Mayor Michelle Wu, welcoming to criminals.
Do your hobbies include shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, and breaking and entering? Then head to Boston, my friend, as Mayor Michelle Wu has declared that those activities should not be prosecuted!
From NY Post:
“Boston Mayor Michelle Wu advocated a soft-on-crime agenda by pushing to abolish the gang registry and arguing that criminal behavior – such as theft – should not be prosecuted.
Prior to being elected mayor, Wu filled out the “2021 Boston Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire” from Progressive Massachusetts, a 501c4 nonprofit organization that tracks and ranks how progressive elected officials are.
According to its website, the group “intends to transform Massachusetts into a bold laboratory for progressive state initiatives.”
In the document, Wu outlined her most progressive commitments, including her support for noncitizens voting in Boston’s local elections.
The mayor was asked, “Do you support shuttering the Boston Police gang database?”
She answered, “Yes.”
Then, Wu was asked whether she supported a do-not-prosecute list enacted by the former Suffolk County district attorney, Rachael Rollins. DA Rollins enacted the policy memo identifying more than a dozen charges she said should be declined for prosecution.
Those crimes included shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended license, breaking and entering with property damage, wanton and malicious destruction of property, threats, minor in possession of alcohol, marijuana possession, possession with intent to distribute, non-marijuana drug possession.
The DA was later brought into the Biden administration, before resigning after an ethics probe found that Rollins committed “egregious” ethical violations and “abuse of power.”
“Do you support the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s do-not-prosecute list and expanded approach to dealing with such low-level offenses? YES/ NO?” Progressive Mass asked. “Yes,” Wu responded.
Wu also promised to advocate for reallocating some of the police’s budget towards other city priorities as mayor. The mayor said she believes law enforcement should be “demilitariz[ed].”
Wu said police should not have the ability to use tear gas, rubber bullets, and attack dogs.“
Read the whole story here.
Boston, y’all about to find out the hard way:
DCG
I confess to my confusion: Do Democrat candidates all over this country seek & expect to be elected by lowest common denominator among us? The criminal? The illegal? The cheaters & lowest/least able/ most evil/ most grifting among us? Evidently. This is to whom they openly pander. This element is our “new world.” “Escape From New York” was an old movie of decades ago that has come to pass in our present reality through not only New York, but all our major Democrat cities in this country: these are millstones around the neck of the decency of the USA, dragging it under & into the netherworld of debauchery & banana Republicanism.
What to do? You get what you vote for. Deal w/it then. Vote Red. Or, move out (to a RED place) & allow those Blue places to descend into their own desperate dependence upon Federal life support while you enjoy nice neighbors, decent schools, cheaper foods & gas, better civic management, less local taxes, nicer lives in Red states. This is not my mantra …this is what is happening in America today (& for the last yrs.) Don’t just depend on my opinion…go to something simple like the stats fr moving companies or U-Haul: every yr they publish the stats abt the droves moving out of CA & NY, for instance…to Texas & Florida etc…remember, numbers don’t lie. People do.
Sad to have to declare petty crimes are legal to get elected.
This shows you all you need to know move out of blue areas while you can…
The Left, as exemplified by this mayor, are at best mentally ill. I believe they are demon-possessed.
There is little doubt but what government officials such as this are among Satan’s minions, and yes they certainly are mentally ill. To onlookers, this is just beyond what we can accept as being reasonable.
Trouble is, they never rob, rape or kill those who promote this garbage.
. . . and that is exactly where the criminal behavior should start, but somehow it escapes them and the innocent are preyed upon.
I was absolutely horrified by this article. This Progressive mantra is a plague on the citizens of our nation. The innocent will suffer due to this stupidity.
It’s worse than you mignt think. If a Massachusetts shop owner gets into a scuffle with a thief, it will be the shop owner who is most likely to be charged with assault. There even have been instances where thieves have sued their victims saying they were injured by the shop owner
during the robbery.