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Alvin Bragg

served as chief deputy attorney general for New York state and as the first head of the office’s Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit. He is a visiting professor and co-director of the Racial Justice Project at New York Law School.

New York City

Opinion

How to hold cops legally accountable for killings

Three straightforward steps can start to change the lack of legal accountability for police officers who kill people, writes Alvin Bragg, a former chief deputy attorney general in New York.