'How well have the 'law-and-order' policies [Anne Marie Schubert] deterred crime in Sacramento?' Will_Bunch writes. 'Not much better than in the rest of a nation that’s seen killings rise in tandem with both gun sales and anti-social behavior.'
Anne Marie Schubert — the veteran district attorney for Sacramento County, covering California’s capital city — doesn’t quite fit the profile of the perfect guest for the right-wing Fox News Channel, afterto become an independent during the presidency of Donald Trump.
Yet there was one thing the Fox News hosts failed to ask Schubert during her national TV hit: How well have the “law-and-order” policies of the third-term DA deterred crime in Sacramento? The answer, it turns out, is not much better than in the rest of a nation that’s seen killings rise in tandem with both gun sales and anti-social behavior.
It was the end of a warm Saturday night. The city’s bars had just closed and the streets were packed with people when a fight between members of two rival gangs caused at least five people and maybe more to pull out guns and start firing. When the cacophony of bullets finally stopped, six people lay dead and 12 more were wounded., like 21-year-old Johntaya Alexander, who’d driven downtown to pick up her sister — but instead, her sister witnessed Johntaya’s murder.
But the senseless shootings aren’t stopping. There have been 122 U.S. mass shootings in 2022, according to
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