[nostromo]

> You'd think by the 4th or 5th one he'd be denied bail.

Last year NYC passed a bail reform law which removed bail as an option for a whole list of crimes.

You can shoplift all day everyday now, and you will be back on the street without bail.

[woodruffw]

> You can shoplift all day everyday now, and you will be back on the street in a few hours without bail.

Again, silence from the civil libertarians on using bail as a form of infinite detention. But more to the point: the bail reform doesn't apply here, since he's a previous offender. There's nothing (other than court capacity) stopping a judge from issuing a bail for him.