Though he is now leading a high-profile investigation into former President Donald … U.S. Manhattan DA Candidate Eliza Orlins addresses Racial Disparities in Criminal Punishment Bureaucracy. Alvin Bragg, the lone Black candidate in the race, told the attendees that “all of this work is personal for me,” recounting his personal history witnessing and experiencing police misconduct and violence in his community in Harlem. In recent weeks, Aboushi, one of three decarceral candidates (along with Eliza Orlins and Dan Quart), has … In the Brooklyn DA’s office, Weinstein created the Post-Conviction Justice Bureau to review previous convictions for possible exonerations. Bragg touts his work in the State Attorney General’s office, investigating Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, and others. She said “crimes against women and gender-based violence has not gotten the attention it deserves” from the Manhattan DA’s office, and that change would “require extensive retraining” in addition to “moral courage and commitment.”. On police funding, several candidates called for the city to reduce the NYPD budget. Marton promised not to seek sentences longer than 20 years, except under extraordinary circumstances. Florence also criticized Vance, whom she worked for until earlier this year, saying, “I was very much an outsider in that office,” and criticizing what she described as a toxic work environment. When asked if she would use vehicular data recorders in vehicular violence prosecutions, she said, “I don’t think that makes our city safer in any way” because in her experience those devices have been used to “up the charges” on defendants. The forum came a month after the NYC Program Council hosted the first five declared candidates for the inaugural forum of the 2021 Manhattan District Attorney race, which is unfolding amid uncertainty about whether incumbent Democratic District Attorney Cy Vance will seek another term. Much of the early discussion in the race has been about the many candidates trying to present their resumes and lay out their credentials to become the borough’s top prosecutor, with many of the candidates taking progressive stances and promising efforts to decarcerate. She said there is a “need to restore trust in the office.”. They voted her off two islands, but now she’s trying her luck on a third. Dan Quart There was widespread agreement on many of the issues brought up during the forum. But while Lang touts her experience as evidence that she is uniquely equipped to run the Manhattan DA’s office, Orlins sees a weakness. When asked about a dangerousness standard being used to determine bail, Farhadian Weinstein said it’s “a system that better achieves public safety” than cash bail, specifically the need to keep domestic abusers away from their victims. Orlins, Aboushi, and Quart said they would not join the association. “I’m running for district attorney against some very good lawyers who would all make a better district attorney than Cy Vance,” Quart said at one point during the forum, an acknowledgement that many of the candidates running had similarly-progressive answers to most questions asked Tuesday night. A number of differences among the candidates have emerged, and others are still becoming apparent as they appear at more events together, release policy plans, and further explain how they would run the office that has domain including much of the city’s sprawling subway system, Wall Street, major tourist destinations, some of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, many public housing developments, and other facets of Manhattan. Eliza Orlins is a Manhattan public defender and outspoken advocate for our city’s most vulnerable. Florence said that the state “needs to be mindful of the way we draft the bill,” voicing concerns about human trafficking, and said she would “tread lightly” on the issue. Marton helped lead the Close Rikers campaign and organized decarceral efforts nationally with the ACLU. Eliza Orlins (Courtesy) “As a public defender whose clients have faced the real consequences of Cy Vance and acolytes of his, like Lucy Lang, my perspective on where to take the … The Jim Owles Club, the forum host, advocates for the decriminalization of sex work and repeal of the “walking while trans” law, among other criminal justice reforms, as well as LGBTQ rights, universal healthcare, and reproductive rights, among other progressive causes. Quart said “it’s a fallacy to believe anyone can join that organization and reform it.” Aboushi called it “the antithesis of what I stand for.”. We've asked Alyssa Milano's friend Eliza Orlins on the show this week to talk about these issues and more. Read more by this writer. “We can’t be operating in the 20th century,” said Florence, who claimed “the district attorney’s office hasn’t changed in 45 years.” She promised to “reallocate resources” from targeting crimes of poverty to crimes of power. When asked about vehicular violence, Florence said she would “proactively investigate every single traffic injury or fatality,” comparable to how she investigated any construction fatalities while at the DA’s office. The club’s president, Allen Roskoff, said in a statement that the forum was “a historic opportunity to get an early look at the candidates for one of the most important offices in the country.” The forum had about 100 digital attendees throughout the three-hour event. When asked about alternatives to incarceration, Farhadian Weinstein said she would import practices from the Brooklyn DA’s office, where she worked until recently, such as a diversion program for first-time gun offenses. For more than a decade, she has … “No issue is more important to me," he said, adding, “I believe we can close Rikers without building new jails if we’ve implemented the reforms I’ve proposed.”. Strong evidence suggests that most wrongful convictions, specifically ones in which an innocent person is sent to prison, are the direct result of prosecutorial mistakes or misconduct. [24] Subscribe to regular email updates from MNN: Elections 2021: Manhattan District Attorney, Max & Murphy: On The Issues - Health and Housing (Episode 3), Lindsey Boylan Speaks About Cuomo Allegations. Weinstein said she “was not there yet” on sex work decriminalization but that she was “open to revisiting her position” and supports the Nordic model, which maintains the criminalization of buyers of sex while decriminilizing sex workers themselves. The Manhattan DA’s office must be proactive to ensure cases are justly executed justly. District Attorney Vance did not participate in the forum and has not stated whether he will run for reelection. Under Eliza’s leadership, the criminalization of poverty by the Manhattan DA’s office will come to an end. Because to beat the system you have to know the system. On day one, she will discontinue the prosecution of low-level offenses that are a direct result of addiction, homelessness, mental illness, poverty, or … If Queens had Manhattan’s electorate, Cabán might have won – and candidates like Eliza Orlins are banking on that. Lucy Lang Bragg said that he would have an “adversarial relationship” with the group while joining it. Each candidate was asked questions individually on a wide range of issues relating to LGBTQ rights, police accountability, and more, but there were some instances in which candidates challenged each other. As has been the case in prior forums, there was limited discussion by Quart or others about prosecuting crime, with some exceptions. When asked how she would address the school-to-prison pipeline, Aboushi said, “we rely on police instead of using our social service programs” and that we need to “stop criminalizing children for being children.”, She criticized the office’s conviction integrity unit as “a lame duck” and committed if elected to “making sure this office is represented by impacted people.” When challenged over whether 20 years would be too lenient of a sentence for murder, Aboushi said that being against the death penalty means “being against death by incarceration.”, Liz Crotty Eliza Orlins, a 37-year-old public defender, is running in a crowded field to become the Manhattan District Attorney. Aboushi said that “the city has come to rely on the NYPD to enforce social inequities and make them crimes.” Lang called for “community-coordinated responses to conduct that doesn’t need police involvement.” Bragg said he’d advocate to “undo Bill de Blasio’s bloating of the NYPD budget” and denounced the “funny budget math” on moving school safety officers to the Department of Education. Florence, who left the Manhattan DA’s office earlier this year over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, touts her leadership of that office’s Construction Fraud Task Force. On December 4th, the Chelsea Reform Democrats and Hell’s Kitchen Democrats co-hosted a candidate forum for the nine candidates running in the 2021 Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney. Eliza Orlins emphasized that she’s the “only public defender running.” She said that she “absolutely” believes there is systemic racism in the New York criminal justice system, adding that it “forms the basis of our penal system.”. In the crowded field to replace Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., two camps are emerging among the eight Democratic candidates: insiders and outsiders. On March 5, 2020, Orlins announced her candidacy for the New York County District Attorney Democratic primary to replace incumbent DA Cyrus Vance Jr. One being a major issue brought up at the forum of how each candidate would deal with vehicular violence as DA. Other candidates, notably Crotty, dissented from the consensus progressive stances on issues like mandatory minimums and cautioned against defunding the NYPD budget. The next Manhattan district attorney could well inherit several of the high-profile cases brought by outgoing prosecutor Cy Vance. https://elizaorlins.com/…/transparency-to … “He’s just another cut-and-paste prosecutor.” She said she would refocus the office away from “crime and punishment” and towards public health. When asked about bail reform, Orlins said right now the presumption of innocence “only applies when you’re rich enough to buy your freedom,” recalling her experiences representing low-income defendants. Other potential candidate, according to people familiar with the race, include: Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ellen Biben; attorney Marc Fliedner who ran unsuccessfully against Vance in 2017 as a write-in candidate, public defender Eliza Orlins, who penned an op-ed days after Cabán’s strong showing in the June … The candidates were asked mostly different questions throughout the forum. The District Attorneys Association of the State of New York (DAASNY) was a contentious issue at the forum, with several candidates promising not to join the organization, which has come under scrutiny by criminal justice reformers. As a public defender and a fierce advocate for reform, I know that effective and equitable public policy is impossible without informing the public at every ste ... p. In an era when data drives policymaking, data transparency must be a priority — and it will be when I'm DA. The nine candidates participating Tuesday night were Assemblymember Dan Quart; former Chief Deputy State Attorney General Alvin Bragg; former ACLU attorney Janos Marton; former Assistant District Attorney and criminal defense lawyer Liz Crotty; Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the former general counsel in Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez’s office; former Assistant District Attorney Diana Florence; public defender Eliza Orlins; civil rights attorney Tahanie Aboushi; and, Lucy Lang, a former Assistant District Attorney and the director of John Jay College’s Institute for Innovative Prosecution. This Week's focus: Health and Housing.Â, President Biden's American Rescue Plan has been passed, delivering over $6billion to NYC government. Asked about how she would handle immigration concerns as DA, Crotty said she would “look at the collateral consequences in nonviolent cases,” but “when it comes to violent crime, it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”, She had been the only candidate in the race not to sign a letter calling for Governor Cuomo to institute elder parole. Eliza spent years as a public defender in New York City and is now a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney. Before that, she was a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. We’ll be playing a few rounds of trivia, and discussing why it’s so important that we elect Eliza as our next Manhattan DA — she’s 100% committed to overhauling our criminal legal system. Gotham Gazette article written by Andrew Millman, Gotham Gazette  Read more by this writer. She also criticized the current handling of gun violence more broadly, telling attendees that “we’re not attacking the problem at its source. According to Bragg, his lived experiences led him to make criminal justice his “life’s work” and he said he’s “ready to fundamentally reform the Manhattan DA’s office.”, “The way [violent crime] is prosecuted now doesn’t work,” Bragg said, calling current practices “overly punitive” while also saying that it “doesn’t do enough for victims.” He promised that the decisions of his office would be “survivor-focused and trauma-informed,” including an “opportunity for survivors to confront” perpetrators. From the racial biases in policing to the criminalization of poverty and for-profit prisons, our criminal justice system is broken. Quart, Aboushi, and Orlins said they would push for the legislature to adopt the full decriminalization bill. Janos Marton takes pride in having the most aggressive decarceration policy in the field. The event, featuring all Democrats, is being … “We consider this one of the most important races of 2021,” Roskoff told attendees at the start of the forum. “[W]hile I agreed with the spirit and tenor of that letter,” she said, she did not sign it because “each case has to be held on an individual, case-by-case basis.” She specifically said, “I don’t think Harvey Weinstein should get compassionate release.” She took that instance as an example of her “courage to stand out and above,” saying “that’s leadership.”, While generally supportive of restorative justice, she noted that the decision should be left up to the victims, saying, “I have enough experience with defendants to know that not everyone wants that opportunity.”, When asked about her criteria for prosecuting hit-and-runs, Crotty said she would “have to look at the surrounding circumstances.”, Eliza Orlins Incumbent Cy Vance has not declared whether or not he plans to run for reelection, but he has not been actively fundraising for another run and has not appeared at any of the early forums, where candidates have at times criticized his record harshly as too punitive on some, particularly low-income people of color, and too lenient on others, particularly wealthy white people, including some men accused or convicted of sexual assault. Aboushi has sued the NYPD over misconduct allegations. Quart called the issue a “serious problem” and said he would be aggressive in prosecuting such cases, like reckless driving and when drivers hit pedestrians, but “not for purposes of incarceration.”. Senator Chuck Schumer is now looking at mass transit as the next step needed to revitalize NYC life after the impact of COVID-19.Â, Lindsey Boylan, candidate for Manhattan Borough President speaks on camera for the first time about sexual harassment allegations she made against Governor Andrew Cuomo. Â. She cited her own work taking on real estate developers and landlords as an example of this. Aside from the decarceration pledge, Marton said his campaign has published more policies “than any other candidate.” He highlighted his latest plan to “use resources from the financial forfeiture fund for community-based mental health-care,” which he described as a “change approach.” He said “We can do much better in this city than letting people struggle in the streets.”, A longtime leader of the push to close the Rikers Island jails as director of policy and campaigns at JustLeadershipUSA, Marton has also spoken out against the new local jails proposal. Florence said she would join, but said she had “brought other DAs to more progressive stances” and would do the same at the DAASNY. Have a friend or team? The entry of Lang, a Vance ally, into the race last week and Vance’s paltry fundraising numbers in the first six months of the year are believed to signal that Vance is unlikely to run, especially given the all-important Democratc primary is now less than 10 months away. Eliza Orlins, a two-time participant of the CBS reality show "Survivor," has thrown her name into a crowded race for Manhattan District Attorney. Under such a program, participating in mental health counseling or job training could result in charges being dismissed. The nine Democratic candidates currently running for Manhattan District Attorney in next year’s June primary shared the Zoom debate stage for the first time Tuesday night at a three-hour forum hosted by the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, an LGBTQ-focused political organization. Eliza Orlins. Janos Marton When asked how he would reduce jail overcrowding, Quart said as DA he would institute a “rebuttable presumption that no one will be offered a sentence of greater than 20 years.”, Later in the forum, he sought to make a distinction between himself and several of those in the race with prosecutorial backgrounds, saying he would decline to prosecute more cases, rather than mandate diversion programs, as advocated by some other candidates, “who believe they can use the tools of the office in a kinder, gentler way.”. Lucy Lang pitched herself by saying “I know how to reform the system because I’ve worked from the inside and outside.” Lang served for over a decade as an Assistant DA under Vance and has been the director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College since 2017. Eliza Orlins Eliza Orlins emphasized that she’s the “only public defender running.” She said that she “absolutely” believes there is systemic racism in the New York criminal justice system, adding that it “forms the basis of our penal system.” ... “I’ve seen rampant misconduct” from prosecutors in the Manhattan … Tali Farhadian Weinstein recounted her own personal experiences as an immigrant and said “that remains my framework for how I view the work.” She says that experience has led to her “to want to tear down barriers because I know what it’s like to stand on the other side.” She said she would bring the practices of the Brooklyn DA’s office, which she calls a “national model of progressive prosecution” across the East River to Manhattan. *** Tali Farhadian Weinstein The next Manhattan DA is likely to wield considerable influence as a legislative advocate in Albany, and would be well-positioned to weigh in on this ongoing debate. As an ADA, Crotty prosecuted street crime, among other offenses, and represented families of 9/11 victims in private practice. Again citing her own work as a public defender, Orlins said, “I’ve seen rampant misconduct” from prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. When asked about the incumbent’s handling of the Harvey Weinstein case, Lang decried a “sense of backdoor dealing” and said she would institute “a policy of equal access,” preventing “backdoor meetings for well-heeled defense attorneys.”, When asked if she thought traffic violence should be treated similarly to drunk driving, Lang said she could not commit without seeing the legislation, but that she “aspires to ensure” that offenders are held “appropriately responsible.”, Tahanie Aboushi All but one candidate, Weinstein, expressed support for sex work decriminalization and were against the Nordic model. Eliza Orlins is running for Manhattan District Attorney. Quart has made his name in the Assembly sponsoring criminal justice reform laws like reducing the use of cash bail. Gotham Gazette and City Limits tag-team the city’s politics and policy news. by Andrew Millman, Gotham Gazette On gun violence, she said, “we have excellent gun safety laws yet gun violence is still going up.” She would work with state and federal partners to “stem the flow of gun trafficking” into the city, she said, as well as removing guns from domestic abusers and enforcing red flag laws. He noted that the club distributed over 50,000 pieces of literature in support of candidates during the 2020 state primaries and would be making its endorsement in the Manhattan District Attorney primary coming months. Orlins has been a public defender for more than 10 years, working as criminal defense … Eliza Orlins, a former two-time Orlins says her decade defending low-income New Yorkers makes her the best candidate to lead the office in a new, more … Today, Manhattan District Attorney candidate Eliza Orlins is unveiling a comprehensive policy platform calling for the full decriminalization of sex work between consenting adults, The Daily Beast is reporting exclusively. *** Lang touts her leadership in developing data-driven criminal justice reform. Diana Florence, who formerly ran the Manhattan DA’s construction fraud task force, said she was running “for people who never thought they’d win” and repeatedly mentioned her intention to focus on “crimes of power not crimes of poverty” if elected. Florence said that the police department’s nearly $6 billion annual operating budget “makes no sense” when other agencies are underfunded. “We want a district attorney who’s going to get people out of prison and not spend all their time locking people up.”. In Manhattan’s crowded district attorney race, there have been few kind words spared, if any, for Cyrus Vance, Jr., the long-serving Democratic incumbent who announced earlier this month that he would not seek reelection. Donate any amount to attend: Join us for a Trivia Night with Manhattan DA candidate Eliza Orlins… He has a campaign pledge to decrease the pretrial incarceration rate by 80%, which he calls a “real commitment.” He said “that’s something that we can be held accountable by the community for” because of his plan’s specificity. U.S. Formulated in consultation with many sex workers and sex worker-advocacy organizations, it … Lang called for more “judicial discretion” in the sentencing process, to which Aboushi pushed back, saying that “guardrails” were necessary to ensure that judges did not impose overly punitive sentences. She said “money bail does not keep us safe” and instead “is used to detain people who are poor.” She decried the “false choice” between ending cash bail and public safety. Similarly, Aboushi noted that she would be the first woman and person of color to hold the position. “I remember sitting next to (Cabán) in court one day and she was like ‘Eliza, I think I’m going to run for Queens DA.’ And I was like, ‘Tiff, I think I’m going to run for Manhattan DA.’ He said “we have to deal with this as a systemic issue,” because “trauma affects us all.”, Bragg also promised to hire formerly-incarcerated individuals to work in the office to help others with reentry post-incarceration, saying “those closest to these issues know them best.” He also said he was “proud to stand with those calling for a $1 billion reducation” in the NYPD’s budget, saying that the NYPD “dealing with homelessness and mental health does not make us safer.”. The club is one of New York’s two major citywide progressive LGBTQ political clubs affiliated with the Democratic Party, along with the Stonewall Democrats. She was a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney who is just continues. 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