re: George Soros Op/Ed in WSJ

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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.

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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

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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.