That much just became clear, as the newly minted Manhattan DA issued marching orders to his hundreds of assistants and support staff.
Let s do our very best to keep people out of jail, kids. And let s really, really not sweat the small stuff.
OK, Bragg didn t actually say that but it pretty faithfully paraphrases the guts of a staff memo Bragg issued Monday, the first business day of his four-year term.
Specifically, Bragg says his office will not seek a carceral sentence for anything short of murder or deadly assault ( carceral being progressive double-speak for prison). Also, he says minor crime won t be prosecuted at all.
In other words, jail is to be reserved for ax murderers and their ilk; armed robbers and heavyweight drug dealers are to be minimally inconvenienced and just forget about the quality-of-life law enforcement that was the beating heart of the Giuliani-era rescue of New York City decades ago.
