[NYPOST] Looks like Gov. Kathy Hochul has gotten the message on crime. Good for her — and good for New York, too.
Hochul, as this newspaper first reported exclusively Thursday, has abandoned her puzzling timidity on public safety and is pushing legislation that would tighten New York’s notorious no-bail laws, target both young gunslingers and subway crime generally and beef up the state’s power to detain and treat the mentally ill — against their will, if necessary.
And there’s the key word: necessary.
It is necessary for Hochul to do this — just as it is necessary that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins face down their lunatic-fringe progressive caucuses and not only take up Hochul’s 10-point public safety plan, but not gut it in the process.
That is, it is necessary that New York confront and defeat crime and serious civic disorder, just as it did a generation ago, and for the most fundamental of reasons: A society that will not do its best to protect its citizens from predation has no moral claim on their loyalty, their industry or their resources.
Eventually, it will wither and fade — which is precisely where New York was in 1993. Hochul, up for a full term in the June primary, now seems to want no part of that.
But why the change? 
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