In Waukesha (Wisconsin), a black 39-year-old man drove his maroon Ford Escape into Christmas celebrations with children and elderly women. Another 48 people sustained injuries and five were killed. Although the motive for the attack is not known, the media will continue to insist that it be so. Media seem to only be interested in why violent suspects do it, if the motives are credited to political foes.
We know one thing: we should have stopped the suspect from being on the streets. The suspect had a criminal record that was more than five times the length of the Bible’s first five volumes. The latest crime he is accused of was Nov. 5. He was charged with bail jumping, resisting an officers, recklessly endingaffecting safety, disorderly behavior, battery and other charges. He allegedly first slammed his mother with his fist and then drove her to the ground in his maroon Ford Escape. On Friday, he was freed on $1,000 bail. He ran his car over innocent victims two days later.
Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office opened an investigation into low bail. We already know why bail allowed the suspect to return to the streets: it was necessary because equity required it. Jeffrey Toobin published in May 2015. The New Yorker about “The Milwaukee Experiment.” The piece was a long, sycophantic love letter to John Chisholm, the District Attorney of Milwaukee County, who had embraced criminal justice policies geared toward rectifying “the racial imbalance in American prisons.” According to one of Chisholm’s admirers, “Chisholm stuck his neck out there and started saying that prosecutors should also be judged by their success in reducing mass incarceration and achieving racial equality.”
Not reducing crime. Not reducing crime. Chisholm himself admitted the costs of his policies in 2007: “Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen.”
Chisholm was correct, obviously.
The same thing happened in San Francisco this week as large, roaming gangs looted high-end shops. Union Square in San Francisco witnessed large groups of looters smashing into and grabbing a Louis Vuitton shop. Meanwhile, thieves gathered to steal products from Walnut Creek and Pleasanton. It shouldn’t be surprising that this happened. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced that he would end “mass incarceration” and cash bail; he stopped prosecuting shoplifting cases — in 2020, just 44% of shoplifting cases were prosecuted.
This has led to stores closing in San Francisco due to theft.
Reality with regard to criminality isn’t all that complicated: when you free criminals unjustifiably in a misguided attempt to achieve “group equity,” innocents suffer. Innocents are hurt when cops get taken off the streets, allowing criminals to do what they want. Criminals see an opportunity when you don’t prosecute crimes.
The voters have two options: they can continue to defy reality or pay the penalty. Or, they can accept the fact that reality wins every time. The only ones who will win are the criminals and those politicians who allow them to be able to do so.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.”
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