Election Day presents hope for ousting soft-on-crime Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg: Republican Maud Maron.
Sure, impartial candidate Diana Florence, a 25-year veteran prosecutor, has additionally referred to as out Bragg’s penchant for letting repeat offenders stroll and his failure to guard ladies from violent criminals.
However Maron, a former public defender and mother of 4, is the higher alternative to move some of the essential prosecutor’s workplaces in America — a job that Bragg has made impotent throughout his tenure.
Her 20-year profession as a public defender permits her to grasp the necessity to maintain criminals accountable, ship justice to crime victims and maintain repeat offenders accountable for their actions — whilst she’s conscious of the potential for prosecutorial abuse.
Bragg’s conviction charge has fallen yearly since he took over in January 2022 — tumbling from 42% in 2021, Cy Vance’s final yr, to 35% in 2024.
And people numbers are manner down from 2019, the yr earlier than the state’s anti-prosecutor discovery reforms took impact, when 64% of felonies resulted in convictions.
It’s any surprise why Bragg quietly pulled his workplace’s knowledge dashboard this election yr?
Notorious for his Day 1 memo ordering prosecutors to keep away from in search of jail time generally, to downgrade severe felonies like armed theft to misdemeanors and to easily cease prosecuting sure crimes altogether, he has made coddling criminals his No. 1 precedence.
When he’s not declining to prosecute even repeat offenders, he’s throwing the e book at residents compelled to make use of deadly pressure in self-defense when attacked by unhinged thugs.
He went after subway hero Daniel Perry and charged CVS employee Scotty Enoe and deli clerk Jose Alba with manslaughter for defending themselves in opposition to crazed thieves.
Leaving Bragg in workplace is very perilous when mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani shares his “decarceral” agenda; having each in workplace guarantees an all-around legal justice catastrophe for companies, law-abiding residents and crime victims.
Bragg’s wrongheaded insurance policies — comparable to virtually by no means prosecuting shoplifters — have carried out loads of harm in their very own proper; he must go, whoever turns into the subsequent mayor.
He’s a plague on public security; Maud Maron is the antidote.
