Posted on 08/27/2024 4:44:40 AM PDT by texas booster
Something interesting is going on in San Francisco where DA Brooke Jenkins, a black woman who ousted the former pro-crime Chesa Boudin and promised to actually enforce the law, is taking on the MacArthur Foundation.
While we often call pro-crime DAs “Soros DAs” and indeed the Nazi collaborating radical billionaire did indeed play a major role in building a pro-crime network of DAs who ignore the law, there are a variety of major foundations who destroyed public safety in America.
The MacArthur Foundation is one of them.
Under DA Chesa Boudin’s reign of terror, the MacArthur Foundation had been providing sizable amounts of money to the SF DA’s office to keep criminals on the loose.
Now the MacArthur Foundation warned that it wouldn’t provide $625,000 to the DA’s office until it shows it is “fully committed to the goals and strategies” of the foundation.
The Foundation complains that there are too many criminals in jail instead of on the streets. “CCSF’s jail population has experienced significant increases and is now above the baseline ADP of 1,200”.
DA Jenkins and Monifa Willis, her chief of staff, shot back by making it clear what was at stake here.
“On multiple occasions you have sat in meetings with two black women, lecturing to us about your concern for jail population increases, the injustices of the criminal justice system and populations that need serving.”
“The ideological goal of reducing the jail population at all costs has conflicted with our emphasis on doing so responsibly and safely, which I am sure is a new boundary in a post-Chesa Boudin era,” the letter sarcastically notes.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
What is deeply troubling about this exchange is that an organization was able to bribe a DA’s office to free criminals in the first place.
This practice, which began under former SF pro-crime DA George Gascon (currently an LA pro-crime DA facing a likely election defeat) is deeply disturbing and undemocratic.
Come to an elected official and offer his office $625,000 to change a policy and that’s bribery. But describe it as a “grant” to their office and route it through a nonprofit and it’s somehow not only legal, but praiseworthy.
This is a deeply corrupt practice that sidelines voters and resembles that of a banana republic.
In a clean political system, voters make policy. It’s only in a deeply dirty one that a wealthy group can come in and pay elected officials to sell out their voters.
Come to an elected official and offer his office $625,000 to change a policy and that’s bribery. But describe it as a “grant” to their office and route it through a nonprofit and it’s somehow not only legal, but praiseworthy.
Business as usual in legal circles.
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A quick glance at their website provides all you need to know. Another Leftist org pusing an agenda. HQ in Chicago. With branches in India and Nigeria. Time to do some deep dive on donors...
Approach an elected official and offer $625,000 to change
a policy and it’s considered bribery with attendant penalties.
But describe the $625,000 as a “grant,” route it through
a nonprofit, and now it’s not only legal, but praiseworthy.
Bkmk
BUMP
The foundation's stated purpose is to support "creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world".
Where have we heard that BS before? Only everywhere who is dedicated to the goal of destroying the U.S. Chicago is sure a hotbed of activists heel-bent on destruction of this nation, not improving her.
More tripe on them at Wikipedia
Their website where they promote themselves as being a benign helpful organization, while being a malignant cesspool in reality.
So justice or lack there of, can be bought.
Keep them dollars flowing
Ride’em in, pass’em out
You’d think a District Attorney’s office would not be allowed to accept any funding from non-government organizations. It would be a channel for bribery, don’t you think?
One would think that is the case - but the local officials just find another agency to accept.
“Housing Improvement Agency” takes the money.
It is still a bribe.
In other words the MacArthur Foundation is nothing but a bunch of indoctrinaire leftist globalist scumbags running a money laundering racket
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