{"id":1862,"date":"2020-08-21T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2020-08-21T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T23:08:47","slug":"crime-up-in-communities-with-soros-funded-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"Crime Up in Communities With Soros-Funded DAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 James Varney of the Washington Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/aug\/20\/george-soros-funded-das-oversee-big-cities-skyrock\/\">reports<\/a> on how that&#8217;s working out.\u00a0 In St. Louis, Soros funded PACs contributed more than $190,000 to progressive Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner&#8217;s campaign back in 2016.\u00a0 Today, violent crime is up just under 9% making St. Louis the most violent city in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In Philadelphia, where defense attorney Larry Krasner got $1.7 million from Soros&#8217; Pennsylvania Justice and Public Safety PAC to get elected DA, homicides are up 34% this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, the son of two convicted murderers, received over $620,000 from PACs funded by Soros to win the DA&#8217;s job.\u00a0 He campaigned on the &#8220;police-are-racists&#8221; narrative promising to decriminalize drugs and property crimes and eliminate bail.\u00a0 Homicides in San Francisco are up over 30% with burglaries and car thefts up between 30-44%.\u00a0 In both Krasner&#8217;s and Boudin&#8217;s victory parties, attendees chanted &#8220;f&#8211;k the police.&#8221;\u00a0 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 &#8216;the direct result of District Attorney Krasner&#8217;s pro-violent defendant policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, progressive activists are backing former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon&#8217;s bid to unseat Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey, the first black person ever elected to that office.\u00a0 Black Lives Matter is supporting Gascon, who is white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 James Varney of the Washington Times reports on how that&#8217;s working out.\u00a0 In St. Louis, Soros funded PACs contributed more than $190,000 to progressive Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner&#8217;s campaign back in 2016.\u00a0 Today, violent crime is up just under 9% making St. Louis the most violent city in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In Philadelphia, where defense attorney Larry Krasner got $1.7 million from Soros&#8217; 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