The Post endorses Maud Maron for Manhattan DA – Latest News
Election Day gives hope for ousting soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg: Republican Maud Maron.
Yes, unbiased candidate Diana Florence, a 25-year veteran prosecutor, has additionally referred to as out Bragg’s penchant for letting repeat offenders stroll and his failure to guard girls from violent criminals.
But Maron, a former public defender and mother of 4, is the higher selection to move one of essentially the most important prosecutor’s workplaces in America — a job that Bragg has made impotent during his tenure.
Her 20-year profession as a public defender allows her to know the need to carry criminals accountable, ship justice to crime victims and maintain repeat offenders accountable for their actions — whilst she’s conscious of the potential for prosecutorial abuse.
Bragg’s conviction fee has fallen yearly since he took over in January 2022 — tumbling from 42% in 2021, Cy Vance’s final 12 months, to 35% in 2024.
And these numbers are method down from 2019, the 12 months earlier than the state’s anti-prosecutor discovery reforms took impact, when 64% of felonies resulted in convictions.
It is any marvel why Bragg quietly pulled his workplace’s information dashboard this election 12 months?
Infamous for his Day 1 memo ordering prosecutors to keep away from in search of jail time normally, to downgrade severe felonies like armed theft to misdemeanors and to easily stop prosecuting sure crimes altogether, he has made coddling criminals his No. 1 precedence.
When he’s not declining to prosecute even repeat offenders, he’s throwing the e book at residents compelled to make use of deadly power in self-defense when attacked by unhinged thugs.
He went after subway hero Daniel Perry and charged CVS employee Scotty Enoe and deli clerk Jose Alba with manslaughter for defending themselves towards crazed thieves.
Leaving Bragg in workplace is particularly perilous when mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani shares his “decarceral” agenda; having each in workplace guarantees an all-around prison justice catastrophe for companies, law-abiding residents and crime victims.
Bragg’s wrongheaded insurance policies — resembling virtually by no means prosecuting shoplifters — have accomplished lots of injury of their own proper; he must go, whoever turns into the subsequent mayor.
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He’s a plague on public security; Maud Maron is the antidote.
