Keith Ellison, Democrat prosecutors as defense attorneys

Keith Ellison, Minnesota's DFL Attorney General, wrote this op-ed that USA Today published. The op-ed opens by saying "Millions of people have taken to the streets demanding an end to racial injustice and mass incarceration. Now it’s clear that they’re also taking to the polls. Just last month, a reform-minded candidate for district attorney who promised to stop prosecuting many low-level crimes in Manhattan took the lead in the primaries. New York City isn't alone. Voters across the country are giving the nod to prosecutors who are pushing for an end to mass incarceration over those with a more tough-on-crime agenda."

What Mr. Ellison omits are articles like this. The money paragraphs say "Randolph alleges that on Dec. 7 2020 — the day Gascón was sworn into office — he issued directives that substantially changed the way crimes are prosecuted, including a policy that abolished the ability of prosecutors to file certain crimes against juveniles governed under California’s 'three-strikes' law."

"The directive prohibited prosecution of juveniles for more than one crime even if they committed multiple crimes against multiple victims in one incident," her lawsuit states. "Moreover, the directive prohibited charging juveniles with appropriate alternative charges when the evidence warranted it and successful prosecution would depend upon it."

These people aren't prosecutors. They're acting more like defense attorneys than prosecutors. They're acting more like the people handing out the Get-out-of-jail-free cards. Ignoring the laws passed by legislators and signed by governors isn't reform. It's negligence.

 

This is what a substance-free paragraph looks like:

Voters from communities most harmed by mass incarceration understand that short-term, purely punitive approaches to public safety – like locking up people for decades who commit crimes – may actually increase crime in the long term. They know that by disproportionately incarcerating Black and brown, mostly poor, people every year, we are also traumatizing children who are separated from their parents or loved ones.
Not prosecuting theft and other crimes leads immediately to higher crime rates. This is what happens when 'prosecutors' act like defense attorneys:

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