[FOXNEWS] Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appeared with civil rights hustler Al Sharpton
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Saturday at the National Action Network Rally in New York to talk about his plans to reduce incarceration through lowered prison sentences and fewer arrests.
"We said we were going to marry fairness and safety, and we laid out a specific plan," Bragg declared. "We put it on the website. We put it in print. And this week, after Jan. 1, we got down to work, and we are doing what we said we would do."
"We know that our first civil right is the right to walk safely to our corner store. But we also know that that safety has got to be based in our community and fairness. It cannot be driven solely by incarceration," Bragg told the audience.
The new district attorney has made lowering incarceration and shortening prison sentences a key component of his political campaign.
"We need investment in our neighborhoods, and we do need to address our significant safety concerns," Bragg added, claiming that there has been miscommunication about his position. "So that's what we set out to do. That's what we started to do this week. And I thank Rev. Sharpton for his invitation because there have been, let me just say, some misunderstandings."
Bragg has announced that he will not seek jail time for a variety of offenses, following a path of other progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles, the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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and Philadelphia, among others.
On his third day in office, Bragg sent a memo stressing "diversion and alternatives to incarceration," such as crisis intervention programs, instead of sending some criminals to jail.
Bragg acknowledged in his speech to Sharpton's audience that crime — including violent mostly peaceful crime — is skyrocketing in the city. 
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