Let the punishment fit the crime? Eff that ess! Better to give 'em a Get Out Of Jail Free card. A de-facto decriminalization of major crimes - Simple slaps on the wrist outta deter 'em when they're out on the streets - Yeah, that's the ticket!
Fury As Minneapolis DA Pitches Probation Over Incarceration For Rapists, Murderers
Minneapolis’ progressive district attorney is under fire for her woke policies that allow accused rapists, pedophiles and killers to stay free — with even Minnesota’s George Soros-backed attorney general accusing her of taking it too far.
Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty, 59, took office in January promising to “deliver more safety and more justice” to the community.
Since then, however, she has horrified local families and officials by pushing for suspects in even the most serious crimes to get probation in an effort to keep them out of prison, according to the Star Tribune.
Veteran prosecutor Catherine Markey was only told moments before a plea hearing that the DA was only seeking probation for one of the teens involved in the 2019 carjacking that killed her son, Stephen Markey.
“It’s a trend definitely because of Mary Moriarty,” the former prosecutor told the paper of those accused of serious crimes getting slap-on-the-wrist deals.
“She’s still playing public defender — the only thing is, that’s not her role anymore,” Markey said of the city’s chief prosecutor.
Moriarty faced outrage from her very first week in office, when she dropped the charges against a 35-year-old man accused of raping a teen girl due to attorney misconduct, CBS News reported at the time.
Moriarty said then that she was “deeply remorseful and apologetic” to the alleged victim, who endured taxing testimony before the charges were dismissed, the outlet noted.
Similarly, the case of a 15-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a relative for three years prompted prosecutor Raina Urton to remove herself from the case after the new administration pushed her to seek probation instead of prison for the defendant, the outlet said.
“She walked away because she knows what happened was wrong,” the teen’s mother said of Urton.
“She was fighting for us. She was fighting for our daughter.”
Having campaigned on increasing rehabilitation as opposed to incarceration, Moriarty dismisses the anger as the expected cost of change.
“I think it takes a lot of courage actually to act upon what you say you’re going to do,” she told the Star Tribune.
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