But not everyone was so convinced. Political posturer and anti-graffiti asshole City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr., thinks the backward looking laws should remain in place:

Vallone said in a statement that the “so-called ‘draconian’” laws were passed in the first place to give prosecutors power in the sentencing of drug criminals. “This action,” he said of the reforms, “will bring us back to those days” when “judges were putting drug dealers back on the street over prosecutors’ objections.”
“These dealers are not addicts who need treatment,” Vallone went on, “they are criminals who bring death to our children.”

|Queens Courier|