how alvin bragg s policies are empowering criminals. bill: democrats dismiss it. ] s indictment of donald trump is the reason they re here. the victims of crime tell a very different story. dana: one of the people we re hearing from today is jose alba. last year a repeat offender attacked him last year in the deli where he worked. he fatally stabbed the attacker in self-defense. bragg s office initially charged him with murder. bill: that prompted a massive public outcry. bragg dropped the case under great pressure. republicans say that this points to a larger problem with progressive prosecutors. it s driven by these left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda. instead of focusing on protecting people, families, communities an small business owners they are about politics and it s almost like every night you see some senseless act of violence on our screens that happen on the subway or city street and it is just wrong. dana: we have reaction from john levi
to provide funding to law enforcement to improve murder clearance rates. republican colleagues were serious about that and serious in efforts to law enforcement they would have joined us in that effort. 178 republicans opposed that measure last congress on the house floor. we supported legislation to improve policing through additional funding. better training and accountability to strengthen public trust because we know that public safety requires law enforcement agencies and communities partners working together. again, every republican on the committee stood opposed. here in new york, one of the largest and most complex cities in the world, local leaders have per sued violence intervention, diversion programs, targeted law enforcement and youth engagement programs that have pushed crime and incarceration to the lowest levels in decades. over the past year under the leadership of mayor adams and district attorney bragg crime in
Nearly half of the homicides in the United States remain unsolved, with the clearance rate by law enforcement decreasing significantly over the last 40 years.
instituted? well, i think it s going to have devastating consequences, especially to cities like st. louis and kansas city, both of which have extraordinarily high murder rates. right now in the city of st. louis, for example, the clearance rate for murder cases is about 30%. if this law becomes or if this bill becomes law, i think you re going to have murder clearance rates in the single digits. just take a simple example. let s say a husband and wife are home alone, and the husband decides he wants to off his wife. he kills her, puts a bat next to the bed, when the police show up, he can say she came at me. what can i do? he s presumptively justified in that scenario. that s absurd, but that s where this thing is headed if this becomes law. really disturbing. tim, thank you. we appreciate it. we ll be watching this as it develops, of course. coming up, everybody, a conversation with the director of the new msnbc featured documentary, love & the constitution. a preview of that a
us. mr. orr, so, what does it mean today if i live in downtown detroit and i call 911 this morning as compared to a week ago, now that you ve cleared bankruptcy? does it mean it s more efficiency? do they come more quickly? does the fire department report more quickly? what happens? yeah, actually, those figures in terms of reporting are approaching national averages of like 18 minutes. it means that services, two-thirds of the civil side of the city s budget are really public safety budgets. so, yes, they do come quicker. we have more ambulances on the road. we have police response times down. we have murder clearance rates up. so, you see those things, particularly in the central business district downtown, but you still have to push out reinvigoration and redevelopment in the neighborhoods. and what about pension benefits for retirees? were they cut back? are their pension restored or frozen or what happened there? yeah, we were fortunate enough to get $816 million between a