Criminal
Sep. 14, 2020
Manhattan DA touts fewer prosecutions in talk with UCLA dean
Reimagining his role as a crime preventer as opposed to strictly a crime fighter has allowed his office to reduce its annual criminal caseload by more than 50% while significantly reducing violent crime in his communities, Cyrus Vance Jr. told Jennifer L. Mnookin, dean of UCLA School of Law.
When Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, took over that office in 2010, he said he realized local prosecutors had a void to fill in the criminal justice system.
They didn't focus enough on diversion and alternatives to incarceration, he said at a UCLA School of Law forum on Friday. His predecessor, Robert M. Morgenthau, in office for 34 years, prosecuted more than 100,00...
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