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Repeat offenders in New York City continue to get opportunities to spread terror as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has spent much of his time prosecuting the president Donald Trump.
From a man with at least 134 arrests to a manslaughter suspect receiving a light prison sentence, there are repeat offenders New York City Thanks to District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the state’s bail reform law, people are getting one chance after another to get back on the streets and break more laws.
In a “day one” memo to staff, Bragg directed his office to “reduce pretrial detention” except in “very serious cases.” After taking office in 2021, Bragg had 52% of felonies downgraded to misdemeanors as of November 2022, according to his own office.
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1. Clive Porter
A man with over 50 previous arrests has been arrested after he allegedly attacked four people on the same day.
Clive Porter, 33, was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly punched a 45-year-old man in the face, causing him to fall onto subway tracks in Lower Manhattan.
According to officers, Porter allegedly yelled “Asian f—” at the victim before running away. According to the New York Post, authorities linked Porter to four attacks that occurred earlier in the day. In one of these attacks, a 72-year-old man suffered a broken nose.
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According to The New York Post, Clive Porter is charged with alleged assault as a hate crime, reckless endangerment and harassment (Received from New York Post)
He was charged with assault as a hate crime, reckless endangerment and harassment, according to the report.
Porter’s long list of criminal activity includes 61 felonies and 24 misdemeanors, The Post reported. Porter was also arrested on Oct. 14 after he allegedly punched a victim in the face and threatened the person with a knife.
Alvin Bragg’s office recommended supervised release because the primary charge, which was negligent assault, is not eligible for bail.
According to The New York Post, Clive Porter is accused of brutally beating a stranger at the Bowery and Delancey Street subway station in Lower Manhattan, causing the victim to fall onto the subway tracks in New York City on October 29, 2025. (Google Maps)
2. Festival Cruz
24 year old Jaia Cruz pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter Charged with the fatal stabbing attack on U.S. mail carrier Ray Hodge III in January during an argument.
Cruz is set to serve a 15-year prison sentence after agreeing to a plea deal with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, which also reduced the second-degree murder charge to first-degree manslaughter.
According to the New York PostCruz had a “history of knife violence” that included resisting arrest, threatening another person with a box cutter and an assault at knife point.
Hodge’s mother, Ada Rice, said Cruz stabbed her son seven times.
Jaia Cruz, a 24-year-old woman, was arrested. She was handcuffed and transported by the NYPD from the 28th Precinct after being accused of stabbing a USPS postal worker at a deli while working in Harlem. (Kyle Mazza/Sipa/IMAGN)
“She showed no remorse at first. She said she was happy when she stabbed him,” Rice told Fox News Digital. “She stabbed him. She kept stabbing him. She didn’t even stab him, she stabbed him seven times. She said he was going to be maggot food. She enjoyed it. She told another reporter that she hates black men.”
She said the lenient agreement was a message to other criminals.
“You are setting an example that murder is OK,” she told Fox News Digital. “You’ll be home so quickly because even if it says 15 on paper, they’ll never make it to 15 years, so they won’t think twice about it.”
The Manhattan district attorney is running for re-election in the 2025 cycle. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
3. Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson, 37, who has over 230 arrests to his name, was arrested again in June after he allegedly walked between train cars and gave false personal information when asked by officers The post.
According to police, Wilson was arrested in May for allegedly smoking crack cocaine on a subway train.
Wilson was arrested in February for allegedly stealing a subway rider through a turnstile and was paid cash for it. When officers searched his body, they allegedly found six MetroCards.
Despite the lengthy criminal record, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office chose not to prosecute Wilson “in the interest of justice.”
According to the report, one of the crimes Wilson was previously convicted of involved violence.
4. Harold Gooding
A man described by the Democratic mayor as “recidivist No. 1.” Eric AdamsHarold Gooding, who has been arrested at least 134 times for grand larceny, drug possession, armed robbery and burglary, has been repeatedly released on bail.
In one case, Gooding was accused of stealing 30 bottles of vitamins worth $1,511 in Manhattan on March 28 after his release from Rikers The post.
In April, he was accused of stealing cleaning products and three pairs of glasses from the same store. He was charged with grand theft, criminal possession of stolen property and two counts of petty theft.
However, due to the state’s 2019 no-bail law, no bail was allowed on all charges, sending Gooding back on the street.
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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced several “vile attacks” against NYPD officers in a post on X. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)
Without naming the prosecutors, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch sharply criticized the city’s district attorneys in February.
“Before they can even complete this paperwork, their abuser is back on the streets and immediately returns to the neighborhood and the people he just victimized,” Tisch said. “It is demoralizing, untenable and defies common sense.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Bragg’s office for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan, Julia Bonavita and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.