“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “has downgraded over 50% of the felonies to misdemeanors.”
What PolitiFact found
In 2022, Bragg's staff downgraded 52% of felonies that were screened to misdemeanors, an increase from prior years, though this is a common practice in other New York City boroughs.
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In short
Ron DeSantis (Governor of Florida) made this claim around 20 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 April 2023, 21 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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