Does DA Stand for Devil's Advocate?

There has been a glut of DAs in our major cities that don't 

want to prosecute criminals, even though it is a major 

function of their jobs. Milwaukee, Chicago, Philadelphia,

Minneapolis, and Los Angeles are just a few of the cities 

which have this misfortune, and here is but one story 

illustrating the consequences of this difficulty:

In New York, two NYPD officers responded to a domestic

violence call. Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora

were shot dead by a career-criminal, who was shot dead 

by a third officer. Officer Rivera's funeral packed Saint

Patrick's Cathedral. His widow, Dominique Luzuriaga

gave the eulogy, in which she ripped Manhattan's namby-

pamby on crime and criminals DA Alvin Bragg, remarking

"We are not safe anymore, not even members of the 

service ... I hope he's watching you speak through me 

right now." When questioned about her words, Bragg 

said in a statement that "my office will vigorously prosecute

cases of violence against police and work to prevent 

senseless acts like this from ever happening again."

And the New York Jets will go to the Super Bowl next

football season. 

DAs like Bragg have an ideological bent which leads them

to sympathize with criminals, regardless how violent they

are, and to disdain police for their picking on those poor

criminals by arresting and booking them, getting them ready

to head to court for their trials. They make various excuses 

for them and their anti-social, abhorrent behavior and treat 

them with kid gloves while being coldly dismissive of their

victims --- including police. If they really feel that strongly 

against making sure that they get sentenced for their crimes

they should resign their posts and become defense attorneys,

working at representing them against the DAs and the victims

rather than representing the people, especially the victims of

said criminals.

But DAs are elected by the people rather than appointed by

other government officials. If the people in the cities where 

they have these awful DAs are tired of having criminals run

amok in their communities and prey upon them, they must

enact the change they need at election time. Only then will

the beleaguered people have safer cities. 

This problem is not impossible to solve; the solution is in

the people's hands.

MEM