In a memo sent out on Friday morning, Manhattan DA Bragg, who campaigned and was elected on promises of criminal justice reform, walked back some of his policy changes on key issues including gun possession and robbery prosecutions.
and clarifies other parts of it, his office said. The original memo included a list of low-level criminal charges Bragg’s office would no longer prosecute — adding that prosecutors should seek prison time as a last resort and stating a commitment to reducing pre-trial detention.
He reverted back to the office’s original position Friday in the latest memo saying, “commercial robbery at knifepoint, or by other weapon that creates a risk of physical harm, will be charged as a felony.” Bragg also clarified his stance on gun prosecutions saying, “the default in gun cases is a felony prosecution,” though a spokesperson clarified that the office wouldn’t always seek prison time for those charges, as the office had previously promised. Bragg had not said he would not prosecute gun possession as a felony in his original memo, though critics had accused him of being lenient on gun crimes more generally.rollout of his initial memo released in early January.
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