Soros Prosecutors Are Murdering Criminal Justice Reform

 

For the first two weeks of March, a dark cloud loomed over East Coast cities. Someone was traveling between New York and Washington, D.C., shooting homeless people as if for sport. At least two were dead and three wounded.

Who could be so wantonly callous? On March 15, Gerald Brevard III, a career criminal and drifter, was arrested in connection with one of the murders. He is also under suspicion for the others. It turns out that Brevard was a free man only because a Virginia prosecutor systematically refuses to do his job. He reportedly even demands that his staff seek the lightest possible sentences for criminals, including the most violent.

Steve Descano, a northern Virginia commonwealth's attorney whose political career has been bankrolled by George Soros in six-figure helpings, had Brevard in custody as recently as December 2020. Initially, Brevard faced three felony charges in Fairfax County and a life sentence in connection with a burglary and an earlier incident in which he was credibly accused of abducting a Herndon hotel maid for the purpose of raping her, then fleeing when she resisted.

Had Descano treated Brevard as he should have, the criminal could have faced a fourth felony charge as well. After his arrest for burglary, police found a loaded pistol magazine that he’d tried to hide in the back of the police cruiser in which he was being contained.

Instead, Brevard was let off easy. Descano, who routinely reduces charges for dangerous criminals, cut two charges in this violent incident to misdemeanors and dropped the third. Brevard received a slap on the wrist, a 12-month sentence, of which he served only five months. A year after his release, he was out on the streets, allegedly shooting homeless people.

Descano makes the excuse that he had to seek a reduced sentence for Brevard because he didn't have a good case. But this is nonsense. Descano had an eyewitness who could identify the perpetrator and video showing him on the scene. Descano has made victims of the homeless, who are now dead, wounded, or living in fear because Fairfax County's elected prosecutor refused to put away a dangerous man when he had the chance.

Descano's attempt to hide his misdeeds behind the buzzword "criminal justice reform" is a hypocritical disgrace. As grave as the loss of life is in this case, the implications go beyond Brevard and his alleged crimes and could redound upon the rest of this century.

Just a few short years ago, there was a clear bipartisan agreement on commonsense criminal justice reform. This led to passage of the First Step Act. Unfortunately, however, social justice prosecutors of Descano's ilk are murdering that consensus.

Reform passed because everyone agreed with the smart version of it. Criminals must face consequences for their actions. They must serve time. For some nonviolent offenders, not people like Brevard, prison sentences should be reduced for good behavior. All those who serve time should be helped back into society. But, and this is key, all those who break the law must face consequences for their actions. Letting dangerous people like Brevard go without prosecuting them for the violent crimes they commit undermines the whole system.

The contribution of the prosecutor to debate in this instance is that incarceration is inherently evil and that violent criminals should not suffer much for their crimes. Soros has worked very hard to elect several such prosecutors, including the commonwealth's attorneys of the northern Virginia counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Arlington, and the district attorneys of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Cook County, Illinois, among others. They put into practice extreme ideology that undermines effective criminal justice reforms.

They make life easy for hardened criminals, including the most violent and dangerous. Their excuses insult the intelligence of ordinary and smart people. Their actions are manifestly derelict.

These prosecutors should be recalled and replaced so they can no longer undermine the long-term health of the criminal justice system by destroying faith in it. They are actively militating against the cross-party consensus that was strong just four years ago. As failed law enforcement officials, they are a large part of the reason crime has spiked so badly in their jurisdictions. They and other Soros-backed prosecutors across America need to be fired, and the voters need to elect responsible professionals who will seek appropriate sentences for violent career offenders who pose a threat to public safety.

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