GOP's Anti-Bragg Stunt Draws Attention to NYC Crime

Members of the House Judiciary Committee held a field-trip hearing titled “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan” to condemn Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s approach to crime fighting. Republicans argued that New York was a hellscape of unchecked violence and chaos, while Democrats countered that things were much worse in other places. The hearing played out as a fusillade of statistics, impressions, and misimpressions, with certain turns of phrase repeated so often that they might have lent themselves to a drinking game.