The Democrats criminal treatment of crime is killer

 John Kass:

The story gripping America is violent crime.

It is the most important story out there now, and nurtured by woke rogue prosecutors in big cities across the country, many of them supported by leftist billionaire George Soros and other wealthy political donors like him.

From murders to mob action, to those videos of looters and smash-and-grabs in high-end retail outlets right before Christmas, from innocents, including bus drivers beaten to a pulp by street mobs, to politicians blaming the victims and the citizens avoiding the downtowns out of fear. It’s all of a piece.

The increase of violent crime is the number one issue in America. People might not talk about it publicly at work, lest they be accused of some social sin. But they do talk about it when they’re alone, in their cars, in their homes, at dinner with their families. You can see it in headlines across the nation, including this one just the other days from ABC News:

“It’s just crazy’: 12 Major Cities Hit All Time Homicide Records: ‘It’s worse than a war zone around here lately,’ a police official said.”

ABC quoted Robert Royce, retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, on one troublesome national statistic.

“Nobody’s getting arrested anymore,” Boyce said. “People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.”

Cops don’t make as many arrests because they know from experience that woke rogue prosecutors won’t prosecute. And sometimes those charged with crimes are let out again, and pull the trigger and kill innocents. Often, media declines to connect the dots.

The Democrats don’t want to hear about rogue prosecutors, the lack of arrests and the lack of prosecutions, the violence that it breeds. They don’t want to hear about repeat violent offenders terrorizing good people. All of this makes them rather uncomfortable.

They’d much rather gaslight you, and tell you violent crime is in your imagination, or blame it all on COVID and hope you’ll just forget that they were the ones who planted the seeds.
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When it comes to dealing with crime, Democrats appear clueless.  They have totally forgotten how to fight it.  The lessons of the Giuliani era are being ignored.  Broken window policing worked.  Arrest and hold people for minor crimes and you also prevent major crimes.  Turning these people loose to commit additional crimes is just idiotic, but that is what the Democrat bail laws have done.