Outgoing Queens District Attorney Richard Brown’s interim replacement pushed back Tuesday against criticism from candidates running for Brown’s job.

Chief Assistant DA John Ryan accused the candidates of making “misstated or distorted” claims to portray the office as disconnected from modern approaches to criminal justice.

“To hear some of the candidates running for Queens District Attorney, you would have to be forgiven for thinking that the Queens DA’s Office was stuck in the 1970’s,” he wrote.