The 2022 Referendum on Crime – WSJ

While most of the press focuses on the midterm referendum on Joe Biden, across the country this election season is also shaping up as a check on the reform prosecutors responsible for surging crime. Voters will take part in more than 2,000 elections for prosecutor and sheriff, and the campaigns are proving unusually hot.

They also look to be a bust for a progressive prosecutorial movement that hoped to use this year to entrench itself in jurisdictions across the country. Decarceration candidates have flooded primaries, many backed by far-left groups calling for an end to prosecutions. They aren t finding much success, as Democratic and Republican voters alike grow sick of rising crime. San Francisco s ouster last month of District Attorney Chesa Boudin may prove the norm rather than the exception.

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