State data undercuts the bail reform backlash

Over 18 months in Rochester, less than 2 percent of criminal defendants were arrested on violent felonies while free without bail.Tyquan Rivera was already a notorious criminal when he was arrested in December 2019 on a felony charge of selling fentanyl to undercover officers. He had been released from prison only eight months earlier after serving a 10-year stretch for shooting Rochester Police Officer Anthony DiPonzio in the head as a 14-year-old boy.…