Brooklyn Democratic voters who go the polls Tuesday to select their candidate for district attorney will have a choice between a six-term incumbent who says he has "made Brooklyn safer" and a high-profile challenger who says his rival has fostered "shocking" abuse of defendants' rights.
"What I've been arguing to the folks of Brooklyn is I'm not done yet, I have a number of things to complete before I decide to step aside," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, 78, ticking off ideas like the expansion of community courts and reentry programs and a recently established healthcare fraud division as his priorities if elected to a seventh term.
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