Posted on 11/29/2022 7:44:15 PM PST by bitt
We’ll need to see numbers from other district attorney’s offices across the city and state before we can say for sure how much Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s “leadership” has brought down the office’s success rate, but the data he has proudly posted don’t look good.
As Melissa Klein reported in Sunday’s Post, “Bragg’s office wins a conviction just 51% of the time” when it prosecutes serious felony charges — “down from 68% in 2019 [under DA Cy Vance], the last year before the pandemic disrupted the court system.”
The office’s conviction rate for misdemeanors is down as well, from 53% to 28%.
To be fair, a lot has changed in those three years, as not just the no-bail law took effect but also the state’s deranged new rules for pre-trial discovery, which force prosecutors to do insanely more paperwork and empower the defense to get cases tossed on technicalities in all of it. (Though Bragg’s 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.)
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.
But Bragg’s 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.
The new DA’s infamous “Day One” memo plainly 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 backed off
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This is how the Dems view criminal justice. Felons are out on the streets to commit more felonies, but if any female get angry, hysterical, or has PMS, she can call the cops and get some male locked up for harassment or domestic violence.
This will eventually lead to warlordism. Before long private security, and private justice will replace the state.
Well it IS what the “voters” asked for so....
Bragg didn’t create the policy. He just expanded his predecessor Cyrus Vance, Jr.’s use of it.
Being swayed by numbers is acting white.
Satan is at the helm. We lack the courage to drown.
Grim? F em. They voted for it.
Think about what a 50% conviction rate means.
Does it mean that in 50% of the cases, an innocent person was falsely accused and saved by the intelligence of the jury? Does it mean that a case was filed in “good faith” but the State just couldn’t quite meet the standard of “beyond a shadow of a doubt?” Does it mean that no matter what was done, biased NYC juries were going to let the perp off half the time? (The opposite of the situation in D.C. courts and the Jan. 6th defendants or any other conservative.”
In any sane world with competent law enforcement and juries doing their jobs in good faith, I would want the conviction rate somewhere near $90%.
That would be “beyond a REASONABLE doubt”.
I don’t know where this “SHADOW OF DOUBT” came from, but that IS NOT what the law says!
It already has. Many of the shootings in Chicago are revenge killings by the aggrieved. The systems makes no arrests, the prosecutors don’t prosecute and the judges don’t punish or imprison. Revenge is the only justice available. Also the armed gangs are mostly a “security” force to police the huge and immensely profitable illegal drug industry.
I usually have NYC stories but happened to see iCrime tonight which said San Francisco has had a recent 38% (I think) upswing in crime lately.
A young Asian woman naively parked her heavily loaded car as she just arrived from New York in SF on a vacation. While with her friends a guy pulled up and broke a window and took her travel luggage, laptop, jewelry and other items in his car.
He then returned not once but twice (!) to load up his car again. Police “lost him in traffic” and now have no suspects and no knowledge of how to locate him. Not his own car, apparently. Young woman blames herself for trusting lots of people around, in the afternoon, and nice San Francisco she thought was safe in nice neighborhood.
Then "I answer only to Paul Kersey."
"I answer only to Bernhard Goetz."
"Give up."
"No, you give up."
(Police watch, crouching, at the counter inside the donut shop. Long way to pension.)
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