Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has a greater grasp on actuality than nearly all Los Angeles Democrats.
Witness the hip-hop legend’s Instagram put up on a decide’s latest order to reinstate LA’s no-bail coverage, i.e., “Get out of jail free” playing cards for all misdemeanors and non-violent felonies: “LA is completed … Watch how dangerous it will get on the market.”
He’s lifeless proper. The rule, which expired in July 2022, was put in place throughout COVID to ease jail crowding, with predictable outcomes.
Town noticed an enormous upsurge in crime over pre-pandemic ranges — 60 crimes reported per 1,000 residents in 2022, up 11% over 2019.
In downtown LA, a criminal offense epicenter like San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the general charge was greater than six occasions increased. For violent crimes alone, it was 45 per 1,000; for property crime, 167.
The response of the woke left?
Nonsense just like the transfer from LA Metropolis Council member Nithya Raman, who voted towards a measure to criminalize unauthorized possession of catalytic converters and blamed the automobile producers as a substitute of the crooks who rip off the units and strip them for elements.
And in Might got here Decide Lawrence Riff’s order to carry again the no-bail rule, on the weird grounds that the age-old observe of requiring bail is someway unconstitutional.
No surprise town is going through — atop to its huge crime, homelessness and drug issues — a police exodus, with staffing down under 2019 ranges regardless of the elevated crime. Or that about 120 prosecutors have left the DA’s Workplace below Soros-backed George Gascón (who’s sitting on a mind-boggling 10,000-case backlog).
And 50 Cent is not any fire-breathing right-winger; he endorsed Donald Trump for prez in 2020 however caved to public strain and recanted.
No, the person’s utilizing fundamental reasoning abilities: Should you scale back penalties for crooks and hamper regulation enforcement, crime goes up.
If solely different LA bigshots might observe that very same easy logic.
