Eric Adams' NYPD commissioner blasts Manhattan DA's soft-on-crime approach in memo
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NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell voiced her concern in an email to all uniformed officers Friday evening about Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s light on crime approach in the Big Apple.
On his third day in office, Bragg released a sweeping memo instructing his office not to prosecute certain low-level offenses, including resisting arrest, marijuana misdemeanors, prostitution and evading subway or bus fare and trespassing. He also told prosecutors to downgrade charges for most low-level drug dealers and called for leniency for commercial robberies – to instead treat hold-ups that did not result in injury and demonstrated "no genuine risk of physical harm" as misdemeanor petit larceny, not a felony.
Sewell argued in the internal memo how not prosecuting resisting arrest or obstruction "injects debate into decisions that would otherwise be uncontroversial," will "invite violence against police officers," and "will have deleterious effects on our relationship with the communities we protect."