Ex-NYPD Commissioner Slams Leftist Policies of Alvin Bragg
Following a violent stabbing rampage by a habitual offender in New York, Ray Kelly, the former NYPD Commissioner, criticized District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his "radical" policies that favor criminals.
In the wake of a stabbing incident involving a repeat offender in New York, Ray Kelly, who once served as NYPD Commissioner, denounced DA Alvin Bragg for his "radical" policies lenient towards criminals.
Kelly, now The Guardian Group CEO, told Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday, "Mr. Bragg is not reasonable."
He is … a believer in the most radical of approaches. As a matter of fact, the first day in office, he gave us a manifesto over what he's not going to do. One of them being that he is not going to arrest people for fare-beating, which, by the way, the MTA says that's where they're losing three-quarters of $1 billion a year on this, and that's why we have congestion pricing because of District Attorney Bragg.
Earlier this week, police arrested Ramon Rivera, 51, after he reportedly went on a stabbing spree in the city, which resulted in three deaths. Rivera has been in and out of jail for over two decades in New York, Ohio and Florida, according to law enforcement.
Kelly told Fox News, "We've got to get these types of people off the streets, yet there's no realistic movement to do that now."
That type of confrontation happens every day on the streets of New York, particularly in midtown Manhattan. People are out threatening those who [are] just going about their their business. Sometimes it results in assaults. Sometimes it doesn't ...
Relating to Bragg's pro-criminal stance, he has unsuccessfully tried to seal the medical records, indicating drug abuse and mental illness, of Jordan Neely from the Daniel Penny manslaughter trial.
Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Bardey, a forensic psychiatrist, testified Tuesday that the alleged Michael Jackson impersonator had been hospitalized over a dozen times for psychiatric reasons and abuse of synthetic cannabis, reported The New York Daily News.
Bardey also testified to Neely's documented paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis based on medical records from back in 2015. He claimed in his testimony that his ailment was one of the most severe cases that he had ever come across. The disorder affects less than 1% of the nation's population and can include hallucinations, incorrect thinking and delusions.
His symptoms … I would classify as severe. He describes paranoid fears that people want to hurt him, grandiose delusions that people are jealous of him, [and] said that Tupac instructed him to change the world, and that’s what he was doing.
Kelly told Fox News that the medical examiner's office said, "... They went ... [through] literally thousands of pages of Mr. Neely's records as far as his psychiatrist problem ... and the district attorney, of course, doesn't want to have that admitted so it kind of highlights the dichotomy ..."
"Mr. Penny, was a hero by anyone's definition. If any of us were trapped in a situation like that with the man who obviously is ... saying he's going to murder people, we want that type of intervention. And I also thought that he held on to Mr. Neely because he was waiting for the police to come. And when the police did arrive, that's when he let him go.
Penny may have the support of the political right and law enforcement, but he is still up against Bragg and his "enlightened" district attorney's office. The 26-year-old veteran faces up to 15 years on the manslaughter charge, along with the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. His criminal trial is currently ongoing.
