{"id":391602,"date":"2022-01-09T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/manhattan-da-alvin-braggs-obstruction-of-justice-league-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2022-01-09T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T03:06:52","slug":"manhattan-da-alvin-braggs-obstruction-of-justice-league-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/manhattan-da-alvin-braggs-obstruction-of-justice-league-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg&#8217;s obstruction of justice league: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg&#8217;s obstruction of justice league: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It takes two to tango, but three is a crowd, as Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams are discovering. They want to work together to reduce crime, but Manhattan\u2019s radical new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, has other ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His vow to go easy on nearly all suspects except those charged with murder, domestic violence and sexual assault will undermine the law-enforcement push by Hochul and Adams. They will not be able to curb the out-of-control violence if Manhattan is a sanctuary borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime and time again, New Yorkers tell me that they don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d Hochul said in her state of the state speech. \u201cThey don\u2019t like what they see on streets and things feel different now, and not always for the better.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But she and Adams can forget about changing that feeling if Bragg follows through with his compassion for criminals. The adage that \u201cif you can\u2019t do the time, don\u2019t do the crime\u201d falls flat if there are no consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because Manhattan is New York to most of the world, what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens there will define the entire city. Thus, the aim of winning back tourists and the trust of those who fled to Florida and elsewhere as crime surged could be toast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some city prosecutors already went down the soft-on-crime path, but Bragg is stretching the idea beyond the breaking point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the conclusion of new top cop Keechant Sewell, who responded to Bragg\u2019s policy memo to his staff with a blistering one of her own. In a missive to NYPD troops, she accused the DA of putting cops and the public in danger, writing that Bragg \u201ceffectively decriminalizes much of the conduct that New Yorkers are asking police to address.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the heart of the matter. Bragg is misreading the prevailing public mood, which calls for cops to do more, not less.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-10.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams acknowledge the cheers of supporters following his election win as the city's next mayor.\" class=\"wp-image-20767565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-10.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-10.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-10.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Adams has vowed to be tough on crime, and could be undermined by the new DA.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Frank Franklin II<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Indeed, in a sign of how far out of step he is, online readers of The New York Times were overwhelmingly critical of his plans in Friday night responses to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/06\/nyregion\/alvin-bragg-manhattan-da.html\">the paper\u2019s story.<\/a> The Times endorsed Bragg during the campaign, so the one-sided reaction among its readers was especially revealing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is one element of a situation peculiar even for Gotham. In another, Adams and Bragg, both black Democrats, share many of the same supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adams got 219,000 votes in Manhattan, or about 80 percent of those cast in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election, his highest mark in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the same day, Bragg won 182,000 votes, or 83 percent of the Manhattan ballots cast in his \u00adcontest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The large overlap comes despite the fact that their clashing views were well known. Adams, a former captain in the NYPD, was elected on a promise of stopping the crime madness and bringing back undercover anti-gun units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York Governor Kathy Hochul delivers her first State of the State address in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol.\" class=\"wp-image-20767562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/hochul-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers her first state of the state address in the Assembly Chamber.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Hans Pennink<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He and Hochul quickly pivoted from the childish feuding of their predecessors, Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, and met several times to map out a shared agenda. They say they\u2019ll work together to make subways safer and are teaming up to roll back some progressive \u201creforms\u201d that ended cash bail for most suspects and turned courthouses into revolving doors and streets into killing fields.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bragg opposes virtually everything they stand for. He is against the anti-gun units, saying at his election-night party he would address illegal guns with unspecified \u201cnew tools.\u201d He also said getting more people out of jail was an urgent priority, citing a \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d at Rikers Island, the Times reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the details he laid out in his staff memo appear to go beyond his campaign rhetoric. There would be few exceptions to his policy of avoiding incarceration in most cases and they would require \u201cextraordinary circumstances,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The memo also warned aides to consider the \u201cimpacts of incarceration\u201d and whether having been in prison makes it too hard for released convicts to get housing and jobs. He also told them to consider racial disparities in deciding whether to prosecute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/alvin-bragg-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is sworn in as the first Black Manhattan District Attorney. \" class=\"wp-image-20767579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/alvin-bragg-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/alvin-bragg-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/alvin-bragg-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg being sworn in as the first Black Manhattan District Attorney. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Richard Fife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Victims were an afterthought, if that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bragg also emphasized he wants to downgrade many cases, no matter what charges police make. For example, robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, if no victims were seriously injured. Normally, armed robbery is a felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Bragg, speaking at an Al Sharpton gathering Saturday, stressed that armed robbery would still be prosecuted as such, which would seem to contradict the memo.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suspects with rap sheets who are caught with weapons other than guns will have charges reduced to misdemeanors, his instructions say. Normally, criminal possession of a weapon is a felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And suspects charged with burglary of businesses in mixed-use buildings and storage areas will also have charges downgraded. Those who resist arrest generally would not be charged at all, a particular concern to the new police commissioner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond New York, Bragg\u2019s plan will send political shock waves across the nation. Adams\u2019 victory on his anti-crime agenda got the attention of the White House, which was shaken by polling showing that many voters blame Dems for the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement and the alarming rise in crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 major cities set homicide records last year, including Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Baton Rouge, La., Austin, Texas and Louisville, Ky. That followed a national jump in murder of 30% in 2020, the largest single-year increase in 60 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg\" class=\"wp-image-20767560\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/bragg-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is under fire after releasing a memo detailing plans to downgrade certain cases. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ David R. Martin <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s getting arrested anymore,\u201d Robert Boyce, a retired chief of detectives for the NYPD, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records\/story?id=81466453\">told ABC News<\/a>. \u201cPeople are getting picked up for gun possession and they\u2019re just let out over and over again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Citing FBI data, ABC says the number of arrests nationwide in 2020 was 7.6 million, a decline of 24 percent from 2019 and the lowest \u00adtotal in 25 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, Dems are trying to craft new messages in advance of the midterm elections. President Biden seems to have scrapped demonizing talk of \u201csystemic racism\u201d in law enforcement and instead vows to send federal money to help cities hire more cops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those are good starts. 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