As of mid-summer 2020, over 90,000 criminals had been released from American prisons so as to spare them the threat of Covid contagion.
In Washington D.C. on July 4, 11 year old Davon McNeal took a stray bullet to the head as he was on his way to an anti-violence barbecue with his family. Four young Black men were ultimately charged with the outbreak of violence which led to his death, all of them having been convicted of crimes involving guns in the recent past. Indeed one of them, Christian Wingfield, had been released from a D.C. jail less than 2 weeks earlier due to the Covid situation.
I don’t know how many of the over 90,000 recently released criminals had been convicted of violent crimes, but I would argue that those who were ought to have stayed in jail whatever the threat to their health. I would argue that when you commit such a crime you automatically forfeit certain “rights.” I would argue that the threat which their release poses to the general public ought to utterly supersede concern for their welfare. I would argue that whereas it is compassion that leads one to grieve for an innocent young Black boy and his parents who will no doubt lament his death for the rest of their lives, it is sheer stupidity to release vicious animals back into society without taking into account the predictable repercussions of their release. I would argue that this disconnect from Reality pervades what “progressives” like to cite as their saintly devotion to empathy.
On Sunday, July 12, at a late night summer barbecue near a park in Brooklyn N.Y., four people were shot by armed intruders, a one year old child among them. He would die shortly thereafter. There were 15 shootings in 15 hours in various Black neighborhoods throughout the N.Y. City area that weekend. One wonders how many of the perpetrators had been released from prison for reasons of “compassion.”
However prone to abuse the police forces of America might be, the Leftist motion to de-fund them is demonstrably absurd. Most Black Americans agree. However Draconian the U.S. legal system in certain of its aspects, the policy of releasing violent criminals into mainstream society out of concern for their health manifests a distinct lack of concern for those very citizens the Law is supposed to protect. Anyone of common sense must agree. I am certain Pamela Geller does.
Call me a monster, but if confronted with the options of allowing the deaths of five individuals convicted of violent crimes or that of one guilty of no crime whatsoever, I would choose the former. It’s a matter of morality.