The new district attorney of Manhattan has announced a plan to reduce the number of people in jail by not prosecuting some nonviolent offenses, including marijuana misdemeanors, fare evasion on city buses and trains, traffic offenses and sex work. Alvin Bragg, who is Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, ran on a platform calling for criminal justice reform. In a memo to staff, Bragg wrote that “reserving incarceration for matters involving significant harm will make us safer.”