Big City Crime Wave Impacting Progressive Jobs- Politicians Losing Their Jobs!

 

Over the past two years, Democrats who embraced a liberal criminal justice agenda at the city level have found themselves increasingly unwelcome among voters who once applauded their views.

• Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot became the latest liberal leader to discover Democratic voters have soured on the Left’s leniency on crime when she became the first mayor of her city in 40 years to lose reelection this week.
• In Atlanta, for example, former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms surprised political observers when she decided in 2021 not to run for reelection, announcing that it was “time to pass the baton on to someone else."  A crime wave in Atlanta sapped her political goodwill, however, and the race among the Democrats vying to replace her centered on which candidate was prepared to crack down more aggressively on crime.  
• In Seattle, former Mayor Jenny Durkan filed paperwork to run for reelection in early 2020.  But the violence of that summer in Seattle — and her failure to get it under control, including her description of a deadly three-week occupation of whole city blocks by protesters as a “summer of love” — eroded her credibility.  Durkan dropped out of contention after criticism of her leadership mounted, crime continued to rise, and businesses fled the city.  Her replacement, Bruce Harrell, ran on a pledge to crack down on crime. 

Liberal prosecutors have also faced a reckoning with voters.

• In San Francisco last year, voters recalled district attorney Chesa Boudin after his pledge to stop prosecuting many low-level offenses preceded a spike in crime.
• In Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, the city’s former top prosecutor, lost her reelection bid last year during the Democratic primary in part over concerns about how violent Baltimore became on her watch.  Mosby was a progressive prosecutor who campaigned on shortening sentences and declining to prosecute some types of crimes.  While she encountered an ethics scandal that caused some political headwinds, the significant increase in murders that took place every year of her tenure contributed to a perception that she had lost the ability to do her job.

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