St. Louis’ new prosecutor has doubled the number of criminal prosecutions in his first three months in office, compared to his disgraced ultra-woke predecessor and this time last year.
Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, 54, replaced Democrat Kim Gardner, 48, in May after the George Soros-backed attorney resigned under pressure. Since MissouriAttorney General Andrew BaileyA Republican.
Gardner was criticized for her lax enforcement of crime that saw criminals returning to the streets of St. Louis face few penalties, even as crime increased throughout the central Midwest.
Gore was sworn in on May 31 and has already filed more than 1,400 cases in the past three months, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Kim Gardner filed only 620 during the same three-month period during her term last year.
“I don’t think there’s any magic in what we do,” Gore told the Post-Dispatch. “We simply blame violations of the law.”
Kim Gardner only filed 620 during the same three-month period during her term.
Gore was sworn in as St. Louis district attorney on May 31 and has already filed more than 1,400 cases in the past three months.
The bar graph shows that Gabe Gore doubled the number of prosecutions during his three months in office compared to Gardner during the same period during his tenure as St. Louis district attorney.
The crime-plagued city saw an increase in charges after the new circuit attorney’s office spent more time reviewing cases filed by St. Louis police and prioritizing less serious offenses that do not ‘were largely unprosecuted under Gardner – which Gore called “quality of life crimes.”
“These are things that cause people to leave town,” Gore said. “These are things that cannot be considered the cost of living somewhere.”
Gore’s goal is to eliminate the 2,000 case backlog created by Gardner during his tenure by early 2024.
One of the tactics Gore’s office uses to narrow down the list is to not add items to it. Instead, they aim to determine on the same day of arrests whether cases should be charged.
The St. Louis district attorney’s office was severely understaffed under Gardner’s leadership. When she took office there were 60 lawyers, but when she left there were only around 30 left.
Gore hired 21 new attorneys, meaning the office is still understaffed but is much better positioned to handle the high volume of cases left by his predecessor.
“We still rely on lawyers who come to work every day and do more than they should be asked to do,” Gore said. “Everyone participates and does their best.”
Gardner filed just 620 during the same three-month period last year.
“I don’t think there’s any magic in what we do,” Gore told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We simply blame violations of the law.”
Gore, the former assistant U.S. attorney, was chosen by Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson, 67, who said, “We believe Mr. Gore is a qualified and experienced leader that our great city of St. Louis has need for this new day and this historic opportunity. for Change’ at the St. Louis courthouse in May.
Gardner’s approach to crime focused on prevention, including punishing minor offenses with diversion to mental health facilities or drug treatment centers.
She pledged to hold police more accountable and free wrongly convicted detainees.
In 2019, Gardner announced an “exclusion list” listing approximately 75 St. Louis police officers who were no longer allowed to bring complaints to his office because their “integrity is compromised.”
Gore’s office is working through a backlog of outstanding charges left by Gardner’s tenure.
One of the last cases Gardner oversaw was a Cinco de Mayo shooting, for which the prosecutor declined to file charges against the female suspect due to a “lack of evidence” despite surveillance footage of the suspect brandishing a gun fire.
According to Gardner’s office, the suspect – Amber Booker, 33 – was not charged due to a “lack of evidence” and the victims’ lack of cooperation with the investigation.
The Democratic-elected prosecutor won her seat in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020.
Gardner was endorsed by billionaire George Soros and received approximately $116,000 from the Soros-backed PACS and his Vera Institute of Justice.
The Democratic-elected prosecutor won her seat in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020.
Gardner was backed by billionaire George Soros and received about $116,000 from Soros-backed PACS and his Vera Institute of Justice.
Under his leadership, murders in St. Louis reached a 50-year high and the city saw fewer and fewer crimes prosecuted.
She is one of several high-profile prosecutors working in liberal cities with Soros’ support. One study found that Soros spent at least $40 million to appoint as many as 75 prosecutors who support his left-wing agenda — either through outright donations or through political action committees.
These prosecutors removed bail laws and chose to forgo prosecutions for crimes such as theft and reckless driving, thereby giving criminals a free pass and leading to the breakdown of law and order across the United States.
Gardner had faced backlash just a year after taking office, when she indicted Gov. Eric Greitens for taking a partially nude photo of a woman without her consent.
But the charges were eventually dropped, an investigator she hired pleaded guilty in federal court to withholding documents in the case, and Gardner was reprimanded by the Missouri Supreme Court and forced to pay $750 in an ethics case for the mishandling of evidence by his office, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reports.
She later also faced criticism for her decision to charge a couple for brandishing guns at Black Lives Matter protesters.
It finally came to an end in February, when a car speeding through the city center crashed, trapping a teenage girl between two vehicles and leading to the amputation of both of her legs.
The driver of the car, Daniel Riley, remained free after the court delays, although he continued to violate his bail.
Subsequently, many of Gardner’s former allies began calling for his resignation, and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit seeking his removal.
Gardner called the suit a politically motivated attack on his office and blamed his subordinates as the spotlight turned to dismissals and delays of individual cases.
Anger over the decision ultimately led her to resign earlier this summer.
