Judging Freedom - Crime Spikes and Lenient DA's

Episode Date: August 3, 2022

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Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022. It's about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. There's been quite a bit of debate lately about politicians who become prosecutors and who don't do their jobs. Last night I was interviewed by my dear friend and former Fox colleague Eric Bolling on Newsmax, and we discussed this, particularly with respect to the influence of money in these political campaigns, and we zeroed in on George Soros. Mr. Soros is, of course, a very wealthy man. He's a billionaire, self-made, but he's also very, very hard left, not a liberal Democrat, but sort of an AOC, hard left progressive Democrat. with him. And then they get elected. And like Kesa Boudin, who is the former prosecutor in the city and state of San Francisco, gets elected and doesn't want to prosecute people. So there's two ways that people become full-time prosecutors in America. About half the states in the federal system, they are appointed. And the federal system appointed by the governor, by the president, confirmed by the United States Senate. The job is called U.S.

attorney. Those are usually professional law enforcement types in many states like New Jersey where I live and where I was a life-tenured judge. Prosecutors are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state senate. In the appointment system, the states where prosecutors are appointed like in the federal system, you tend to get more serious law enforcement people. You tend to get prosecutors like say Rudy Giuliani in New York City or Chris Christie here in New Jersey, who are more serious about catching the bad guys, gathering evidence against them, and prosecuting them. On the other hand, where prosecutors are elected, you sometimes get sort of soft-hearted,

well-intended people who really want to be social workers, as you ended up with in San Francisco. Now, Qais Abudin was recalled by the voters. He was voted out of office. Not all states allow you to do that. There's a very soft-hearted prosecutor in New York City called Alvin Bragg. The voters cannot vote him out. All they can do is persuade the governor to remove him or wait until he's up for re-election. These soft-hearted prosecutors, they're not evil people. They just think that their job is to act as sort of super social workers. They would rather ameliorate society's social problems than prosecute the bad guys. Doesn't work.

I'm not saying everybody has to be as tough as nails as Giuliani and Christie, but you have to do your job. There's no such thing as a far left prosecutor or a far right prosecutor. You got to be right down the middle. You have evidence, you prosecute, you arrest the person, you prosecute, you go on to the next case. You don't get involved in the underlying cause of crime. That's for the legislative and executive branch of the government to do. Is George Soros committing a crime? Of course not. He can put his

money behind any candidate he wants. But when he puts his money behind people who become prosecutors and they're not interested in prosecuting, they're doing the government a disservice, they're doing the public a disservice, and crime is rampant. And that's why some of them, in the case of Mr. Boudin in San Francisco, they get recalled from office. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.