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Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded more
than half his felony cases to misdemeanors � while also managing to lose
half of the felony cases that do reach court.

Since taking office on Jan. 1, Bragg has downgraded 52% of felony cases to
misdemeanors � compared to 39% in all of 2019. Between 2013 and 2020,
under District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., the percentage of cases the
office downgraded had never exceeded 40%, according to data made public by
the DA�s office.

When serious felony charges are brought, Bragg�s office wins a conviction
just 51% of the time � down from 68% in 2019, the last year before the
pandemic disrupted the court system.

He has declined to prosecute 35 percent more felony cases this year than
in 2019, with 1,119 so far in 2022 compared to 828 three years ago.

The DA�s office requested bail in only 49% of felony cases this year
compared to 69% in 2019. State bail reform measures mean almost no non-
violent felonies are eligible for bail now although they were in 2019.

Misdemeanor convictions have also spiraled downward � to 29% so far this
year, from 68% in 2019.

Bragg, who campaigned last year on a promise of criminal justice reform,
proudly displays the numbers on his web site, the only one of the city�s
five district attorneys to do so.

�The people in charge right now want to talk about gun violence and
getting these shootings down,� said Jennifer Harrison, the founder of
Victims Rights NY. �But I wonder how many of the incidents [where] the
charges were downgraded or dismissed or dropped involved guns or weapons,
and how are we going to eradicate this kind of violence when people like
Alvin Bragg are in charge?�

Madeline Brame was dragged out of a courtroom after a video was involving
her son�s death � a case that occurred under Bragg�s watch.
Steven Hirsch
Harrison added that Bragg �really needs to stop with the public defender
mentality and do his job and enforce the law and prosecute crime
correctly.�

Bragg issued a controversial �Day One� memo after taking office saying he
would no longer seek prison sentences in many crimes, would downgrade
felony charges in cases including armed robberies and drug dealing, and
drop some misdemeanors.

A short time later, career criminal William Rolon was busted for
threatening a store worker with a knife and charged only with a
misdemeanor, leading a judge to stunningly tell him he should �feel lucky�
because of Bragg�s new policies.

Austin Simon was killed by Jose Alba over a bag of chips, which led to a
controversial call by Bragg.
Bragg reversed a couple of the policies in February, including once again
allowing commercial robberies committed with knives to be prosecuted as
felonies.

So far this year, 1,210 felony cases have resulted in a prison sentence, a
29% drop from 1,699 in 2019. As for misdemeanor cases, the drop was even
steeper � 78% � with just 522 resulting in jail compared to 2,413 in 2019.

Anguished Manhattan mom Madeline Brame says she was �traumatized� by the
outcome of the case against the four defendants in the 2018 murder of her
Army vet son, Hason Correa, 35. Two got plea deals from Bragg�s office,
one pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and the fourth was convicted of
gang assault at trial earlier this month.

�We�re not getting any justice or closure. The victims are just left hung
out to dry. There is no consideration for the victims or their families.
None,� said Brame. �There should be no plea deals to lesser charges,
downgrading of charges, none of that.�

Bragg was accused of giving a sweetheart plea deal in August to Justin
Washington, accused of raping a teen-age relative, only for Washington to
be arrested on new sex-crime charges the next month. The DA�s office said
he would seek a greater sentence in the rape case.

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Bragg did come down hard on bodega worker Jose Alba, who killed a crazed
customer attacking him in his Harlem store. After a public outcry, Bragg
dropped the murder charge against him.

Meanwhile, major crimes are up throughout Manhattan, with a 38% increase
through Nov. 20 in Manhattan South and a 17% rise in Manhattan North
compared to the same period last year.

�The real question at this point is why do you have a DA�s office? What is
the DA�s office there for? The guy is avowedly anti-punishment. He�s
avowedly anti-responsibility. These numbers reflect that,� said Eugene
O�Donnell, a John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor and a former
NYPD officer and prosecutor in Queens and Brooklyn.

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Alvin Bragg came down hard on Jose Alba, who killed Austin Simon in self-
defense during an altercation in his Harlem bodega.
Alec Tabak
Video grabs of Video shows suspect William Rolon allegedly robbing a Duane
Reade at knifepoint.
William Rolon � a career criminal � received a slap on the wrist after
threatening a store worker with a knife.
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Alvin Bragg campaigned last year on the promise of criminal justice reform
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Alvin Bragg campaigned last year on the promise of criminal justice reform
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Bragg�s office said it was still dealing with the impact of COVID-19
pandemic and working under burdensome discovery reforms adopted by the
state in 2019. It also contended that not every felony case was correctly
classified at arrest.

�The fact is, we have prosecuted 459 more felonies this year compared to
last and we have three times as many gun convictions so far this year
compared to all of 2019 � we will continue prosecuting violence drivers
and prioritizing safety and fairness in every case,� spokesman Danielle
Filson said.

Additional reporting by Matthew Sedacca

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