Soros Poison Pen OpEd In The Wall Street Journal (!) Promoting Radical, Criminals-First Prosecutors.

The article by George Soros is as inaccurate as it is self-congratulatory. The only thing missing apart from any caring reference to the victims of the crime wave he has financed is the implied belief that we should be grateful to him for his incessant, tinkering, blood-drenched, philanthropy and his ubiquitous subversion of law & order in America. He thinks he deserves a “Thank You” card.

Mr. Soros has never allowed his spirit to roam beyond his own self-interest, just ask the Bank of England. He lives safely sheltered and heavily protected from the ravages and destruction of the policies he constantly seeks to impose on others. A good deal of hypocrisy is required to turn his suppurating, self-justifying, hand-washing article into a plausible argument for criminal justice reform but hypocrisy is something Mr. Soros has in abundance.

“Americans need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime”, he tells us. Very well then, here it is:

We want it stopped. We want more police officers better paid, better equipped and well-trained with stronger immunity from criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits. We want vicious thugs, with criminal records so long they wouldn’t fit onto the side of a bus, kept in jail until trial. We want the 45,000 gang members in L.A. County, count them, off the streets and if it takes the temporary suspension of the Posse Comitatus Act to do it we don’t mind. We want the politicians and officials who have allowed this plague on our streets prosecuted and sent to the same prisons as the gang members. We want violent underage criminals tried as adults. We want drug dealers, not drug users, executed. It works well in Singapore.

Mr. Soros intones that, “We need to acknowledged that black people in the U.S. are five times likely to be sent to jail as white people.” That would be unjust if they were committing the same crime but it implies that the police are out deliberately hunting down black people, trumping up charges and sending them off to jail because of their color. It’s preposterous.

How does he explain that 7,000 of our black citizens are murdered by other black citizens every year? How does he explain the 75% illegitimacy rate in the black community or its 300,000 abortions per year? COVID can’t be blamed for everything. It’s a national tragedy but decriminalizing crime and endangering public safety is not the solution to any of it.

Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 opposed, by the way, by Democratic senators Al Gore Sr., and Robert Byrd who filibustered the legislation for 14 hours and was once an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, we have spent over $4 trillion in good faith to create a level playing field and the numbers listed above are the disturbingly sad result.

” In recent years, reform minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just”, Mr. Soros is pleased to announce. Yet, for all their coalescing Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia, just to name a few, have become cesspools of crime and extreme violence. These are the very cities where Mr. Soros’ bought and paid for “reform- minded prosecutors” rule. Reform and willful public endangerment are not the same thing.

Mr. Soros ends his apologia by saying, “Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing” but not in San Francisco where the Soros lackey, D.A. Chesa Boudin was recently recalled. If he really believes people like what they are hearing then Mr. Soros must also believe that there is such a thing as a chaste prostitute either that or he has been using his time during the last 18 months as an opportunity to catch up on some sleep.

WSJ OpinionCommentary

Why I Support Reform Prosecutors

Justice or safety? It’s a false choice. They reinforce each other.

By George Soros, Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2022:

Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues.

Like most of us, I’m concerned about crime. One of government’s most important roles is to ensure public safety. I have been involved in efforts to reform the criminal-justice system for the more than 30 years I have been a philanthropist.

Yet our system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false. They reinforce each other: If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the system works, public safety will improve.

We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.

We spend $81 billion every year keeping around two million people in prisons and jails. We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work—deploying mental-health professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for education behind bars. This reduces the likelihood that those prisoners will commit new crimes after release.

In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime. It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime. And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.

This agenda, aiming at both safety and justice, is based on both common sense and evidence. It’s popular. It’s effective. The goal is not defunding the police but restoring trust between the police and the policed, a partnership that fosters the solving of crimes.

Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise. The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates. In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.

Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests, and increases in gun trafficking. Many of the same people who call for more-punitive criminal-justice policies also support looser gun laws.

This is why I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping. The funds I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.

Mr. Soros is founder of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations

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