Attorney General Chris Carr of Georgia offers a straightforward remedy for the crime that befalls blue cities: uphold the law
Chicago Attorney General Chris Carr of Georgia offers blue communities tired of crime and violence a straightforward solution: uphold the law, lock up offenders, and protect American people and their businesses from criminal activity.
He attacked Vice President Harris as the “patron saint of leftist prosecutors” and blasted progressive crime policies that have failed the communities they are supposed to help, saying, “Elections have consequences,” in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“She was for defund the police, sanctuary cities, cashless bail,” he stated.
In addition, Harris, a former attorney general of California who ran on a platform of highlighting her experience as a prosecutor, has openly backed bail funds, which assist in releasing criminal defendants from custody while they are being held on bond. A request for comment was not immediately answered by her office.
“All the DAs that we’ve seen around the country, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where she was a DA, to St. Louis and even in our state in Athens and even in Atlanta, Georgia … she is the model for what they really aspired to,” Carr said on Fox News Digital. “And that is the new criminal justice reform, which is don’t enforce the law.”
These measures over the last few years, he said, had resulted in “a roadmap for higher crime.”
Leftist policies created a nightmare earlier this year in Athens, a college town famous for the University of Georgia and its football team, when a violent illegal immigrant was suspected of kidnapping and killing nursing student Laken Riley as she was jogging in a campus park. After her murder, incensed locals attacked local politicians for supporting “sanctuary” policies at a press briefing.
He said to Fox News Digital, “Look at the communities that are most often impacted by this violent crime.” Democrats and liberals claim to want to safeguard communities, while conservatism and Republicans are the ones taking the necessary precautions to ensure public safety. That is, in my opinion, really significant.
Chicago, the host city of the Democratic National Convention in 2024, has a population that is one-third that of New York City, yet according to police figures, Chicago has more killings than the Big Apple.
“You can either go down one path where you ignore the law, you avoid the law, crime goes up, or you can enforce the laws,” he stated. “And you’re seeing exactly what’s happening.”
Chicago, the host city of the Democratic National Convention in 2024, has a population that is one-third that of New York City, yet according to police figures, Chicago has more killings than the Big Apple.
“You can either go down one path where you ignore the law, you avoid the law, crime goes up, or you can enforce the laws,” he stated. “And you’re seeing exactly what’s happening.”
Reversing the bail rules that release repeat criminals virtually instantly into the streets so they may commit new crimes is a step that police organizations have been pushing for years. The absence of repercussions coupled with leftist prosecutors’ unwillingness to prosecute defendants to the greatest extent of the law has damaged police morale across the nation, making it difficult for localities to hire and retain police officers.
This week, Fox News Digital was informed by former Chicago Police Chief Gene Roy that there are hundreds of open positions on the municipal police roster.
Given that the convention is being held only a few blocks from the site of the earlier this year shooting death of 7-year-old Jai’Mani Rivera, Democratic elites have come under fire for appearing to be completely detached from the realities of Chicago violence. The suspect was released on home monitoring, which he apparently disregarded, although he may have been imprisoned.
Despite being short-staffed, Chicago police skillfully managed anti-Israel demonstrations outside the nation’s Chicago consulate on Tuesday night, gently containing unruly demonstrators until they were told to leave. When the demonstrators refused to go, they made around seventy arrests.
