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Gaslighting. Soros backed DAs refusing to prosecute and governments letting violent offenders out of jail early. This was obvious when they did it. Don’t let t

Gaslighting. Soros backed DAs refusing to prosecute and governments letting violent offenders out of jail early. This was obvious when they did it. Don’t let them rewrite history.

colordrops 4y ago
Sounds plausible, but can you provide some evidence?
nonch0n 4y ago
- throwthrow12 4y ago
  I suspect they got this from Karl Rove’s opinion piece in the WSJ today. No clue whether this is accurate. https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-conservative-renaissance-district-attorneys-prosecutors-crime-recall-paaf-law-order-police-seattle-los-angeles-san-francisco-11658350969?mod=opinion_lead_pos9 https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-conservative-rena...
- Gareth321 4y ago
  It's hard to qualify the statement nationally, but I could provide just one example of his statement being correct. Chesa Boudin was the District Attorney for San Francisco, until his recall recently. He ran on a platform of reducing charge rates for many types of crimes. Under his watch, charge rates for DUI, hit-and-run, burglary, theft, weapons related crimes, and assault have decreased; sometimes significantly. Here are some quotes from Boudin: “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes." “[we will] shift our focus to . . . addressing root causes of crime.” “Jails do nothing to treat the root cause of crime,” “The challenge going forward,” said Boudin in 2019, “is how do we close a jail?” George Soros has a very clear political ideology. He has not been shy about his desire to elect left leaning Democrat candidates with similar views across the U.S. In just this instance, Soros publicly supported Boudin's candidacy; donating more than $1 million: https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2022/05/29/soros-backed-pac-spends-195-million-on-local-da-campaign https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2022/05/29/soros-backe... For the record, I find the "I stubbed my toe, thanks Soros" meme a little trite too. But it's no conspiracy that Soros has been supporting leaders like Boudin across the nation. That's not a conspiracy. It's public record. And it's not conspiracy that Boudin and many other leaders have run on platforms of being softer on crime. Especially "victimless" and "quality of life" crimes, in addition to their support of movements like "defund the police." Their records are public and they show consistent decline in charge rates. Whether one supports this action or not, those are the facts.
  - mola 4y ago
    Boudin tenure was 2 years. Do you really think sociatal effects like this crimewave can occure because of the actions of a single officer in two years? Wouldn't a global pandemic that severely effected the economy in a country that hates socialism where huge swathes of the population don't have functioning support systems could be factors that pretty much explain away[1] Boudin's and Soros influence? [1] https://martin-thoma.com/explaining-away/ https://martin-thoma.com/explaining-away/
    - Gareth321 4y ago
      I referenced only the charge rate. That is, of people who are arrested for certain crimes, how many did Boudin and his team choose to prosecute. This does not include the absolute number of crimes committed. For reference, charge rate for certain crimes like rape went up. He specifically mentioned rape and other crime to media and said he would prosecute these kinds of crimes more, even if the chance of conviction was low. So it wasn't due to a lack of resources. Boudin simply choose to charge certain crimes less, and others more.
Proven 4y ago
irthomasthomas 4y ago
Vouched because you can not refute dead comments.

Gaslighting. Soros backed DAs refusing to prosecute and governments letting violent offenders out of jail early. This was obvious when they did it. Don’t let them rewrite history.

colordrops 4y ago

Sounds plausible, but can you provide some evidence?

nonch0n 4y ago

throwthrow12 4y ago
I suspect they got this from Karl Rove’s opinion piece in the WSJ today. No clue whether this is accurate. https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-conservative-renaissance-district-attorneys-prosecutors-crime-recall-paaf-law-order-police-seattle-los-angeles-san-francisco-11658350969?mod=opinion_lead_pos9 https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-conservative-rena...
Gareth321 4y ago
It's hard to qualify the statement nationally, but I could provide just one example of his statement being correct. Chesa Boudin was the District Attorney for San Francisco, until his recall recently. He ran on a platform of reducing charge rates for many types of crimes. Under his watch, charge rates for DUI, hit-and-run, burglary, theft, weapons related crimes, and assault have decreased; sometimes significantly. Here are some quotes from Boudin: “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes." “[we will] shift our focus to . . . addressing root causes of crime.” “Jails do nothing to treat the root cause of crime,” “The challenge going forward,” said Boudin in 2019, “is how do we close a jail?” George Soros has a very clear political ideology. He has not been shy about his desire to elect left leaning Democrat candidates with similar views across the U.S. In just this instance, Soros publicly supported Boudin's candidacy; donating more than $1 million: https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2022/05/29/soros-backed-pac-spends-195-million-on-local-da-campaign https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2022/05/29/soros-backe... For the record, I find the "I stubbed my toe, thanks Soros" meme a little trite too. But it's no conspiracy that Soros has been supporting leaders like Boudin across the nation. That's not a conspiracy. It's public record. And it's not conspiracy that Boudin and many other leaders have run on platforms of being softer on crime. Especially "victimless" and "quality of life" crimes, in addition to their support of movements like "defund the police." Their records are public and they show consistent decline in charge rates. Whether one supports this action or not, those are the facts.
- mola 4y ago
  Boudin tenure was 2 years. Do you really think sociatal effects like this crimewave can occure because of the actions of a single officer in two years? Wouldn't a global pandemic that severely effected the economy in a country that hates socialism where huge swathes of the population don't have functioning support systems could be factors that pretty much explain away[1] Boudin's and Soros influence? [1] https://martin-thoma.com/explaining-away/ https://martin-thoma.com/explaining-away/
  - Gareth321 4y ago
    I referenced only the charge rate. That is, of people who are arrested for certain crimes, how many did Boudin and his team choose to prosecute. This does not include the absolute number of crimes committed. For reference, charge rate for certain crimes like rape went up. He specifically mentioned rape and other crime to media and said he would prosecute these kinds of crimes more, even if the chance of conviction was low. So it wasn't due to a lack of resources. Boudin simply choose to charge certain crimes less, and others more.

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irthomasthomas 4y ago

Vouched because you can not refute dead comments.