Legal Aid’s relentless pro-crime push puts all New Yorkers in danger

Legal Aid Society spends millions of dollars on class-action litigation and lobbying to force changes in the law that benefit criminals and handcuff cops.

Legal Aid wants cops to stop arresting people for what it calls ”low-level” crimes like shoplifting and drug possession.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the group seems "hell-bent on ignoring the plight of the victim".

Forget defunding the police — that not-so-brilliant leftist notion. Advertisement Instead , Albany should be defunding Legal Aid’s lobbying and class-action operations, along with any other nonprofit that protects criminals and makes crime pay. Your money is being spent to make you less safe. That’s crazy — a self-inflicted wound if ever there was one. Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and co-founder of the Committee to Save Our City ..