Bloomberg Wants You and Your Gadgets to Be Safe

Showing that the Mayor cares about your iPods, Mayor Bloomberg criticized the judge who freed Javaughn Higgins, the 16 year old police shot after he stole a man's iPod, on bail. Higgins made his $150,000 bail after he was arraigned for the second degree murder of a man he robbed earlier this year. The Mayor said, "I think this is a perfect example of turnstile justice. This is somebody who was facing a murder charge and a judge just put him back on the streets to threaten you and me and our Police Department." While Judge Margarita Lopez Torres, who presided over Higgins' bail, did not comment, a spokeswoman for the Office of Court Administration tells the Daily News that bail is only a guarantee to make sure a defendant doesn't flee, versus being a punishment. Maybe the legal system needs to work faster in processing cases?

Higgins not only mugged a man of his iPod by flashing a fake gun, but also stole another's cellphone. Higgins, who was shot in the cheek and leg, was released from the hospital and into police custory yesterday.