Admittedly, the authorities in Arizona did not use those exact words, but when asked to extradite a suspect in NYC murders, Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell is declining to extradite a suspect in two Arizona stabbings.

Why, you may ask? Because she thinks Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is way too soft on crime, and she wants the perp in jail. 

Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell refuses to extradite the man accused of killing a woman in a New York City hotel, calling out Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's "treatment of violent criminals." https://t.co/BuTRZWAdIa

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 21, 2024

It's a stunning and entirely appropriate rebuke of Bragg's unwillingness to combat genuine criminal behavior. 

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told reporters in Arizona that she's ordered her staff not to cooperate in any efforts to send Raad Noan Almansoori, 26, back to New York where he's wanted in connection to the slaying of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38.

"This is not aimed the New York Police Department at all. I know they did a hard job, they did a good job, but we will not be agreeing to extradition," Mitchell said. "I've instructed my extradition attorneys not to agree to that. We're going to keep him here."

Almansoori is being held without bail in Arizona, where he's been accused of stabbing two women.

"Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan DA there, Alvin Bragg," Mitchell said, "I think it's safer to keep him here and keep him in custody so that he cannot be out doing this to individuals either in our state, county or anywhere in the United States."

Bragg's office is incensed, but let's face it folks, Alvin Bragg has carefully cultivated a reputation as a soft-on-criminals prosecutor who believes that the justice system is unfair to minorities. It's a bit rich to complain now that people around the country don't trust him to prosecute even a murderer to the full extent of the law. 

The perpetrator of many crimes--by his own admission--Raad Noan Almansoori is a real piece of work. In a crime spree that has left many victims across the country, he has stabbed multiple women and left at least one dead. 

“While in the custody of Arizona law enforcement, he informs them that he is wanted for a homicide in New York City, and tells the cops that they should Google ‘SoHo 54 Hotel,’” Kenny said at a Tuesday news conference.

Almansoori also “told Arizona cops that he hurt three additional girls in Florida,” Kenny said.

In two of the incidents that police know about, the victims were escorts, Kenny said.

He is proud of his crimes. 

In Arizona on Saturday, Almansoori carjacked and stabbed a woman in Phoenix, and on Sunday in the nearby city of Surprise he dragged a McDonald’s employee into a women’s restroom at the restaurant and stabbed her several times, Kenny said.

Both of those victims survived.

Police in Surprise said that Almansoori is being held without bond.

Surprise police said that he is charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and theft of means for acts in that city, as well as with robbery, assault, theft and criminal damage for crimes committed in Phoenix.

This rejection by Arizona prosecutors of what normally would be seen as a reasonable request by New York, if not a slam dunk, is yet another example of the growing divide between the more conservative regions of the country and the more leftist. 

The assumption that a Manhattan DA would not aggressively prosecute a murderer may or may not be fair, but it certainly is easily understood. Cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Minneapolis are rightly seen as way too soft on criminals, at least when they are non-White.

New York is hardly the crime-ridden hellhole it was before Giuliani became mayor, but it has been sliding backward because the justice system is failing. When a gang of illegal aliens can beat up a policeman and get released, what can the DA expect would happen? 

Of course nobody trusts him to do the right thing. 

I am no legal expert, so I don't know how strong the case is for New York's extradition request, but Rachel Mitchell is right not to trust Bragg's office. 

I wouldn't.