Failed presidential candidate NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has responded to the recent wave of anti-Semitic violence in his city with plans to beef up law enforcement presence on the streets. But against a backdrop of soft-on-crime policies at the state and local levels, it is unclear exactly how effective such a move can be over time.

On Sunday, de Blasio increased police patrols in multiple neighborhoods and announced “multi-ethnic interfaith Neighborhood Safety Coalitions” and public school anti-Semitism programs on Sunday. According to the press release, each affected police precinct will have an extra four to six officers per tour, and there's going to be increased NYPD presence at religious events. The neighborhood coalitions "will have physical presences in the community with neighborhood safety walks and corner watches."

But this deterrence response is undercut by the fact that state and local officials have embarked on implementing brazen soft-on-crime policies in the name of "reforming" the criminal justice system, with little apparent regard for the effects on public safety.

As my colleague Daniel Horowitz has been chronicling for months, the state of New York is on the verge of fully implementing a new law under which people arrested for roughly 400 categories of misdemeanors and felonies will be released immediately without having to post any cash bail. Some prisoners are already being released under the policy.

In an October interview with Blaze Media, Sandra Doorley, district attorney of Monroe County, N.Y., explains why the law is bad news for public safety in general, but especially for victims and potential witnesses. “The majority of them are going to be out of custody because even those who commit violent crimes, it’s not going to be cash bond,” Doorley warned. “Our governor said that 90 percent of the people arrested for crimes will be subject to mandatory release; they will not be held before trial.”

These new bail policies have already come into play in the recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks after multiple suspects in such incidents were released without bail. One of those suspects racked up an additional assault charge the day following her release.

For de Blasio's part, the New York Post reports that his administration has been giving out things like $25 gift cards and seven-day metro cards to released inmates. Supposedly, these handouts are supposed to be incentives for defendants to return to court in lieu of cash bail, but a source tells the Post that the program covers everyone being released from Department of Correction custody.

Perhaps a more visible police presence and "Neighborhood Safety Coalition" corner watches will deter some future anti-Semitic attackers from wreaking even more havoc on the area's Jewish community. If they don't, however, the revolving-door policies of a "reformed" criminal justice system appear more than ready to put those offenders right back out on the streets, perhaps even with some extra cash in hand.

House Democrats have finally conceded to public pressure and are prepared to address the anti-Semitic remarks of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in a resolution that doesn’t mention Omar by name.

The situation is reminiscent of when the House formally reprimanded Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, for a statement he made about white nationalism and white supremacy in a lengthy New York Times interview.

But there is a huge difference in how King and Omar have been treated by their own parties.

The reprimand aimed at Omar doesn’t even mention the freshman congresswoman by name. King’s did. But even that version wasn’t watered down enough for many Democrats, who also wanted the resolution changed to include other kids of religious bigotry, resulting in a big intraparty disagreement on Tuesday. Objectors got the vote pushed back a day.

There was no push inside the Republican party to expand the resolution condemning King to include anti-conservative bias on college campuses or on social media, and Republicans would have been mocked for entertaining such an idea.

Furthermore, whatever implied slap on the wrist Omar may get in this resolution, so far it looks like she’s going to keep her committee assignments in the aftermath.

Most people advocating for stronger reprimands against Omar have mainly focused on her slot on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but not her spot on the House Education and Labor Committee. King lost all his assignments, including his spot on the Agriculture Committee.

Plus, the House Democrats, supposedly dedicated to government transparency, are still discussing whether or not to make their internal conference rules public. So it’s not publicly known how House Democratic leadership makes decisions about committee assignment and removal.

By contrast, under the rules of the House Republican Conference, decisions about committee assignments are ultimately up to the Republican Steering Committee. When King was stripped of his assignments in January, House GOP steering voted unanimously to do so.

Ultimately, regardless of how each party’s leadership makes committee decisions and recommendations internally, the speaker of the House has final authority to assign and remove House members to and from standing committees, per House rule 1, section 11.

That seems unlikely, given that the Democratic House Foreign Affairs chairman said that he won’t push to remove her from the committee. "I don't know that that would do anything except exacerbate the situation even more," Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., told CNN. "I'm looking to get rid of anti-Semitism, not looking to punish anybody."

This is how House Democrats have chosen to respond to multiple high-profile anti-Semitic slurs coming from a single new House member in the first three months of her freshman session. Compare that with how Republicans responded to one statement in an hourlong interview by a longtime member of their conference just a few weeks earlier.