Midwest
GOP crime policies to restore safety to Black communities failed by Dems: Georgia AG
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CHICAGO – Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has a simple solution for blue cities fed up with violence and thieves: enforce the law, lock up criminals and keep American citizens and their businesses safe from crime.
“Elections have consequences,” he told Fox News Digital as he ripped Vice President Harris as the “patron saint of leftist prosecutors” while slamming progressive crime policies that have failed the communities they purport to benefit.
“She was for defund the police, sanctuary cities, cashless bail,” he said.
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Republicans are ramping up their election messaging on crime and law enforcement support. (Getty Images)
Harris, a former California attorney general who touts her past as a prosecutor on the campaign trail, has also publicly supported bail funds that help get criminal defendants out of jail when they are held on bail. Her office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“All the DAs that we’ve seen around the country, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, where she was a DA, to St. Louis and even in our state in Athens and even in Atlanta, Georgia … she is the model for what they really aspired to,” Carr told Fox News Digital. “And that is the new criminal justice reform, which is don’t enforce the law.”
He added the past few years of such policies have amounted to “a roadmap for higher crime.”
In Athens, a college town known for the University of Georgia and its football team, leftist policies caused a nightmare earlier this year when a violent illegal immigrant was accused of abducting and murdering nursing student Laken Riley as she jogged in a park on campus. Incensed residents blasted local officials for espousing “sanctuary” policies during a news briefing after her death.
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Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Harris is shown with President Biden at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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“Look at the communities that are most often impacted by this violent crime,” he told Fox News Digital. “It’s the communities that Democrats and leftists purport to want to protect, but instead it’s actually conservatives and Republicans that are doing the things to keep people safe. I think that’s critically important.“
Chicago, host city of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, has a population one-third the size of New York City yet outpaces it in homicides, police statistics show.
“You can either go down one path where you ignore the law, you avoid the law, crime goes up, or you can enforce the laws,” he said. “And you’re seeing exactly what’s happening.”
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Pro-Hamas demonstrators clash with police in front of the Israeli Consulate in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. The protests coincided with the Democratic National Convention in the Windy City. (Fox News Digital)
It’s a move that police organizations have been seeking for years: undo the bail reforms that let repeat offenders out on the streets almost immediately so they can re-offend. That lack of consequences, combined with leftist prosecutors’ reluctance to charge suspects to the fullest extent of the law, has battered police morale around the country, leading cities to struggle with hiring and retention.
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Former Chicago Police Chief Gene Roy told Fox News Digital this week that the city police roster has thousands of vacancies.
Democrat elites have been criticized as entirely removed from the reality of Chicago crime as they hold the convention just blocks from where a 7-year-old boy, Jai’Mani Rivera, was gunned down earlier this year. The suspect could have been behind bars but was freed on home supervision, which he allegedly ignored.
Even understaffed, Chicago police deftly handled anti-Israel protests outside the country’s Chicago consulate on Tuesday night, gently corralling rowdy protesters until, after warning them to disperse, they made about 70 arrests when protesters refused to go home.
DEMONSTRATORS SHOUT ‘F— YOU’ AT CHICAGO POLICE, MORE THAN 70 ARRESTED ON 2ND NIGHT OF DNC
Carr said Chicago has historically been one of the country’s great cities. But in recent years, as “an incubator of these leftist policies,” it’s been plagued by gun violence, robberies, carjackings and population loss.
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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is speaking out against progressive prosecutors who he says are hurting the very communities that they claim to champion. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/File)
“I think it’s absolutely ironic that the Democrats have gone to Chicago, which now continues to elect folks that just don’t believe in the rule of law, don’t believe in enforcing the law – but then also some of the security measures that they’ve taken to put walls around the convention center,” he said. “When the border is not secure, and they fought any conversation about walls or more safety in our southern border.”
Carr is also a proponent of the Protecting Americans Action Fund, which was set up to counter the financial support that left-wing donors like billionaire George Soros have given to progressive prosecutor campaigns around the country, resulting in DA offices run by Los Angeles’ George Gascon, Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg and Chicago’s Kim Foxx.
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Detroit, MI
Kwame Kilpatrick delivers speech at annual Oakland County GOP dinner
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Milwaukee, WI
MLB Contender: Nobody Talks About The Surging Milwaukee Brewers
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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JULY 28: Jackson Chourio #11 of the Milwaukee Brewers reacts after hitting a … [+]
The Milwaukee Brewers are one of the most underrated teams in Major League Baseball.
The Brewers are running away with the National League Central Division.
The Brewers have a commanding game lead in their division, even with their best player on the Injured List.
All Star Christian Yelich, 32, is now recovering from successful back surgery.
At the time of his surgery, Yelich was hitting .315/.406/.504.,909, with 12 doubles, three triples, 11 homers, and 42 RBIs in 315 games.
Yelich’s barking back allowed him only 315 plate appearances this season, but he was a catalyst in the Brewers lineup.
But the Brewers might be the Rodney Dangerfield of MLB. It doesn’t seem they get the respect they are due.
Social Media conversations usually include the Dodgers, the Yankees, the Orioles, the Astros, the Phillies, and other high profile teams. It seems to this writer that the Brewers are often an afterthought.
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Plenty Of Firepower:
Even with Yelich on the sidelines, the Brewers offense remains plenty dangerous.
The Brewers hit for average, hit for power, and are third in Major League Baseball, with 161 stolen bases.
The Brewers find a way to get on base, steal second, possibly steal third, and score.
It seems a different Brewer hitter contributes on a daily basis. Someone steps up every night.
Shortstop Willie Adames, who can become a free agent following this season, leads the team in home runs, with 22, and 85 RBIs. A shortstop with that type of power and speed is a true plus to any offense.
All Star catcher William Contreras contributes from a position not normally known for offensive production. However, Contreras has a rare combination of power and a very good hitting tool, which results in an excellent batting average.
Second baseman Brice Turang, 24, has had a superb season. He leads the team in stolen bases, with 37. Turang was a 1st round Brewers draft pick in 2018.
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Two Budding MLB Stars:
Without Yelich in the lineup, two young Brewers have continued to step up and help lead the charge.
Jackson Chourio, still only 20, is a very legitimate candidate for National League Rookie of the Year.
Chourio makes excellent contact, has very good speed, and can hit the ball out of any park.
Chourio signed an 8-year, $82 million contract with Milwaukee that takes him through 2032.
To date, Chourio is hitting .274. He went 4-for-5 in the team’s 10-6 extra inning loss to the St. Louis Cardinals August 21. He stole his 18 base in the game.
The Brewers traded their right-handed pitching ace, Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles in February 2024. In return, the Brewers received left-handed pitcher DL Hall, and infielder, Joey Ortiz.
To this old scout, Ortiz, 26, has stardom written all over himself.
He can become a consequential part of future Brewers clubs.
A right-handed hitter, it’s possible Ortiz will assume the starting shortstop position if Willie Adames leaves via free agency.
Using a sweet, right-handed swing, Ortiz makes this happen. He gets big hits at big moments.
So far this season, Ortiz is hitting .248, but he is gaining experience and becoming a very important component of the winning Brewers team.
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Outstanding Brewers Pitching:
It wasn’t easy to trade Burnes, who can become a free agent after this season. However, other Brewers pitchers have stepped up.
A rotation that normally includes right-handers Freddy Peralta, Colin Rea, Frankie Montas, Tobias Myers, and Aaron Civale, has been efficient, and relatively effective.
There are no real stars among the group. While Peralta had once been viewed as well above average, he has had some good moments, and bad.
Pitchers Robert Gasser (Tommy John surgery), Wade Miley (Tommy John surgery), and Brandon Woodruff (shoulder surgery), are all on the Brewers injured list.
The Brewers bullpen has been outstanding.
If the starters can give the team five or six innings, the pen is very credible in holding down the opposition.
Returning from injury himself, closer Devin Williams is almost automatic. He took over the 9th inning when the Brewers traded All Star Josh Hader. William has been terrific.
Williams did have a rough outing August 21, blowing a 9th inning save in the tough loss to St. Louis.
Lefties Jered Koenig, and Bryan Hudson, and right-handers Bryan Hudson and Joel Payamps have been very, very efficient in setting-up Williams.
The Brewers high-leverage relievers have been a major contributor to the team’s amazing success.
Right-handers Nick Mears, Elvis Peguero, Bryan Wison, and Joe Ross complete the pen.
Conclusions:
To this writer, the Milwaukee Brewers have such a well-balanced team, they can give the Dodgers and Phillies, and any other National League contender a run for their money in the National League pennant chase.
Minneapolis, MN
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