Our criminal justice system is insane It's dangerous it's harmful and it is Destroying the fabric of our city time And again our police officers make an Arrest and then the person who is Arrested for assault felonious assault Robberies and gun possession they're Finding themselves back on the street Within days if not hours after arrest Eric Adams New York mayor my friends the Reason we are here in New York is Because you have Democrats you have Citizens calling for some relief from This pain and we are here not to use Anyone but to uplift the voices of Brave People who are here to tell their story Miss frame do you feel used in this Hearing They almost recognize Miss brain do you Feel used I'm a willing participant Miss Harrison Do you feel used tell you what let me Ask you this way do you feel more used By this Committee hearing or do you feel More used by a criminal justice system That allowed people to kill people that You love and care about with no Consequence the latter and I'm beyond Grateful for the opportunity to testify Here on behalf of victims because the Democrat Party including Mr Nadler and Everybody here today has ignored us in This city and we need Federal oversight We need help we're not getting any kind
Of help and the services that she wants To keep funding are not being provided To the victims I have a woman sitting Outside who is a victim of domestic Violence who was conned by an immigrant And she is receiving no Services Whatsoever so until we get an A thorough Audit to the outcomes of the services Being provided no we need we need to Find out what's going wrong and get the Services to where they need to be I am Not here to criticize any New Yorkers Except maybe one and that's because so Many New Yorkers will soon become Florida voters This is an iconic City it's actually our Nation's most iconic City And it's not because of the beautiful Architecture and it's not because of the Geography it is because the sense of Hustle that is so inherent to the people Who come to New York to achieve their Dreams and increasingly that hustle is Being replaced with fear uh Mr Holt Councilman Holden you and I are from Different parties if we talked about a Thousand things we probably disagree About a vast majority of them but here's My simple question for you Is fear a rising feature of life in New York or is fear a declining feature of Life in New York it is um increasingly Worrisome what we're going through in New York City fear is an everyday event
In New York City taking the subway my Wife is Asian American she will not get On the New York City subway my daughter Will not get on a New York City subway For fear because many Asian Americans Have been attacked but Mr Kessler says There's just a lot of people here in Manhattan you just You just have to have to understand that This is going to be a violent place Which I found I found that insulting Well Mr Giacomo you're here as the voice Of of law enforcement in many ways and Since the days of Cain and Abel there Has constantly been a violent criminal Element as some feature of American Society and the lives we all get to live Are lashed to whether or not we put that Violent criminal element in charge or Whether or not we can strain it for the Sake of people who want freedom and so My question for you is when the day one Memo of Alvin Bragg changes the way Resisting arrest is treated so people Can resist arrest against law Enforcement and not actually face a Consequence for that what does that do To the Enterprise of policing well it Makes the uh the officers and the Detectives on the street their job that Much harder uh everything becomes Confrontation of physical and they put Themselves the police officers and Detectives Are In Harm's Way well we
Don't want to do that but I have only Only a moment left and I have to address This matter of of crime rates that my Colleagues keep talking about and to the Extent that there is an impact on crime Rates in major cities I would suggest That that is exactly what you get with The sorosization of the United States Justice system and in places like New Orleans Louisiana in places like Tampa Florida in Jacksonville Florida in Tucson Arizona increasingly George Soros Is putting in upwards of 40 million Dollars to elect 75 uh DA's to be able to engage in these Downgrades and by the way not only are They downgrading the violent things they Can't even win the cases they try Mr Holden you pointed out the fact that Alvin Bragg is actually terrible at Losing in court and since I don't have Time I would ask you for the record Since he keeps losing all of his cases We might opine as to why and we might Seek a better utilization of the federal Resources that we provide thank you Mr Chairman I yield back
