The point I’ve been making for all too long now is that the problem is not on the enforcement end, it’s at the legal and penal levels. The police weren’t defunded so much as the prisons were opened up. And at the federal level, even at the border, arrests kept being made and then going nowhere.
Law enforcement has for the most part been doing its job. Judges, prosecutors and jurors are another matter.
The prosecutions in L.A. and D.C. have not been going well. It’s hard to say how much of the L.A. problem is the fault of Bill Essayli who promised more than he could deliver and how much of it is a system that simply refuses to do its job.
After around an hour, an LA jury freed a protester who had gone around shaking his fists, shouting racial slurs and eventually allegedly assaulted a federal officer to protest the crackdown on illegal aliens.
Would there have been an LA jury that would have convicted him? Debatable. One juror putting politics over duty is enough to sabotage a case. And while juries have traditionally been the least political and the most dutiful parts of the system, that too is beginning to change.
How do you have trials when the judges and jurors can’t be trusted?
