{"id":9095,"date":"2025-10-20T07:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:21:40","slug":"manhattan-needs-a-new-da-elect-me-over-alvin-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9095\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan needs a new DA, elect me over Alvin Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a lot of radical proposals and promises this campaign season. From free buses and city grocery stores to declaring the NYPD a threat to public safety. But I\u2019m here to make a truly radical promise: as Manhattan\u2019s new district attorney, I will prosecute criminals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That shouldn\u2019t sound like a radical act, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s<\/a> has done anything but his job. From day one Bragg has failed to stand up to violent felons who attack women and girls, repeatedly pleaded down crimes, chosen to put repeat offenders back on the streets and let our small businesses feel terrorized. He\u2019s been more concerned with protecting criminals than the people who live, work and visit Manhattan.<\/p>\n

In fact, the only thing he has managed to lock up in Manhattan is the deodorant aisle.<\/p>\n

The numbers speak for Bragg\u2019s failed record. To start, felony conviction rates have collapsed under his watch. In the year before Bragg took office, the felony conviction rate was 42%. Last year, it was just 35%. And for 2025? Bragg covered his tracks, hiding the numbers to keep New Yorkers blind and himself off the hook.<\/p>\n

This shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone considering right after he took office, Bragg issued his infamous \u201cday one memo\u201d promising to prosecute less and downgrade more.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one promise he\u2019s managed to keep.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just convictions. In Manhattan, major crime is up more than 15% from 2021. Rapes are up nearly 30%. Grand larceny is up more than 30% and felony assaults up more than 13%. These aren\u2019t just numbers; they represent real people whose lives have been impacted well beyond just the moment the crime took place.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need numbers to understand the consequences of Bragg\u2019s failures. We live them everyday on the streets of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Like the woman who was attacked on a subway platform by Tyriek Martin<\/a>, a man with a long history of violent assaults. He smashed her head, threw her to the ground, and then tried to rape her.<\/p>\n

Or the 15-year-old who was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at someone in Harlem, but was released because the Manhattan DA failed to file the indictment on time.<\/p>\n

Or the man who was arrested for raping a teenager, a crime that should have carried a 25 year prison sentence, but which Bragg reduced to a misdemeanor that carried only a 30 day jail sentence.<\/p>\n

These are stark reminders that our streets are unsafe and our communities are at risk because the very leader we elected to hold criminals accountable has repeatedly failed to do his job.<\/p>\n

Even our police commissioner believes Bragg has been asleep on the job, recently noting because of the decriminalization policies Bragg has embraced, before our police officers can finish arrest paperwork, offenders \u201care back out on the street, immediately returned to the neighborhood and the people that they just victimized.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the real world, when you fail to do your job you get fired. That\u2019s exactly what needs to happen with Bragg. I\u2019m running for Manhattan district attorney to make Manhattan safe again and return the office to its core mission: prosecuting crime.<\/p>\n

When people ask if I can get the job done, my answer is a resounding yes. With 25 years of experience prosecuting every type of crime in the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office, I\u2019ve spent my career fighting to keep our communities safe. As a lifelong Democrat running as an independent, I\u2019m ready to do it as Manhattan\u2019s next district attorney.<\/p>\n

But this race isn\u2019t just about me. It\u2019s about the women who are too scared to ride the subway home at night. It\u2019s about the families who live in neighborhoods where crime has become a daily threat. It\u2019s about every New Yorker who deserves to feel safe in their own city and why we need a district attorney who will put criminals behind bars, not let them walk free.<\/p>\n

This election isn\u2019t about empty promises or cheap headlines. It\u2019s about real results. Manhattan deserves a district attorney who will do the job every single day. I\u2019m ready to deliver for our city, and I won\u2019t stop until criminals are held accountable and our communities are safe.<\/p>\n

Florence is running for Manhattan district attorney next month as an independent. She is a lifelong Democrat and a 25-year prosecutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been a lot of radical proposals and promises this campaign season. From free buses and city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,299],"class_list":["post-9095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}