Republicans — some of whom are leading a House Judiciary hearing on Monday into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — have repeatedly used a pandemic-era increase in crime to their political advantage.
, the Republican-led committee is pushing ahead with a hearing that promises to put the issue on a national stage. The committee is making no secret of its agenda, with an official advisory promising the event will examine how Bragg’s “pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.”
“As someone who studies crime victimization and the numbers around it, it's frustrating to see when people kind of put the victims in the political sphere and they want to debate whether it's good or bad, or right or wrong,” Herrmann said. “The reality is crime is a byproduct of our environment.”according to NYPD data that tracks seven serious felony crimes
The increases in 2021 and 2022 mirrored similar trends in many other cities — both Democratic and Republican — across the country during the pandemic, Herrmann said. And New York City’s murder rates are well below those of cities like Columbus, Ohio — near the home of Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee’s chair — which had aas high per 100,000 residents as New York City’s in 2022, a statistic Bragg's office recently pointed to.
“I think crime will continue to be an important issue for voters until it's not, and when will it not be? When voters feel safer,” said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg. “When voters feel that they can get onto a subway or walk the streets late at night. When voters feel safe, then crime won't be a big issue for them anymore. They'll have moved on to one of a dozen other issues as a top priority.
Zeldin, if he won the governor’s race, pledged to remove Bragg from office, citing a since scaled-back memo in which the district attorney said he wouldn’t prosecute certain low-level crimes. Zeldin’s campaign also focused on the case of Jose Alba, a Manhattan bodega clerk whom Bragg’s office briefly charged with murder despite Alba apparently acting in self-defense.
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