Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's policies are failing to show New Yorkers the consequences for not de-escalating a conflict.
Running for Manhattan district attorney last year, Alvin Bragg’s platform was all about keeping people out of jail. A big part of that was preventing violence, not prosecuting it. Now, with this month’s self-defense killing in an upper Manhattan bodega, Bragg is missing a grim opportunity to show what happens when you don’t take responsibility for “de-escalating” a conflict before it turns deadly.
Self-styed “progressive” prosecutors, like Bragg, want to teach people to walk away from potential violence. “Violence interrupters” supposedly teach teens and young men how to keep disputes from escalating into murder.
A big part of this is teaching people to sacrifice a tiny bit of their self-image as tough guys. That is, teaching you that it’s OK to walk away from a humiliation and keep your self-respect. That someone taunted you or treated you rudely is no reflection on you; it’s a reflection on them.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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