{"id":27587,"date":"2022-01-09T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=27587"},"modified":"2022-01-09T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:33:09","slug":"da-alvin-bragg-is-inviting-a-criminal-free-for-all-to-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/09\/da-alvin-bragg-is-inviting-a-criminal-free-for-all-to-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"DA Alvin Bragg is inviting a criminal free-for-all to Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Welcome to Mr. Bragg\u2019s neighborhood, where criminals have no fear of prosecution, jail time or having a record.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not going to be a beautiful day in Manhattan. Instead of asking, \u201cWon\u2019t you be my neighbor?\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/04\/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-stop-seeking-prison-in-some-cases\/\" rel=\"noopener\">District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asked Manhattanites<\/a> to be his guinea pig.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be a free-for-all as opportunists take advantage of a new era \u2014 the decade of the criminal. Thanks to New York\u2019s political elite, we have to contend with: criminal-justice reform, bail reform, prison reform, parole reform, Raise the Age and now another DA who has appointed himself judge and jury.<\/p>\n<p>How much more can the criminal-justice system handle before it collapses? Not much, and I\u2019m starting to believe that this is the intended result.<\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought criminal-justice reform couldn\u2019t get any worse, enter Alvin Bragg. Voting has consequences, and Manhattan residents couldn\u2019t have picked a worse time to elect him. Criminal violence rose an unprecedented 30% in 2020. Murders and shootings were up again in 2021.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A man is arrested during a protest.\" class=\"wp-image-20772435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237571894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The DA\u2019s new orders to staff also included a vow to stop pursuing low-level offenses.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What Bragg is going to do should be no surprise. He posted his manifesto on his Web site way before November\u2019s election. Unfortunately, those who voted for him never read it or thought of the consequences, or they ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t the first one to think of or try it. Others have before him with disastrous results. This \u201cprogressive prosecution\u201d hasn\u2019t worked in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and countless other cities, but New Yorkers insisted on trying it here.<\/p>\n<p>What he has done is invite all sorts of criminals from the outer boroughs to join in on the mayhem. Why rob a commercial establishment in Staten Island and face the maximum penalty\u00a0when you can do it in Manhattan and face a lot less?\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Crime will be bad, but the numbers won\u2019t show it. This is known as a \u201cdark figure\u201d in crime statistics \u2014 an unknown number of crimes that the public will not report to the police. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN\u2019s John Berman, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newday\/status\/1479438878629154820\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bragg gave a long-winded<\/a> \u201cYes\u201d to the question: \u201cIf you\u2019re not going to prosecute these crimes, shall [police] stop making arrests for them?\u201d Citizens and business owners will stop calling the cops when crimes are committed since they \u201cdon\u2019t do anything.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And there you have it: By the end of the summer, Bragg will be exclaiming, \u201cCrime is down, violence is down! I told so!\u201d Can you see how this works and how bad it will be for citizens? DAs like Bragg don\u2019t reduce crime, they just reduce people reporting crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is no recall mechanism in New York City like we\u2019ve seen in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Bragg knows it. Manhattanites own this one. Bragg will endanger the lives of those he thinks he\u2019s saving from prison. Violence begets violence, and if there are no consequences, retaliation will be the order of the day. Instead of focusing on deterrence, he has sentenced victims and their families to a lifetime of pain and misery.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Alvin Bragg speaks at an event.\" class=\"wp-image-20772378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/010822AlvinBragg-gnm015.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Bragg said his office \u201cwill not seek a carceral sentence\u201d except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">G.N.Miller\/NYPost<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The problem with ideologues like Bragg is that he insists that the \u201cold ways of doing things haven\u2019t worked.\u201d Really? How did Gotham go from recording 2,262 murders in 1990 to 468 in 2020? Social workers?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had enough of the gaslighting. By denying that policing, incapacitation and, most important, deterrence works, Bragg highlights his lack of compassion for victims and their families. None of this falls under his job description.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if emergency-room doctors started dictating what type of emergencies they won\u2019t handle and told patients to walk it off and rub some dirt on it? That\u2019s effectively what Bragg is dictating to crime victims and their families.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Giacalone is a retired NYPD sergeant, author and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/09\/da-alvin-bragg-is-inviting-a-criminal-free-for-all-to-manhattan\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Welcome to Mr. Bragg\u2019s neighborhood, where criminals have no fear of prosecution, jail time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-cj-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27589,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27587\/revisions\/27589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}