Under Democrat Leadership, Criminals Are Walking Free And Crime Is Taking Over Cities

DEMOCRATS LOOK THE OTHER WAY AS AMERICANS SUFFER

• Americans are facing unprecedented crime in their communities, yet Democrats are pushing disastrous soft-on-crime policies that only further embolden criminals.
  • The same Democrat-run cities that slashed their police budgets and saw crime skyrocket have now reversed course.
• Democrat Senate candidates like Mandela Barnes and John Fetterman support soft-on-crime policies and releasing criminals despite rising crime in their states.

DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING FOR CRIMINALS TO WALK FREE

• Democrats have taken their soft-on-crime agenda to the extreme with policies that only seek to help criminals.
• Wisconsin Democrat Senate candidate Mandela Barnes wants to eliminate cash bail and release half the state’s inmates – a radical policy he believes will “make our communities safer.”
  • Barnes said he is “constantly pushing for a reduction of spending on corrections” and "wish[es] we could accelerate" releasing criminals from prison.
• As violent crime surges in Pennsylvania, Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman bragged about putting a record number of criminals back on the street.
  • On at least 13 occasions Fetterman has expressed support for releasing one-third of Pennsylvania’s prison population.
  • Fetterman supports ending “life without parole” for many murderers, claiming these policies would “not make anyone less safe.”
• Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) voted “more than 75 times to minimize the sentences of violent criminals” while on the Nevada Board of Pardons Commissioners.
• Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who was once arrested for obstructing a police investigation into a child abuse case, says he wants to “reimagine” policing and supports ending cash bail.
• Across the country, Democrat district attorneys have implemented soft-on-crime policies that have only emboldened criminals or let them walk free.
  • Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner emboldened criminals by eliminating cash bail for many offenses, including theft, resisting arrest, and burglary.
  • Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón has repeatedly refused to prosecute violent offenders, including victims of anti-Asian hate crimes.
  • After repeatedly pushing for a pro-criminal agenda that led to surges in shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant, open-air drug dealing, San Franciscans resoundingly recalled district attorney Chesa Boudin in a “landslide.”

DEMOCRATS HAVE FAILED TO SUPPORT POLICE DEPARTMENTS

• Democrats at the national, state, and local level have repeatedly called for defunding the police or courted the votes of defund the police
  • Mandela Barnes said “it pains me” to see fully-funded police budgets and has repeatedly called for defunding "over-bloated" police departments.
  • Democrat candidates like Cheri Beasley and Kirsten Engel have fundraised with and received endorsements from prominent anti-police groups and candidates.
  • John Fetterman has called for “reimaging the police.”
• In addition to wanting police departments defunded, many Democrats have led an all-out attack against police, demeaning and smearing law enforcement officers.
  • Sen. Raphael Warnock called the men and women of law enforcement “thug[s],” “gangster[s],”and “bullies.”
  • Rep. Tim Ryan spent years calling the criminal justice system “racist” and the “new Jim Crow.”
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar has called the Minneapolis Police Department “rotten to the root” and said that it must be dismantled because it’s a “cancer.”
• Americans are living in fear while prominent defund the police politicians get to hide behind their private security.
  • Barnes receives a personal security detail from the Wisconsin State Patrol for an average of more than 13.5 hours per day, including for personal campaign events – costing taxpayers more than $600,000 in just three years.
  • Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign has spent over $800,000 on private security while simultaneously leading organizations that call to defund the police.
• As crime surges, so have attacks on the men and women in blue, with over 230 officers shot and nearly 60 ambush-style attacks occurring in 2022 so far.
• Amidst growing anti-police rhetoric, nearly 2,000 NYPD police officers have quit, a 71 percent jump from 2021, and other police departments only have half the number of officers they need.

AMERICANS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR DEMOCRATS’ SOFT-ON-CRIME POLICIES

• Crime sprees, like surging car thefts and smash and grab robberies, are taking over cities, with more and more crimes happening in broad daylight.
• Biden’s open border policies “are fueling a drug-related crime wave across the United States.”
  • Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, yet John Fetterman supports taxpayer-funded drug dens and “decriminalizing [drugs] across the board,” including heroin.
• More and more Americans are voicing their fears and frustrations over the “out of control” crime affecting their daily lives and looking for ways to get out of Democrat-run cities.
  • Oakland, California resident Chris Niemer: “My plan is get the hell out of Oakland."
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania resident Carmela Truell: “Everywhere you go it’s [crime] a problem, but Philadelphia it’s really getting out of hand.”
• Americans know Democrats are squarely to blame for this spike in crime.
  • A Washington, D.C. resident: “The Mayor [Democrat Muriel Bowser] knows about this, but what’s being done? … D.C. is just not a safe city. What is being done about it?”
  • A New York City resident: “I hold the politicians are the one that [are] responsible for it. They should be held accountable for what’s happening in this city—from the bail reform to the petty crimes."
  • Life-long Democrat Erica Ingram, whose son was murdered in 2019, is leaving soft-on-crime Democrats because they’re “weak. They don’t fight hard enough as to where the Republicans get up there and they pull out all stops.”