Manhattan DA Race: Florence Challenges Bragg, Cites Crime Surge

“DA Bragg’s failing started from the very start, with his ‘The First Day Memorandum,'” she claimed. “Rather than thinking about each situation separately, he directed prosecutors to immediately downgrade exactly how criminal activities were billed, transforming felonies into offenses, and misdemeanors into no crimes in any way.

Florence’s Critique of Bragg’s Policies

“Manhattan deserves a DA who will certainly take crucial action to restore order and justness,” she stated in a statement. “My guarantee is to bring justice to every community– without worry or favor– and make New Yorkers secure in the house, secure at work, and secure on the streets.”

Florence’s Promise: Justice and Security

However Florence also was implicated of stopping working to turn over a possibly damning sound recording in her prosecution of unethical building executives implicated of unlawfully safeguarding countless bucks in city contracts.

“The law is a command, not a pointer,” claimed Florence, an ADA under former Area Lawyer Cy Vance. “It’s time to bring common sense back to the Area Lawyer’s workplace and leave the national politics behind.”

“The DA’s office sought a social experiment that made our city a lot more welcoming for offenders, and much less secure for everybody else. Today, it is not unusual for somebody to be arrested for a serious crime, only to be launched due to the fact that the DA refused to prosecute. And not a surprise– criminal offense has actually become worse,” Florence claimed.

She ripped Bragg over his infamous “The first day memorandum” in January 2022 that bought his prosecutors to stop seeking jail sentences for hordes of bad guys and to downgrade felony fees in cases consisting of armed robberies and medicine dealing.

Bragg’s Defense and Counter-Accusations

“Diana Florence surrendered in disgrace from the Manhattan DA’s workplace for stopping working to pass on proof in a significant corruption situation, and for producing a harmful workplace inside. No amount of unique interest money from Florence’s rich, powerful patrons or campaign unsupported claims will have the ability to conceal her scandal-scarred history, or distort Alvin Bragg’s successful record of supplying the security we need, the justness we deserve, and one criterion of justice for all.”

“Alvin Bragg is an honest, principled, experienced district attorney who has helped reduce capturings in Manhattan by 45%, released new psychological health outreach to get individuals assist, stood up for victims, and held the powerful liable,” said Bragg campaign rep Richard Fife.