NYC police union says Manhattan DA Bragg ’emboldened’ criminals, cops ‘not safe’ after Biden visit

Criminals across New York City were “emboldened” by the soft-on-crime memo released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the weeks before the deadly shooting of NYPD Officers Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora, the leader of a prominent police union told Fox News Digital. 

“His message was sent to the criminal element. And this is why these cops were shot,” Paul DiGiacomo, president of New York City’s Detectives’ Endowment Association, said during a phone interview Thursday, “because you’re sending a message out there that there are no consequences for committing crimes and there are no consequences for resisting arrest.” 

“Alvin Bragg thought he was doing what was popular to do, and it blew up in his face,” DiGiacomo added. 

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So far this year, six NYPD officers have been shot, two of them fatally. Just hours before Mora’s funeral this week, an off-duty rookie cop was shot on his way into work in Queens during an attempted carjacking. The suspects, an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old, were ordered held without bail Thursday. 

“I believe they feel 100% emboldened,” DiGiacomo told Fox News Digital. “And not only are the police in danger, but the public is in grave danger as well. And there are children being shot by stray bullets, innocent people being shot all over the city and members of the NYPD being shot.”

“When the police are not safe, the public is not safe,” he said. “This all has been going on for quite some time, and we told our elected officials that this was going to happen. We didn’t know when or where, but we knew it was going to happen because of the climate that they put out to the criminal element.” 

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