With Alvin Bragg’s Re-Election Under a Mayor Mamdani, ‘Justice’ in NYC Is About to Get Worse

While Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has gotten the lion’s share of the media attention these last several weeks, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg quietly sailed through his reelection bid, securing more than 70% of the vote.

Bragg’s win reflects a bucking of what some might have been tempted to call a national trend of so-called “progressive” prosecutors around the country being made to suffer the electoral consequences of going soft on crime.

Recent examples include LA’s George Gascón, Oakland’s Pamela Price, San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, and Athens, Ga.’s Deborah Gonzalez, defeated in the wake of Laken Riley’s murder.

Bragg has drawn an enormous amount of criticism since first taking office — largely in response to his infamous “Day One” memo outlining his vision for prosecuting (and not prosecuting) criminals in Manhattan.

Yet his 2025 vote total was more than three times the share secured by his closest challenger, Maud Maron, who received just 20% of the votes cast.

The question is: Why? And the answer is relatively simple.

Alvin Bragg’s radicalism was overshadowed by misguided state-level reforms — and an even more insane mayoral candidate leading the ticket.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most. 

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