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With America experiencing the largest single-year increase in homicide ever recorded in 2020, and data<\/a> indicating another double-digit increase last year, it appears that many politicians including the president are confused about the cause.\u00a0 During a New York\u00a0 visit with the Mayor Eric Adams last week, President Biden pledged to address the city’s out-of-control crime with help in getting illegal guns off the streets.\u00a0 Adams, a former cop, along with mayors in Baltimore, DC, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and St. Louis among others believe the most effective approach to violent and property crime is to try and remove guns from the hands of criminals.\u00a0 Rebecca Rosenberg of Fox News has this piece<\/a> discussing the fallacy of focusing on the weapon rather than the progressive policies that have enabled criminals to stay on the streets and prey upon the public. \u00a0 Cully Stimson, a former prosecutor and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation calls the focus on “gun crimes” a red herring.<\/p>\n

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Stimson blamed much of these increases on progressive district attorneys who have weakened consequences for a range of serious crimes in mostly Democratic-run cities.<\/p>\n

“It is not true that crime is rising in every big city \u2014 it\u2019s true that it\u2019s rising in cities that have elected rogue prosecutors,” Stimson said, specifically highlighting the policies of George Gasc\u00f3n in Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Kim Foxx in Chicago, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and others.<\/p>\n

They have all argued that most misdemeanors should not be prosecuted, lobbied for lighter sentences for serious felonies and pushed for the elimination of cash bail.\u00a0 The result has been mass shoplifting, open prostitution, drug markets and, in many cases, record numbers of shootings and murders, he said.\u00a0 Stimson, who formerly worked as an Assistant US Attorney in D.C., contended that giving a pass on lower level crimes breeds more serious misconduct.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Butts, the director of the Research & Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, disagreed with Stimson.<\/p>\n

“The argument about woke prosecutors is entirely ideological and devoid of evidence,” Butts told Fox News Digital. “There\u2019s no correlation between the quality and tone of prosecution and the violent crime surge we\u2019ve seen in the last two years all over the country.”<\/p>\n

He added that strong federal gun control laws would drive down violent crime by stemming the flow of firearms from states with more permissive firearm laws.\u00a0 “Studies have shown that aggressive prosecution and severe punishment will cost an enormous amount of money, hurt communities and not improve public safety, he said. “Certain and swift punishment are more powerful crime deterrents,” Butts added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hogwash.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2003 Philip J. Cook, a Duke University professor regarded as the nation’s foremost authority on gun control, released a study<\/a> on the nation’s most sweeping gun control measure in decades, “Evaluating the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, ” which found the measure had no discernible impact on gun crime.<\/p>\n

Professor Butts contradicts himself, telling us “studies have shown” that aggressive prosecution and stiff punishment hurts communities and does not improve public safety, then that swift and certain punishment is a powerful deterrent.\u00a0 While I know of no studies that show what he claims, swift and certain punishment requires aggressive prosecution.\u00a0 Perhaps the professor should read his John Jay College colleague Barry Latzer’s exhaustively researched book “The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America” to discover that cultures which disrespect the law,\u00a0 along with soft-on-crime policing and sentencing are the engines of increased crime and violence.\u00a0 Did the professor miss the New York renaissance than began in 1993 under Mayor Giuliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton that ran for twenty years?\u00a0 By instituting aggressive proactive policing, cracking down on so-called “low level” crimes like vagrancy, prostitution, drug dealing, vandalism and theft, and throwing the book at repeat and violent felons, homicides in New York dropped by 66% in the first eight years, and continued to drop for another decade. Major crime in the city dropped by 56%, to a rate 3.5 times lower than the national crime rate.\u00a0 That translated into a 45.7% decline In rapes, a 67.2% decline in robberies, a 39.6% decline in aggravated assault, a 68.2% decline in burglary, a 43% decline in larceny, and a 73.3% decline in motor vehicle theft.\u00a0 By 2001, more than 6,000 fewer New Yorkers per year became victims of serious crimes.\u00a0\u00a0 Comparable results occurred in other big cities where state and\u00a0 local governments adopted similar policies.<\/p>\n

There is no excuse for any academic, politician or news reporter to ignore these facts in order to push a political agenda which allows innocent people to suffer and die.<\/p>\n

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