One of the most troublesome parts of the left-wing political agenda to remake America is its deliberate effort to liberalize our criminal justice system. As part of a radical change agenda, the effort began in Georgia with an innocent-sounding, but completely misleading, plan labeled “Criminal Justice Reform.”
The plan was touted first in political circles as an effort to balance the scales of our criminal justice system. However, “criminal justice reform” was nothing more than a euphemism for freeing many of Georgia’s most violent criminal offenders. Once freed, the offenders would do what sociopathic criminals do: prey on innocent people, especially Georgia’s women, families, and children— and mostly in lower income areas.
As this idea grew, political actors with dark motives began by systematically dismantling Georgia’s cash bail system. They followed up by publicly attacking the front-line of our criminal justice system, the police.
Working as part of a larger movement that was creating social upheaval outside of Georgia, liberal political actors worked to demonize Georgia police officers. To do that, they bankrolled a burned-out Fulton County rogue district attorney who arrested several police officers without legal probable cause. Although the arrests were highly publicized amid politically-motivated demonstrations and riots, charges against those officers were eventually dismissed. But the damage was done. They had demonized Georgia police officers who were only doing their difficult job protecting and serving the public.
By purposefully stoking painful racial divisions in Georgia, the criminal justice reform movement morphed into its present form which surreptitiously funds the campaigns of more rogue district attorneys. There are now at least five in Georgia who strategically refuse to prosecute many serious crimes and they use the powers of their office to sharply reduce sentences for violent criminal offenders already in the system.
Most mainstream Georgia DAs, including those with divergent but legitimate ideas about improving criminal justice, operate sincerely and in good faith. They perform their duties in conformance with their oaths of office and support the noble tenets of the legal profession. Conversely, the rogue ones are activists clearly intent on using radical means to dismantle the criminal justice system as we know it. At the behest of their nefarious political benefactors, they arrange for the worst-of-the-worst career criminals to get back on the streets set the stage for unspeakable violence often committed by gang members.
In fact, gangs have become our predominant violent crime problem throughout the state. To say rogue DAs are unethical is an understatement. Armed with impunity and the bankrolls of their political masters, these DAs smirk at the outcries of horrified families of crime victims. They ignore the fact that to become a district attorney in the first place with their hand on a Bible, they solemnly swear to uphold the constitution and laws of the state to the best of their ability. They proceed to do just the opposite. They grotesquely violate their oaths of office and the public’s trust, not to mention the core principles of the legal profession as they knowingly allow themselves to be political operatives. They are foot soldiers in a bloody ideological battle.
So, what recourse does the law-abiding public have against rogue district attorneys? Sadly, very little. One would think respective bar associations would regulate their own members and act against the law licenses of rogue attorneys. But that simply does not happen. In other states, groups of citizens have launched petitions and recall drives, but most of them become delayed and overpowered by well-funded political puppeteers.
Thus, the only real recourse the public has is at the ballot box. Unfortunately, a lot of violence, mayhem and assorted tragedies can occur before rogue district attorneys are ultimately voted out of office. Like democracy itself, at its level best, our criminal justice system has flaws and blemishes. Nevertheless, it is still the best system there ever was for protecting Georgia’s law-abiding public from brutal random attacks by sociopathic career criminals. Yes, the system needs improvement, but not at the cost of allowing it to be destroyed from within. Hopefully, present, and future rogue District Attorneys will someday learn from an old saying; “the law is a jealous mistress.”
Let’s hope the General Assembly can craft legislation to rein the rogues in.
During his law enforcement career, Dan Flynn served as the police chief of Savannah and Marietta.
