Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who began his job at the beginning of the year, was elected on a platform of decriminalization. 

He has followed through so far, sending out a memo to his office’s prosecutors telling them to ask judges to send people to prison for only the most serious offenses, unless the law requires them to do otherwise. 

But Bragg has now been facing some backlash for those policies, especially after several recent incidents of violence, including this past weekend’s death at the Times Square station, where a woman was pushed onto the subway tracks. Bragg joins NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss.