This week, a 39-year-old black man in Waukesha, Wisconsin, plowed a maroon Ford Escape into a Christmas parade of children and older women. Five people were killed and another 48 were injured. The motive of the suspect is unknown; if the media have their way, it will remain that way. The media apparently only care about why suspects commit violent acts when motives can be credited to their political enemies.
There is one thing we do know: the suspect should not have been on the street. He had a rap sheet longer than the first five books of the Bible. His latest alleged crime took place on Nov. 5, when he was charged with resisting an officer, bail jumping, recklessly endangering safety, disorderly conduct and battery. First, he allegedly slammed the mother of his child with his fist, and then ran her over — wait for it — in a maroon Ford Escape. He was released on Friday … on $1,000 bail. Two days later, he ran his vehicle over innocent victims.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office has now opened an investigation into the low bail. But we already know just why the bail process allowed the suspect back out onto the street: equity demanded it. In May 2015, Jeffrey Toobin wrote in The New Yorker about “The Milwaukee Experiment.” The piece was a long, sycophantic love letter to John Chisholm, the District Attorney of Milwaukee County, who had embraced criminal justice policies geared toward rectifying “the racial imbalance in American prisons.” According to one of Chisholm’s admirers, “Chisholm stuck his neck out there and started saying that prosecutors should also be judged by their success in reducing mass incarceration and achieving racial equality.”
Not reducing crime. Reducing the number of people in jail — and more particularly, the number of black Americans in jail. Chisholm himself admitted the costs of his policies in 2007: “Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.”
Chisholm, of course, was right.
San Francisco proved the same point this week when large, roving gangs began looting high-end stores. On Friday night, San Francisco’s Union Square witnessed a massive group of looters smashing and grabbing at a Louis Vuitton store; meanwhile, thieves congregated to steal product in Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Hayward and San Jose. None of this ought to be a surprise. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced that he would end “mass incarceration” and cash bail; he stopped prosecuting shoplifting cases — in 2020, just 44% of shoplifting cases were prosecuted.
The result: stores are closing down in San Francisco thanks to the automatic surcharge of people stealing their product from the shelves.
Reality with regard to criminality isn’t all that complicated: when you free criminals unjustifiably in a misguided attempt to achieve “group equity,” innocents suffer. When you take cops off the street, freeing criminals to work their will, innocents suffer. When you refuse to prosecute crime, criminals spot an opportunity.
Voters can either continue to deny reality and pay the price, or they can wake up to the simple fact that reality always wins. Until they do the latter, the criminals — and the politicians who enable them — will be the only winners.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
This p0s is charged with manslaughter? This was murder plain and simple. So he is definitely registered as a democrat. Have dems ever wondered what the country will be like once all crimes committed by their supporters are deemed acceptable?
SINCE Chisolm FLAT OUT admitted this would lead to CIVILIANS DYING, that shows, he CONSPIRED TO HELP CAUSE those deaths, and it was PREMEDITATED!!
COMMENThe should be accused as an accompolice
Just remember, according to the communist Democrats, crime has gone down, because the Democrats refuse to prosecute criminals!
District Attorney of Milwaukee County, who had embraced criminal justice policies geared toward rectifying “the racial imbalance in American prisons.”
Huh??
I.A.W. U.S. Census & 2018 FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~54% of all robberies in the U.S…
How about rectifying “the racial imbalance” of the number of crimes that Blacks commit compared to ALL other races.
HE is. BY failing to prosecute them, he’s bringing down the # of convicts!
“Voters can either continue to deny reality and pay the price, or they can wake up to the simple fact that reality always wins. Until they do the latter, the criminals — and the politicians who enable them — will be the only winners.”
California never learns. In the United States, it ranks as the State of Confusion. Its politicians are incompetent—put there by incompetent voters—who never learn.
LIBERALS period, seem to never learn.
“prosecutors should also be judged by their success in reducing mass incarceration and achieving racial equality.”????? No, True racial equality is to take any reference to race entirely out of American law and let the cards equally fall where they may. All other failing attempts by fallible men are just criminal mind manipulation and tortuous brain washing on par with what they do in the Soviet Union and Red China. American Meritocracy over Socialist Idiocracy,,,Where the strong in brains and success are preferred to the strong in deception and prevarication,,,Where deception and prevarication prevail, history has shown that violence always follows like night follows day, like Democrat run city riots both precede and follow stolen elections and unfulfilled promises.
PROSECUTORS should be Criminally CHARGED for gross negligence, and willful INTENT in letting these repeat offending crooks out…
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.”
Chisholm was wrong. The guy didn’t ‘go out and kill somebody’, the guy went out and killed six people, physically injured at least 48, and mentally and emotionally injured hundreds. All this because Chisholm felt it was his job to ‘fix’ alleged racial inequalities by letting criminals go back on the streets. The baby momma of the criminal released on a ridiculously low bail is lucky she didn’t get killed by him. Sadly, these six people were not.
The DA ought to be sued as an accessory to the crime.
AND Not just civilly, but CRIMINALLY as well!
Have the leftists lost all sense of reason and logic? It’s not rocket science; he way to achieve racial balance in jails is for blacks to stop committing over 50% of the crimes in the U.S. If blacks commit more crimes than whites do, there’ll be more blacks than whites in jail.
D-u-u-h-h-h!!
IMO the better question would be, HAVE LEFTISTS ever HAD common sense and logic, because its Hard to Lose something you never had in the first place!