election olive branch to Gov. Hochul, who has been reluctant to heed Hizzoner’s calls for rolling back the reforms.

Adams offered the tone shift on bail reform in a virtual press conference Sunday that capped off a two-day criminal justice summit at Gracie Mansion.

The mostly closed-door summit was attended by a long list of local prosecutors, defense attorneys, criminal justice reform advocates and government officials, including Hochul’s chief counsel, Elizabeth Fine, according to an invite list provided to the Daily News. Discussions revolved around ways to find “common ground” on public safety — but largely stayed clear of the hot-button issue of bail reform, Adams said in the press conference.

“Anytime we engage in this conversation around the criminal justice system, people highlight one term and that is bail reform. There are so many other aspects of the criminal justice system that we were able to talk through and discuss, and we were extremely pleased with the conversations we had,” Adams told reporters.

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