Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg admits he’s fearful of crime on NYC subways
Even Manhattan’s progressive top prosecutor is fearful of crime on the subway system.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted his alarm when asked Tuesday about the perception of many New Yorkers that the Big Apple is under siege and becoming increasingly unsafe.
“I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach,” Bragg confessed in an interview with FOX5.
The soft-on-criminals prosecutor appeared to reference the latest NYPD data that show major crime in the city’s subway system being down 4.6% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2022.
But last month alone, transit crime actually spiked more than 18%, with 195 incidents compared to the 165 over the course of June last year, the data shows.
Among the savage incidents last month was a string of subway slashings in which alleged maniac Kemal Rideout, 28, attacked three women over a 20-minute span on June 18 in Manhattan.
Violence also broke out on a Brooklyn-bound J train on June 13 when 20-year-old straphanger Jordan Williams fatally stabbed ex-con Devictor Ouedraogo during a melee.
The murder charges against Williams were eventually dropped after a grand jury found he’d acted in self-defense because Ouedraogo had choked him and slugged his girlfriend just seconds earlier.
Still, Bragg said there were “really encouraging signs” that crime data across the city were “moving in the right direction.”
The Big Apple saw an overall 4% dip in citywide crime last month, according to NYPD stats — despite a 23% jump in car thefts and felony assaults being on par compared to this time last year.
Major crimes, including shootings and rapes, were down across the board, the data show.
“I live here, I’m raising my family here, so we have a lot more work to do,” Bragg said.
The DA suggested a reason for the dip is frequent communication between his office and law enforcement.
“We do a number of long-term investigations involving wiretaps,” he said. “We do targeted enforcement, so we are seeing the returns on that investigative work, and we’re going to do that kind of work.”
