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Alvin Bragg’s chief prosecutor brags about giving get-out-of-jail free cards to violent felons, murderer
The Manhattan DA works with a ‘racial equity’ organization to divert violent felons from incarceration
ADVERTISEMENTBy Hannah Grossman | Fox News April 5, 2023:
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s chief prosecutor, Meg Reiss, bragged about letting violent criminals and felons off the hook – including a murderer – using her restorative justice approach to help them avoid incarceration, Fox News Digital found.
“We know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems,” Reiss said during a Peace Institute event in May 2021. Fox News Digital has previously reported that Reiss said criminals are not “bad dudes” while simultaneously blasting juries for believing police officers facing misconduct allegations deserve the “benefit of the doubt.”
Reiss went on to describe how the Manhattan district attorney helped a murderer get out of jail time for a homicide victim who had very few relatives.
placeholderShe said a man who was facing a manslaughter charge for killing another person during a violent altercation was able to leave without any prison time, calling it “extraordinary.”
ADVERTISEMENTChief prosecutor (right) Meg Reiss of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office (left) bragged about allowing a murderer to escape jail time.
Chief prosecutor (right) Meg Reiss of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office (left) bragged about allowing a murderer to escape jail time. (Getty | Adobe Stock | Manhattan DA)
“It was an incident between two people that knew each other very well. And it was sort of… a fight that ended up with one person dying and the person who was charged had substance misuse issues and other things. And going through the outcome in the case, it just seemed appropriate for restorative practice rather than a carceral sentence.”
Reiss said that the victim only had one family as a relative, whom he did not know. In fact, the daughter “never met her father,” Reiss said. The Manhattan DA worked with this daughter of the estranged father to engage in a restorative practice circle with the perpetrator, instead of incarceration.
“Restorative practices” is the antidote, so to speak, to the “systemic racism” that critical race theorists claim plagues America, Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation said.
NYPD officers gathered outside the at the Makki Masjid Muslim Community Center in Brooklyn to pay their final respects to the fallen 26-year-old officer Ayeed Fayaz in February.NYPD officers gathered outside the at the Makki Masjid Muslim Community Center in Brooklyn to pay their final respects to the fallen 26-year-old officer Ayeed Fayaz in February. (NYPD)
Many violent criminals, Reiss said, are given referrals away from incarceration.
ADVERTISEMENT“So we’re really trying to shift to restorative outcomes being the really default to the work that we do,” Reiss said. “So there’s some things where that already happens… for people that are charged with causing harm, actual violence… where they actually cause actual harm to another person.”
To divert violent criminals facing felonies in adult courts, generally around the ages of 18-26, Reiss said she “screens” the cases with an organization called Common Justice.
“That’s a default in our office,” she said.
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