Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

The current (progressive) mayor of Boston has stated that people should not be prosecuted for these offenses:

• shoplifting
  
• larceny
  
• disorderly conduct
  
• receiving stolen property
  
• driving with a suspended license
  
• breaking and entering with property damage
  
• wanton and malicious destruction of property
  
• threats
  
• minor in possession of alcohol
  
• marijuana possession
  
• possession with intent to distribute
  
• non-marijuana drug possession

Those offenses are all on a ‘do-not-prosecute’ list that was created by former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins.

I won’t address that directly. I’ll just say this:

Starting in 1994, Rudy Giuliani — then the new mayor of New York City — instituted a new program wherein ALL minor crimes would be dynamically prosecuted. His view was that, if the people saw that the city government was serious about law and order, they would … well, maybe, find it to their benefit to obey the law?

Nice theory. Question was, would it work?

It did.

New York City underwent an almost literal renaissance. Times Square, once home to endless porn theaters and sex shows and drug marts, became a favored tourist destination for families. That was just the most prominent effect; the city itself was cleaned up to an extent that would have been deemed impossible a few years previously.

Subsequent Democrat administrations, of course, repudiated this primitive, retrograde thinking. With predictable (except for progressives) results.

And now Boston is pursuing an approach almost explicitly the opposite of the Guiliani strategy, with — apparently — no glimmering of awareness of the absolutely certain consequences.

These people are convinced that their superior status, their superior credentials, their superior being, mean that they are definitionally qualified to rule over us. And with everything they say, everything they do, they extravagantly, publicly demonstrate that they are not reliably qualified to wipe their own asses.