{"id":1755142,"date":"2022-11-29T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1755142"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:18:22","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-numbers-show-the-grim-consequences-of-manhattan-da-braggs-pro-crime-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-numbers-show-the-grim-consequences-of-manhattan-da-braggs-pro-crime-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Numbers Show the Grim Consequences of Manhattan DA Bragg\u2019s Pro-crime Principles"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fny-post-editorial-board-numbers-show-the-grim-consequences-of-manhattan-da-braggs-pro-crime-principles%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=1755142&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>We\u2019ll need to see numbers from other district attorney\u2019s offices across the city and state before we can say for sure how <em>much<\/em> Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg\u2019s \u201cleadership\u201d has brought down the office\u2019s success rate, but the data he has proudly posted don\u2019t look good.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/26\/convictions-plummet-downgraded-charges-surge-under-manhattan-da-bragg\/\">Melissa Klein reported in Sunday\u2019s Post<\/a>, \u201cBragg\u2019s office wins a conviction just 51% of the time\u201d when it prosecutes serious felony charges \u2014 \u201cdown from 68% in 2019 [under DA Cy Vance], the last year before the pandemic disrupted the court system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office\u2019s conviction rate for misdemeanors is down as well, from 53% to 28%.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, a lot has changed in those three years, as not just the no-bail law took effect but also the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/15\/flawed-discovery-reforms-are-still-creating-chaos-at-da-offices-adding-to-nys-crime-surge\/\">deranged new rules for pre-trial discovery<\/a>, which force prosecutors to do insanely more paperwork and empower the defense to get cases tossed on technicalities in all of it. (Though Bragg\u2019s office, the best-funded DA operation in the entire country, thanks to forfeitures and fines from Wall Street firms, is far more able to adjust than his peers.)<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the court system is still recovering from the lockdowns. And juries may be less willing to convict in the wake of the George Floyd murder and rise in anti-police sentiment.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>But Bragg\u2019s own decisions clearly drive much of the troubling data: His office has downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors, vs. 39% in 2019. The office under Vance from 2013 onward never downgraded more than 40% of felony cases.<\/p>\n<p>The new DA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/04\/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-stop-seeking-prison-in-some-cases\/\">infamous \u201cDay One\u201d memo<\/a>\u00a0plainly explains much of this, as it ordered prosecutors to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, as well as to stop seeking prison sentences in many crimes. And while Bragg later <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/04\/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-reverses-pair-of-controversial-policies\/\">backed off on a couple of fronts<\/a>, most of the memo still stands.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you\u2019d expect that pressing fewer felony charges would lead to a <em>higher<\/em> conviction rate, not the 17-percentage-point drop from 2019 to 2022. But the office has lost some of its top talent as experienced prosecutors resign rather than work under Bragg\u2019s rules. Are the new recruits, who presumably embrace his philosophy, less able and\/or motivated?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg\" alt=\"protesters\" class=\"wp-image-24806521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/sipausa_42624668.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>New Yorkers are fed up with Bragg\u2019s efforts towards increasing crime. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Erik McGregor\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Jay prof Eugene O\u2019Donnell, a former city cop and prosecutor, flags the central issue with Bragg: \u00a0\u201cWhat is the DA\u2019s office there for? The guy is avowedly anti-punishment. He\u2019s avowedly anti-responsibility. These numbers reflect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crime victims and their survivors feel the difference. Madeline Brame feels \u201ctraumatized\u201d by the prosecution of the four defendants in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/29\/grieving-mom-of-slain-vet-berates-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg\/\">2018 murder of her Army vet son<\/a>, Hason Correa. Bragg\u2019s office gave two of them plea deals; another got to plead guilty to second-degree murder and the fourth got convicted this month of simple gang assault.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bragg jailed and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/06\/nyc-bodega-worker-jose-alba-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-feared-for-his-life-family-says\/\">sought murder charges<\/a> against bodega clerk Jose Alba in the death of a crazed customer who\u2019d attacked him. The DA <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/19\/alvin-bragg-to-drop-charges-against-bodega-worker-jose-alba\/\">backed down<\/a> only in the face of public fury.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan crime rates are up through Nov. 20 over the same period last year by 38% in Manhattan South and 17% in Manhattan North. We can\u2019t say how much of that is on Bragg, but a DA who\u2019s eager to get tough on the victims and show mercy to the real bad guys is plainly a huge part of the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll need to see numbers from other district attorney\u2019s offices across the city and state before we can say for sure how much Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg\u2019s \u201cleadership\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1755145,"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-1755142","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\/1755142","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=1755142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}