Exclusive | Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg drops $40K on trauma-relief program for ‘snowflake’ staff

Comfortable-on-crime Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg is quietly rolling out a publicly-funded program to assist his personal staffers traumatized by the circumstances they deal with, The Submit has realized.

The woke prosecutor, slammed by critics for villainizing victims whereas going simple on suspects, is shelling out $40,000 in taxpayer money to develop a so-called “Vicarious Trauma and Nicely-Being Plan” for his greater than 1,300 assistant district attorneys, paralegals and different workers, in line with metropolis information.

The nine-month contract will contain conducting focus teams and interviews with frazzled staffers about on-the-job secondary traumatic stress in addition to supervisor-training classes.

The initiative is a “slap within the face” to crime victims and their households, mentioned Jeffry Alba, whose bodega clerk dad, Jose, was notoriously charged with homicide by Bragg in 2022 after defending himself from an offended buyer.

“He’s apprehensive about his personal workforce, however he’s not apprehensive in regards to the victims,” mentioned Alba, whose father is now suing Bragg for racial discrimination after the fees have been dropped amid public scrutiny.

“It’s heartbreaking as a result of he didn’t supply my dad something — [Bragg] didn’t supply him any emotional assist,” he added.

The left wing Democratic prosecutor – who has seen a borough-wide surge in felony crime since taking workplace in 2022 whereas making it a mission to downgrade many of those circumstances to misdemeanors – is amongst dozens of progressive district attorneys and DA candidates nationwide who’ve obtained backing from far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros.

“The [staff trauma] program is a bunch of hogwash as a result of you’ve got victims who’re getting their asses whooped frequently and he doesn’t prosecute,” barked one veteran cop of 25 years.

“They want the counseling, however you’ve got cash in your f–king attorneys who don’t even prosecute.”

In Manhattan, there’s been 27,122 reported felony crimes this yr by Nov. 10, up 16.9% from the identical interval in 2021, NYPD information present.

Beneath Bragg, rape has jumped 7.4% throughout the borough, theft 8.9%, felony assault 16.8% and grand larceny 29.8%.

Bragg’s new program caters to a employees of predominantly “snowflakes,” mentioned Council Minority Chief Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island).

“How in regards to the well-being of the 1000’s of crime victims who see their perpetrators out on the road due to let-‘em-loose Alvin’s soft-on-crime insurance policies?” Borelli barked.

“I think about the general public expects that the folks we belief to confront and prosecute our most violent criminals don’t want remedy canines and luxury blankets at their desks.”

The initiative can be an unfair expense for the general public, mentioned Jennifer Harrison, govt director of the Victims Rights Reform Council.

“These folks have insurance coverage advantages that may cowl the price of their counseling already in the event that they want trauma counseling,” she mentioned. “[Taxpayers] are already paying for his or her advantages.”

The brand new program is “simply one other waste of our tax {dollars},” mentioned Madeline Brame, whose US Military veteran son Hason Correa was overwhelmed and fatally stabbed inside a Harlem house in 2018.

As soon as Bragg took over the case towards Correa’s alleged assailants, he struck plea offers with two of them, letting one off with time served and enraging the Freeport, N.Y., mother.

If any of the DA’s employees is traumatized it’s as a result of their “integrity is compromised,” she advised The Submit. 

“They believed in [Bragg’s] restorative justice idea, however they’re seeing the identical defendants, the identical criminals, coming like a revolving door,” mentioned Brame, 62, who was provided bimonthly, 30-minute grief counseling classes by then-DA Cy Vance’s workplace.

“They’re seeing these violent felony offenders getting extra violent by the day. That’s the one factor I might see they would want trauma assist for,” she mentioned.

In January, Bragg launched a pilot program in his workplace’s Survivor Providers Bureau that added a ticketing system to attach sufferer advocates with circumstances virtually instantly after arrests are made. The bureau supplies security evaluation, counseling, relocation help and different companies to violent-crime victims as their prison circumstances proceed.

“Is that this to gaslight voters and faux he cares about victims, though he’s downgrading half the felony circumstances that come earlier than his workplace?” Harrison mentioned. “I don’t imagine that is effectively supposed by any means.”

Emily Tuttle, a Bragg spokeswoman, declined to say which firm was chosen to run the brand new program or when it should start, however insisted the companies are warranted.

“We are going to by no means apologize for or draw back from offering much-needed assist for our expert employees who should deal with horrific crimes, she mentioned. “The necessity to tackle trauma in regulation enforcement is research-based, supported by the Nationwide District Attorneys Affiliation, and confirmed to enhance retention, serving to make New York Metropolis safer.”

“Our prosecutors {and professional} employees information younger youngsters by rape trials, assist ladies take the stand towards their traffickers, battle in courtroom for the households of grieving murder victims, and much more.”