'We have real public safety challenges that require real discussion about facts, about data, about people's experiences,' says the Manhattan District Attorney. 'To have very serious issues reduced to, many times, kind of false facts, it was very sobering.'
Last Thursday, the same day Manhattan prosecutors were set to deliver the closing arguments in a trial alleging tax crimes against the Trump Organization, Bragg sat down for a one-on-one conversation with WNYC’s Brigid Bergin about his tumultuous first year in office, including how he became central to the governor’s race, his assessment of what he needs to improve after his first year and how he plans to change his approach in year two.
You're not the only progressive prosecutor that Republicans across the country have gone after. Certainly, we saw it happen with the recall in San Francisco, what's going on right now in Philadelphia with Larry Krasner and the impeachment trial. I'm wondering what you think it says about the ongoing threats to democratically elected officials across the country?
...[T]his notion of removing people because they disagree with us; like let's get back to the real conversations. You have a policy disagreement? Bring your policy positions, bring your data, bring the folks who would testify at a hearing, and let's talk.One of the reasons I'm speaking to you, I think something I need to do more is: I'm a lawyer by training, I love practicing.
One area that we've worked on consistently, and really I would say it’s with the NYPD, but obviously they're under the mayor's watch, is our gun interdiction. The gun violence strategic partnership that President [Joe] Biden visited earlier this year, literally federal, state, local partners sitting around a table talking about the drivers of violence and going kind of person by person.
So many of the people who have responded to Adams’ new program have raised concerns about the risks that it could pose to both individuals and to law enforcement who are going to be taking people to emergency rooms. We have a limited number of beds. We're talking about a large population.
But your question, the thread talked about capacity of the system. I think that that's the number one issue. As we started to scale up our mental health diversion here, one thing I learned early on was our capacity by contract for our Mental Health Courts, which is for serious mental illness, is 50 matters at a time. Think about Manhattan and what 50 means.
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