Criminal Justice Reform

Sheldon Johnson, a 48-year-old staffer for the public law firm Queens Defenders, was arrested after police found a human torso and a severed head in his apartment. Johnson, an ex-con supposedly turned his life around and then became a celebrated criminal justice reform activist representing soft-on-crime policies.

Brockton High School committee members called on the National Guard to help with student violence. A woman testified at a school meeting and said, "the students are afraid of no one. The parents are afraid of them. The school staff is afraid of the students and the students are afraid of no one!

Democrat policies and Soros-backed leaders who won’t prosecute crime will lead to more store closures and retail deserts. The CVS pharmacy chain has announced that it will close 900 stores by the end of 2024, citing shoplifting as a major issue.

The deranged man who allegedly stabbed two teen girs reportedly yelled, “I want all white people dead." He was arraigned on charges of attempted murder as a hate crime. He stabbed a fellow inmate after he was booked into Rikers Island prison.

Larry Krasner is the District Attorney in Philadelphia, backed by billionaire George Soros, who is a soft on crime leftist that instituted a retail theft policy in 2018 that can leave some offenders with just a minor summary offense often punished by fine and probation.

DA Williams campaigned against cash bail and called for alternatives to prison. Williams' office dismissed 937 of the city's 1,411 violent felony cases during his first months in office, which amounts to 66% of violent crime arrests. Tourism has plummeted in New Orleans.

Josh Kruger, a far-left journalist and activist who mocked right-wingers for criticizing the crime surge in Philadelphia, was shot and killed inside his home. Kruger criticized law enforcement, downplayed the crime surge, and advocated for political violence against his opponents.

Jason Billingsley, who was convicted of a sex crime in 2013, was released from prison after serving only nine years of a 30-year sentence. He has been arrested in the rape and murder Pava LaPere, a petite 26-year old woman and tech CEO.

Alonniea Fantasia Ford, the manager of a Jack in the Box restaurant in Houston, allegedly shot a handgun at a family in a vehicle in the drive-thru after they complained that the curly fries that they ordered were missing and an argument ensued.

The no-bail policy was first implemented in Los Angeles during the COVID pandemic shutdown in 2020 to ease crowded jails. Suspects arrested for nonviolent crimes were immediately released without having to pay bail before their arraignment. The policy was reinstated in May.