Some Democratic governors and state lawmakers are resorting to tough-on-crime legislation, often against the will of the party’s progressive camp, as elections draw closer and violent crime emerges as a top issue on voters’ minds. Most want to take more violent offenders off the street, either by rolling back bail reforms or through tougher sentencing guidelines. In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed an omnibus anti-crime bill into law in early March. In New Jersey, a measure sponsored by Democrats to roll back bail reform was approved by the state Assembly on March 24. New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, just proposed adding changes to the state’s bail reform law in her upcoming budget proposal, resulting in a political pushback from Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. Grisham had placed the crime bill, House Bill 67, at the center of her legislative efforts this year, especially a bail …