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re: George Soros Op/Ed in WSJ
Posted on 7/31/22 at 9:54 pm to furrydogs
Posted on 7/31/22 at 9:54 pm to furrydogs
Here's the whole piece if you're interested:
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Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues.
Like most of us, I’m concerned about crime. One of government’s most important roles is to ensure public safety. I have been involved in efforts to reform the criminal-justice system for the more than 30 years I have been a philanthropist.
Yet our system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false. They reinforce each other: If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the system works, public safety will improve.
We need to acknowledge that black people in the U.S. are five times as likely to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
We spend $81 billion every year keeping around two million people in prisons and jails. We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work—deploying mental-health professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for education behind bars. This reduces the likelihood that those prisoners will commit new crimes after release.
In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal-justice system to protect people against violent crime. It urges that we treat drug addiction as a disease, not a crime. And it seeks to end the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.
This agenda, aiming at both safety and justice, is based on both common sense and evidence. It’s popular. It’s effective. The goal is not defunding the police but restoring trust between the police and the policed, a partnership that fosters the solving of crimes.
Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise. The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates. In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.
Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests, and increases in gun trafficking. Many of the same people who call for more-punitive criminal-justice policies also support looser gun laws.
This is why I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping. The funds I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.
Mr. Soros is founder of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations.
Posted on 7/31/22 at 9:57 pm to furrydogs
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This post was edited on 8/29/22 at 11:10 am
Posted on 7/31/22 at 11:22 pm to furrydogs
He needs a date with the woodchipper.
Posted on 7/31/22 at 11:31 pm to furrydogs
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Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians.
I see what he did there. He attributed rising crime rates in Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, etc. to the STATE government. frick off, George. You're actively funding violence.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 12:56 am to furrydogs
Soros second paragraph sez he is concerned about crime.
Wonder how large a personal security budget he has.
Wonder if he ever rode a subway in New York
Wonder if he walked the streets of Portland with Antifa protection
Wonder when he last flew commercial
Wonder if he shopped for baby formula for grandkids
Wonder how much taxes he paid on the da support money
Wonder what his gas milage is in his limo and entourage
Posted on 8/1/22 at 6:52 am to furrydogs
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Serious scholars researching causes behind the recent increase in crime have pointed to other factors: a disturbing rise in mental illness among young people due to the isolation imposed by Covid lockdowns, a pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice reform protests
Blind squirrel actually found a nut on the above. These two at the same time where/are horrible for society, and not just the black part of it.
As for the rest, I'll use Shreveport as an example since I live close by. Majority black population, black mayor, black police chief, black district attorney, and majority black city council. This isn't a racism issue, it is a failure of a segment of society that can't manage itself.
This post was edited on 8/1/22 at 6:53 am
Posted on 8/1/22 at 7:27 am to furrydogs
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We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work—deploying mental-health professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for education behind bars. This reduces the likelihood that those prisoners will commit new crimes after release.
Then why is he spending his money elsewhere? And that has all been tried and it doesn't work.
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no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates. In fact, violent crime in recent years has generally been increasing more quickly in jurisdictions without reform-minded prosecutors. Murder rates have been rising fastest in some Republican states led by tough-on-crime politicians
They always yap about partisan this, partisan that, but then say something like this. Which is absolutely just a diversionary comment away from the fact that the places that he has installed DA's , mayors, and other officials have seen disgusting rises in crime. Red States? He doesn't really think governors have much control over what cities like New Orleans, BR, and Shreveport do with it's violent criminals. Otherwise, he'd be installing Governors with his billions.
This post was edited on 8/1/22 at 7:28 am
Posted on 8/1/22 at 7:32 am to furrydogs
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Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.
Word has gotten out about the works of this demon. Now the only issue needed to defeat these "Soros" funded candidates is to remind the voting public the candidate is funded by Soros.
Make sure you let the voting public know exactly who Soros is, a Hungarian Jew!! Even Russia has a bounty on the man!!
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