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Out-of-control judges lead to out-of-control crime

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said it best: “We are going to continue to be the brunt of every joke and attack on Fox News, and rightfully so.”

She was referring to the decisoin last month by the California Supreme Court that bail for supposedly “non-violent” offenses must be “attainable.”

That means hordes of repeat offenders are going to go free.

Drug dealers who have been arrested dozens of times; retail looting gangs that steal over and over again because they know they won’t be prosecuted; smash-and-grab petty thieves who make residents post signs in their car windows pleading for mercy; all would be eligible for easy release.

This is the worst possible outcome for a city that had been mounting a comeback.

For the past couple of years, San Francisco had been enjoying a drop in crime.

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