Saritha Komatireddy was a freshman in her first week at Harvard University when terrorists struck New York.
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terrorists → strike → York
She resolved, on 9/11, to become a prosecutor to protect her country and hometown.
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She → resolve → country
She’s been doing it ever since.
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She → do → it
As an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, she took down terrorists, cartel members and cybercriminals, forging a reputation so impressive that she was named chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration in the back half of the Biden administration, right as it finally began to take the porous southern border seriously.
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it → take → border
Now a 41-year-old mother to two sets of twins under the age of 10 living in Manhattan, she’s mounting an insurgent statewide campaign against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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she → live → James
Because duty calls.
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duty → call → ?
“We’ve had a member of my family assaulted in the subway, taking my kids to school.
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member → have → school
We have a family friend who had a stray bullet come through her bedroom while she was sleeping,” Komatireddy told The Post.
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Komatireddy → have → Post
“New Yorkers don’t feel safe, they feel less safe now than when Tish James began as attorney general and the reason is simple: they are less safe now.
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they → feel → general
“She stopped doing the job.”
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She → stop → job
Those are the weighty charges Komatireddy is leveling against James, who is something of a celebrity on the left thanks to her overblown civil lawsuit against Donald Trump.
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who → level → Trump
But while the AG’s pursuit of hyper-partisan vanity projects endeared her to her fellow professional Democrats and the media, Komatireddy believes that the public sees them for what they are: a distraction from her core duties.
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they → endear → duties
“For the last eight years, we’ve had an attorney general who is more focused on national politics and burnishing her own brand and celebrity, and that has not served New Yorkers,” says the Republican nominee for James’ office.
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nominee → have → office
“We’re all less safe because of it.
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She’s neglected New York.”
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She → neglect → York
Confronted by a local news anchor with Komatireddy’s criticism of her “neglect” of criminal issues, James insisted that the Columbia Law School professor and Holtzman Vogel partner “doesn’t understand the responsibility and the role of the New York State attorney general.”
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professor → confront → general
“Our office primarily focuses on civil investigations, and not criminal investigations.
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office → focus → investigations
In order to engage in a criminal investigation, you would need a referral from the governor of the state of New York.”
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you → engage → York
It’s an empty answer, and one Komatireddy plans to dismantle when they debate Thursday evening.
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they → ’ → ?
On hate crimes: which have skyrocketed on James’ watch: “The AG has jurisdiction to step in when a district attorney fails to prosecute a case appropriately,” Komatireddy says.
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Komatireddy → skyrocket → case
On retail theft rings: “That is the very definition of organized crime.
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That → organize → crime
Under New York State law, we have an organized crime task force in the attorney general’s office for the specific purpose of prosecuting organized crime.”
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we → have → crime
On aiding shorthanded district attorneys’ offices: “The New York Court of Appeals has held that the attorney general can send attorneys from her own office to the DAs’ offices and designate them as special ADAs so that they can help out.”
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they → aid → ADAs
“There are numerous ways an attorney general can prosecute crime, you just have to want to do it,” Komatireddy told The Post.
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Komatireddy → be → Post
Tish James just doesn’t want to do it.”
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James → want → it
You don’t have to take her word for it either.
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You → have → it
James is a bail reform truther more worried about “overreact[ing] to spikes in crime” than reacting to them, and more interested in investigating cops than criminals.
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James → overreact[e → criminals
Her lethargic brand of leadership isn’t just a product of laziness, it’s her naive worldview put into practice.
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it → ’ → practice
On homelessness, too, her “can do” attitude makes for a sharp contrast with James’ shrugs.
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attitude → make → shrugs
Komatireddy is proposing the establishment of an Office of Civil Commitment to get severely mentally ill people off the streets and into treatment centers.
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Komatireddy → propose → centers
James has derided her plan, complaining that “She wants to go backwards to the time when individuals who were struggling with mental illness were out of mind, and out of sight, and locked away.”
That’s a cute — if wildly demagogic — canned line, but it’s cold comfort to the family of Erin Piacenti, the new mother stabbed to death in Times Square on August 31.
Or that of Mesias Lojano, the 59-year-old man murdered on the J train last Wednesday.
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it → deride → train
Or those who loved Ross Falzone, a retired 76-year-old special education teacher who passed after being shoved down a staircase in May.
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“Having severely mentally ill individuals out on the streets, in the subways, is unsafe for the individual themselves and unsafe for the community,” argued Komatireddy.
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Komatireddy → have → community
“It’s a public safety crisis, it’s also a humanitarian crisis.”
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“Tish James wants to do nothing and leave things just the way they are.
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they → want → things
That’s who’s going backwards, that’s cruel.”
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that → ’ → ?
The disturbing “Cornell 7” story dominating headlines across the country makes for still another case study in James’ propensity toward political stunts and sloppy mistakes.
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story → dominate → stunts
Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed James to replace the Tompkins County district attorney as the lead prosecutor in the criminal investigation into the alleged incident.
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Hochul → appoint → incident
But James has already betrayed her prejudice in the case, declaring that what Jane Doe had “been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable.”
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forced → betray → what
Her commentary, though, has already disserved the alleged victim, the suspects and the public at large.
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commentary → disserve → victim
…and 17 more, not listed.
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