I cannot do justice to this post by quoting any of it. You’ll have to read the whole thing. But the long and the short of it is, the Obama Justice Department and Blue State Democrats pursued policies to keep criminals out of jail and release them to prey on law-abiding citizens.
(30) The end result of Democratic “reform” is that criminals now commit crimes with impunity, and people are too afraid to call the cops.
(31) There are no penalties for threatening witnesses and skipping your trial. Nobody comes looking for you.
(32) And if you get arrested, they immediately release you.
Just for one example, here are some of the things California reclassified from violent felonies to non-violent misdemeanors, all in an effort to keep criminals out of jail.
So, long story short, in California, you can beat up a child, or drug and rape someone and those are considered non-violent misdemeanors. But the cops will come down on you like a dumptruck full of bricks if you try and sell flowers in front of a school without a permit.
Instead of jailing criminals, Democrats have started the approach of politely asking urban thugs not to commit murder on certain weekends. I am not making this us.
Organizers aim to stop the shooting from Friday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 6, with a unified and blunt message: “Nobody kill anybody.” Their message has been printed on T-shirts and flyers. They designed a website and held community meetings. More than 1,600 people visited their Facebook page.
A website and a Facebook page, they must be super cereal.
Next month’s ceasefire would prove successful if it deters a single shooting, (an organizer)said. And she figures the movement has already saved a life somewhere. “Somebody was plotting on this weekend,” she said. “Now they’re not going to do it because of a rumbling in their soul.”
Hey, who needs crime statistics when you have a community organizer who can sense the souls of gang-bangers.
Just wanted to point out that the article says:
I don’t know who is telling the truth in all this, but I don’t think she got taken down and arrested because she was selling flowers without a permit…
It’s very apparent they’re out of jail.
Crime is up. Homelessness is all over the place (a lot of people they let out of jail are drug users) and in places I’ve never seen before. Graffiti is making a big come back to our buildings and freeway signs.
It’s not just the mom jeans and circle glasses the kids are wearing that’s making it look like 90s LA again.
God help us all.
The heck with waiting for California to secede–kick ’em, out!
So, drugging a woman and having sex with her while she is unconscious is now a misdemeanor, like parking overtime or littering. But having consensual sex with a sober, legally competent adult woman is still a felony, if she changes her mind and cries “rape” two weeks later.
CA probably has to release the wife-beaters, terrorist bombers, burglars, and arsonists because the prisons are over-crowded. They have to make room in San Quentin for someone who offended Muslims by walking her dog in a public park. Or who inadvertently referred to Riley Dennis by the wrong pronoun.
The “Nobody kill anybody” thing is at least 25 years old. Back here in Houston in 1993, a local hip-hop station promoted a “Stop the Violence” event in which – theoretically – was to encourage the thugs and gang-bangers to not commit a murder or a felony for 24 hours.
You have to understand that around that time, which was when uber-liberal Kathy Whitmire was mayor, crime had escalated 300% under her watch. (It was because she pandered to the black community and did not have the best interests of the police at that time.)
I don’t recall whether or not this 24-hour moratorium on thugging actually worked, but what ended up happening was that Bob Lanier got elected mayor – thankfully ending Kathy’s horrible tenure.
Lanier immediately made good on his campaign promises of putting a cop on every square mile of Houston, giving them a pay raise, and promoting a law-abiding initiative with a zero-tolerance policy for repeat offenders.
The result – crime rates fell to below the Whitmire era, people were able to walk at night without fear, and commercial businesses boomed – especially downtown, which was a crime haven under Kathy.
Unfortunately, due to the newly enacted term limits ordinance, he could only serve three 2-year terms. He was so popular that nobody ever ran against him! Lanier had close to a 95% approval rating (I kid you not.)
I’m still stunned that liberals don’t realize that the only way to control crime is to prosecute it, not protect it.
Regards,
Peter H.
So, as I understand it; if someone were to want someone like, say Seth Rich, dead in Washington it wouldn’t be too difficult to find a thug or a professional at a big discount nowadays. Say, 2 thousand? Hell, it wouldn’t be stretch or much trouble to have any of the Democrats raped & their families assaulted. Because of these laws. All hypothetical, of course. Hit jobs used to be 15,000 but since processing is lightened that number goes down.
Oh, they are well award of the deterrent effect of prosecutions. They are just selective in using it. Urban thugs committing strong arm robbery? Not worth prosecuting. A conservative journalist who makes a video of Planned Parenthood executives selling baby parts? Throw everything you got at him!
Now I understand how that swimmer wasn’t given a stiffer sentence for raping the unconscious woman behind the dumpster. The crime was NOT a felony!!!???!!
domestic violence is now a non-violent misdemeanor?
rape/sodomy/oral copulation of an unconscious person or by use of date rape drugs. this should have been front page news, instead all we got from the democrat party-media complex was the republicans are waging war on women. by the way has anybody heard from NOW about this?