“Evidence is overwhelming that states with permissive gun laws see much higher rates of gun deaths from accidents to suicide, domestic incidents to street crime,” Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said. He called the ruling “a nightmare for public safety.”
Alvin Bragg, who proposed dialing back prosecutions of minor crimes in a Jan. 3 memo, sent out a staff-wide directive specifically stating commercial robberies with a gun or at knifepoint will be charged as felonies.
The new Manhattan DA announced Tuesday that his office would no longer be prosecuting crimes like resisting arrest or fare beating, part of a criminal justice reform platform that the former federal prosecutor ran on, the Daily News has learned.
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