UPDATED: Manhattan's 'hug-a-thug' DA Alvin Bragg surprised by ‘push back’ — defends policies

 Manhattan's 'hug-a-thug' DA Alvin Bragg surprised by ‘push back’ — defends policies (bizpacreview.com)  "New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has expressed surprise at the push-back from law enforcement and other city officials regarding his January 3 memo outlining the new guidelines he is instituting in the DA’s office in his borough, saying, “This is going to make us safer. It’s intuitive. It’s common sense.”

"Former federal prosecutor Trey Gowdy begs to differ, however, calling his proposed policies “dangerously stupid” during his broadcast of  “Sunday Night in America” on Fox News Channel.

"In a speech given, predictably, at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters on Saturday, Bragg said that no one should be surprised by his actions: “We said we were going to marry fairness and safety and we laid out a specific plan. We put on the website, we put it in print and this week after January 1st we got down to work and we are doing what we said we would do.' ”. . .

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says his decision to not prosecute certain crimes is "humane and fair."

"It's going to make us safer because they are not going to keep cycling in and out of the system...we will have more bandwidth to [focus on] guns and sexual assault." pic.twitter.com/KsFqabczRC

— New Day (@NewDay) January 7, 2022

. . . "Bragg’s memo outlined new guidelines to eliminate charges being pressed for the following offenses, among others, “unless as part of an accusatory instrument containing at least one felony count”:

• marijuana misdemeanors
• refusing to pay far for public transportation
• trespassing
• unlicensed operation of a vehicle
• prostitution
• resisting arrest.

AF Branco

Michelle Malkin update:  I dare you to look, with a clear and unfiltered lens, at the bloody nightmare we once called the United States of America.   "Connect the dots. Contemplate the utter chaos in every major city while Black Lives Matter militants, academics and bureaucrats prattle on about “systemic racism” and “two-tiered justice.” It’s about much more than the horrific mass murders and attempted murders in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where the annual Christmas parade will now forever be stained by the wanton acts of alleged killer Darrell Brooks — a convicted sex offender and domestic abuser who sailed through George Soros-funded Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s soft-on-black crime revolving door like a Six Flags season pass holder." , , ,

, , ,"We are hectored repeatedly by the Biden administration that “white supremacy” is the root of all this country’s problems. CNN reported as “news” this week that “there’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man.” Systemic racism and two-tiered justice won’t allow black criminals to get a fair shake, we are propagandized over and over — even as a new catch-and-release carousel-riding Darrell Brooks emerges with numbing regularity by the week or day.". . .