Audrey Harkins thinks President Trump’s executive order to end cashless bail in violent and serious criminal cases is not only a good idea — but long overdue.

Harkins, 94, was rushing to catch the E train in Lower Manhattan on June 5 when she was bludgeoned in the head , allegedly by Edwin Wright, a 39-year-old vagrant with a rap sheet who was free because of the Empire State’s controversial bail reforms.

“I think anything that will save this city from the path we’re on is welcome,” Harkins told The Post. “I mean, the man who hit me had been arrested and let out over 250 times. Does that make any sense to you? I know it doesn’t make any sense to me.” 6

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The feisty New Yorker’s story is just one example of how the 2019 criminal justice reforms passed by lawmakers in Albany, whic

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