The death of career criminal George Floyd from a Fentanyl overdose, with help from Derek Chauvin's knee, not only initiated a Black Lies Matter/Antifa insurrection, but began a series of legislation that was designed to endanger Americans and favor criminals, all in the name of the dirtiest words in the English language "equity" and "social justice." Combined with George Soros bought District Attorneys and crime exploded. Defunding and attacking police has also contributed to poor morale and understaffed departments.
No cash bail in several states and large cities was most destructive. It significantly reduced the type of criminal cases that could jail criminals until they showed up for trial. The argument for no cash bail was based on the misconception that cash or bond bail discriminated against the poor. It ignores two very real facts, most of the criminals are poor as are their victims. Corporate executive, doctors, school teachers, factory workers, small business owners don't hijack cars, commit snatch and grabs at sneaker or jewelry stores, or murder someone who "disrespects" them. They don't rob liquor stores or bodegas. If they do commit a crimes, like murder of a spouse or embezzlement, they are usually either kept in jail or released on mugtimillion dollar bail and forced to turn in their passports.The victims of violent crimes, though often poor, may represent the only place in criminal justice where there is "equity."
No cash bail has led to the release of criminals shortly after they are arrested and then they continue to go out and commit more crime,s get arrested again, and do it again and again. In NYC there are criminals who have been arrested over one hundred times for theft and continue to be released shortly after arrest and do it again. Often a person's past criminal history can't be used at a bail hearing and so that is another reason why repeat criminals are released over and over again. Without bail, there is no incentive to show up for trial and so many criminals don't show up and that is why they also can repeat crimes over and over again without consequence. Another catastrophe is about to happen in California. Over a thousand sexual predators have been released without serving much of their sentence. Most of these are pedophiles. It is controversial whether pedophilia can be cured, so why release them. My advice to parents, look up your children if you do not want them to become a crime statistic. Some of these pedophiles may move to New York City as the city council voted to not allow apartment owners to perform background checks on prospective renters. Now honest hardworking New Yorkers may have a criminal living next door and not know it.
Lately, many of the criminals who commit what appear to be random acts of violence are mentally ill, drug addicted, and homeless. We can thank left wing activists in the 1970s who easily convinced mental hospitals to release most of the patients with a prescription and an out patient followup appointed, The prescription were rarely filled and the mentally ill were never seen again, only to wind up homeless and drug addicted. The activists said that most mental patients weren't dangerous to themselves or society, but as it has turned out this isn't true. Being institutionalized is safer and healthier than being addicted, homeless, and violent.
Granted, a mental institution is no great place to live, but it is a place where addiction can be treated and patient scan be given appropriate medications and therapy, allowing some to be released. Building homeless areas ignores the real problem and money is wasted unless it goes to treatment. Many of the homeless are veterans suffering from PTSD and there just may be a treatment for this using macrodosing of psychedelics under supervision. It would be wonderful if homeless veterans could be turned into useful citizens again, That's a much better option then allowing unencumbered drug use with used syringes and needles littering streets and neighborhoods.
Mayors and some governors have ignored or even supported some of these failed policies. More funding and better training for police will help, but judges should be allowed to imposed cash bail and district attorneys need to properly charge crimes. Soros bought DAs ought to be fired or recalled. Criminal justice certainly needs to be reformed with sentencing more standardized as well as parole. Biden made a big deal of releasing all federal prisoners who were in prison on purely marijuana charges. How many did that release? None. It was Obama who released more than 1700 prisoners who were guilty of drug crimes, some who were also guilty of gun crimes. This leads me to my final thought. The left is opposed to gun ownership, but like immigration treats legal and illegal the same. Nearly all gun crimes are performed by guns that have been obtained illegally. Chicago, despite some of the stricter gun laws, leads the nation in gun crimes. Years need to be added to any sentence for anyone who commits a crime with a gun and even more with an illegal one. Though that may not serve as a deterrence, it will keep those criminals locked up longer.
Social justice is not the answer. It has led to a huge crime wave everywhere, but especially in those states and cities that have tried to pass laws favoring it. We don not need more social justice. We need more criminal justice.
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