New York City’s liberal District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opted to let the once-great city continue to spiral down into a pit of lawlessness and chaos. Bragg has announced that he will not seek jail time for a variety of offenses despite the disturbing spike in violent crime in New York City and across the country.

Fox News reports:

“We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both,” Bragg told Fox News.

“I had a shooting on my block a month ago, I’ve had a knife to my neck, I’ve had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most.”

On his third day in office, he sent a memo stressing  “diversion and alternatives to incarceration”…such as crisis intervention programs, instead of sending some criminals to jail. The no-jail time exceptions are murder, a crime that involves someone’s death, or a felony. And several serious crimes, such as some cases of armed robbery, are being reduced to misdemeanors. He also vows to limit sentences to 20 years, even for murder convictions.

Bragg’s office will also largely no longer prosecute some trespass offenses, the charge of resisting arrest, subway and bus fare beating and sex work. He is also reducing charges for stealing from stores or from home storage areas, and drug dealing.

Police unions and victims of crime say Bragg’s policies will only serve to embolden criminals, not make streets safer.

“He’s paving the way for an even bigger bloodbath than what we have seen in New York City already,” says Jennifer Harrison, the leader of a victim’s rights group.