In some states, breaking the law is still illegal

Published May 24, 2024 5:40am ET



If you think it might be demoralizing to be a police officer in a city where the district attorney doesn’t prosecute criminals and the mayor cuts your department’s budget to give welfare to illegal immigrants, you’re right … and the sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming, is looking to capitalize.

Elected on a campaign promise to “address disproportionate incarceration of people of color” in 2016, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has since established herself as one of the softest-on-crime district attorneys in the country. 

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