Liberals get mugged by reality

Published June 16, 2022 12:00am ET



How do we reduce crime?

If your answer to that question is: by not charging crimes and thereby depicting cratering prosecution statistics as “crime reduction,” congratulations. You, too, can become one of the nation’s high-profile, big city “progressive prosecutors,” with all the media adulation and George Soros-backed funding streams that implies. No legal experience? No problem. All that stuff about mastering the law, applying it to facts? A quaint relic of the prehistoric 1990s. The aim of the “progressive prosecutor project” is to leave the laws unenforced. You’re policing a racialized, cultural Marxist narrative, not the streets.

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