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“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence . . . [Incarceration] is racist. It is immoral. It is unholy.” — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Monday
We say: Johnson believes locking up criminals “is not the way to drive violence down.”
Sure, simply allow them to roam free to pounce on harmless victims. Is this man nuts?
No marvel Chicago has averaged more than a homicide a day this yr, 4 instances New York’s per-capita price.
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“We don’t have cashless bail in the state of New York.” — Gov. Kathy Hochul, Tuesday
We say: Of course New York has cashless bail — simply not for each case.
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If defendants have no different open instances, judges should set them free with no money required once they’re charged with drug gross sales, grand larceny, theft, prison mischief, arson, identification theft, public lewdness, riot, prison trespass and quite a few different crimes.
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“This crusade, criminal crusade, against political adversaries is completely unprecedented in all of American history.” — CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, Monday
We say: Toobin calls Team Trump’s probes into New York Attorney General Letitia James, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and others “unprecedented.”
Hello? What does he call 4 largely bogus prison prosecutions of Joe Biden’s 2024 rival, Donald Trump?
And a number of civil instances in opposition to him, together with one introduced by James herself?
Plus the instances in opposition to Trump allies Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani and on and on. Talk about “crusades”!
This advice
“If Democrats talked the way Zohran Mamdani does . . . [they’d] be winning all over the country.” — Ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio, Tuesday
We say: Dems ought to beware advice from a man who didn’t get even 1% help within the polls from fellow Democrats in his 2020 presidential run and needed to drop out earlier than the primaries even started.
Radicals like Zohran Mamdani might do nicely in deep blue New York, however there’s a purpose voters are registering Republican in far better numbers nationally — and hard-left pols like Mamdani (and de Blasio) are a huge half of the explanation.
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