Protecting criminals

Bookworm writes about a crime epidemic in San Francisco and Oakland. There is an epidemic of car break-ins. Also,

The Bay Area had the nation’s highest rate of car theft last year — and the problem is getting worse in San Francisco, statistics show.

...Have you all heard the expression that “the fish rots from the head”? I’m guessing that some of you young’uns haven’t. It means that in an organization, if the head of that organization is corrupt, that corruption will inevitably trickle down, eventually permeating the entire organization.

Since 1989, San Francisco has been a “sanctuary city.” What this means is that it aggressively encourages lawlessness within its borders. Illegal aliens who find themselves in San Francisco are pretty much immune to any serious consequences, not just for being in the country illegally, but for any other crimes they might have committed along the way. Putting an illegal alien in the criminal justice cross hairs runs the risk that federal immigration authorities might nab that criminal and return him to his country of origin.

This is a rotten system, one that creates a protected class of criminals. Just read about Katie Steinle — her murder and the criminal “justice” travesty that followed — to understand how corrupt this system is.

The same rot is in Oakland, a city directly across the Bay from San Francisco, and a city (as one of the above articles noted) that place a close second to San Francisco when it comes to car-related crimes. It was in Oakland, just a couple of weeks ago, that the mayor broadcast an imminent ICE raid, allowing hundreds of dangerous felons to avoid being removed from Oakland’s streets.

...The entire state of California has declared itself a sanctuary state, willing to do whatever it can to prevent federal law enforcement from rounding up dangerous criminals who are in this country unlawfully. The state of California is also making best efforts to circumvent the new tax law. As written, the law no longer allows high tax states to subsidize themselves as the expense of low tax states. That’s been morally rotten for years, and California wants to violate federal law to keep the rot alive.

Read more here.