We’ve covered George Soros’ baleful effect on American law and order many times before, and will no doubt again. But the Daily Mail has published this handy piece about how Soros-backed DAs have led to spiraling crime rates in deep blue cities:
Billionaire Democrat donor George Soros has bankrolled District Attorneys in America’s most crime ravaged cities, where criminals are being allowed to walk out of jail on low cash bonds or aren’t even being charged.
Soros, the most prolific Democratic donor, is most known for giving to Presidents Clinton and Obama but he has also been pumping money into a far-left effort to overhaul the criminal justice system by giving millions to a network of woke prosecutors in Democratic races.
Among them is Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney for Cook County, Chicago, where murder is at its highest in nearly 30 years.
In 2020, Soros donated $2 million to a PAC that backed Foxx in her re-election campaign. She won the race and has since offered deferred prosecutions and softball deals to criminals.
In 2021, there were more murders in Chicago than in any other year since 1994.
There have been more than 1,000 murders in Cook County, Foxx’s district, this year.
Soros bolstered her re-election campaign by donating to the Illinois Justice and Public Safety PAC.
Attorney Buta Biberaj is refusing to recuse herself from the case to remove School Board Chair Brenda Sheridan, despite what district parents say is an apparent conflict of interest.
Fight for Schools, the parent organization that filed to remove Sheridan, has now also filed a petition to remove Biberaj – who received a $861,039 contribution from the George Soros-funded Justice and Public Safety PAC during her 2019 election – from the case.
Ian Prior, executive director of the group, claimed Biberaj was ‘very involved in two of the very serious incidents’ that were catalysts for the push for Sheridan’s recall.
He said Loudoun County residents need to know the case will be handled fairly and that Biberaj’s involvement makes that nearly impossible.
‘It is necessary to have faith that the prosecutor in this removal proceeding has no actual or perceived conflicts, that she will go where the evidence takes her, and litigate this case with appropriate prosecutorial zeal,’ Prior told Fox News.
‘In this case, Commonwealth Attorney Biberaj was very involved in two of the very serious incidents that gave rise to the recall. There is simply no way that the people of Loudoun County can be confident in a fair process for the removal of Brenda Sheridan unless Ms. Biberaj either recuses herself, or is disqualified based on her conflicts of interest, and an independent prosecutor is appointed by the Court.’
The PAC spent over $500,000 on materials to damage one of her challengers. It’s a pattern that can be seen in other parts of the country.
He has also donated to PACs that support Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who is being widely condemned for not cracking down on shoplifters and violent criminals.
Soros has also donated to the campaign of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
He donated $1.7 million to Krasner’s campaign, according to The New York Post.
Soros also donated to Super PACS that prop up Democratic prosecutors and politicians across Republican states.
Republican pundits say he has blood on his hands now for the deaths of innocent people like those killed at the Waukesha Christmas Parade by Darrell Brooks, a career criminal who had been bonded out of jail days earlier for other crimes.
In 2016, Soros pumped $3million into seven local district-attorney campaigns including races in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Texas.
That includes Austin’s Jose Garza.
Larry Krasner, a 60-year-old longtime civil rights and defense attorney who sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times, won election in 2017 against a crowded field by billing himself as the outsider candidate capable of making radical change.
Krasner’s campaign benefitted from the largesse of controversial Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, who poured an eye-popping $1,7million into the race to support the Democratic candidate’s criminal justice reform agenda.
Under Krasner, the future years of incarceration have been cut by half, and the length of parole in probation supervision have been slashed by nearly two-thirds compared to the previous DA.
Krasner, who previously defended Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia protesters as a lawyer, has clashed with the city’s top cops over his reluctance to prosecute non-violent gun and drug possession crimes, despite a surge in gun violence and rising homicide rates in the City of Brotherly Love.
As of November 21, 2021, there have been 491 homicide victims, a 14 per cent increase from last year’s number of 436, and 283 in 2019.
The Philadelphia Police Department and Krasner have been at loggerheads over a steep drop in convictions related to gun offenses.
This year, police in Philadelphia have made a record number of arrests for illegal gun possession, but the suspects’ chances of getting convicted have dropped from 63 per cent in 2017 down to 49 per cent in 2021, according to an analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer published in March.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw was previously quoted as saying that Philadelphia’s criminal justice system has become a ‘revolving door’ for repeat gun offenders since Krasner was sworn into office in January 2018.
Krasner has blamed the decrease on police submitting weaker evidence in cases, or on witnesses failing to show up in court to testify.
The progressive Democrat DA has contended that his main focus is on convicting people who use guns to kill or hurt others, not those who are caught being in possession of the weapons.
Krasner’s office has argued that there is little evidence that suspects accused of being in possession of guns are responsible for the uptick in gun violence.
Compared to the previous DA term, Krasner’s has imposed 24,000 fewer years of incarceration and 102,000 fewer years of supervised probation or parole since 2018.
We covered some of Krasner’s follies here.
Other Soros-backed DAs include:
There are probably several I’ve missed. (Feel free to add them in the comments below.)
The question remains: How does Soros benefit from raising crime rates in Democratic Party-controlled cities? What is the endgame?
I’ve seen various theories, but I want to throw it open to readers as well. Feel free to share your thoughts and theories in the comments below.
Tags: Brenda Sheridan, Buta Biberaj, Chicago, Cook County, Crime, Darrell Brooks Jr., Democrats, George Gascon, George Soros, Justice and Public Safety PAC, Kim Foxx, Larry Krasner, Loudoun County, Philadelphia, Social Justice Warriors, Texas
I like to speculate about the DOJ filing RICO charges and seizing his assets.
And deporting him to Jerusalem so the Israelis can try him as a Nazi collaborator.
Yeah, I know, dream on
When a populace is too sated it will sate the tyrant out of ignorance and sloth.
This is why humanity has term limits: Once you get old enough to see what’s going on, you die.
As for Soros’ fiscal support of culturally destructive candidates…. meh! You get what you pay for.
I suspect that Soros genuinely believes in the ‘restorative justice’ theories. There are a lot of people who have created a lot of ‘research’ to support these theories.
He is aware of bad things that he has done and wants to think well of himself. A lot of people want to think well of themselves. I’ve met a number who actually said they felt good about themselves for voting for Obama.
My take: anarchistc crime is a firm of extortion. Vote Dem and we’ll let you alone. Until it suits us.
The article’s transition from Chicago to Loudon county was a little disorienting. I saw “Biberaj” and thought, “Wait, that name … isn’t that Virginia?”
Why push policies that obviously lead to an increase in crime? My guess is that the Left hopes that if they can make things bad enough, the public will embrace whatever ‘remedy’ the Left offers. Even back in the Obama administration the Left floated the idea of some sort of federal presence in local policing, and of course we’ve recently seen Pelosi expand the Capitol Police to new bureaus outside DC, in Florida and other states.
I’m thinking the end game is to diminish local control of policing and to increase centralized, federal influence— with the Left assuming that it will thus be more likely they can hold the whip hand.
Best I can tell it has to do with Soros shorting the dollar; if he wrecks the economy, the dollar collapses and he makes billions. He did something similar some years back with the British pound and made a cool billion when it collapsed. Here’s one of many links:
https://theeconreview.com/2018/10/16/how-soros-broke-the-british-pound/
Is “Soros hates America” enough of a reason for him to finance rising crime rates?
Does it have to be more complicated than that?
Milton, Chemist— perhaps we should all embrace the power of ‘and’.
Maybe Soros (and the Left in general) are going for a trifecta: cripple and discredit local policing in an attempt to drive Americans to consent to federal control of law enforcement AND short the dollar as the chaos they create lines their pockets; all to give a black eye to a nation they despise. Just because the Left is evil doesn’t mean they cannot multitask…
The thing with Soros is, it’s not ideological — that’s the big mistake people make with him. Why is he pushing for high crime? Because it benefits the Mexican Cartels, which he is doubtlessly managing money for. The ideology is just a cover. Think about it:
Open Borders: Massive importation of drugs to sell plus people willing to pay huge sums of money to the cartels to cross the border, including gang members and sex slaves.
Low bail, low incarceration rates, anti-prison movement: Gets gang members and junkies back out on the street and keeps them their.
Anti-shoplifting laws and anti-petty larceny laws: This is what junkies steal to pay for their habits.
Anti-policing: Open air drug markets and plenty of freedom for gang members.
Anti-proactive policing, anti-stop and frisk, anti-aggressive policing, et al: Again keep the gang members out on the street selling and junkies buying.
Anti-education and anti-family: Keeps a steady supply of gang members and drug-users in the pipeline.
I’m sure if we could find the off-shore accounts for these District Attorneys and mayors, we’d find they were growing quite wealthy.
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