The population of records has been declining pretty steadily, and declined even further two years ago after the state legislature enacted a series of reforms to the bail law. This morning, speaking alongside two women who policely lost loved ones to people who were released without bail, that legislation generated an enormous impor ted back lash. What kind of response do we see from police unions, correctional officers and just the broader law enforcement community? One of the loudest voices in all this was dermot shay, the commissioner of the m y p d. Release cach and release.