
<p>In terms of crime and punishment, the progressive left is bat poop crazy, and it is killing people &#8212; including some of them. ;</p>



<p><strong>Case One</strong></p>



<p><a>I</a>n case you missed the story. Progressive activist Ryan Carson was stabbed to death on the street of New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. ; He was walking home from a wedding with his girlfriend when a young black man named Brian Dowling assaulted him – chased him down and stabbed him to death as he lay on the pavement. ; The killer then spit on the girlfriend and kicked Carson’s bleeding body. ; The entire brutal incident was graphically captured on a security camera.</p>



<p>In many ways, Carson was just another of a growing number of innocent people victimized by the crime wave that is plaguing American cities – a crime wave that is being caused by insane progressive and woke policies. ;</p>



<p>While this was a random act of violence that is becoming iconic in our major cities, I mentioned that he was a progressive activist because there is a cultural element of the murder. ; It is not about him directly. ; He is a victim … period. ;</p>



<p>It is about his roommate, who refused to give his name. ; In eulogizing Carson, the roommate said he had not thought about the guy who murdered his friend. ; He called the murderer “the least important part of this conversation.”</p>



<p>The roommate added that he has “no feelings of vengeance and I don’t think that’s healthy. I’m not angry about that.” ; WHAT? ; He is not even angry that some scumbag psychotic killed his roommate?  ; ;Dowling was reported as having “mental issues” – and the roommate is not angry that the killer was allowed to walk the streets? ; In my view, the roommate&#8217;s implied pity for the killer is … pitiful.</p>



<p>There is another facet to this story and reflects on the woke leftwing tolerance of crime and criminals. ; The killer of Carson was employed as … a school worker.</p>



<p><strong>Case Two</strong></p>



<p><strong>AnaYelsi Velasco Sanchez</strong><strong>, </strong>a Washington, D.C. artist, had two of her paintings stolen during a solo exhibition at the Festival Center in Adams Morgan. ; She saw the theft as a personal violation as well as a “political statement” – although it is unclear what that political statement was.</p>



<p>Sanchez did not call the police. ; That is because she is a “justice and liberation” artist. ; Instead, she went online to ask the thief to return her paintings – no questions asked. ; She suggested a dialogue between her and the culprit. ; She assured the reprobate she does “not do police.” ; (If you bother to look her up the Mama Cass-sized artist online, I doubt any cop would do her.)</p>



<p>Not calling the police is part of her general anti-cop beliefs. ; She believes that police do more harm than good. ; She describes herself as an “abolitionist” – meaning that she supports abolishing police and prisons.</p>



<p>It never occurred to Sanchez that perhaps – just perhaps – if we had better policing, her thief might not have been out and about with an eye on her paintings. ; Ironically, at the time of the theft Sanchez was giving a speech on the evils of policing and incarceration. ; You just cannot make this stuff up.</p>



<p>Sanchez said that she did not know whether the thief was an art lover, a desperate person, or a provocateur. ; If you check out her paintings online, you can discount “art lover” as a motive.</p>



<p><strong>Case Three</strong></p>



<p>Daniel Lee was founder and director of Justice Now – a New York City- based group that advocates for reduced incarceration, abolishing bail and defunding policing by reallocating money to social services. ; He was a vocal critic of Mayor Eric Adams’ tough-on-crime measures.</p>



<p>He was stabbed to death by an intruder who entered his Manhattan apartment around 10 p.m. ; Lee’s girlfriend and cofounder of Justice Now, Jessica Chen, was in the apartment at the time but was unharmed. ; She called police, but the killer had already escaped. ; He was described as a young black male in his 20s. ; Police could not ascertain a motive other than an intended robbery. ;</p>



<p>They found no indication that it was related to Lee’s activism – although Chen said Lee had been subject to threats, especially after coming out against the Mayor’s crime fighting program. ; What is known so far points away from a politically motivated attack.</p>



<p><strong>Summary</strong></p>



<p>Arguably, these three victims were on the wrong side of the crime debate – sympathizing more with criminals than police. ; That does not mean that they deserved to be victims. ; It only adds an element of irony. ;</p>



<p>We should all be united in our horror over the crimes against these three people – and the millions of others being victimized by the surge in crimes undermining the safety of our major cities. ; A major part of the crime epidemic in America has been the result of a range of soft on crime and criminals policies that has been a major components of leftwing Democrat ideology that has infected the culture. ; The situation will not get better until we return to an approach that if you do the crime, you do the time. ; And that only happens when the police, the prosecutors, the courts and the legislators get tough on crime.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Three Cases – Being Soft on Criminals Doesn’t Stop You from Being A Victim
