Think about, at some point, you determine to get wholesome and rent a health coach. The coach guarantees “a brand new you” — nice physique, decrease blood strain, a wholesome weight, extra power, higher sleep.
You begin this system, which appears just a little uncommon and odd. As an alternative of figuring out and consuming new and nutritious meals, you’ve been really helpful quick meals and little or no if any time within the gymnasium. A full 12 months later, you will have gained 40 kilos, your blood strain is thru the roof, your sleep is horrible, and you don’t have any power.
Ultimately, you’ll come to appreciate you bought offered a load of bull.
Whereas this looks as if a ridiculous situation, a model of it’s occurring in cities throughout America, the place voters have been deceived — not by a fictional coach — however by numerous elected prosecutors. Technically these district attorneys are prosecutors, I suppose, however, in actuality, they’re actually “PINOs” — Prosecutors In Identify Solely. These PINOs had been propelled to victory on a wave of money from George Soros-related PACs and different left-leaning organizations with seemingly great and altruistic names such because the “Truthful and Simply Prosecution” and “Partnership for Security & Justice.”
Most if not all of those elected prosecutors ran on a platform of “reform” as if calling one thing “reform” makes it magically good.
And, after they received into workplace, the PINOs started to experiment on the American folks by unleashing their social justice agendas.
The listing of PINOs, though not exhaustive, is well-known: Kim Foxx in Chicago, Alvin Bragg in Manhattan, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore, George Gascón in LA, Kim Gardner in St. Louis, and lots of others.
I spent practically 15 years as a prosecutor within the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace in Chicago, working my means as much as second in command, and I do know first-hand that wise reform doesn’t should sacrifice public security. For crimes motivated by drug dependancy, like prostitution, my crew favored remedy over incarceration. Offenders had been capable of finding an exit ramp from criminality with out creating chaos on our streets.
A prosecutor’s obligation — certainly their sworn oath — is to implement the regulation and protect, defend and defend the Structure. But, the PINOs do something however implement the regulation or uphold the Structure. With the primary objective of “decarceration,” they enact new insurance policies that arbitrarily nullify complete sections of regulation.
Take Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer Foxx in Chicago. When she took workplace in 2016, she determined she didn’t like Illinois’ retail theft legal guidelines, which made stealing greater than $300 of merchandise a felony. So she issued a directive that solely defendants who thieve over $1,000 of merchandise or these with 10 or extra felony convictions can be prosecuted for the upper offense.
Nearly all PINOs have eradicated bail for even violent criminals. Catch and launch is now the rule; the revolving door of justice now frequent.
The frequent PINO excuse for an increase in crime is to dismiss or deny it after which blame it on one thing, actually something (like COVID), apart from their very own insurance policies. Nonetheless, in Foxx’s Chicago, murders are up 30%, carjackings practically 300%. In Gascón’s Los Angeles, 397 folks had been killed in 2021, essentially the most homicides since 2007, marking a 53% improve from 2019. In Bragg’s New York, violent crime has soared 40% since 2021. In Gardner’s St. Louis, per capita homicide charges rose to a 50-year excessive.
In the meantime, criminals received the memo that compliance with the regulation is, for the primary time ever, non-obligatory. You wish to steal merchandise from a retailer? No drawback — simply hold it at round $999. You wish to carjack somebody? By all means, go forward. You most likely gained’t get caught as a result of a scarcity of significant prosecution has killed off proactive policing.
The PINOs enacted their insurance policies, and the insurance policies yielded horrible outcomes. Now, the persons are able to judge whether or not they received what they bargained for after they gave these new prosecutors an opportunity.
The query is straightforward: Do you’re feeling safer now than earlier than your prosecutor took workplace? Universally, the reply is not any. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner’s soft-on-crime insurance policies had been so excessive he was just lately impeached by the Republican-led Home. In traditionally liberal San Francisco, voters received so fed up, they recalled and tossed Boudin out of workplace and now have a brand new DA who much better understands the required function of the prosecutor.
Like a shopper whose coach has made them unhealthy, the voters knew they’d been duped.
Daniel A. Kirk was a prosecutor within the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace (CCSAO) from 1997-2002 & 2008-2016. In 2008 he was appointed Chief of Workers of the CCSAO and in 2012 he was appointed First Assistant State’s Lawyer of Prepare dinner County.
