Just let the felons go. Bragg apparently can't be bothered to prosecute. Convictions plummet, downgraded charges surge under Manhattan DA Bragg
Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded more than half his felony cases to misdemeanors — while also managing to lose half of the felony cases that do reach court.
Since taking office on Jan. 1, Bragg has downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors — compared to 39% in all of 2019. Between 2013 and 2020, under District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., the percentage of cases the office downgraded had never exceeded 40%, according to data made public by the DA’s office.
But then he was hired/elected to be soft-on-crime, because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair.
The conviction rate for cases he does prosecute is also down. Maybe he just isn't very good at his job.
“The people in charge right now want to talk about gun violence and getting these shootings down,” said Jennifer Harrison, the founder of Victims Rights NY. “But I wonder how many of the incidents [where] the charges were downgraded or dismissed or dropped involved guns or weapons, and how are we going to eradicate this kind of violence when people like Alvin Bragg are in charge?”
And the people of NYC wonder why crime is on the rise. Because turning criminals loose does have an impact.
Bragg was accused of giving a sweetheart plea deal in August to Justin Washington, accused of raping a teen-age relative, only for Washington to be arrested on new sex-crime charges the next month. The DA’s office said he would seek a greater sentence in the rape case.
Things will have to get much worse before they get better, and they won't start to get better while Alvin Bragg is district attorney.
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