Do you do find that . Charles not just those we disagree with but someone separately funded by Political Action committees, by george soros or others, in that orbit. There is around 75 around the country. I mean 60 or 70 or 80 of the money they have came directly from those pacs. A couple things you look at in your book include Larry Krasner, philadelphia, kim fox in chicago. If voters did not want them in office, they would not be in office, when they . That is right. This is a movement that began in 2016 to convince people they needed to reimagine the criminal Justice System. The voters bought into that. I think we are all for criminal justice reform. But what happened is voters in these mainly blue cities have voted people into office. You win the primary, you pretty much win the general election. You see voters in San Francisco reject there is a year ago because of his procriminal policies. You see kim gardner in st. Louis and others resign in disgrace. You see Marilyn Mosby in baltimore lose her primary. What is the Common Thread . Crime exploded in their cities. The people who voted for these people decided this is a mistake because we all deserve our Public Safety privilege. That is how these people get voted out of office. Peter im curious with your view of a road prosecutor o ogue prosecutor. Charles they refused to investigate almost all up specific levels of crime. They dont send any juveniles, especially violent juveniles, to court. Let people out the day they are arrested. They will not allow you to charge multiple crimes. They are linked to focus on one charge only, even though they may have committed multiple crimes. The list goes on and on. We detail them excruciatingly carefully in the book. When you extend the signal to people in your city that we will not prosecute these crimes, people will commit more crimes. That is what is happening. Peter what do you think the motives are of george soros prosecuting this . Charles i dont know if george soros those what is happening but the movement knows. They are bold and brave about telling people exactly what they believe. They believe the entire criminal Justice System is systematically racist and the only way to change this is to dismantle and reverse engineer the criminal Justice System as we know it. I have been a judge, defense attorney and prosecutor. You want to harm charge an ethical prosecutor against a hard charge greater defense attorney and neutral judge try in front of a jury of peers. But they are replacing prosecutors with pro criminal people. Peter when you hear the term systemic racism, what does that mean . Charles it means they believe, as it is a sincere belief a lot of people on the left believe a procriminal soros backed thing. They believe because we had sin of slavery in our country that we still live under the negative impacts of that, and that prisons today are modernday slavery limitations. Those are their words, not mine. They believe if you sentence a criminal, especially an africanamerican, that you are resentencing them to slavery. Mind you, there is the criminal Justice System in the country. There is 18,000 police departments, and many jails. You will see differences in different counties in the same state. So there are systems. Peter in your view, is there any legitimacy to their argument . Charles i think there is if it was 50 years ago or 40 years ago by two not think there is any legitimacy at all. If there racist . Yes, black, white, brown. Is there issues in the Justice System . Yes, but it is people and the system itself is not racist. Peter one of the things you big bring out in your book as more people are killed in chicago in one or two years they were killed in afghanistan in 20 years. Charles it is sad. If you look at certain subsections of the city, it is more dangerous to be on the streets of chicago at any given weekend then it was at the height of the war in afghanistan. It is literally a war zone. It did not have to happen because crime rates have been going down for 30 years and incarcerations down since 2008. The negative impact of these programmer policies are killing black and brown people by the score. They are telling the very people they claim to care most about. Peter that is one of the things you argue. That these rogue prosecutors are victimizing minorities. Charles and that is why they have been voted out of office in San Francisco. I think that is the reason kim fox announced she will not run for reelection because chicago is a war zone. Philadelphia. One of the things we trace in this book is we looked at the fiveyear average of crimes before these prosecutors were elected in 2016, 2017 and 2018, before the pandemic. Then we look at their time in office. Crimes have exploded. Murderers, carjackings, board. They did not go up infinite simile, they quadrupled infinitesimally, they quadrupled. Peter can carjackings affect the amount of murders . Charles absolutely. The ingenious is they realize it is the d. A. The das the criminal justice keeper. Not the mayor or the city council. Not the governor. She and she alone decides who gets prosecuted and who does not. Who has held accountable and who does not. Before Larry Krasner came to office, people were being held accountable for crimes. Before he came to office, people who were felons and caught with guns a big problem in a lot of cities, were held accountable and prosecuted. Larry krasner stated publicly that if you are caught as a felon with a gun, it is not a crime. Peter Charles Stimson, a tweet. Is there a place to go that lists these prosecutors . Or what is the best way to go place to go to find these prosecutors before voting for them . This is not a left or right they are red versus blue thing. It is a democrat versus the it is a person thing. I hope he and others buy the book because we identify them in our book. We also identified the language and the pull test and phrases this movement uses. To explain how if you want to figure out who to vote for, to make sure you get a line order prosecutor, because we do not care if they are democrat or republican. There are terrific democratic prosecutors. Read their statements. Peter Charles Stimson served as a navy jack officer for 30 years and served for the district of columbia during the george bush administration. Charles the george w. Bush administration. Peter and is currently with the heritage foundation. In farmington, ohio. Diane. Caller i am a 70yearold white woman and i see prejudice every day still. Even as you were saying in the legal field. It is prominent still. In the state of ohio, we have a lots of White Supremacists and no one is working on that. They are working more on the carjackings. Yes, that is not good. But this White Supremacy is even worse. Thank you. Peter what is your response . Charles i agree that White Supremacy or any ethics supremacy is despicable. But it is fortunately a very small minority of people. My point throughout the book is if you look at the criminal rules and procedures and look at the Supreme Court and state Supreme Court decisions, which have eradicated the illegal use of race and past practices that were despicable, especially in the software they punished black people often times for no reason, that is not still exist around the country. That is why i said there are racists. But fortunately, it is not big into the criminal Justice System. A lot of discussion about cash bonds, what peter a lot of discussion about cash bonds. Why does it matter . Charles when someone commits a Violent Crime, you have to have some way of not allowing them to go back into the Community Without some safety precaution. Cash bail or cash bond is a way of saying, if you have committed a Violent Crime, and you do not have a past criminal record, but we want to ensure you show up for your next court date, you have to put 10 of 50,000 or 100,000. If you cannot, you will have to remain in jail until trial. Some states have eliminated cash bond or send you cannot even take into account the past dangers or criminal record of past felons. New york has done that. Cash bail where bond is a good idea. A long time ago, cash bond was used in a discriminatory way based on a persons color of their skin which is very wrong. That is why we have built schedules, it says if you are charged with this crime, regardless of your race, you would get this cash bail if you get charged this, you get this cash bail you have to post 10 of the bond next call is thomas in houston, good afternoon, welcome to book tv. Caller listen, i believe in argon deaths for gun deaths in our children, we are part of the minor crimes, and we are keeping them in jail, like you said with a cash bond, they cannot afford the money, they stay in jail for months, overcrowded jails are ready, and they lose their jobs. Then what . Peter people use guns for crimes. Charles easiest way to get way of gun crimes is to prosecute them when they use a gun or prosecute felons in position of a handgun, we have a Violent Crime problem in this country. We had more murders last year