National Democrats have shifted dramatically on crime over the past year based on signs that voters have tired of liberal criminal justice reform, but some of the party's state and local elected officials seemingly haven’t gotten the memo.
It’s a divide that was on stark display this week during a heated debate in Chicago’s mayoral race. One of the two Democratic candidates, Brandon Johnson, has continued to embrace progressive criminal justice policies despite the headwinds his party has faced."What we should be working towards are real violence prevention measures," Johnson said at the debate Tuesday. He has advocated more mental health facilities and youth employment programs in lieu of more aggressive policing.
The new crime law would have overhauled D.C.’s criminal code, lowering penalties for offenses such as carjacking at a time when carjackings in the city are skyrocketing. Twelve of Washington’s 13 city council members voted to override the mayor’s veto of the law. “As a Capitol Hill resident for over a decade, I can't ignore the ever-growing number of crime alerts on my Twitter feed,” Cartney McCracken, a Democratic strategist and D.C. resident, told the Washington Examiner. “I can't help but feel perplexed at the very idea of loosening the criminal code — how would that make our communities safer?”
And in Chicago, voters’ rejection of Mayor Lori Lightfoot during a primary earlier this month was widely seen as a signal that they had had enough of the public safety status quo. In Philadelphia, for example, District Attorney Larry Krasner has doubled down on progressive criminal justice policies that decline or downgrade prosecutions for many offenses. His controversial approach has coincided with a massive increase in violence, leading state Republicans to seek his impeachment.
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