Crime Up in Communities With Soros-Funded DAs

Hedge fund billionaire George Soros has pumped millions into local District Attorney campaigns in recent years to elect pro-criminal, anti-police progressives to head prosecution offices.  James Varney of the Washington Times reports on how that’s working out.  In St. Louis, Soros funded PACs contributed more than $190,000 to progressive Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner’s campaign back in 2016.  Today, violent crime is up just under 9% making St. Louis the most violent city in the country.   In Philadelphia, where defense attorney Larry Krasner got $1.7 million from Soros’ Pennsylvania Justice and Public Safety PAC to get elected DA, homicides are up 34% this year.

In San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, the son of two convicted murderers, received over $620,000 from PACs funded by Soros to win the DA’s job.  He campaigned on the “police-are-racists” narrative promising to decriminalize drugs and property crimes and eliminate bail.  Homicides in San Francisco are up over 30% with burglaries and car thefts up between 30-44%.  In both Krasner’s and Boudin’s victory parties, attendees chanted “f–k the police.”  The U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia blames Krasner for the murder of police officer fatally shot last March while trying to arrest a murder suspect, which he said was ‘the direct result of District Attorney Krasner’s pro-violent defendant policies.”

Currently, progressive activists are backing former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon’s bid to unseat Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, the first black person ever elected to that office.  Black Lives Matter is supporting Gascon, who is white.