bragg. he admonished the democrats on the house judiciary committee. here he is and other victims. he was laughing, that s very nice and the other democrats are telling us that we are all props. please don t talk down to us. the democrat party, including mr. nadler and everybody here today has ignored us in the city and we need federal oversight, we need help. the next time an snpt man does nothing but protect their own life in self-defense they should not be made the villian but treated with care and compassion as the victim. in 2022, d.a. bragg downgraded more than 50% of the felony cases to misdemeanors and only convicted half of the major felony cases. overall, crime in new york city in 2022 was up 22%, and felony arrests hit a 16-year high. d.a. bragg contends in
district we were in, we were next door to nadler s district, goldman said crime is worse than he s seen it in 25 years, and now today no crime in new york. it s crazy. what democrats know is a huge issue for these voters across the nation is crime in their own backwards. at campaign time, they say they want to protect neighborhoods, protect the people. they get to washington, forget about that, focus on the obsession of donald trump and it s got to stop. john: a real disconnect what they say. congressman, thank you, we ll look forward to you being back here in d.c. and more in the hour ahead. sandra: deroy murdoch will be joining us, and joe germanata, says businesses cannot continue to operate in this environment. and john, you saw what happened in chicago over the weekend and
and district attorney bragg over the last year crime in manhattan has dropped nearly every major category. including murders down 14%, shootings down 17%, burglaries down 21%, and robberies down 8%. john: of course statistics are all in how you work the numbers. put up on the screen, what has gone on with crime in new york city through april of this year, the 9th, crime is down a little bit, .08%, murder down 9%, robbery down 3%. assaults up 8%, but take a look at the increases for 2021, total crime up 45%, robbery 43%, murders are down 13%. so crime continues to be, it would seem, despite what congressman nadler said a real problem in new york city. that s right. and democrats talk about crime and they accept realities, only at campaign time. congressman goldman, whose
yeah, it didn t crest, as you say. and that is sort of the undercurrent of all of this to stay in our wavy vibe. there is a big undercurrent if not totally blue, it certainty wasn t the red they wanted congress can hold field snaergs and there is certainly an important discussion about crime. there are many cities dealing with the economic disruptions that have been correlated with rising crime great. let s have that debate there is more than one way to look at it unfortunately, some of what happens according to observers in this hearing is it was all a stand-in to kind of attack d.a. alvin bragg who i guess relevant to some of the republicans is one of the rare black lawyers to become district attorney of manhattan, in contrast to the last two or last 50 plus years and sort of kind of blamed crime rather than work on solutions. here is congressman nadler on that