Reading stuff like this makes my blood boil. How did we get here, are local elected officials in California living in some parallel reality and they dont see, that their woke ideology is slowly not only killing local population(trough ever increasing crime) but also city where they live, or maybe they want to revert Cali to the times of Wild West with no laws or justice.
I honestly hope that we are approaching's peak wokeness and that slowly population will start voting these clowns out. Sadly I have been disappointed one too many times, each time when I think that the this Lunacy Express in California has reached its final destination, somehow woke crowd manages sadly to surprise me with next crazy idea that just aggravates the situation. Its like they are trying to put down fire by pouring more gasoline into it.
We should stop calling California Golden State, since it has become everything but that. My proposal would be Twilight State, place where all logic stops, and wokeness takes over.
Well only one thing gives me comfort, that is, that Dems have been in power on all levels for ages, so there is absolulty no-one else to blame for this situation. On the there hand, I dread that people escaping Cali to red states, will bring their voting habits with them and continue to vote for same insane policies that they escaped, since the did that for last 30 years in California.
This article is hilarious. Is it satire? Californians we’re hoodwinked by these terrible Trojan Horse DA candidates?
I call BS. Californians who sneer at the rest of the country as back water deplorables bought the woke BLM coated lie that our Justice system is racist. So they voted in reformers to fix that. They got in these reformers exactly what they voted for. All of us in the deplorable states? Seems like we’re smart enough not to buy the BS.
So, sorry if I don’t shed a tear for the carnage they have wrought. After all, they voted for it.
So a 17 year old is old enough to consent to massive doses of hormones and major elective surgery but that same 17 year old doesn’t know better than to murder someone over marajuana.
At the risk of being pilloried by more “woke” readers than I, I would like to point out some actual, indisputable facts:
1. We have seen the misery inflicted on inner city residents by other inner city residents for decades. A life of crime begins early, is fostered under adverse urban living conditions and is generally not interdicted by leniency in prosecuting those who would prey on others in their own communities.
2. We have also seen a concerted campaign to delegitimize law enforcement, which has led to more and more lawless behavior and deaths and injuries to law enforcement personnel.
3. An opportunistic, corrupt organization seized on the unacceptable conduct of a few police officers to generate a money-making enterprise, continuing to victimize vulnerable communities, while glorifying and rewriting the criminal history of a life-long criminal who died at the hands of an incompetent police officer.
4. No black or brown lives have been made better by failing to punish those who hurt, kill, abuse, carjack, run over, stab, shoot and inflict heinous inhuman damage on other human beings. Justice does not smile on victimization, and is not a hateful instrument of racists. Love for our fellow man does not mean turning a blind eye toward wrongdoing.
5. The vast majority of people of different races and skin color are people of good will, who only want fairness, safety, kindness and decency for themselves, their loved ones and their neighbors.
Civil society has instituted laws by common assent to deal with those who don’t want those same things.
Those who would characterize our people, and our society as so fundamentally flawed as to need to be completely disorganized and recast in a different mold are, simply wrong.
I lived in CA for 25 years, before homelessness and increasing suburban crime drove us to Austin. Boudin and Gascon are the worst examples, but the state's insane approach to crime is unfortunately not limited to the two prosecutors. A few years ago, in a quiet million dollar neighborhood of San Jose, a homeless, undocumented thug murdered a middle aged, single mother. He didn't bother to steal anything, he simply beat her to death, in font of her aging Retriever, for the fun of it. It quickly became clear the criminal was a repeat, violent offender who could have been deported numerous times before he graduated to murder. Before the victim could be buried, the entire SJ Police force, City Council and Mayor repeatedly reassured the city, the murderer's undocumented status was irrelevant and that it would in no way effect San Jose's Sanctuary City status. The CA drug trade is largely controlled by undocumented, Latin American gang members. All could easily and quickly be deported, but CA refuses to even charge and incarcerate them, lest the Feds attempt deportation. If CA will not punish undocumented, murderers and drug dealers, they are highly unlikely to punish US born criminals, of any kind.
Systemic racism is one of the biggest lies of 2020- let’s make this very clear all these places that are systematically racist are run by brown /black people- progressives do not care about anyone but themselves ! AOC is living it up as is the rest of the fraud squad- they never said a word about people’s businesses being shut down /kids - specially low income being shut down - the crime in their own districts that terrorizes these people - crickets ! Don’t know how people don’t see it !
I have both taught in Pennsylvania prisons and I’ve volunteered, meeting with inmates in numerous Maryland prisons. I’m no expert, after being behind the locked gates with convicts, I believe we definitely need prisons and we need to restructure sentences so that heinous and hardened convicts are both harshly penalized and removed from society. We should invest little in their future if they are longtermers or lifers as they will rarely be ‘productive.’ Yet, prisons have far too many one timers (at least caught and convicted for the first time) whose sentence would serve society best by being separated from main population with heavy doses of real rehabilitation and occupational preparedness for real jobs. If we don’t invest in their return to society we will continue to see them commit more costly crimes.
"Kimberly Richman, a criminologist at the University of San Francisco, said some of the Gascon policy changes made sense—for example, not trying juveniles as adults, which tends to make career criminals out of troubled kids. Gang enhancements, as Tiffany Blacknell had noted on her Instagram, do tend to increase racial disparities in prison, Richman said."
Weeeel, shouldn't the charging a juvenile as an adult be decided on a case by case basis. Because some "kids" *are* committing adult crimes, because they're *already* career criminals, right?
And, like was discussed yesterday with regard to guns:
You can't say anything about prosecutions of black people [Edit: and other minorities]. Because that's racist. But note the very next paragraph:
"Phil Stirling, the lead prosecutor on the Andrade case, pointed out what pretty much everyone in the city’s rougher neighborhoods already knew: 'Ninety-nine percent of the victims of gang murders and gang rapes and gang robberies and gang beat downs are minorites—black and brown people,” he said. “That’s what’s crazy about this whole racist prison bullshit.'”
I believe most Americans wanted to move away from mass incarceration fueled by the war on drugs. They recognized that reform was needed. They wanted DAs who were willing to prosecute police offices who broke the law. I don't understand who thought the mandate was for prosecutors to stop prosecuting violent crimes or to announce that some crimes would face no accountability whatsoever. It became a contest in blue cities to see who could out woke the other progressive prosecutors.
Growing up on the left, I can see why this style of “prosecution” would be popular. These days, as more right of center, I see the serious flaws in the ideology. Probably the most important thing to remember is that defense attorneys are focused on their client, who is the accused, while prosecutors focus on Justice for the victims or their families, as well as for society as a whole, the People, who in theory make the laws. When you invert that system, and the focus of the prosecutors is the accused and not the victims or the crimes, you get what one would expect. And that’s not Justice by any definition except the absurd one where Justice is defined as less number of X (name the group of choice) in prison. Personally, I feel there are too many people in prison, but at the same time, the vast majority of them did something to warrant prison, so at the end of the day I’d say it’s more of a cultural problem. The increase in incarceration was a direct result of a crack down on crime, and that crackdown didn’t come in a vacuum. There is a common belief that racism is what drives incarceration and crackdowns on criminals, and that’s a belief I held for most of my youth. That is until I went out in the world, met a lot of pieces of garbage of all skin tones, and realized two things can both be true at the same time. First, there are still some racist people out there and we have to be cognizant of that. Secondly, there are ALOT of scumbags out there that care nothing for the rules of society, your safety, or civilization. They simply don’t care, and again from my own experiences, those same people often commit far more crime than they actually get held to account for. I love the empathy and compassion of people on the left. I believe it comes from a good place. But I do think that the more educated folks who are aloof from the life and problems of the lower classes have a paternalist instinct that views minorities kinda like kids. All they have to do is find some way of getting through to the criminals and everything will change. From my life experiences, that’s incredibly naive. Real criminals exploit that, and nurture it. They will play along and tell sad stories all day about racism and abuse and drugs; whatever gets them out of having to spend one hour more in prison for a crime they actually committed. And sadly there are a lot of people who play along with that because they are far more afraid of being called a racist than the criminal victimizing someone else. For a liberal to be called racist is like the pope being called a Satanist. I know this because I have bucked liberal orthodoxy and been called a racist, unjustly in my view, and it stung. Liberals love to call people racists because when you aren’t a racist it is really damaging to hear. Actual racists don’t care because they are actual racists. So they use it as a club to pass radical stuff that’s counterintuitive and damaging, which is where we sit now. Crying racism (or any phobia/ism) has become a way for really dumb and radical people to manipulate people around them to achieve goals that people would not accept absent the charge of racism.
It is hard to reform an ossified institutional structure (the Dallas criminal justice system is a fiefdom), but controls and correctives can be implemented that temper justice with mercy. Justice without mercy is cruelty and will bring revolt but mercy without justice will just as surely bring destruction. A small percentage of incorrigibles can tyrannize society like we are seeing now in our large urban areas with this cadre of terrible DAs.
His Cuban comment tells the whole story. Gascon is an INNATE REVOLUTIONARY.
It's a recognizable personality type. His goal in life is total chaos and total criminality. Revolutionaries always open up the prisons so ordinary criminals can use their specific skills to assist the riots. Storming the Bastille was the model of this technique.
The type was described in 1896:
"There is another class, who are led on by a wild passion for the destruction of the old and the creation of something new. They need restless activity: their present condition seems the worst possible. As a rule, too, they are very fond of notoriety. They are in love with crime. The pain of others is a keen satisfaction to them: its horror attracts them. The French revolution shows such types."
Never ceases to amaze, that the blame for all this inner city mayhem is handily attributed to "racism" or "white supremacy" or "the legacy of slavery". Rule number 1 is to correctly identify the problem. Until those who purport to lead us take the blinders off, expect more of the same.
I am a career prosecutor who left the Philadelphia DA's Office (early retirement) shortly after Larry Krasner became the District Attorney. I can't even begin to convey the disconnect with any semblance of logic to his policies (if the goal is to reduce crime), the callous disregard for individual crime victims, the growing impact on the crime rate and overall safety in the City, and the outright flouting of the law (look up news stories about the recent Federal appeal in the Robert Wharton case where a Federal judge found Krasner's briefs contained lies designed to FAVOR this murderer) that has taken place in this institution because of DA Krasner.
For starters, prosecutors in Pennsylvania are not protected by Civil Service laws; they can be fired at will. Krasner fired over 30 prosecutors (out of about 300 total) immediately upon taking office. They were our best and most experienced prosecutors, mostly in the Homicide Unit, and that's precisely why he fired them. Called them into work on a day when the entire city was shut down with three feet of snow after a blizzard, fired them, and had them escorted out of the office by detectives as though they were criminals. We realized later on that Krasner is convinced that the DAs office was completely corrupt, that we routinely hid exculpatory evidence in our files, and that if the fired DAs were not immediately ejected from the building that they would destroy the evidence of their dastardly deeds.
When you learn what moves were made by these "progressive" DAs it's obvious that they are playing from the same coordinated playbook. For instance, on the day he was sworn in, an email blast went out to all of us announcing all of these new policies (pretty much identical to those described in this article). At that time the most shocking to me was the change in Homicide prosecution. No longer would ANYONE be charged with first-degree murder without prior approval from the DA himself. All active cases were to be pled out if possible for a maximum of 20 years in prison.
Meanwhile, all bets are off as far as PREVIOUS convictions. Those who are incarcerated are all filing appeals and Krasner is doing everything he can to convince judges to grant those appeals, instead of fighting them (which is the particular job I did before he was elected). Assistant District Attorneys are having to contact family members of murder victims, having to contact rape victims, to notify them that the monster they thought was securely in jail for life, or for the next 80 years, is having their sentence reduced or perhaps even being set free. I'm not talking about the truly wrongly-convicted, who should of course have immediate relief. I'm talking about Krasner concluding that almost anyone who comes forward years later making a claim on appeal is telling the truth. Look up the facts of the Robert Wharton murders if you want to see the kind of convicted murderer Krasner is going to bat for on appeal instead of fighting with everything he's got to keep his conviction and sentence secure.
I hope this comment isn't too long, I could go on and on.
But just this---just this---I wish that Krasner and his ilk could be continuously confronted with a simple question when speechifying about how the "system" is unjustly convicting minorities based on systemic racism:
"Why don't you believe black and brown people when they tell police that the person who robbed/shot/raped/burgled them was also a minority? Why do you discount their testimony?" The percentage of minorities who are charged with crimes exactly tracks the percentage of victim reports where the race of the perpetrator is known.
How much "intergenerational trauma" and dissipated wealth is happening because of these polices? By any metric how can the damage not be considered racist considering the burden of these tragedies is shouldered by predominately Asian Black and Hispanic communities? Is this the one disparate impact anti racists pretend doesn' exist?
The problem is - as the old saying goes - that "you can't fix stupid." A certain percentage of the population are sociopaths and a larger percentage are followers. If you don't punish, contain and control the sociopaths, the result is chaos. People have known this for time immemorial. Those who rail against this truism are not "right-thinking;" they're either stupid or intentionally ignoring reality. Gascon is probably just stupid. But "the right-thinking people who had backed him—George Soros; Netflix CEO Reed Hastings; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; and, of course, Patrisse Cullors, the BLM co-founder" are not all stupid Some are, and some are merely grasping opportunists. But, particularly in Soros's case, he is not stupid and his agenda is to de-stabilize the United States in order to remove our nation as the bulwark of liberty standing against a totalitarian, one-world agenda. It is long past time to recognize this. He, and his malevolent spawn need to be crushed.
Reading stuff like this makes my blood boil. How did we get here, are local elected officials in California living in some parallel reality and they dont see, that their woke ideology is slowly not only killing local population(trough ever increasing crime) but also city where they live, or maybe they want to revert Cali to the times of Wild West with no laws or justice.
I honestly hope that we are approaching's peak wokeness and that slowly population will start voting these clowns out. Sadly I have been disappointed one too many times, each time when I think that the this Lunacy Express in California has reached its final destination, somehow woke crowd manages sadly to surprise me with next crazy idea that just aggravates the situation. Its like they are trying to put down fire by pouring more gasoline into it.
We should stop calling California Golden State, since it has become everything but that. My proposal would be Twilight State, place where all logic stops, and wokeness takes over.
Well only one thing gives me comfort, that is, that Dems have been in power on all levels for ages, so there is absolulty no-one else to blame for this situation. On the there hand, I dread that people escaping Cali to red states, will bring their voting habits with them and continue to vote for same insane policies that they escaped, since the did that for last 30 years in California.
This article is hilarious. Is it satire? Californians we’re hoodwinked by these terrible Trojan Horse DA candidates?
I call BS. Californians who sneer at the rest of the country as back water deplorables bought the woke BLM coated lie that our Justice system is racist. So they voted in reformers to fix that. They got in these reformers exactly what they voted for. All of us in the deplorable states? Seems like we’re smart enough not to buy the BS.
So, sorry if I don’t shed a tear for the carnage they have wrought. After all, they voted for it.
So a 17 year old is old enough to consent to massive doses of hormones and major elective surgery but that same 17 year old doesn’t know better than to murder someone over marajuana.
Uh huh. 🙄
At the risk of being pilloried by more “woke” readers than I, I would like to point out some actual, indisputable facts:
1. We have seen the misery inflicted on inner city residents by other inner city residents for decades. A life of crime begins early, is fostered under adverse urban living conditions and is generally not interdicted by leniency in prosecuting those who would prey on others in their own communities.
2. We have also seen a concerted campaign to delegitimize law enforcement, which has led to more and more lawless behavior and deaths and injuries to law enforcement personnel.
3. An opportunistic, corrupt organization seized on the unacceptable conduct of a few police officers to generate a money-making enterprise, continuing to victimize vulnerable communities, while glorifying and rewriting the criminal history of a life-long criminal who died at the hands of an incompetent police officer.
4. No black or brown lives have been made better by failing to punish those who hurt, kill, abuse, carjack, run over, stab, shoot and inflict heinous inhuman damage on other human beings. Justice does not smile on victimization, and is not a hateful instrument of racists. Love for our fellow man does not mean turning a blind eye toward wrongdoing.
5. The vast majority of people of different races and skin color are people of good will, who only want fairness, safety, kindness and decency for themselves, their loved ones and their neighbors.
Civil society has instituted laws by common assent to deal with those who don’t want those same things.
Those who would characterize our people, and our society as so fundamentally flawed as to need to be completely disorganized and recast in a different mold are, simply wrong.
I lived in CA for 25 years, before homelessness and increasing suburban crime drove us to Austin. Boudin and Gascon are the worst examples, but the state's insane approach to crime is unfortunately not limited to the two prosecutors. A few years ago, in a quiet million dollar neighborhood of San Jose, a homeless, undocumented thug murdered a middle aged, single mother. He didn't bother to steal anything, he simply beat her to death, in font of her aging Retriever, for the fun of it. It quickly became clear the criminal was a repeat, violent offender who could have been deported numerous times before he graduated to murder. Before the victim could be buried, the entire SJ Police force, City Council and Mayor repeatedly reassured the city, the murderer's undocumented status was irrelevant and that it would in no way effect San Jose's Sanctuary City status. The CA drug trade is largely controlled by undocumented, Latin American gang members. All could easily and quickly be deported, but CA refuses to even charge and incarcerate them, lest the Feds attempt deportation. If CA will not punish undocumented, murderers and drug dealers, they are highly unlikely to punish US born criminals, of any kind.
Systemic racism is one of the biggest lies of 2020- let’s make this very clear all these places that are systematically racist are run by brown /black people- progressives do not care about anyone but themselves ! AOC is living it up as is the rest of the fraud squad- they never said a word about people’s businesses being shut down /kids - specially low income being shut down - the crime in their own districts that terrorizes these people - crickets ! Don’t know how people don’t see it !
I have both taught in Pennsylvania prisons and I’ve volunteered, meeting with inmates in numerous Maryland prisons. I’m no expert, after being behind the locked gates with convicts, I believe we definitely need prisons and we need to restructure sentences so that heinous and hardened convicts are both harshly penalized and removed from society. We should invest little in their future if they are longtermers or lifers as they will rarely be ‘productive.’ Yet, prisons have far too many one timers (at least caught and convicted for the first time) whose sentence would serve society best by being separated from main population with heavy doses of real rehabilitation and occupational preparedness for real jobs. If we don’t invest in their return to society we will continue to see them commit more costly crimes.
Being soft on criminals is no answer.
This is why I have a problem with PhDs.
"Kimberly Richman, a criminologist at the University of San Francisco, said some of the Gascon policy changes made sense—for example, not trying juveniles as adults, which tends to make career criminals out of troubled kids. Gang enhancements, as Tiffany Blacknell had noted on her Instagram, do tend to increase racial disparities in prison, Richman said."
Weeeel, shouldn't the charging a juvenile as an adult be decided on a case by case basis. Because some "kids" *are* committing adult crimes, because they're *already* career criminals, right?
And, like was discussed yesterday with regard to guns:
You can't say anything about prosecutions of black people [Edit: and other minorities]. Because that's racist. But note the very next paragraph:
"Phil Stirling, the lead prosecutor on the Andrade case, pointed out what pretty much everyone in the city’s rougher neighborhoods already knew: 'Ninety-nine percent of the victims of gang murders and gang rapes and gang robberies and gang beat downs are minorites—black and brown people,” he said. “That’s what’s crazy about this whole racist prison bullshit.'”
I believe most Americans wanted to move away from mass incarceration fueled by the war on drugs. They recognized that reform was needed. They wanted DAs who were willing to prosecute police offices who broke the law. I don't understand who thought the mandate was for prosecutors to stop prosecuting violent crimes or to announce that some crimes would face no accountability whatsoever. It became a contest in blue cities to see who could out woke the other progressive prosecutors.
Growing up on the left, I can see why this style of “prosecution” would be popular. These days, as more right of center, I see the serious flaws in the ideology. Probably the most important thing to remember is that defense attorneys are focused on their client, who is the accused, while prosecutors focus on Justice for the victims or their families, as well as for society as a whole, the People, who in theory make the laws. When you invert that system, and the focus of the prosecutors is the accused and not the victims or the crimes, you get what one would expect. And that’s not Justice by any definition except the absurd one where Justice is defined as less number of X (name the group of choice) in prison. Personally, I feel there are too many people in prison, but at the same time, the vast majority of them did something to warrant prison, so at the end of the day I’d say it’s more of a cultural problem. The increase in incarceration was a direct result of a crack down on crime, and that crackdown didn’t come in a vacuum. There is a common belief that racism is what drives incarceration and crackdowns on criminals, and that’s a belief I held for most of my youth. That is until I went out in the world, met a lot of pieces of garbage of all skin tones, and realized two things can both be true at the same time. First, there are still some racist people out there and we have to be cognizant of that. Secondly, there are ALOT of scumbags out there that care nothing for the rules of society, your safety, or civilization. They simply don’t care, and again from my own experiences, those same people often commit far more crime than they actually get held to account for. I love the empathy and compassion of people on the left. I believe it comes from a good place. But I do think that the more educated folks who are aloof from the life and problems of the lower classes have a paternalist instinct that views minorities kinda like kids. All they have to do is find some way of getting through to the criminals and everything will change. From my life experiences, that’s incredibly naive. Real criminals exploit that, and nurture it. They will play along and tell sad stories all day about racism and abuse and drugs; whatever gets them out of having to spend one hour more in prison for a crime they actually committed. And sadly there are a lot of people who play along with that because they are far more afraid of being called a racist than the criminal victimizing someone else. For a liberal to be called racist is like the pope being called a Satanist. I know this because I have bucked liberal orthodoxy and been called a racist, unjustly in my view, and it stung. Liberals love to call people racists because when you aren’t a racist it is really damaging to hear. Actual racists don’t care because they are actual racists. So they use it as a club to pass radical stuff that’s counterintuitive and damaging, which is where we sit now. Crying racism (or any phobia/ism) has become a way for really dumb and radical people to manipulate people around them to achieve goals that people would not accept absent the charge of racism.
It is hard to reform an ossified institutional structure (the Dallas criminal justice system is a fiefdom), but controls and correctives can be implemented that temper justice with mercy. Justice without mercy is cruelty and will bring revolt but mercy without justice will just as surely bring destruction. A small percentage of incorrigibles can tyrannize society like we are seeing now in our large urban areas with this cadre of terrible DAs.
His Cuban comment tells the whole story. Gascon is an INNATE REVOLUTIONARY.
It's a recognizable personality type. His goal in life is total chaos and total criminality. Revolutionaries always open up the prisons so ordinary criminals can use their specific skills to assist the riots. Storming the Bastille was the model of this technique.
The type was described in 1896:
"There is another class, who are led on by a wild passion for the destruction of the old and the creation of something new. They need restless activity: their present condition seems the worst possible. As a rule, too, they are very fond of notoriety. They are in love with crime. The pain of others is a keen satisfaction to them: its horror attracts them. The French revolution shows such types."
(Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=5EpGAQAAMAAJ)
Never ceases to amaze, that the blame for all this inner city mayhem is handily attributed to "racism" or "white supremacy" or "the legacy of slavery". Rule number 1 is to correctly identify the problem. Until those who purport to lead us take the blinders off, expect more of the same.
I am a career prosecutor who left the Philadelphia DA's Office (early retirement) shortly after Larry Krasner became the District Attorney. I can't even begin to convey the disconnect with any semblance of logic to his policies (if the goal is to reduce crime), the callous disregard for individual crime victims, the growing impact on the crime rate and overall safety in the City, and the outright flouting of the law (look up news stories about the recent Federal appeal in the Robert Wharton case where a Federal judge found Krasner's briefs contained lies designed to FAVOR this murderer) that has taken place in this institution because of DA Krasner.
For starters, prosecutors in Pennsylvania are not protected by Civil Service laws; they can be fired at will. Krasner fired over 30 prosecutors (out of about 300 total) immediately upon taking office. They were our best and most experienced prosecutors, mostly in the Homicide Unit, and that's precisely why he fired them. Called them into work on a day when the entire city was shut down with three feet of snow after a blizzard, fired them, and had them escorted out of the office by detectives as though they were criminals. We realized later on that Krasner is convinced that the DAs office was completely corrupt, that we routinely hid exculpatory evidence in our files, and that if the fired DAs were not immediately ejected from the building that they would destroy the evidence of their dastardly deeds.
When you learn what moves were made by these "progressive" DAs it's obvious that they are playing from the same coordinated playbook. For instance, on the day he was sworn in, an email blast went out to all of us announcing all of these new policies (pretty much identical to those described in this article). At that time the most shocking to me was the change in Homicide prosecution. No longer would ANYONE be charged with first-degree murder without prior approval from the DA himself. All active cases were to be pled out if possible for a maximum of 20 years in prison.
Meanwhile, all bets are off as far as PREVIOUS convictions. Those who are incarcerated are all filing appeals and Krasner is doing everything he can to convince judges to grant those appeals, instead of fighting them (which is the particular job I did before he was elected). Assistant District Attorneys are having to contact family members of murder victims, having to contact rape victims, to notify them that the monster they thought was securely in jail for life, or for the next 80 years, is having their sentence reduced or perhaps even being set free. I'm not talking about the truly wrongly-convicted, who should of course have immediate relief. I'm talking about Krasner concluding that almost anyone who comes forward years later making a claim on appeal is telling the truth. Look up the facts of the Robert Wharton murders if you want to see the kind of convicted murderer Krasner is going to bat for on appeal instead of fighting with everything he's got to keep his conviction and sentence secure.
I hope this comment isn't too long, I could go on and on.
But just this---just this---I wish that Krasner and his ilk could be continuously confronted with a simple question when speechifying about how the "system" is unjustly convicting minorities based on systemic racism:
"Why don't you believe black and brown people when they tell police that the person who robbed/shot/raped/burgled them was also a minority? Why do you discount their testimony?" The percentage of minorities who are charged with crimes exactly tracks the percentage of victim reports where the race of the perpetrator is known.
How much "intergenerational trauma" and dissipated wealth is happening because of these polices? By any metric how can the damage not be considered racist considering the burden of these tragedies is shouldered by predominately Asian Black and Hispanic communities? Is this the one disparate impact anti racists pretend doesn' exist?
The problem is - as the old saying goes - that "you can't fix stupid." A certain percentage of the population are sociopaths and a larger percentage are followers. If you don't punish, contain and control the sociopaths, the result is chaos. People have known this for time immemorial. Those who rail against this truism are not "right-thinking;" they're either stupid or intentionally ignoring reality. Gascon is probably just stupid. But "the right-thinking people who had backed him—George Soros; Netflix CEO Reed Hastings; Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; and, of course, Patrisse Cullors, the BLM co-founder" are not all stupid Some are, and some are merely grasping opportunists. But, particularly in Soros's case, he is not stupid and his agenda is to de-stabilize the United States in order to remove our nation as the bulwark of liberty standing against a totalitarian, one-world agenda. It is long past time to recognize this. He, and his malevolent spawn need to be crushed.