Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Dorothy Moses Schultz. She's been on the show before.

She's an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a merit of professor at John Jay College of

Criminal Justice, and a retired MTA Metro North Railroad Police Captain, who was Metro North's

and Conrail's first female captain.

She's also served as a safety and security consultant at transit agencies across the country.

So Dorothy, thanks very much for coming on the show again.

My pleasure. Thank you.

So let's talk about public safety in New York before we turn to your most recent article in

City Journal. Alvin Bragg, the newly elected DA for Manhattan, recently released his now

notorious day one memo. In that, he outlined a policy of non-prosecution for a variety of low-level offenses.

He ordered line prosecutors to seek diminished sentences for crimes such as armed robbery,

and he vowed that the only people who will see jail time basically will be murderers,

shooters who inflicts serious harm, sex offenders, and a couple

of other pretty limited categories. Now, City Journal has covered this memo extensively through

a bunch of pieces on her site. I encourage readers to check out that material. But this is, you know, this is Dorothy a significant shift

from anything New York has seen before, and it's sure to have some significant consequences.

So what's your view of that memo, a brag, and what you think some of the consequences might be?

The one thing I can say about Bragg is that he said this from day one.

He said as a candidate that this is what he was going to do.

And what's amazing to me is that he was elected, number one,

and that number two people are acting as if they didn't know that this is what he was going to do.

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