(John Ransom, Headline USA) Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones said that treating criminals as if they are victims of society is responsible for the shooting deaths that killed five in Sacramento.
“Every crime has a victim and these victims are racking up, sometimes minorly and sometimes catastrophically, like we saw in Sacramento [on April 3],” Jones said about the shooting that killed five and left a dozen injured, according to Fox News.
Smiley Martin, 27, and his 26-year-old brother Dandrae Martin were both charged in the deadly mass shooting that Jones was referring to, after Smiley was let out of prison after serving just half of a 10-year term for assaulting his girlfriend, said KRCA.
@thespybrief Sacto shooter, Smiley Martin, 27, on release from prison in Feb after serving < 1/2 of a 10-yr sentence for punching & whipping his gf w/a belt while she was hiding in her closet. Homicides ^ 31% in Sacto & ^ 17% in 4 other maj CA cities.https://t.co/00pTgauZEY
— Stacey Zinke (@StacezMcKee) April 11, 2022
Jones blamed the shooting on reform laws that allow criminals, who clearly are antisocial dangers to society, out of jail early to inflict more mayhem on the real victims, the innocent victims who die and are injured.
“This is the latest, but it unfortunately won’t be the last. Because if we don’t change the way California and the rest of this nation treats criminals… then this is only going to be a continuing trend,” added Jones, blaming the woke laws and criminal justice reform imposed by progressive prosecutors, in part supported by billionaire George Soros.
Four wealthy California donors got together to make donations in recent elections that have registered a seismic shift in criminal justice measures in California, which now substitutes leniency for the safety of society.
“The four donors — Patty Quillin, Quinn Delaney, Elizabeth Simons and Kaitlyn Krieger — channeled $22 million toward criminal justice ballot measures and allied candidates the previous two years, and their campaign contributions have steadily increased each election cycle,” said Politico.
The exception, ionically, has been in Sacramento where the local prosecutor has slammed efforts by progressives to adulterate justice in local communities.
“This is just yet another example of the chaos that we’re seeing here in California and the violence,” Sacramento County district attorney Anne Marie Schubert said, according to Law Enforcement Today.
“And it’s not just that, it’s the fact that we’ve got a tsunami of poor public policies, and you’ve got rogue prosecutors that are not holding people accountable to the fullest extent of the law that we can,” Schubert added.
The Sacramento County Prosecutor’s office had predicted the very scenario that eventually played out in the Smiley Martin case.
“Martin has demonstrated repeatedly that he cannot follow the laws, or conditions the court places on him,” Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Danielle Abildgaard wrote in a letter opposing his release last year.
“His history indicates that he will pursue his own personal agenda regardless of the consequences and regulatory restraints placed upon him.”
