Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases

[Right_in_Virginia]

Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases
NY Post, Jan 4, 2022

Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn’t even want to lock up the bad guys?

Manhattan’s new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals and to downgrade felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, according to a set of progressive policies made public Tuesday.

In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said his office “will not seek a carceral sentence” except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption.

"This rule may be excepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic analysis of the facts, criminal history, victim’s input (particularly in cases of violence or trauma), and any other information available,” the memo reads.

Assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind the “impacts of incarceration,” including whether it really does increase public safety, potential future barriers to convicts involving housing and employment, the financial cost of prison and the racial disparities over who gets time, Bragg instructed.


More:  https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-stop-seeking-prison-in-some-cases/

[Right_in_Virginia]

To all sane Manhattanites:  Get out NOW!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind the “impacts of incarceration,” including whether it really does increase public safety, potential future barriers to convicts involving housing and employment, the financial cost of prison and the racial disparities over who gets time, Bragg instructed.

How do you even reply to this?? 

[Kamaji]

How do you even reply to this?? 

That some of those factors are legitimate points to be considered, but that they are only some of the factors that should be taken into account, including the culpability of the defendant, the indicators of genuine remorse on the part of the defendant (as opposed to feigned remorse), and the public benefit to be gained by having the public see the defendant incarcerated.

The other factors, particularly the racist factors, are not legitimate.

However, what is fundamentally illegitimate is making a blanket policy statement that only certain types of crimes will ever receive a sentence of incarceration.

[dfwgator]

To all sane Manhattanites:  Get out NOW!

All two of them?   This is what they voted for.

[mountaineer]

Lawyerforlaws
@lawyer4laws
The new Manhattan D.A. subscribes to the Marxist Criminology Theory..
It's the Criminal who is the actual victim...

2:13 PM · Jan 9, 2022

[DefiantMassRINO]

They just keep repeating the same mistakes.

The powers-that-be won't care what happens to poor neighborhoods, but if this spills over to more affluent locales, New York real estate values will plummet.

[Kamaji]

They just keep repeating the same mistakes.

The powers-that-be won't care what happens to poor neighborhoods, but if this spills over to more affluent locales, New York real estate values will plummet.

And repeating the very same mistakes that led to NYC becoming such a hellhole in the 1970s.  We've already seen this picture; we know exactly where this road leads - we drew the damned map back in the 1970s - and now we're doing exactly the same things all over again.

[Fishrrman]

RINO grumbles (in reference to the new Manhattan DA):
"They just keep repeating the same mistakes"

Comrade RINO, it is YOU who is in error.
These ARE NOT "mistakes".
To the contrary, what you see going on represents deliberate planning and promulgation of policies to achieve particular end-results.

You may not desire the end-results.
The Party DOES.

Mr. Bragg's picture tells us pretty much what we need to know about him: