Category: Prosecutors

The Perfect Storm for Crime to Flourish in San Francisco

by · May 25, 2021 11:35 am

In San Francisco fear has become part of life for many of its residents. According to this article by Kenny Choi of CBS San Francisco:

Residents in San Francisco say they don’t feel safe amid an alarming rise in the number of burglaries across the city. Residents say the initial response form San Francisco police went nowhere. So after someone broke into her complex in the middle of the night, [Iryna] Gorb started sleuthing, obsessively collecting evidence on her own from neighbors’ cameras.  

 

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Big Disappointment in Philadelphia

by · May 19, 2021 12:53 pm

In a few spots, there are some encouraging signs that Americans are starting to come out of the mass hallucination that going soft on crime is somehow going to help social problems. Philadelphia, regrettably, is not there yet. In yesterday’s primary, Democratic voters renominated pro-criminal District Attorney Larry Krasner by a 2-to-1 margin over pro-law-enforcement challenger Carlos Vega. Continue reading . . .

California District Attorneys Petition to Repeal Release of 76,000 Inmates

by · May 14, 2021 10:57 am

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, joined by 40 other elected DAs,  submitted this petition to the Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to, “…repeal the temporary emergency regulations contained in the Minimum Security Credit and Inmate Credit Earning rule making action filed with the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) on April 8, 2021.”   The regulations give 76,000 criminals in state prisons eligibility for early release. 

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Is Larry Krasner in Trouble in Philadelphia?

by · May 12, 2021 12:02 pm

Larry Krasner is a long-time, ideologically far Left defense attorney who, with the help of oodles of Soros money and a one-party jurisdiction, got himself elected District Attorney of Philadelphia.  The city (like many other one-party big cities) has since seen a surge in murder and other violent crime.  The victims are disproportionately black (although Krasner campaigned on improving the operation of the criminal justice system for minorities  —  raising the question whether getting murdered more often counts as an “improvement”).

Just as in other now-bloodsoaked cities with “progressive” DA’s (Los Angeles and San Francisco come most readily to mind), there has been pushback in Philadelphia.  Krasner is facing a primary challenge from a former deputy DA in his own office.  The challenge recently received a major, and perhaps decisive, boost.

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How the District Attorney Playbook Has Changed

by · May 10, 2021 4:12 pm

Michael Smerconish has this video report on CNN. With a focus on Philadelphia, he begins by noting the change from prosecutors who ran for office by touting how tough they were to the more recent “progressive prosecutor” model, heavily reliant on large sums of campaign cash from George Soros.

However, Mr. Smerconish notes, there are signs of a trend in the other direction, with a strong challenger to Philly DA Krasner and recall efforts against SF DA Boudin and LA DA Gascón. Continue reading . . .

Baltimore’s Disastrous Experiment with De-Policing

by · May 7, 2021 9:52 am

Stephen J.K. Walters writes in the City Journal:

A decade ago, Baltimoreans became lab rats in a fateful experiment: their elected officials decided to treat the city’s long-running crime problem with many fewer cops. In effect, Baltimore began to defund its police and engage in de-policing long before those terms gained popular currency.

This experiment has been an abject failure. Since 2011, nearly 3,000 Baltimoreans have been murdered—one of every 200 city residents over that period. The annual homicide rate has climbed from 31 per 100,000 residents to 56—ten times the national rate. And 93 percent of the homicide victims of known race over this period were black.

Walters traces the history, which ironically includes an attempt to emulate the “Broken Windows” approach to policing that James Q. Wilson and George Kelling proposed in their famous 1982 Atlantic article. The approach had worked very well in New York, back when New Yorkers knew how to elect good mayors.

The problem, Walters says, is that Baltimore’s attempt was pathetically bad. Continue reading . . .

Sacramento DA to Run For CA Attorney General

by · Apr 27, 2021 11:44 am

Career prosecutor and twice elected Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced her candidacy for California Attorney General Monday (April 26).  Schubert, who as a Deputy formed the first cold case unit and served as its first prosecutor, pioneered DNA investigations which lead to the arrest and her office’s conviction of the Golden State Killer, who raped dozens of women and murdered at least thirteen across California roughly forty years ago.  A self-described tough-on-crime prosecutor, Schubert contrasted herself with newly appointed Attorney General Rob Bonta, a progressive former Assemblyman who has supported multiple pro-criminal measures which have flooded California communities with habitual criminals.

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George Gascón Dismantles Gang Unit in Los Angeles County

by · Apr 21, 2021 10:49 am

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón eliminated the Hardcore Gang Unit and has replaced it with a unit he is calling the Community Violence Reduction Division. Scott Schwebke of the LA Daily News discusses Gascón’s new unit in this article.
Eric Siddall the Vice President of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys in Los Angels County stated the following in response to the new unit:

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No City Is Bad Enough to Deserve Marilyn Mosby

by · Apr 6, 2021 1:25 pm

Marilyn Mosby is the State’s Attorney for Baltimore, known as “Charm City” less for its charm (which to be sure is there) than for its rampant violent crime.  Ms. Mosby is perhaps best known for her astonishingly incompetent prosecution in the Freddie Gray case, in which she indicted six police officers for their alleged role in the death, in police custody, of Gray, a small-time drug dealer.  While there was at least an arguable case for criminal liability for some of the officers involved, Ms. Mosby pulled off the amazing feat of failing to win a conviction on a single count against a single officer.

Undeterred, Ms. Mosby  —  who was a “progressive prosecutor” before progressive prosecutors were cool  —  has now launched a program to further corrode the already dicey daily life in Baltimore by, through prosecutorial fiat, de-criminalizing crime.  My friend Sean Kennedy, a visiting fellow at the Maryland Public Policy Institute, has details on the sad story, and the boatload of liberal deceit surrounding it.  With his permission, I repeat his abundantly researched piece below.

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