Posted on 05/17/2024 8:24:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Headline-chasing Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s vanity project of a trial against former president Donald Trump comes at a high cost for New Yorkers.
The time and expense Bragg has devoted to the flimsy-as-a-cobweb Trump charges are indefensible given how many dangerous crimes go unprosecuted.
Criminals roam the streets with little fear of facing jail time.
Manhattan’s crime clearance rate is an abysmal 29.8%.
In 2023, NYC’s 109,303 prosecuted arrests resulted in an imprisonment rate of less than 7%.
While Trump is going to trial and faces six to eight weeks of “embarrassing evidence,” most New York criminal cases summarily plea bargained.
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With election fraud as rampant as it is, how is it possible to know who really voted for what?
Yes, so let the city burn. What with the asinine case on how MarALago was valued NYC has already killed its standing as world’s financial capitol. So, blow the rest.
Crime isn’t a problem for deep state tools because it mainly affects those not in the ruling class. Trump, on the other had, threatens the deep state ruling class so that is where their focus has to be.
Elections have consequences. You get what you vote for. People get the government they deserve. Etc., etc.
They cannot possibly be suggesting that violent street crimes are worse than misclassification of expenditures on a federal report? Where are the priorities? How can society survive without accurate federal reports? (/sarcasm)
These are immoral people. So anything goes.
its lost all its appeal as a tourist destination under Adams and Bragg, too.
Who would ever want to come to a town with regular subway pushers knife slashers and plain old gettin punched in the face.
It will take a LOT to ressurect this town esp. with all those illegals in tents & for sure they are all frantically studying english to get those jobs they truly desire/ s
He’s just following orders . . . and the double rinsed ironed with no starch campaign donations.
Ain’t that the ever loving truth.
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