The Push Back on Progressive DAs

Over the past two election cycles rich white liberals, such as George Soros, have pumped millions into passing ballot measures, and electing political candidates, including district attorneys that will reduce sentences for criminals, restrict prosecutions and essentially empty out jails and prisons based upon the myth of over-incarceration.  The expressed motive behind this fiction is that consistently enforced laws against crime and increased sentences for repeat offenders is racist.  The proof:  blacks and Hispanics, which commit crime at higher levels that other races, are more frequently arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated than other races.  Their narrative leaves out the which commit crime at higher levels part, and so does most of the national media.  But to sell a lie over a long period of time, one must prevent the majority from finding out the truth.  Today’s Wall Street Journal provides a case in point.  The powerful Democratic City Committee in Philadelphia has voted not to endorse progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner’s reelection this year.

Krasner swept into office in 2017 with major support from Soros and promises to end the systematic racism embedded in the District Attorney’s office by reducing prosecutions and seeking lighter sentences.  He was effective at this, reducing prosecutions from 757 the year before he was elected to 525 last year.  While Krasner assured everyone that these actions would not jeopardize public safety, the truth has become difficult to deny.  There were 500 murders in Philly last year compared to 315 in 2017.  Most of last year’s 2,220 shooting victims were black and auto thefts have increased by over 63% on Krasner’s watch.  The public has figured out that letting criminals off easy begets more crime.  This year Krasner is being challenged in the upcoming May primary by Carlos Vega, a veteran homicide prosecutor he fired as soon as he took office.  As the Journal notes, Krasner remains popular in affluent neighborhoods with less crime, “but a lot of pushback is coming from those areas that are experiencing a higher rate of gun crimes,” said a Democrat ward leader.  Many of the ward leaders who make up the Democratic City Committee fear that backing Krasner will turn off the voters in their districts, who have had enough of violent crime.

Soros-backed progressives are also under attack in San Francisco, where pro-criminal progressive Chesa Boudin is facing a recall, and in Los Angeles where, just three months into his first term, Goerge Gascón is being sued by the deputies who work for him and is facing a recall supported by everyone from the County Sheriff to the ultra-liberal Beverly Hills City Council.   As a former Los Angeles District Attorney remarked about so-called sentencing reform years ago, “when the blood runs on the streets, the public will demand change.”

The blood is running on the streets.