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   Democratic voters are turning on left-wing prosecutors and   
   congressional candidates amid a nationwide crime surge.   
      
   Late last month, Maryland voters ousted Baltimore state’s   
   attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), who backed decarceration and   
   defunding police even as the city’s homicide rate skyrocketed.   
   Mosby was only the latest "reform-minded" prosecutor to get the   
   boot. San Francisco residents removed District Attorney Chesa   
   Boudin (D.) in June after he crusaded against policing and   
   prisons as "failed responses" to crime. Los Angeles County   
   district attorney George Gascón (D.), who has supported   
   "shrinking the size and the role of policing," is on the verge   
   of a recall.   
      
   The purge is the latest sign of voters’ dissatisfaction with   
   rising crime. The FBI in 2020 recorded its highest ever single-   
   year increase in homicides. A year later, 12 Democrat-run U.S.   
   cities saw the most murders in their history. The uptick in   
   crime particularly galvanized minority voters in San Francisco,   
   whose neighborhoods were racked with drug overdose deaths,   
   robberies, and murders.   
      
   According to former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, this   
   type of backlash was inevitable.   
      
   "People will only be victims for a limited period before they   
   get fed up," he told the Washington Free Beacon.   
      
   Progressive prosecutors aren’t the only soft-on-crime figures   
   getting the boot. Across the country, nearly half-a-dozen   
   Democratic candidates lost their elections because of their far-   
   left criminal justice agendas. Texas voters chose moderate   
   Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar over Squad-backed Jessica Cisneros   
   in a June primary.   
      
   Later that month, Illinois voters booted left-wing Rep. Marie   
   Newman (D.) from office and voted against progressive candidate   
   Kina Collins. Ana María Archila, a favorite of Rep. Alexandria   
   Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), lost a bid for New York lieutenant   
   governor months after she had said the Empire State needed to   
   "divest resources from police, prosecutors, and jails."   
      
   Rather than acknowledging voters' concerns, progressive   
   prosecutors are trying to blame conservatives for their   
   troubles. Boudin decried "right-wing billionaires" who "outspent   
   us three to one" after his recall. But campaign filings show   
   some of the largest donations to Boudin’s recall effort came   
   from wealthy Bay Area Democratic donors.   
      
   The left-wing billionaire George Soros has contributed more than   
   $40 million in the past decade to install liberal prosecutors in   
   half of the United States’ largest jurisdictions. Many moved   
   quickly after their election to reverse long standing bail and   
   sentencing guidelines for most low-level offenses, hoping to   
   reduce incarceration.   
      
   In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday, Soros defended his   
   reform prosecutor movement, citing a study that he said proves   
   "no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors   
   and local crime rates." He blamed a "rise in mental illness" and   
   "gun trafficking" for the crime spike, even as he noted "a   
   pullback in policing in the wake of public criminal-justice   
   reform protests."   
      
   But Rafael Mangual, the head of the Manhattan Institute’s   
   Policing and Public Safety Initiative, told the Free Beacon that   
   the study isn’t the silver bullet Soros claims. The authors said   
   they could not "rule out large increases or decreases in any   
   particular type of crime," and did not focus solely on the most   
   radical criminal justice policies. All told, Mangual says the   
   study "doesn’t prove decarceration works."   
      
   Rising crime is on the ballot in a number of upcoming elections.   
   State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi is running against DCCC chairman   
   Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in New York’s 17th district. During   
   the height of racial justice protests in 2020, Biaggi supported   
   efforts to "defund the police" and called police officers   
   "soulless." Recent polls show her trailing Maloney by double   
   digits.   
      
      
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