In Manhattan, they’re not real interested in putting criminals in jail. Meg Reiss is the chief prosecutor there. She works for District Attorney Alvin Bragg who just angered most of America, even Democrats, by railroading President Donald Trump on trumped up charges. His rabid prosecution of something which should have never been charged in the first place underscores the hypocrisy of crime running rampant in their city.
Manhattan frowns on jail
The chief prosecutor in Manhattan, Meg Reiss, has been running around bragging “about letting violent criminals and felons off the hook.” As Fox News reports.
Even murderers can walk free because she prefers a “restorative justice approach to help them avoid incarceration.” Putting people in jail doesn’t help them any, she insists. It does help ordinary law abiding citizens, her critics counter. She ignores them.
Reiss insists, “we know incarceration doesn’t really solve any problems.” She’s been saying that since back in May of 2021. She told the Peace Institute that “criminals are not ‘bad dudes‘” but cops are. She blasted “juries for believing police officers.”
This is Bragg’s woke asst, Meg Reiss. She was Chief of “Social Justice” in the Kings County DA’s Office where she helped create community groups to enhance safety trust without relying on incarceration. In other words, let criminals stay on the street. She is worse than Bragg. pic.twitter.com/hDTd1GoiuB
— Proud USA Vet 🇺🇸 (@Slo_pitch_ace) March 31, 2023
Especially ones “facing misconduct allegations.” She’s not happy that juries keep telling her that cops deserve the “benefit of the doubt.” She was really thrilled with the way Manhattan DA Bragg “helped a murderer get out of jail time for a homicide victim who had very few relatives.”
She was extraordinarily thrilled that “a man who was facing a manslaughter charge for killing another person during a violent altercation was able to leave without any prison time.” Manhattan called it “an incident between two people that knew each other very well.”
One happened to end up dead. No big deal. “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.” He was high so that makes it alright. They can’t put him in a cage for that.
Alternative to jail
Instead of sending criminals to jail, where they will be safely locked away from peaceful and productive citizens, Manhattan prefers to ask them nicely not to do it again. Unless you’re Donald Trump. They want the death penalty for his hush money allegations. They have no mercy at all for conservatives.
Killing someone isn’t enough to justify a prison sentence, Reiss insists. That one she had been bragging about, for example. His victim “only had one family as a relative, whom he did not know. In fact, the daughter ‘never met’ her father.” Killing him didn’t matter enough to justify jail.
Instead, the Manhattan DA decided to “engage in a restorative practice circle with the perpetrator, instead of incarceration.”
A SOROS-BACKED COUP: DA Alvin Bragg, DA Chief Assistant Meg Reiss, and others Worked with the John Jay Institute for Innovation in Prosecution Funded by Soros – Bragg Attended Its Conference While Investigating Trumphttps://t.co/vON8TEurzj
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) April 5, 2023
If you aren’t familiar with the term, Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation explains that “restorative practices” is the antidote, so to speak, to the “systemic racism” that “critical race theorists claim plagues America.” Since most violent criminals happen to be Black, putting them in jail is racist.
That’s why in Manhattan, Reiss proclaims, violent criminals “are given referrals away from incarceration.” That’s a trendy way of saying “free pass.” That’s why they are “really trying to shift to restorative outcomes being the really default to the work that we do.” Jail is so 20th century.
“For people that are charged with causing harm, actual violence, where they actually cause actual harm to another person” those are the prime candidates for diversion away from jail. “To divert violent criminals facing felonies in adult courts, generally around the ages of 18-26,” Reiss confirms, “that’s a default in our office.“
