The left never lets a crisis go to waste, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Government officials say that those arrested could potentially bring the virus into the facility, and because of the tight confinement, it will spread quickly. Democratic politicians tell the public that prisoners must be released from prison immediately for their safety. The left ignores one key consideration: the safety of the general public. Officials downplay the type of people being released. But their words are not credible as they order police to arrest citizens, throwing them in jail for disobeying tyrannical edicts issued by governors drunk on power.
Democrats claim they are more compassionate than Republicans. Leftist politics are also spilling over into the criminal justice system, which is unhappy because justice is supposed to be blind, not partisan. Democrats say some inmates need to be released from prison, saying the inmates are at risk of contracting COVID-19. Governors have opened the doors of prison cells without considering the consequences that come with releasing a wave of hardened criminals back into society.
Their decision was based solely on liberalism, not public health. The idea that releasing violent criminals back onto the streets is not only idiotic, it is reckless, reckless, oblivious, and at best hazardous. These people serving prison sentences are there for a reason. Releasing criminals so they don’t catch the virus is beyond words.
New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, is a leader in this movement. He has allowed the release of criminals from one of New York’s most brutal and hazardous prisons, Rikers Island. Inmate Robert Pondexter was released from prison after being charged with rape due to COVID-19. Pondexter did not go out into the public eye and show his gratitude. Instead, he grabbed a woman walking down the sidewalk and dragged her into a school parking lot. Pondexter forced the victim to engage in explicit sexual activity demanded that she remove her clothes. She kicked her attacker and managed to escape. The only thing achieved by Pondexter’s release is that the victim has to live with being sexually assaulted for the rest of her life, when it could have been avoided entirely.
Cuomo cannot predict the future, but common sense and logic should be the guiding delicate as we understand that horrific attacks and violent crimes are consequenceInstead, government officials are governed by feelings and the idea that “we have to do something,” which is generally hazardous.
Governors say “if it saves one life, it’s worth it,” referring to lockdown and social distancing guidelines. Why don’t they apply this to hazardous prisoners? It’s firm to imagine that releasing criminals who are typically confined in tight quarters, using drugs, or violently assaulting individuals will leisurely the spread of the disease? Is it worth protecting the welfare of law-abiding, hard-working, tax-paying citizens? Is their physical safety irrelevant? Democrats’ policies say that those who are isolated from society are more crucial than ordinary citizens.
Cuomo claims that New York is a leader under his watch. There is nothing noble about allowing violent crime to skyrocket. There is nothing respectable about playing theater with ventilators. Cuomo does not lead New York State. He has released criminals who have reoffended and created more problems for residents.
As testing takes place in prison systems, we see that there is no justification for early release of hazardous offenders. In Ohio, 2,300 of 2,500 prisoners received test. Nearly 95 percent of those who tested positive were asymptomatic. In the prison systems of Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia, 96 percent of 3,277 inmates tested positive but showed no symptoms when infected. The virus does not affect prisoners any more than it does free citizens, according to those data.
Where is the justification for releasing criminals “for their safety” who have not served their sentence of reintegration into society? The answer is elementary: there is no reason.
There are no massive prison deaths from coronavirus. If anything, we see them being less affected by the disease.
Crime will continue to skyrocket as Democratic governors allow more and more inmates to be released from prison. But Cuomo and others don’t seem to care as they continue to push a leftist agenda during the outbreak.
There is no justification for releasing hardened criminals while citizens exercising their First Amendment right to peaceful assembly are being arrested for the same reason as COVID-19. It is unjustified and tyrannical.
John Dempsey is a graduate of American Military University and has a deep understanding of law enforcement issues and their relationship to the Constitution, society, and our culture. He has published at BearingArms.com and AmericanThinker.com. He can be followed on Twitter @John_Demp83.
