How are things going for Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg? Well, he’s gotten the praise and plaudits from the radical left for his attempt at prosecuting Trump, but he also has to deal with the reality of the situation he has helped create. Namely, he has to deal with the crime situation which is making the Big Apple the Rotten Apple.
In fact, DA Bragg even admitted recently that the crime situation in the city is so bad that he is fearful and consumed with worry when his family members attempt to use the city’s public transit system, which is overridden with crime thanks largely to soft-on-crime policies and zero bail release turning criminals back out on the street.
Speaking about his feelings of fear that surface every time his family gets on the once-safe subway system, he said, “I know the statistics that transit crime is down. But when one of my family members gets on the train, I get a knot in my stomach.”
Continuing, DA Bragg said, “I live here, I’m raising my family here, so we have a lot more work to do. We do a number of long-term investigations involving wiretaps. We do targeted enforcement, so we are seeing the returns on that investigative work, and we’re going to do that kind of work.”
The New York Post, adding context to DA Bragg’s claim that crime on the public transit system is down, reported, “[Bragg] appeared to reference the latest NYPD data that show major crime in the city’s subway system being down 4.6% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2022. But last month alone, transit crime actually spiked more than 18%, with 195 incidents compared to the 165 over the course of June last year, the data shows.”
DA Bragg also claimed that the city’s surveillance and investigative work is helping the situation, saying, “We do a number of long-term investigations involving wiretaps. We do targeted enforcement, so we are seeing the returns on that investigative work, and we’re going to do that kind of work.”
Continuing, that same Daily Mail report on the DA’s office’s data said, “The proportion of cases in which the Manhattan DA’s office has not asked for felony suspects to be held on bail has more than doubled since 2018, according to its own data.“
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