The progresssive insurance policies of Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg can solely result in extra tragedies just like the capturing of teenager Kristal Bayron-Nieves.
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Once they bury Kristal Bayron-Nieves, useless at 19 in an East Harlem fast-food-joint robbery-murder, will Manhattan’s new DA, Alvin Bragg, present up? That’s uncertain. However he ought to.
For a way higher to really feel the ache of a household disadvantaged of a shiny and promising daughter, a girl who didn’t wish to work the night time shift at Burger King as a result of she felt it was too harmful — however who did anyway as a result of her mom satisfied her it was the accountable factor to do?
Are you able to presumably think about the fear the younger girl felt when her fears grew to become her actuality — when the person standing on the counter produced a pistol and demanded money?
Extra to the purpose, can Bragg? There’s no motive to assume so.
Nieves handed over $100 or so, however the man shot her anyway, pistol-whipped a buyer after which punched the shop supervisor on the best way out the door. He was within the wind Monday afternoon; for the way lengthy is anyone’s guess.
However this a lot is a secure wager: When (if?) the cops monitor him down, he'll indirectly end up to have been a beneficiary of New York’s insane criminal-justice “reforms” of the previous two years. Folks normally don’t gun down teen-aged restaurant cashiers as a primary offense.
Certainly, if solely the perp hadn’t pressed the set off — that's, if solely he had simply waved a loaded gun — he’d be a first-rate candidate for leniency below Bragg’s just lately promulgated new guidelines for prosecuting crime in New York Metropolis’s most outstanding borough.
Or not prosecuting it, as seems to be Bragg’s plan.
In a employees memo made public final week, Bragg mentioned armed theft typically will probably be charged as a felony provided that somebody is harm. That's, provided that the gun goes off. By no means thoughts the deadly potential of loaded unlawful weapons; by no means thoughts the gut-churning terror felt by victims of armed offenders; and by no means thoughts the socially demoralizing impact of a pro-criminal district lawyer.
Primarily based on his personal coverage directive, Bragg’s principal fear is the unfavourable influence of efficient law-enforcement on criminals. “Carceral” sentencing — the phrase is prog-speak for jail — is life altering, he says, and thus as a rule is to be prevented no matter penalties.
He’s right about antagonistic impact, in fact, however that’s an odd fear for a district lawyer — who historically is extra involved with the unfavourable influence of crime on law-abiding residents. Equivalent to Bayron-Nieves, a younger girl good sufficient to acknowledge the hazards of the night time shift — she informed of getting to step round drugged-out vagrants to get to work — however arise sufficient to do it anyway.
Her tragedy gained’t be misplaced on others in her circumstances, in fact. Many will reply accordingly and easily keep residence — additional diminishing hope in a hard-pressed neighborhood and customarily accelerating an apparent downward spiral.
The identical will be mentioned of Manhattan — and, certainly, all of New York. Every deadly capturing, all of the stabbings, each subway shoving, the blatantly public drug capturing galleries and the vagrant-plagued public areas all contribute to a not-unwarranted sense of a metropolis in perilous decline.
Alvin Bragg and his wrong-headed insurance policies stand solely to make issues worse. He wants a lesson in how life is lived in post-Invoice de Blasio New York — and, once more, a superb place to begin can be by attending Bayron-Nieves’ funeral.
Wager he doesn’t dare.
E-mail: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc
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