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A video of a round table discussion among progressive prosecutors at Harvard last November surfaced after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Donald Trump. The discussion was called “Change from Within: A New Vision for the 21st Century Prosecutor” and consisted of liberal prosecutors offering different methods for changing the system from the inside, undermining it.
The system does work
Bragg was supposed to be there but he had to back out last minute due to developments in “an important case in Manhattan involving the Trump Organization” which drew broad smiles from the entire panel. Even Democrats are upset with Bragg.
New York’s Democratic mayor Eric Adams isn’t happy with his approach to law enforcement and confusing priorities. Crime in New York City increased by 22% after his first year in office.
Focus on the system
Their priorities are wrong. The policies these prosecutors are in favor of encourage higher crime rates but their focus is on tearing the system they work in down.
Sarah George is the State’s Attorney for Chittenden County, Vermont. She went to law school to learn how the legal system works but with the goal of pulling it apart instead. “I went to law school because I wanted to dismantle the criminal legal system, and thought that that’s the best way to do it.”
Wanted to remedy the injustices
George’s original goal was to become a defense attorney but once she pursued a master’s in forensic psychology the goal changed to fixing the injustices. Once she was elected she fired prosecutors that didn’t agree with her philosophy. Prosecutors that, in her view, “were harming our community” that she replaced with those who supported “doing things differently.”
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez is at the head of one of the largest DA offices in the country and works with roughly 550 prosecutors. He spoke similarly.
“The most powerful thing that prosecutors, elected prosecutors can do is not charge everybody. I will refuse to prosecute certain cases and I will turn the person who’s been arrested back over to the community for programming and therapy.”
