Bragg's workplace downgraded an accused sexual assailant's theft prices in Might.
Steven Hirsch
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime strategy has claimed one other sufferer: a 15-year-old Bronx lady who was sexually assaulted on Wednesday allegedly by a brute let out when Bragg’s workplace downgraded his theft prices in Might.
Fortunately for the teenager, a heroic Good Samaritan intervened.
On the time of Wednesday’s tried rape, Anthony Ibanez was out on no-bail in a case the place he allegedly robbed a Manhattan deli with a Taser-wielding accomplice. Cops had charged him with theft within the first diploma with use of a harmful instrument, a bail-eligible offense, however Bragg’s prosecutors decreased it to non-bail-eligible petit larceny, second diploma menacing and different low-level raps.
Final month, Ibanez was arrested for shoplifting at a 7-Eleven in Decrease Manhattan however regardless of allegedly possessing a hammer and a knife on the time, cops launched him with a desk look ticket. An arrest warrant was issued after he missed an Aug. 4 courtroom date.
New information launched by the NYPD confirmed that suspects arrested final 12 months for shoplifting went on to commit extra critical crimes — with 21.6% charged with felonies lower than two months later.
The NYPD’s figures present charges of recidivism as excessive as thrice what they had been in 2017 — earlier than the no-bail legislation kicked in.
“Anecdotes” and “cherry-picked information,” cry Gov. Kathy Hochul & Co. Inform that to the victims.
Heck, Hochul even faults prosecutors and judges for not jailing perps who might qualify for bail, whilst she refuses to take away Bragg for his acknowledged coverage of doing simply that.
At finest, the gov feels unable to face as much as fellow Democrats who put criminals forward of victims. That alone is ample purpose to vote her out of workplace come November.
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