New York City a more dangerous place since Soros backed Bragg elected DA

 DC Examiner:

A hearing on the Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan yesterday produced shocking testimonials from the witnesses on the Manhattan District Attorney’s failed soft-on-crime policies. Freshman Congressman Russell Fry (R-SC) expounded on the essence of the hearings when he noted in his tweet that “Who benefits more in New York City? Law-abiding citizens or criminals? From what we heard today — there’s no question it’s criminals.”

Attached to this tweet was a video of him going into the problems that New York City faced and how the prosecutorial authorities did not seem to care. The Palmetto State Congressman said that a New York City cab driver informed him that “this city has changed…he immediately started talking about the crime. It has gotten so bad. It is out of control [said the tax driver].”

Mr. Fry assured “the good people of New York” that they were being heard and that he wanted to hear from them. He noted that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had touted the city as “the safest big city in America but that it was a political stunt.” Fry then proceeded to list data that he claimed was from the New York Police Department. He noted that in Bragg’s first year in the office (in 2022) alone “rapes were up 7 percent, felony assaults rose 13 percent, robberies spiked 26 percent, burglaries are up 23 percent, grand larceny is up 26 percent, auto theft has risen 23 percent- 170,000 felonies in New York City in 2022 alone. The most since 2006.”

Mr. Fry pinned the rise in crime on progressive policies like the elimination of cash bail, the selective prosecution of crimes, the defunding of the New York police, and other such measures. He continued by noting that “52 percent of felony charges are downgraded to misdemeanors in this District Attorney’s office. The highest number in years.” After railing off more damning statistics of the poor policies of Alvin Bragg, he turned to the witnesses and asked “Who benefits more in New York City? Law-abiding citizens or criminals?”
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The Soros experiment in crime control has been an utter failure based on what happens when the "progressive" prosecutors he backs take control.  Bragg in New York and Gascon in LA and similar prosecutors in other major cities have executed a soft-on-crime policy that has made cities less safe.

To reduce crime you have to take criminals off the streets and incarcerate them by giving them longer sentences for recidivism.  That is the opposite of what happens with Soros-backed prosecutors.