Besides the country’s rightward shift in the 2024 presidential race, tough wins on crime and losses on “criminal justice reform” have been the biggest stories of the election cycle. California’s Proposition 36 was the most high-profile ballot proposal in the country, promising to overturn the 2014 proposition that reduced criminal penalties for theft and burglary. Prop 36 do what serial shoplifting or carjacking a felony, increases criminal penalties for theft, allows people with multiple drug offenses to be charged with “treatment-related offenses,” and allows felony charges for fentanyl dealers.

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Those once-common-sense ideas have been swept aside in California over the past decade as state Democrats have focused on emptying prisons, regardless of the crimes committed by inmates or the danger they pose to the public. Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) opposed Proposition 36, but could not muster any enthusiasm to campaign against it. Vice President Kamala Harris, who played a centrist former prosecutor while trying to become president, never disclosure how he voted on the measure (meaning he voted against it because it was extremely popular in the polls).

Despite California’s notoriously slow ballot counting, Prop 36 was confirmed to have passed on election night. With 83% of the votes counted a week after the election, 69 percent of Californians voted to approve Proposition 36, which has the most support of any state ballot measure.

California wasn’t the only place where voters supported tougher restrictions on crime. In Arizona, voters approved Proposition 313, which would ask a sentence of life without parole for offenders convicted of a Class 2 felony for child sex trafficking. Also, Arizonans approved Proposition 314, which created a new crime for sales of fentanyl that resulted in death and criminalized illegal immigrants who used false information to apply for benefits or employment in the state.

Meanwhile, the Colorado Democrat called off the 2020 “police defunding” drive as Coloradoans voted in favor of a ballot measure proposal to provide $350 million to help state police departments train and retain police officers. The proposal even explicitly banned those funds from being used “for other human service functions,” such as the “social workers” that anti-police activists want to take over from more police functions. Colorado voters supported the measure over the objections of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, and they also grew up the time violent felons must serve before becoming eligible for parole under another ballot measure.

Ballot measures weren’t the only way voters tried to restore order to their communities. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon was one of the top defense attorneys to occupy the district attorney’s office in the country. Gascon’s greatest hits include UNLEASHING violent criminals who continued to kill police officers trying to parole criminals without informing victims or their families and not using gun or gang enhancement in sentencing violent criminals as it would be “racist”. Before the election, Gascon sought to cement his status as a model criminal justice reformer by trying to free the infamous Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Gascon survived a recall attempt only because nearly 200,000 signatures were declared invalid. On election night, in an explosion, Gascon was defeated by Nathan Hochman with 20 points and his reign of terror ended. Hochman served in former President George W. Bush’s administration and is the GOP’s attorney general nominee in 2022. Crime has become so bad in Los Angeles that even Democratic voters in the city are willing to look beyond the usual electoral fear of how bad are the republicans.

On the California coast, two more Democrats received electoral votes. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price has made keeping criminals out of jail time her top priority, even in the face of a gang shootout that KILLED a small child in the crossfire. Arrogant price he stated that arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating criminals (or actively refusing to do any of these things) had no effect on crime.

The price was memory after only two years of work, as it was Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who was caught up in her own crime scandal (complete with an FBI raid on her home) while overseeing a crime crisis so bad that the NAACP publicly contradicted the city’s reform mindset, and Newsom sent California Highway Patrol to try and fix the problem.

Price was one of many prosecutors across the country backed by Democratic mega-donor George Soros, who has flooded local district attorney races with money to support his pro-criminal “reform” candidates. Like left new york magazine Put L in 2016, “Soros is buying America a less racist justice system” because the worldview of Soros and his allies is that putting criminals in prison is racist.

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The concept of reform to defeat “mass incarceration” sounds nice and rosy to Democratic urban voters until they have to deal with the effects. Criminals who know they won’t stay behind bars for long, if at all, will continue to commit crimes with more frequency and more aggression until they are resisted. In Price’s Alameda County, no such resistance ever prevailed.

Soros-linked prosecutors across the country sided with Price, inclusive Deborah Gonzalez, the district attorney in Athens, Georgia, where student Laken Riley was killed by an illegal immigrant. Reform-focused San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted in a 2022 recall, and his replacement won re-election against his reform-minded successor by nearly 40 points. Criminal justice reform candidates lost in half of the nation’s top 25 district attorney races, conformable TO New York Post.

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It seems the only criminal who won on election night this year was President-elect Donald Trump, who became a convicted felon after being targeted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Bragg’s pursuit of Trump was all in all political and designed to frame Trump as a criminal before the election. Bragg spent time on the case trying to do it prison a Marine to protect women and children from a delirious homeless man in a subway car. Unfortunately, Bragg was not up for re-election this cycle. Fortunately, he could follow Price, Gascon and others next year when his term ends.

Across the country, the 2024 election results mean people will be better protected from crime, whether it’s violent criminals or the spread of fentanyl. All it took was four disastrous years (or more in some Democratic enclaves) of gobbling up criminals in response to anti-police sentiment that was fueled by race-obsessed activists with no interest in data or reality. The Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 and frenzied screams of “mass incarceration” made for great social media, but running the criminal justice system on those sentiments was always going to lead to disaster. Obviously, even Democratic voters see that now.