{"id":1753371,"date":"2022-11-28T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753371"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:04:23","slug":"soros-backed-nyc-da-downgrades-over-half-of-felonies-to-misdemeanors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-nyc-da-downgrades-over-half-of-felonies-to-misdemeanors\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Backed NYC DA Downgrades Over Half of Felonies to Misdemeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoros-backed-nyc-da-downgrades-over-half-of-felonies-to-misdemeanors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City\u2019s<\/a> district attorney downgraded 52% of all felony cases so far in 2022 to misdemeanors, compared to the 39% downgraded in 2019, according to data posted the DA\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In 2021, District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran on a campaign in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criminal justice reform<\/a>, promising to uphold changes to the law that allows cash bail for violent crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1241207588.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Barry Williams\/New York Daily News\/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bragg won his campaign and took office on Jan. 1, and just days later, he released a &#8220;Day One&#8221; memo to staff directing them to downgrade certain felonies, including armed robberies of commercial businesses, and to no longer seek jail time for many serious offenses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/new-york-crime-wave-gop-gov-nominee-lee-zeldin-first-act-firing-alvin-bragg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NEW YORK CRIME WAVE: GOP GOV NOMINEE LEE ZELDIN SAYS FIRST ACT WILL BE FIRING ALVIN BRAGG<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell, at the time, wrote in a leaked email that Bragg\u2019s policies could endanger the public and undermine justice for victims.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s latest crime statistic reports show that overall crimes are up 27.6%, with 112,755 reported so far in 2022 compared to 88,394 reported during the same period in 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/640\/320\/Manhattan-DA-Alvin-Bragg.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"FILE - Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, speaks with supporters on election night in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      FILE &#8211; Alvin Bragg, Manhattan District Attorney, speaks with supporters on election night in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Craig Ruttle, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the same period, there was a reported 13.2% increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">felony assaults<\/a>, with a jump from 20,563 to 23,270 this year; rapes increased from 1,336 to 1,471; robberies from 12,033 to 15,639; and transit crimes from 1,316 to 1,865.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/alvin-bragg-liberal-das-turned-criminal-justice-system-head-former-police-commissioner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ALVIN BRAGG, LIBERAL DAS \u2018TURNED THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ON ITS HEAD,&#8217; SAYS FORMER NYC POLICE COMMISSIONER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Murders in the Big Apple are down from 432 to 372, and shootings are down from 1,688 to 1,438.<\/p>\n<p>Bragg, according to data on his website, and his department declined to prosecute 35% more felony cases than in 2019, factoring in the court system\u2019s delays in prosecuting cases from 2020-22.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\u2019s report also shows bail was requested for 2,518 felony cases so far in 2022, compared to 3,848, in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/DOWNLOAD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest statistics come as crime continues to surge in New York City.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s district attorney downgraded 52% of all felony cases so far in 2022 to misdemeanors, compared to the 39% downgraded in 2019, according to data posted the DA\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}