Cy's Plan For The Future

Protecting Communities

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Our City has witnessed an extraordinary improvement in public safety during the Morgenthau era.  New York City is now the safest large city in the country and Manhattan the safest borough - the number of homicides, which is the most reliable indicator of violent crime rates, has dropped from 661 in 1974 to 61 in 2008.

I will work hard to retain these gains and enhance public safety by expanding “community based justice.”

We will partner our prosecutors with police, community groups, schools, housing associations, and other public and not-for-profit agencies to help communities break the cycle of crime.

  • Individualized Justice.  We will build on the Office’s successful “vertical prosecution” system, in which one prosecutor handles a case from start to finish, promoting accountability and giving crime victims the best service. We will align the Trial Division’s six street crime Bureaus to geographic zones based on police precincts.  This system will give prosecutors a greater sense of identification with Manhattan’s many neighborhoods and communities and improve two-way communication and accountability.  By aligning Bureaus to precincts, the Office will be able to:
  • identify public disorder and serious crime trends better and earlier;
  • target resources on recidivist felons who threaten public safety; and
  • develop localized and effective responses that draw on the Office’s specialized resources for investigating homicides, gangs, drugs and gun trafficking, sex crimes, identity theft, and other serious crimes.

  • Equal Justice.  The Office will promote close links with leaders of immigrant communities, communities of people of color, LGBT, and other non-geographical communities.  This will enable the Office to act quickly to prevent and prosecute bias crimes and protect Manhattan’s residents and workers from official abuse, violations of industry safety laws that threaten the health and safety of working men and women, and any other form of criminal abuse based on a victim’s protected status or special vulnerability.
  • Police Misconduct.  Aligning Trial Division Bureaus to police precincts means that prosecutors will work with the same officers continually, enabling the Office to identify more readily incidents and patterns of misconduct.  These will be referred to the Official Corruption Unit that investigates allegations of criminal conduct by police officers.
  • Protecting Tenants.  The Office will continue to work with housing authorities and tenant associations to investigate and prosecute landlords who use criminal schemes to evict tenants from their homes.

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  • "I support Cy Vance in this year’s election because I believe he is the best qualified, by his experience and his views, to keep this office the strongest in the nation."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Robert M. Morgenthau
    Manhattan District Attorney

  • "Cy is the most experienced candidate in the race, and he has the support of those who best understand what is needed in our next DA. He has served as an outstanding prosecutor, criminal defense lawyer, commissioner for sentencing reform and community leader. But perhaps most importantly, through his long career, he has maintained the ability to combine pragmatism and idealism to achieve justice."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Caroline Kennedy
    Activist, Author, Attorney

  • “Cy Vance is an accomplished lawyer, a passionate advocate and a true progressive. But most importantly, he embodies a characteristic that I believe is essential for the Manhattan DA: fairness. "

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Hon. David Dinkins
    Former Mayor, New York City

  • "Cy will be the kind of progressive D.A. that Manhattan needs – a lifelong opponent of the death penalty and supporter of the rights of women, LGBT people, and people of color. Throughout his career as a distinguished trial lawyer, Cy has embodied the principles of fairness and integrity that have long been central to the Manhattan D.A.’s office. He will work tirelessly to protect our communities."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Betsy Gotbaum
    Public Advocate, New York City

  • "The people of Manhattan expect and deserve a DA that will handle criminal justice issues with fairness and integrity... Cy has spent his career working on these issues [crime prevention, alternatives to incarceration, economic crime and financial fraud] from inside the courtroom, and his expertise is second to none. Manhattan DA is an important job, and it demands a leader with unparalleled legal skill and the utmost integrity."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    H. Carl McCall
    Former Comptroller, NYS

  • "It's clear that Cy Vance has the experience and judgment necessary to lead such an important office. He has spent a lifetime in the courtroom, working on both sides of complex cases... We are endorsing Cy because we trust that he will look out for working families to make sure that they are safe and justice is being served."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Gregory Floyd
    President, Teamsters Local 237

  • “Cy's innovative vision of how to forge a greater partnership between prosecutors, police and the community is exactly the type of forward thinking that we believe will make this city an even safer place to live and work... Of all the candidates in the race, Cy is the only one with the right experience to run this office.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Ed Mullins
    President, Sergeants Benevolent Association

  • “…an attorney in the tradition of Hogan and Morgenthau who will carry on a policy of fairness and toughness as chief law enforcement officer for New York County.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Eleanor Jackson Piel
    Veteran Civil Rights Attorney

  • "Cyrus Vance has the experience and wisdom to understand that the public safety that New Yorkers deserve will not be achieved as the accidental by-product of business as usual prosecutions.  Cy Vance has long advocated the kind of proactive engagement with local communities that can produce dramatic crime reduction in the areas of our city most in need.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Zachary Carter
    Former U.S. Attorney,
    Eastern District of New York

  • “We can be confident that Cy Vance will continue the traditions of effective law enforcement, fairness and justice that have defined and distinguished the Manhattan DA’s Office.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    David Boies
    Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP

  • "Cy Vance's advocacy of reform of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws will help addicts get the treatment that they need instead of the prison time that turns them into hardened criminals."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Rev. Reggie Williams
    Chairman of the United Missionary Baptist Association’s Commission for Human and Economic Development
    Pastor - Charity Baptist Church of Christ

  • “Cy Vance is clearly the best qualified, most experienced, and most decent candidate to meet the enormous challenges and responsibilities of the office of District Attorney of New York County.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Victor A. Kovner
    Former Corporation Counsel of the City of New York under Mayor David Dinkins

  • "As a superb prosecutor and leading member of the defense bar, Cy Vance is the candidate best qualified to lead this great office."

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Author Linda Fairstein
    Former Chief, Sex Crimes Unit, Manhattan DA's Office

  • "Cy Vance has the experience, judgment and integrity to preserve the best traditions of this office and to ensure public safety and fairness.  Cy Vance is my choice for District Attorney.”

    Endorser Name & Title: 

    Michael Cherkasky
    Former Chief, Investigations Division, Manhattan District Attorney's Office

  • Endorser Name & Title: 
    “Cy Vance has the integrity, the experience and the energy to be a great District Attorney and a very worthy successor to Bob Morgenthau.”

    Robert Fiske
    Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

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