"If I were advising the Trump campaign, I'd tell them to lean hard on the law-and-order issue.
Increasingly, it seems to me, on several different fronts, we are a lawless society.
Exhibit A: The bail-reform laws passed by the New York State legislature last year.
The local news outlets now regularly feature stories about criminals set free under the new rules, who promptly commit new crimes.
- Tiffany Harris, who specializes in walking up to Jewish women and punching them in the head while shouting antisemitic curses. She was at it again this week, and she's out again. [Tiffany Harris arraigned on felony hate crimes—and released again , by Andrew Denney and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, NY Post, March 3, 2020]
- Charles Barry, a subway scammer and thief with 142—count 'em, 142—arrests on his rap sheet, got arrested again this week, and … released. [Serial subway scammer Charles Barry, who says he’s swearing off crime, is ordered released again, by Noah Goldberg and John Annese, New York Daily News, March 2, 2020]
Exhibit B: Sanctuary Cities releasing illegal aliens so they can't be deported.
- In Chicago, Mexican illegal Christopher Puente, right, who has been deported at least once and been convicted of burglary, forgery, trespassing, and domestic battery, was arrested for theft last year, but released in defiance of an ICE request to hold him. After release, he sexually assaulted a 3-year-old girl in a McDonald's bathroom. [Chicago defends releasing illegal immigrant later charged with sexually assaulting toddler, by Emma Colton, Washington Examiner, March 3, 2020]
- Back in New York, Guatemalan national Miguel Ajqui-Ajtzalam was arrested last week for statutory rape on a 13-year-old girl. A judge allowed him out on supervised release, ignoring a request from ICE that he be held for deportation. [Brooklyn DA defends no-bail decision on illegal immigrant charged with rape, by Andrew Denney, Gabrielle Fonrouge and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon, , NY Post, March 4, 2020]
Exhibit C: California's de-criminalizing of theft up to a value of $950..."
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