America’s cities are in crisis.
From Washington to Chicago to Portland, Americans are fearful and fed up. Carjackings in broad daylight. Smash-and-grab robberies. Terror in train stations. For too long, soft-on-crime policies have turned our once great urban centers into a wasteland of failed ideology.
What America needs now is clear-eyed leadership — the kind that values compassion for victims and consequences for the violent. That’s the leadership Pam Bondi is delivering at the Department of Justice.
Across the country, prosecutors have promised reform but delivered chaos. They’ve adopted cashless bail, declined to prosecute repeat offenders, used diversion programs to avoid jail for the violent and abandoned the police.
Unfortunately, this ill-guided, criminal-first movement also includes progressive judges and politicians, such as Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, who joked about murdering the former speaker of the Virginia House, Todd Gilbert, a Republican. Or U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, who sentenced the attempted assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to only eight years, when the Department of Justice score was 30 years.