Crime focus should be on liberal prosecutors , not guns

 Fox News:

Soft-on-crime district attorneys across the country are to blame for a spike in violent crime – not firearms, a former federal prosecutor told Fox News Digital.

"Guns don’t commit crimes, neither do knives and hammers, people do," said Charles Stimson, now a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "It’s a red herring to focus on guns rather than the harder issue of how to enforce the law fairly and hold criminals accountable."

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During a visit to New York City last week, President Biden said he would help Mayor Eric Adams get illegal guns off the streets to combat cresting violent crime.

Across the country homicides were up 30% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to FBI data. The murder rate in 22 major U.S. cities was up 44% in 2021 compared to 2019 and 5% compared to 2020, according to a study from the non-partisan Council on Criminal Justice.

Stimson blamed much of these increases on progressive district attorneys who have weakened consequences for a range of serious crimes in mostly Democratic-run cities.

"It is not true that crime is rising in every big city — it’s true that it’s rising in cities that have elected rogue prosecutors," Stimson said, specifically highlighting the policies of George Gascón in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Kim Foxx in Chicago, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and others.
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The result has been mass shoplifting, open prostitution, drug markets and, in many cases, record numbers of shootings and murders, he said.

Stimson, who formerly worked as an Assistant US Attorney in D.C., contended that giving a pass on lower level crimes breeds more serious misconduct.
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History shows that prosecution of crimes at all levels is important from broken windows to murder.  The progressive prosecutors are just wrong and they should all be removed from office.  Their argument that going easy on crime makes a city safer is being disproved on a daily basis in those Democrat-controlled cities.  Electing Democrats looks like a mistake at all levels of government from Biden on down.