Manhattan’s new progressive district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his office is confronting an increase in gun violence.
“We know we’ve seen an uptick in gun crimes, and we’re working on that every day, working with our law-enforcement partners on tracking the guns that are flowing into our communities as people sit from far away and profit off of our pain,” he told the National Action Network at an event for the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“Your first civil right is the right to walk safely to your corner store, so as your district attorney, I’m working on that every day,” he said. “We cannot have safety without fairness, and we cannot have fairness without safety.”
Bragg recently sent guidance to his office declaring that he wants to decrease crackdowns on several offenses including marijuana possession, turnstile jumping, trespassing, resisting arrest, interfering with an arrest, and prostitution. He called for the “decriminalization/non prosecution” of these crimes to “make us safer,” according to reports.
Just after effectively eliminating penalties for a number of crimes, Bragg admitted Monday that gun crime is ravaging the city and at a rising rate.
Bragg received a lot of backlash for his recent directive, which also called for downgrading felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing. The office will “not seek carceral sentence other than for homicide” or “class B violent felony in which a deadly weapon causes serious injury, domestic violence felonies,” with a few exceptions, Bragg’s memo read.
“This rule may be excepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic analysis of the facts, criminal history, victim’s input (particularly in cases of violence or trauma), and any other information available,” it added.
Bragg said that “reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer.”
In response to the memo, the New York Police Benevolent Association released a statement expressing “serious concerns” with the proposal, suggesting that it could send a problematic message to police officers as well as criminals.
Many offenders already believe they can “commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers, and face zero consequences,” the association said, implying that such a policy would exacerbate defiance and disrespect toward the rule of law and those who are entrusted with enforcing it.
via nationalreview
New Manhattan DA Says Office Confronting Gun-Crime Spike
Man, I sure am happy that I will be able to loot stores in New York City when I go there for vacation in July. Thank you, moron.
Wow, doesn’t NYC ban anyone from owning or having guns???
Not visiting the Big Apple til the Police can say it is safe and all the criminals are in jail or prison! Time for a change
I’ve never wanted to go to the big apple, from what I’ve been told the place is nasty !
Just look at the places with gun control like you are talking about, they all have very high gun crimes in their area. So as you can see gun control does not work.
They should put the criminals in jail and get the guns out of the gangs hands that would lower the gun crime rate. But that is beyond the democrats thinking ability.
The criminals get thier guns illegally so even if they’re banned it’s not going to make a difference
This man is no more qualified for his job than Biden is for his, both are total losers !
NYers are the dumbest people when it comes to voting,they keep electing useless officials into office and then complain about them,just look at Diblasio he was a disaster during his 1st term but what did the voters do they re-elected him again,NY hasn’t had a decent mayor since Giuliani,now the have Adam’s who is picking up where Diblasio left off and Hochul is nothing but a dictator but I can see the people voting her back in come election time
I will tell you this in the state of NY I went down to vote in the midterm election because I am not a democrat I was told I was not able to vote. I could only vote for the major elections.
Same here,I’m from L.I. and can only vote in major elections also
“New Manhattan DA Says Office Confronting Gun-Crime Spike” – By allowing Alec Baldwin to hide form New Mexico officials in the Hamptons?
Let’s see…DA will not prosecute for resisting arrest and so more criminals will resist. Which means police will have to use force on more criminals, and this loser DA will then want to file charges on the police for using force. It’s time for all NYPD to resign and leave the animals to police themselves.
I love the, ” PROFIT OFF OUR PAIN” so dramatic!!! LOL, LOL, LOL,
It is unbelievable that law abiding citizens put up with this clown. If the situation progresses NY will become worse than “The Old West”.