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NEW YORK CITY (77WABC) – Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told 77WABC host/owner and operator John Catsimatidis that new Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a “recipe for disaster.”
Bratton made the comments during Catsimatidis Sunday show, Cats Roundtable, which airs every Sunday at 8:30am. The former commissioner said, Bragg is “handcuffing the police” and blamed his election on George Soros, claiming the billionaire has “effectively destroyed the criminal justice system in America.”
“He’s well-intended in the sense that he’s trying to find a way to address some of the issues of the past,” Bratton said. “You don’t address the issues of the past by effectively decriminalizing just about everything in New York City.”
Bragg, a Democratic, kept to his campaign promise during his first week in office and told his staff to only seek prison time for those who commit the most severe crimes.
“Reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer,” Bragg wrote in a Jan. 3 memo to staff, outlining his “key principles” that include investing in “diversion and alternatives to incarceration,” reducing pre-trial jail-time, a focus on “accountability not sentence length,” and limiting youth being tried as adults.
“The DA is effectively handcuffing the police,” Bratton said of Bragg’s progressive vision, “basically saying they don’t have any confidence in the police force. They don’t trust them. They are effectively removing so many tools out of the toolbox … that we know kept New York safe for the last 30 years.”
