Posted on 01/04/2022 4:02:56 PM PST by TexasGurl24
The newly-elected Manhattan district attorney is pledging not to seek prison sentences for the majority of violent felony offenders in his jurisdiction, limiting incarceration only to convicted murderers and some convict of violent crimes involving weapons.
Alvin Bragg’s office announced in documents released Tuesday that “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,” and a handful of exceptions.
New York County is coextensive with the city borough of Manhattan. Bragg, who was elected as New York County District attorney last year, is also planning simply not to prosecute crimes involving traffic violations, interference with an arrest, trespassing, and resisting arrest.
Bragg’s office will seek a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, even in cases involving murder. This would all but assure some convicted murderers would spent approximately 15 years in prison for their crimes, a comparative drop in the bucket when weighed against the lives of their victims.
Bragg is pledging to release defendants charged with serious crimes from jail before their trials, doubling down on New York’s controversial “bail reform” law that has allowed career criminals impunity to commit a bevvy of violent offenses as they await trial. Even defendants who refuse to appear for court for violent offenses won’t face additional sanction.
Even some forms of armed robbery would be treated as misdemeanors under Bragg’s jailbreak policies.
Newly-elected Democrat NYC Mayor Eric Adams has talked tough on crime, with city residents tired of the “progressive” third-world governance of Bill De Blasio. However, Bragg’s commitment to an anarcho-tyrannical style of criminal justice- similar to that devastating liberal cities such as San Francisco- may make it impossible for Adams to deliver the tough-on-crime policies New York City’s liberal residents have come to realize are necessary.
The murder rate in New York City has skyrocketed to highs unseen since the 1990’s since the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter riot revolution.
He’s following in the footsteps of several big city Soros affiliated DAs that have done the same thing.
The legislature sets the range of penalties for various crimes, but local prosecutors decide what charges to bring and what penalties to ask for.
You realize you're describing Escape from New York?
Bragg’s action sounds so unbelievable it makes one wonder if it is true.
A long term society cannot do this. It is like cancer.
Is Bragg one of Soros’ boys?
There will be a upswing in Vigilante Justice and of course they will be prosecuted.
Not wearing a mask in public will be subject to capital punishment
Another really bad idea.
It is not wanted, desired, expected, nor planned That the United States of America survive this. The sole and only purpose of this, and those like it, is the total and complete destruction of what the United State of America stands for. This is all planned and implemented by evil individuals.
“There will be a upswing in Vigilante Justice and of course they will be prosecuted.”
More like gang revenge killings. To give the murders a little more class - call them “honor killings.”
I wonder how much the cut is for the new DA.
Hope he gets what he’s giving us!
I’m sure this will do wonders for NYPD morale. (/s)
The good cops (and there are many) will leave, but the incompetent, the corrupt, and the lazy will stay.
Yes.
I figure it will work just about like this.
Trump becomes president again, and during his term the stuff
hits the fan so massively, that it can’t be justified any
longer.
Then media forever blames it on Trump flawed policy that they
warned against.
No matter.
The Isle of Manhattan is on borrowed time.
Should already by underwater due to Global Warming or should that be termed Climate Change.
I’m a couple of years behind the woke terminology.
Cloward-Piven.
I just will not go to Manhattan.
When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of his way.
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