Liberal district attorneys have left America’s cities “in ruins” and would be better spent “filling ice cream cones,” according to Judge Judy.
The veteran reality TV star said the country is worse off than it was 30 years ago because “a small group of people who have very loud voices created a scenario in which bad people were rewarded.”
And he lashed out at a culture that increasingly excuses people’s behavior based on their background.
“Oh, I know how we got here,” he told Fox News Digital.
“When society started making excuses for bad behavior and reacting to crime based on those excuses, it fell apart.”
Judge Judy said “a small group of people who were very loud created a scenario in which bad people were rewarded.”
The veteran reality TV star reflected on how society had deteriorated since the start of her on-screen career 30 years ago.
Judy, whose real name is Judy Sheindlin, spoke after Portland District Attorney Mike Schmidt became the latest of liberal prosecutors elected in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement to lose their jobs.
“When you have indicted district attorneys, whose job is to do justice but keep the community safe, when you have elected district attorneys who don’t know what their job is, they should look for another job,” he said. saying.
‘Fill the ice cream cones somewhere. But don’t ruin the cities.
‘And what happened in New York City, Portland, San Francisco, there were district attorneys who didn’t know what their job was. And the cities are ruined, people are leaving.’
Robberies are up 5.2 percent in New York City so far this year and recorded hate crimes are up 11 percent.
In Portland, shoplifting crimes rose to more than 26,000 in the year through April, while prostitution arrests doubled amid an ongoing drug and homelessness crisis.
Homicides increased 35 percent in D.C. last year, while robberies increased 67 percent, and in San Francisco, District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost his job in a 2022 recall election after securing just three convictions for drugs the previous year.
The liberal prosecutor was defeated in his reelection bid in Portland last week by ‘tough on crime’ opponent Nathan Vasquez after being elected with 77 percent of the vote in 2020.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost the 2022 recall election after scoring just three drug convictions the previous year.
Sheindlin lashed out at New York’s 2019 decision to raise the minimum age at which a suspect can be tried as an adult to 18, calling it “ridiculous.”
‘If you have a family, if you have a mother who is 65 years old who is walking to the supermarket and some crazy man for no reason hits her in the head with a steel pipe and kills her, and they are 17 years old, that person should never be allowed to to walk down the street again, because society cannot take risks,” he said.
‘If I wouldn’t risk him living next to me, why would I risk him living next to you?’
“You’re as dead as if someone killed you at 18 or 17.
‘And if you’re 17 and you kill someone, you don’t belong in a youth center with 12-year-olds.
“But a very small group of people managed to prevail in New York state, for example, by raising the level of criminal liability.”
And he insisted that explanations for why a person becomes a criminal should never be confused with excuses.
“You know there’s always a reason for criminal behavior,” he said.
“I didn’t have a good education, I didn’t have two parents in the house, I didn’t have one parent in the house, there’s always a reason.”
Progressive Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx (left) was replaced in March, and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, the self-described “godfather of progressive prosecutors,” faces a tough re-election challenge from part of the hardline Republican Nathan Hochman.
You are mentally ill. That’s one reason. You took drugs, that’s one reason. You drank alcohol, your brain is fried, whatever it is.
“There is never an excuse for bad behavior.”
And he reflected on how the situation has deteriorated since he began his television career.
‘Here we are, 30 years later, and are we in a worse situation as a country, as a world, than in 1993? You bet your ass we are.
“I think we better be smarter before we get lost,” he said. ‘Permanently lost.’