These days, criminals have no fear. Lenient plea deals and a widespread hesitation to pursue justice create a sense of immunity for even our worst offenders.
And there should be no mystery as to how we got here.
For nearly a decade, there’s been a coordinated and systematic attempt to reshape the American justice system — to create a world where a small subgroup of criminals have more rights and protections than the rest of us.
Nearly ten years ago, billionaire financier George Soros first channeled millions into local district attorney campaigns across the country.
Soros understands that focusing on local politics will eventually bring about the national changes he and his collaborators would love to see: drug legalization, open borders and mass immigration, the erosion of national sovereignty, the demise of capitalism as we know it — and, of course, soft-on-crime policies and bail reform.
This is how we all got stuck with fraudulent “prosecutors” like Matt Dugan in Pittsburgh, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Foxx in my own home town of Chicago, and of course Alvin “Let ‘Em Loose” Bragg in Manhattan.
That’s just a small sample of the group Soros and his allies hand-picked to hinder and ultimately collapse the American justice system.
There are now almost a hundred such “prosecutors” implanted across our country who are really wolves in sheep’s clothing — leftist ideologues who prioritize prosecuting our police officers over criminals.
George Gascón in Los Angeles, who’s up for re-election Tuesday, is one of these false prosecutors.
If you don’t know who George Gascón is — or care much about California — I understand.
But voter indifference is exactly what Soros and his accomplices are counting on.
Soros donated $2.5 million to Gascón’s campaign for Los Angeles DA back in 2020.
Since then, Gascón has been nothing but a polarizing, soft-on-crime prosecutor who enables violence to flourish, impacting LA’s most vulnerable citizens.
In 2014, when he served as DA in San Francisco, Gascón co-authored Proposition 47, a “criminal justice” reform measure meant, he said, to “address systemic inequalities” and turn our legal system “upside down.”
But his “reforms” were the standard boilerplate recited by most every Soros-financed candidate — all of whom end up refusing to prosecute entire categories of crimes, watering down felonies, and coddling violent juveniles.
The result, of course: more crime.
In LA, Gascón’s now-infamous “Day 1 Directives” eliminated cash bail for most offenses, ended sentencing enhancements, stopped charging juveniles as adults regardless of the offense, and more.
His own prosecutors began opposing this agenda immediately. To date, 20 of them have accused Gascón of workplace retaliation because they challenged his progressive policies or pointed out Day 1 directives they considered illegal.
Crime within the LA Metro system alone surged more than 65% in the first three months of this year.
I myself learned the consequences of such a DA in Chicago, where my innocent teen baby brother Christian was killed in a random drive-by shooting.
That’s why I started the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety to push back on Soros-funded prosecutors who have endangered our communities with progressive, soft-on-crime policies.
Soros understands that to reshape the American justice system, you focus on the local level.
It’s time we understand that, too — and do something about it.
In LA, there’s an alternative to this mess of crime and resentment: a candidate not backed by radicals hoping to dismantle the United States.
Nathan Hochman is an attorney and former federal prosecutor who’s running against Gascon. This actual prosecutor has been recognized nationally for his focus on public safety and fighting corruption.
The common-sense Hochman declares that “criminals benefit, crime increases, and the public suffers” when district attorneys “stop prosecuting certain crimes.”
Hochman promises that violent criminals who use guns will be “prosecuted and punished, not released back to the street to commit more crimes” if he wins on Tuesday.
Enough is enough: Los Angeles, and all our cities, need law and order.
That’s why the Caldwell Institute is running ads in favor of Nathan Hochman ahead of Election Day.
For almost a decade now, unseen forces have been spending millions to convince you that up is down and soft-on-crime DAs and judges are the American way.
But we know better. You know better.
It’s time to beat Soros and his crew at their own game — whether in New York, Philadelphia or a small city in the Midwest.
And for those of you in Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman is your latest, and best, chance to tell Soros and his accomplices no.
Gianno Caldwell is founder of the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety and a Fox News political analyst.
