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More proof that progressives are pro-crime

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It’s a story out of Austin, Texas, with clear implications for every town where the left dominates.

Austin officials last year celebrated their elimination of license-plate-reading cameras; they’ve gone quiet since an insane crime spree — three teens on a 30-hour tear involving 12 shootings and five stolen cars — ended only when they strayed into neighboring town, whose plate-readers allowed its police to nab the perps.

In other words, killing the cameras simply allowed criminals to elude the cops in precisely the way that this kind of surveillance tech is designed to defeat.

Anything that helps crimefighting annoys the left, which always whines that it’s not “data-driven” or doesn’t support “real public safety” — excuses the Austin........

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