There’s nothing progressive about this.

Demanding that the NYPD should be making determinations about someone’s bail status or ignoring court orders?

It’s totally backwards.

Edit: to state the obvious, there are clearly broken things that need to be fixed in how those cases are handled.

> "Nothing short of an extrajudicial campaign of terror and kidnapping.”

That's gotta win the award for scaremongering quote.

The silver lining is that those individuals who once avoided the courts to evade justice, are now very willing to see a judge ASAP.

> Wright knew that he’d previously cleared that warrant, and it wasn’t valid anymore.

> All told it took 17 days for Wright’s family to figure out what had happened to him and where he was, to reach his lawyer, and for his lawyer to get a judge to order his release.

He got out of jail using the correct judicial mechanism: get a judge to issue an order to release him.

But they took more than two weeks to even ask a judge for that, and now they are suing for the "trauma" that extended time has caused.