King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay complains that putting criminals in jail is unrealistic because our criminal legal systems are at a 'breaking point.' He hopes you don't realize he's one of the local radicals pushing to starve the criminal justice system of resources.
County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay speaks to grant recipients following the press event at Garfield Community Center, located in his Council District.
Zahilay’s editorial offers a laundry list of complaints about a lack of resources within King County’s criminal legal system. There’s a backlog of cases because Zahilay and other radicals favored criminal justice reforms that kept criminals out of jail to continue to re-offend while inspiring a culture of lawlessness that’s since spiraled out of control.
He’s not arguing we shouldn’t jail some teen who steals a Butterfinger from a 7-Eleven. We don’t jail them at all. He’s arguing that the lowlife driving a car into a pot shop to steal weed and bongs or a trio of thieves breaking into a family restaurant to steal cash and booze should get out of prosecution.
“There exists a pervasive narrative that the public safety crisis could be solved if local governments just prosecuted and jailed more people for property and drug offenses. If we were ‘tougher on crime,’ some say, these problems would go away. The individuals who push such ideas, however, have never uttered a sensible plan for how to increase prosecution and incarceration in our current reality,” he says.
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