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...A New York City man who's now been arrested 139 times thanked Democrats for guaranteeing his immediate release despite repeatedly swiping hundreds of dollars from unsuspecting subway commuters since the state's new bail reform law went into effect Jan. 1.
...Charles Barry, 56, has been arrested six times since the start of this year.
...He's been released each time without having to post bail under New York's new bail reform law since his alleged offenses were nonviolent, the New York Daily News reported.
...A high-ranking official in the New York City Police Department said because of the new bail reform law, offenders like Barry are released and then repeat the same crimes because judges cannot order them to be held in jail before trial.
...He'd be remanded and be behind bars for a couple of days. He wouldn't be able to victimize people," Assistant Chief Gerald Dieckmann, the No. 2 officer in the NYPD's Transit Bureau, told the New York Daily News.
..."Locking up Mr. Barry on unaffordable bail or worse, remanding without bail, ultimately does nothing to protect the public and fails entirely to address his actual needs."
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