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Why terrible, soft-on-crime judges plague New York courts

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Inflicting let-’em-loose judges like Janice Robinson on New York City is only one foul result of the Empire State’s judge-picking system: It feeds plenty of corruption, too.

But let’s start with how she spins the revolving doors of the criminal justice system like a crooked roulette wheel, freeing dangerous, violent criminals as soon as they’re arraigned.

Her egregious rulings include sending two alleged attempted murderers strutting out of court with no bail set at all; she has never gone along with a prosecutor’s recommendations for bail, or to hold a perp on remand.

And she’s not a rare bad apple: She’s the all-too-typical fruit of the poisoned tree of the state’s rotten court system.

City courts, in particular, are the last vestige of Tammany-style bossism, with judges overwhelmingly selected not on any kind........

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