In 2022, Mary Moriarty ran for the office of Hennepin County Attorney on a platform of not prosecuting criminals, and was elected handily.

But perhaps the tide is turning. As I wrote here, Moriarty charged State Trooper Ryan Londregan with second degree murder, after he fatally shot career criminal Ricky Cobb, a felon illegally in possession of a handgun, as Cobb endangered Londregan and another patrolman by fleeing arrest with both troopers partway inside his vehicle.

Yesterday Londregan made his first court appearance. The atmosphere was different from the lynch mob environment that surrounded Derek Chauvin.

[Be sure to click over for the rest of the story. I’m not sure the tide has actually turned with Moriarty’s constituents, although I hope it has. Law enforcement has stopped retreating, which is a good development, but nothing I’ve read recently indicates that voters in Hennepin or Ramsey Counties have recovered their common sense on crime. Yet. — Ed]