Wait & see on reforms: gov

A day after she blamed judges for rising crime in New York City, Gov. Hochul on Thursday ruled out any serious discussion of changes to state bail laws until January at the earliest.

The decree came despite calls for action from Mayor Adams as well as smallbusiness owners and her Republican gubernatorial challenger, Rep. Lee Zeldin of Long Island, amid rampant crime, often committed by repeat offenders.

“I’m willing to revisit everything, but let’s see whether or not the system can start functioning the way we intended,” Hochul said at an Albany press conference.

“The Legislature meets again next January, and by that time we’ll be able to assess the real impact of our changes.”

That timeline leaves current laws in place ahead of the Nov. 8 election pitting Hochul against Zeldin, who has made toughening the criminal-justice system a plank of his campaign.

Hochul also urged critics to remain patient following the enactment of bail-law tweaks that she has previously said hit a “sweet spot” and which were included in the state budget passed last April.

The situation has even Democrats like Adams calling for an extraordinary session of the state Legislature, whose regularly scheduled 2022 session ended in June.

“There should be a special session called today to give judges discretion on far more offenses to weigh dangerousness, flight risk, seriousness of the offense, and past criminal record,” Zeldin told The Post on Thursday, echoing the plea made by Adams.

Major crimes like murders and shootings have increased by 40% over the past year, according to the NYPD, with 10 “Worst of the Worst” recidivists accounting for nearly 500 arrests since new limits on pretrial detention took effect in 2020.