Kathy Hochul’s Copy-and-Paste Crime-Fighting Formula
This year, the governor’s budget contains an agenda to combat retail theft. It looks a lot like last year’s plan to curb gun violence.
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Hochul is “trying to come up with a New York solution for a national problem.”
Chris Bragg contributed reporting.
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