Lay Down with Dogs
Get up with Fleas
Or Not Get up at All
The soft on crime agenda gets lots of attention as it allows people to feel good about their virtue signaling but the devil is in the consequences of allowing criminals to escape justice. The agenda allows politicians to steal more and more tax dollars from the criminal justice system to spend buying votes and after all, when things go South they can always jack up the taxes once again and claim it is for the children.
We have written many stories about the criminal justice system and how the sheer lack of consequences allows criminals to have no cost after being arrested, no bail, no need to hire a lawyer if you are going to do a plea deal anyway, and you won't be required to pay your fees and fines, perhaps twenty to forty bucks a month if they squeeze you.
And the damage that releasing people on their own recognizance, without a bail bondsman keeping up with them, leads to just more crime as they are quickly back out on the street.