The Rogue-Prosecutor Threat to the Rule of Law

There’s a strange and disturbing trend in American criminal justice: prosecutors who are more solicitous of criminals than their victims and the people who elected them.

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Clockwise, from left to right: Chesa Boudin, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, and Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon

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Rogue Prosecutors: How Radical Soros Lawyers Are Destroying America’s Communities, by Zack Smith and Charles D. Stimson (Bombardier Books, 256 pages, $19.99)

The best thing about Zack Smith and Charles D. Stimson’s Rogue Prosecutors is that it presents a comprehensive examination of the progressive-prosecutor movement in the United States. This book makes clear that nationally based leftist organizations, backed by generous financial contributions from George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, and Patty Quillin, wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings (didn’t know about the last two, right?), are driving a highly focused ideological mission to radically alter the criminal-justice system. Smith and Stimson have exposed a rather secretive national campaign to upend traditional criminal prosecution in the United States. As they demonstrate, this campaign is a real threat to public safety — perhaps even, as they say, “a cancer on the body politic.”

Barry Latzer

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Barry Latzer

Barry Latzer is an emeritus professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His latest book is The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public.

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