Many district attorney elections across the country are taking place this year against the backdrop of rising crime, pushing candidates in even some liberal enclaves to embrace more aggressive law enforcement stances.
While typically uneventful affairs, district attorney races have attracted increasing attention in recent years thanks in large part to the efforts of liberal groups to promote progressive prosecutors. Liberal donor George Soros has made headlines for pouring millions of dollars into high-profile district attorney races won by candidates who support decriminalizing lower-level offenses and lighter sentences for a range of crimes.Now, some races are becoming more competitive and partisan affairs.
One of the first recipients of Soros’s largesse, Mosby had presided over a sharp increase in crime in Baltimore as she moved to decriminalize drug and prostitution offenses. Although she faced criminal charges this year over problems with a personal loan application, Bates said voters “hardly ever” mentioned her controversies.“People are afraid to come out of their house. People are afraid of the crime,“ Bates said after winning in July.
Chris Stanford campaigned for the top prosecutor job in Warren and Van Buren counties on pledges to pursue harsher charges against criminals. “People that really need the chance so they don’t cloud their future,” Grubb said earlier this year about the prosecution deferment agreements he approved. “That’s what I ran on, that we would not prosecute low-level crimes and ruin people’s ability to get jobs.
During the campaign, he called the leaders of the neighboring county, which includes Portland, “crazy” for allowing crime to flourish and accused its leaders of having “ruined the public safety system” of the county. Republican Kevin Calvey said he will “put the focus back on public safety, not on political vendettas,” and vowed to crack down on crime. Democrat Vicki Behenna, former executive director of the Oklahoma Innocence Project, has touted her experience but has not been as strident on the need to go after criminals.
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