Posted on 01/31/2021 6:18:31 PM PST by karpov
Manhattan will be getting a lot less safe if Democratic primary voters embrace any of the more criminal-friendly candidates to replace New York County District Attorney Cy Vance.
Vance hasn’t said he’s not running, but he’s raised little cash for a campaign — and looks vulnerable enough that a host of candidates have jumped into the race.
We’ve complained about his overly soft approach, particularly regarding quality-of-life violations. But most of his eight would-be successors want to pave the way for lawlessness and violence even worse than what’s now plaguing the city.
Most of the eight, for example, brag about all the crimes they won’t prosecute.
Eliza Orlins, a public defender for 10 years, vows to “discontinue the prosecution of low-level offenses” and “decriminalize” prostitution. (And never mind that decriminalization is a job for lawmakers, not prosecutors.) And though NYPD funding cuts last year contributed to a doubling of shootings and 40 percent more murders, she says the department should be slashed another 50 percent — and the DA’s office shrunk, too.
Assemblyman Dan Quart decries “mass arrests” and wants to end “surveillance-based gang prosecutions.” He proudly boasts 18 offenses he won’t prosecute — trespassing, resisting arrest, the “vast majority of welfare fraud and possession of stolen property,” etc. — regardless of what the law says.
At least two wannabes seem relatively sane: Tali Farhadian Weinstein, a former counsel to Obama Attorney General Eric Holder and a clear progressive, won’t give up her right to prosecute low-level offenses or cite other crimes she won’t go after.
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Professional courtesy.
If you don’t prosecute crimes then the crime rate goes down. See how that works? Genius!
All these Dem-Soros DAs have one goal. To destroy this country and turn it into a real life version of Escape From NY, The hunger Ganes, or Divergent. Take your pick.
But as usual, they’ll make those decisions but won’t live with the consequences. Regular, hard working, tax paying, law abiding folks will. Some with their lives.
When the legal system is all about protecting criminals, its time to jail the legal system.
Its them or us.
You cant “work with them”. Not possible.
Or at least liberal criminals.
Yup...let murderers and rapists off the hook...and work to put President Trump and his entire family in prison for 50 years.
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