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Three different stories from the nation’s capital in the past month highlight the acute dangers of treating criminal offenses too leniently. So-called Soros prosecutors and their allies are wreaking havoc on communities nationwide.
When officials don’t, or aren’t allowed to, do their jobs, even criminals themselves may end up suffering. Two juveniles in Washington died during carjackings in the past week when they or their accomplices should have been in detention rather than on the streets reoffending. On Oct. 26, a girl died in a crash shortly after joining a group that carjacked a rideshare driver.
In Washington through Oct. 29, there had been 827 reported carjackings, twice as many as in the first 10 months of 2022 and six times as many as in 2019. Nationwide in the first half of 2023, motor vehicle theft doubled compared to the prior year. Kennedy says statistics show three interrelated factors are driving the high crime rates, essentially as “comorbidities”: lenient policies as in the district's “no chase” rules, reductions in police numbers spurred by illogical responses to the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, and Soros prosecutors who refuse to prosecute “lesser” crimes while seeking lighter sentences and lenient bail policies even for violent offenses.
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