While police are catching criminals on New York City's unsavory streets, Soros-tied Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has caught a chronic case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Simultaneously, as Bragg seeks to prosecute President Donald Trump, the GOP's top 2024 contender, to the fullest extent of the law no matter the cost, the soft-on-crime DA has downgraded felonies to misdemeanors in a majority of his cases, handing get-out-of-jail-free cards to hordes of hardened criminals with little regard for the victims of these violent crimes in his own jurisdiction.
Bragg let accused murderer Tracy McCarter, who stabbed her estranged husband James Murray to death, off the hook.
Pre-primary victory, Bragg had tweeted support for the defendant, which the Color of Chance PAC, a vocal advocate of McCarter's release, believed to be a campaign "Promise" that he, at first, failed to keep.
The anti-police political action committee had pledged $1 million to Bragg's campaign, although it quietly withdrew half over a "Disturbing" allegation against Bragg, in May 2021, when liberal mega-donor George Soros donated $1 million to the Color of Chance PAC ahead of Bragg's packed primary.
The court found "No compelling reason to dismiss the indictment, but for the District Attorney's unwillingness to proceed," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Diane Kiesel wrote of Bragg's "Recommendation for dismissal," noting that "The public could perceive this dismissal as bought and paid for with campaign contributions and political capital." Court documents had cited the Color of Change pressuring Bragg to use his prosecutorial discretion in favor of the PAC's stance on the McCarter murder case.
After the DA won his bid to drop the murder charges, the slain man's family felt betrayed by Bragg, asserting that the remaining $500,000 campaign contribution was "100%" behind Bragg's decision to reverse course on prosecuting the alleged murderer.
Upon being sworn in, Bragg moved to turn his progressive agenda into policy.
In his controversial "Day One" memo to staffers, which he since rolled back following immense backlash, Bragg ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for a slew of offenses, reduce felony charges in cases involving armed robberies and drug dealing, and drop some misdemeanors.
Statistically, there's nothing to Bragg about when examining the chief prosecutor's performance overall.
In contrast, between the years 2013 and 2020, the percentage of criminal cases the DA's office downgraded never exceeded 40% under Bragg's predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr. Meanwhile, Bragg managed to lose almost half of his serious felony cases, winning a conviction just 51% of the time, which is down from a victory rate of 68% in 2019, right before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted courts in New York and nationwide.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/04/02/alvin-bragg-double-standard-on-crime-n2621354
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