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A Chicago man shot and killed the mother of his children while on bond for being a felon in possession of a weapon in April and then fled to Texas, prosecutors said Tuesday. The murder of Jessica Johnson, 30, came just a few months after Edward Roscoe, 29, allegedly dropped their 4-month-old daughter, killing her.
'Bail reform' costs 25 Chicagoans their lives, so far this year...
Another day, another dead person, another beneficiary of the George Soros chaos masterplan of "bail reform."
This travesty of justice happened in Chicago:
A Chicago man shot and killed the mother of his children while on bond for being a felon in possession of a weapon in April and then fled to Texas, prosecutors said Tuesday. The murder of Jessica Johnson, 30, came just a few months after Edward Roscoe, 29, allegedly dropped their 4-month-old daughter, killing her.
Roscoe is the 61st person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony. A total of 93 victims are involved in those crimes — 25 of them were murdered.
Had this monster been sitting in jail where he belonged, the woman he cold-bloodedly shot and killed as she likely cowered in a state of complete terror would still be alive. His dead baby daughter whom he somehow "dropped" would likely be alive, too.
The woman killed was one of 25 murder victims who can't speak up about this "bail reform." She's also one of 93 victims who've been victims of such attacks, the non-dead ones likely recovering in hospitals for gunshot wounds or still taking the flashbacks of terror at what might have happened. Sixty-one of these thugs have been "beneficiaries" of bail reform, which means no or low cash bail, meaning that they were permitted to await their trial dates in complete freedom, giving them the time to even the score with their hate targets ahead of their date with the judge and jury. This fiend was one of them.
Bail reform has been a plague for years now, enabling violent criminals to walk free ahead of their trials. The Soros left and its allies have been calling it a matter of economic justice, given that many thugs don't have the same kind of money as people with productive jobs:
The ACLU calls it "smart justice" and is running a Campaign for Smart Justice on its website here:
After an arrest — wrongful or not — a person’s ability to leave jail and return home to fight the charges typically depends on access to money. That's because, in virtually all jurisdictions, people are required to pay cash bail in order to secure their freedom. Originally, bail was designed to ensure people return to court to face charges against them. Now we know that simple solutions like court reminders often can achieve that purpose. And, the money bail system has morphed into one that perpetuates widespread wealth-based incarceration.
Here is their "logic":
This bail system has increased the jail population and made America's incarceration problem worse.
Memo to the leftists there: This bail system has also kept criminals off the streets and allowed many innocent people to retain some general "alive-ness." The crime rate and what bail reform does to the crime rate do not figure in their logic.
Crime in fact has shot up based on bail reform, and while murder is the worst of it, there are other significant crimes flaring up like sea monsters coming up from the deep. In San Francisco, Soros-financed district attorney Chesa Boudin has pursued a no-bail policy for looters, which is why any apprehension of these criminals always leads to the revolving door of justice. A bunch who got let out -- 14 mass looters who benefited from bail "reform"-- just got let out as described in this story here. That's far from the only case: "To be a victim of crime in San Francisco is a complete nightmare under District Attorney Boudin," said one victim, in this story here.
It also contributes to crime itself. Bail reform's defenders claim that bail reform is all about letting non-violent criminals out to wait. But obviously, that's open to interpretation. The fiend who killed the Chicago woman was out on bail for possession of a stolen firearm, something that by leftist definition was a "non-violent" offense. The career criminal who was out on a flimsy bail for trying to run over his girlfriend with a car earlier and then went on to use his car to run down children at a parade in Wisconsin may have been classified as 'non-violent' too, given that his crimes didn't involve guns or knives. If he wasn't, and was indeed classified as violent, that's even worse.
Meanwhile, the gaslighting surrounds this problem, like some kind of toxic penumbra.
Here's some crap from CNN's so-called fact-checkers about this, confidently spewing the Fake News:
Facts First: There's no clear evidence linking bail reforms -- which have been in place for years in some cities -- to the recent rise in violent crimes. In fact, the majority of cities that have seen increases in crime have not eliminated cash bail. Many variables have contributed to the increases Graham is referencing but CNN has seen no evidence to suggest that bail reform is a major factor.
Maybe these clowns can tell that to the 25 and climbing murder victims in Chicago alone who were killed by beasts on bail.
Sixty-one violent thugs let out of jail on bail reform, only to go on to kill others, is 61 too many. It's time to make the purveyors of this vile philosophy of bail reform start to pay up whenever another victim is murdered by one of their precious killer beneficiaries.
Image: Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free
The crime figures Villanueva gives also scream for Gascon to go: L.A. homicide rates rose 36% in 2020, and figures for 2021 so far make it 92%. Assault, arson, rapes -- all up. The sheriff links the uptick to the refusal to prosecute 2,690 cases that would normally have been prosecuted -- that’s 30% of all cases.
Why LA Must Show the Gascon the Door
If Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon has his way, the City of Angels will have sex offenders and violent criminals in their teens roaming free, under the pretext that they are juveniles. Never mind that they may be repeat offenders. Never mind that such leniency will encourage gangs to get their work done by those who should be in school or on the playground.
Thankfully, there is growing outrage against Gascon’s abominable ideas, and a campaign to have him recalled is gathering steam. It must succeed so that Los Angeles is spared the fate of San Francisco, which Gascon (as DA in 2011-19) left in shambles and, in the words of former San Francisco deputy DA Nancy Tung, with the reputation of a city “where you can commit a crime and get away with it.”
In L.A., Gascon’s Restorative Enhanced Diversion for Youth Pathway (REDY) program extends the privilege accorded to juveniles who have committed relatively minor offenses to those accused of serious and violent crimes. Such leniency will only reinforce criminal behavior by giving juvenile delinquents an early taste of impunity. Moreover, this is a dangerous perversion of the rationale behind handling juvenile criminals with kid gloves.
Why would a DA, whose job, first and foremost, is to deter crime through efficient prosecution, even consider letting serious crimes go unpunished? Why would someone in the hard-nosed business of presenting evidence and bringing criminals to justice step out of his domain to entertain quixotic ideas about criminal sociology that are best left to experts and the deliberative process of legislation?
The answers are connected to the leftist-anarchist agenda for destroying America. At another level, they relate to Gascon’s zero experience as an attorney. Perhaps also to the complex, wrongheaded psychology of a former police officer who is striving too hard to project himself as a progressive using the language of the “woke” social sciences. Witness his propensities for abstractions, like the name of his REDY program and his statement that his focus is on “long-term sustainable solutions.” Even the left-leaning New York Times ran an article about Gascon’s ‘reforms’, asking, ‘How Far is Too Far?’
The leftist-anarchist agenda for America is backed by multi-billionaire George Soros. In his 2019 book, In Defense of Open Society, Soros outlined a case to re-engineer the U.S. justice system. In 2014, he contributed $50 million to the American Civil Liberties Union’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration, designed to cut U.S. imprisonment rates by 50% by 2020. He has poured millions into the election of ‘progressive’ district attorneys -- “active catalysts for change” -- who will put his ideas into practice across the country, including in California, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and several other states. He has also backed campaigns to slash police budgets.
Unsurprisingly, wherever Soros has succeeded, the consequences have been disastrous; crime has risen precipitously and conviction rates have plummeted. Perhaps the worst is playing out in Los Angeles, the largest county and biggest jail system in the U.S. Here, Gascon has served his master’s agenda faithfully. His very arrival was a surprise. Fresh from wreaking havoc as DA in San Francisco, the massively unpopular Gascon made an announcement a month before an election in which his position was in play that he was resigning his S.F. post to run in L.A.
Facing Jackie Lacey in the race for DA, Gascon received $2.25 million from Soros and additional funding from the Working Families Party, a group closely allied with the Communist Party USA, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Squad member Rep. Ayanna Presley, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, and Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who mobilized her supporters to work for Gascon’s campaign. In short, Gascon is beholden to the leftist-anarchist ecosystem.
The second factor -- his ignorance of the cut-and-thrust of the courtroom -- is best set out by Tung, his former deputy, who wrote scathingly of the “massive attrition” at his S.F. office and the demoralization of staff who know their supposed leader has never been in their shoes in court. She generously gave her boss a B-minus.
Once sworn in as L.A.’s district attorney, Gascon, whose first meeting was with BLM, pledged to end “tough on crime” prosecutions, release inmates from overcrowded prisons and hold police accountable for misconduct. He wrote an open letter to the LAPD accusing them of engaging in “unconstitutional policing.” In addition, he said, “juveniles would no longer be prosecuted as adults, regardless of their circumstances or criminal history.” True to his word -- and to the horror of many, including his staff -- he introduced REDY as a pilot program in November and expanded it to include juveniles who have used weapons or force to commit robbery or sexual assault.
Like Tung, Gascon’s deputy in L.A., John McKinney, is frustrated and alarmed. He wants the new provisions removed, especially because sexual battery against children by older teens is a big problem in the county. He also describes other REDY provisions as grossly irresponsible and gravely impacting safety, citing a spate of smash-and-grab robberies by juveniles. He characterizes the program as political payback -- a means for Gascon to show Soros and his other supporters that he is promoting their political agenda. Public safety isn’t part of the equation.
Gascon has also ignored harsh practicalities: there is a shortage of programs that accept youthful offenders from L.A. County. Those with strict eligibility criteria will not accept gang members, juveniles who used a weapon, or any antisocial youth seen as unresponsive to the treatment they provide. So these criminals will remain at large, without any oversight. Plus, with the advent of the pandemic, even appropriate candidates are being counseled via Zoom meetings. In all ways, REDY is a golden opportunity for adult felons to solicit a juvenile to commit violent crimes while they watch from the periphery.
With Gascon continuing to roll back all tough-on-crime measures like the death penalty, the elimination of criminal enhancement, and the prosecution of juveniles who commit serious crimes, it’s not difficult to understand why there’s an effort to have him recalled. At a December 8th press conference, he boasted of turning around the criminal-legal system to make it “more humane, more equitable” -- again the newspeak beloved by the Left.
But L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, from the trenches of crime-fighting, had a sharp and relevant response. He said he had hoped Gascon would use the press conference to resign “…which is what anyone would expect from a DA who will not prosecute criminals, values offenders over victims, and has received a formal vote of no confidence from 31 cities.”
The crime figures Villanueva gives also scream for Gascon to go: L.A. homicide rates rose 36% in 2020, and figures for 2021 so far make it 92%. Assault, arson, rapes -- all up. The sheriff links the uptick to the refusal to prosecute 2,690 cases that would normally have been prosecuted -- that’s 30% of all cases.
Taxpayers are having to hire security to protect themselves. Private security executive Joel Glucksman has seen an 80% increase in requests this year, thanks to the “revolving door at the back end because the DA doesn’t want to prosecute and got rid of cash bail.” Frustrated police officers keep arresting the same offenders who are released back onto the streets in short order.
Disastrous District Attorney George Gascon has got to go!
California’s Zero-Bail Policies Have Been A Deadly Failure
California’s state lawmakers recently failed to pass bail reform legislation, creating a case study in how fundamentally poor public policy will self-destruct if it’s exposed for what it is. On the face of it, there is a logic to the continuing argument that cash-based bail is unfair to people who have little or no money. But that simplistic premise is deeply flawed and has led to a huge increase in violent crime in California, as well as in other places that implemented the policy. Unfortunately, the grim repercussions are not just statistical. There is a human face to criminal justice reform gone bad—and ultimately it tripped up the legislators behind the latest attempt at force-feeding bail reform to the Golden State’s citizens.
Even the staunchest bail reform advocates were compelled to take a step back after the horrific events of September 6. In Sacramento, Troy Davis, a convicted felon, broke into 61-year-old Kate Tibbitts’s home, raped and murdered her, slaughtered her two dogs, and then set the house ablaze. The night before, Davis had exposed himself on a neighbor’s porch.
When it emerged that Davis had been released on zero bail, the impetus for a bail reform bill that was steamrolling its way through the California Senate immediately screeched to a halt. But is that the end of the story or is there another domino waiting to fall?
In 2020, as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Judicial Council, hoping to prevent COVID’s spread, had implemented zero-bail schedules to reduce jail populations. Senate Bill 262 was later introduced in another of a series of attempts to eliminate most monetary bail. For reasons having nothing to do with protecting health and safety, Senate Bill 262 would have made the schedules permanent. In effect, if defendants could not afford bail, they would simply be released.
The grim reality of zero-bail policies became increasingly apparent as late summer turned to fall. Dramatic expansions in crime. Rampant retail theft. Law enforcement and prosecutors unified in their complaint that the zero-bail schedule was a problem. A big problem. In fact, the Judicial Council had terminated the zero-bail schedule order even before its emergency authority expired, presumably because these policies failed. Troy Davis’s rape and murder of Kate Tibbitts was the final straw in Sacramento, at least for Senate Bill 262.
Even as the importance of bail in the criminal justice system is being recognized, the careful balance that it creates between defendants and the public (including victims of crime) has grown more precarious. For example, retail criminals are now organized and increasingly brazen. A mayor in a California city could order police to go on an old west-style round-up of these lawbreakers, who would then immediately walk free out of jail…only to go out and do it again.
Image: Empty ball and chain. Piqsels.
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert laid the blame for Davis’s heinous acts squarely on California’s bail policies. She indicated that zero bail was misapplied in his case, as parolees should not have been eligible for free release. But she also cautioned that the right to an affordable bail, as stipulated in Senate Bill 262, would have set Davis free pending trial no matter what.
The reality is that Senate Bill 262 aside, the pendulum has swung so far over the years that no single bill can fix the fundamental problems with criminal justice in California and restore law and order to a point where citizens feel safe and protected.
My dad was a career cop. He always told me that, in the old days, there were two things you never wanted to do: get arrested or go to jail. Usually, a few nights or a week in jail was enough to make the point—and it kept the peace. The idea of strong “prosecution” or “collateral consequences” was not on anyone’s mind. Today, there is no peace to be kept because the presumption of innocence when dealing with repeat criminal defendants pretrial, has been extended far beyond any definition of reasonableness.
In a 2016 report that criminologist Daniel S. Nagin wrote and the U.S. Department of Justice issued, Nagin concluded, “Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment.” He added that law enforcement has an increased ability to deter crime when it does things that “strengthen a criminal’s perception of the certainty of being caught.” Zero-bail for a list of crimes in fact does quite the opposite—it strengthens the perception of getting away with it.
The reality is that judges in California—whom voters elect—have always been prepared to handle bail without political meddling. Rather than interfering in areas outside of their authority, legislators must turn their attention to speedy trial reform, along with deterring and punishing repeat offenders. Meaningful criminal justice reform is a noble and just cause, and reasonable minds should work together to improve the system.
While there may be disagreements about the right path to take, it should never be lost on decision-makers that the debates are not just about concepts, but about all the human beings involved—both the defendants and our citizens. When bad public policy harms real people, it’s time to put political rhetoric and agendas aside. Kate Tibbitts deserved better, as do all Californians.
Jeffrey J. Clayton is the Executive Director of the American Bail Coalition. He has worked as a public policy and government relations professional, and also as a licensed attorney, serving a variety of clients in legal, legislative, and policy matters. Mr. Clayton also worked in government service, representing the Colorado Judicial Branch and State Labor Department, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is also a prior Presidential Management Fellow and Finalist for the U.S. Supreme Court fellows program. Mr. Clayton holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University, an M.S. in Public Policy from the University of Rochester, N.Y., and a J.D. from the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver.
Did two Democrat politicians just get mugged by reality?
One of the long-standing problems with Democrat governance is that Democrat politicians enact policies that affect people other than themselves. Thus, affluent professional Dems living in chi-chi gentrified enclaves aren’t the ones who lose their jobs due to unconstrained illegal immigration. Likewise, those same neighborhoods insulate them from the havoc their “defund the police” policies wreak. However, on Wednesday, two Democrat politicians, one in Philadelphia and one in Chicago, were mugged by reality when both were carjacked. Fortunately, neither was hurt but I hope it was a learning experience for both of them.
Kimberly Lightford is the Democrat majority leader in the Illinois Senate and a member of her state’s Legislative Black Caucus. To her credit, she was never an ardent proponent of property destruction nor was she calling to defund the police. However, she was at the forefront of the movement to reform policing in her state, which included eliminating cash bail (effective January 2023), giving a pass for people who vanish for 48 hours or less while on electric monitoring, and increasing liability for individual police officers. By October 2021, with crime in Chicago soaring, Lightford had become quite strident in her defense of policing.
Lightford’s disenchantment with attacks on the police may have grown because, on Wednesday, she and her husband were carjacked at gunpoint:
Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, who championed the state’s criminal justice reform omnibus legislation in January, was carjacked at gunpoint in suburban Broadview on Tuesday evening, authorities said. One of the hijackers fired multiple gunshots at Lightford’s husband, but he was not injured.
Three masked men exited a Dodge Durango and hijacked Lightford’s Mercedes Benz SUV at gunpoint on the 2000 block of South 20th Avenue around 9:45 p.m., according to a statement from the village’s chief of police.
Lightford confirmed the incident in a short statement, saying she was “thankful that my husband and I are alive and physically unharmed. I am trying to process the trauma of what happened.”
She thanked the Broadview Police Department for their “quick and thorough response.”
In other words, a Democrat just got mugged by reality.
Police eventually arrested one of the men involved who had been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon—but was out on bail.
Image: A carjacking in Texas. YouTube screen grab.
Ironically, Lightford was not the only Democrat lawmaker who got mugged (or rather, carjacked) by reality on Wednesday. In Philadelphia, Mary Gay Scanlon, a House member from Pennsylvania, was also carjacked in broad daylight:
The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at FDR Park in South Philadelphia, where the lawmaker had been attending a meeting. Ms. Scanlon was walking to her parked car when she was approached by two BLACK men driving a dark-colored SUV.
Police said both men, who were armed, demanded the keys to her car.
They got away with her 2017 Acura MDX, her personal cell phone, her government cell phone, her purse and her identification. There was no immediate report on suspects.
As was the case with Lightford, Scanlon also joined the police reform movement after George Floyd’s death.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot Seeks ATF’s Help as Chicago Homicides Surge
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) is seeking help from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in the face of surging homicides and continued gun crime.
On December 17, 2021, Breitbart News reported that Chicago had surpassed 800 homicides for the year.
HeyJackass.com now notes the city has exceeded 830 homicides and there is still over a week to go in 2021.
Of the 830+ homicides, over 780 were carried out with firearms.
Breitbart News observed that 23 people were shot during the past weekend alone in Lightfoot’s Chicago, while over 30 were shot, six fatally, during the first weekend in December, and nearly 40 were shot Thursday through Sunday morning of Thanksgiving weekend.
Lightfoot is seeking federal help to curb the violence.
On Monday, NBC 5 reported that “Lightfoot formally requested that United States Attorney General Merrick Garland detail Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents in Chicago for six months.”
NBC 5 pointed to a Chicago Sun-Times report showing “murders have been increasing in the city for two straight years now, and shootings have been rising at an even faster rate.”
On July 26, 2020, Breitbart News noted Lightfoot rejected President Trump’s offer to send federal help into Chicago to get surging crime under control.
Lightfoot told CNN”s State of Union:
I have drawn a very hard line. We’ll not allow federal troops in our city. We will not tolerate unnamed agents taking people off the street, violating their rights and holding them in custody. That’s not happening here in Chicago. So I have drawn a very, very tight line and made it clear to every federal authority that I’ve spoken with, and they understand that if they cross that line, we will not hesitate to use every tool at our disposal to stop troops and unwanted agents in our city.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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