Bragg’s profoundly stupid policies are by no means an outlier. Los Angeles County’s radical district attorney, George Gascón, has made eliminating cash bail his top priority, resulting in a 160 percent year-over-year increase in stolen freight train packages from Amazon, FedEx, and UPS. And in Philadelphia, the district attorney, Larry Krasner, is already on schedule to surpass last year’s record 559 homicides, with at least 38 murders already occurring this year.

Will anything improve?

Last week, Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams released a 15-page “Blueprint to End Gun Violence,” which entails bringing back the NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit which the previous soft-on-crime mayor, Bill de Blasio, disbanded in 2020. That’s a good start, but it will take more than photo ops and platitudes for New Yorkers to actually feel safe again.

The violent crime, lawlessness, and looting we’re seeing across the country is the direct result of the policies of far-left politicians who have repeatedly peddled the lie that police officers and our criminal justice system are systematically racist.