Recent studies support a long-standing theory connecting police protests and rising violent crime.
The father of a UCLA grad student, Brianna Kupfer, who was stabbed to death last week, is giving voice to the gut-wrenching human toll of the violent crime wave ravaging the nation — and the social and political forces enabling it.
“What’s endemic in our society right now is that everyone seems oriented on giving back rights and bestowing favor on people that rob others of their rights,” said the grieving dad on Fox News.
Brianna, a graduate student and design consultant, was found dead by a customer at the furniture store where she worked. On Wednesday, Los Angeles police identified her suspected killer, a 31-year-old career criminal named Shawn Laval Smith who was out on $1,000 bail for a misdemeanor. And many, like Brianna’s father Todd Kupfer, are tying her death to the policies of LA’s progressive DA, George Gascón, who has reduced incarceration and campaigned on no longer filing charges for offenses related to mental health, poverty, or homelessness.
[Batya Ungar-Sargon, "When Progressives Side With Criminals," The American Spectator, January 20]
