Crime is Down, But That’s No Excuse for Letting Crooks Off Easy

The good news is that crime is down and keeps going down. This is in direct contrast to what we were told would happen in the wake of things like the Bruen decision. The “blood in the streets” simply hasn’t materialized. Then again, it never does.

However, even though it’s coming down, we can do a whole lot better, and it won’t be gun control that makes that happen.

The first thing we need to do is actually come down on criminals and do it hard. While cashless bail was a big part of why we saw a spike in violent crime over the last half-decade, there’s also just being flat-out weak on crime in general that’s still a thing.

Let’s start with this story out of New York.

A woman who screamed “F–k these cops” after purposely running down a police officer and breaking his leg with her car got “not nearly enough” time in prison at her sentencing Wednesday, a cop union said.

Sahara Dula, 25, was sentenced two years behind bars after she admitted to intentionally plowed over an NYPD cop while driving high into oncoming traffic on the Upper East Side in January 2024.

“The sentence is not nearly enough. This individual tried to run down a New York City police officer. She could have killed him,” railed Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry.

“We’re glad she is going behind bars instead of walking free, but our justice system needs to send a message that there will be zero leniency for attacks on police officers.”

Dula, who infamously admitted to mowing into police “on purpose,” appeared for sentencing before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Melissa T. Lewis, after she pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree on June 16.

Two years for intentionally trying to kill a police officer with a deadly weapon–a car, in this case–seems like the proverbial slap on the wrist. There’s nothing here to not just punish Dula, but to discourage others from trying to do the same thing. Sure, if she’d killed an officer, she’d have gotten more, but just trying it should come with a much steeper sentence.

But there are plenty more cases like this, and there’s a system that seems thoroughly uninterested in actually stopping terrible people.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, a woman named Lyndsey Fifield, a prominent libertarian/conservative account on X and a fellow with the Independent Women Foundation, recounted something she experienced.

When I was a few weeks postpartum with my second child, I bundled us both up and waddled into the Fairfax County Circuit Court to testify against a man who had accosted my then-toddler daughter and I in a public bathroom while I was heavily pregnant.

When I arrived I was brought… pic.twitter.com/8H41nhP1Gs

— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) October 30, 2025

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When I arrived I was brought into a room with his other victims and found out he had assaulted a woman in the same bathroom. I suddenly felt I had been lucky.

The arresting officer who had also interviewed me weeks prior was clearly eager to do everything right to keep this guy off the street—he found additional witnesses, pulled surveillance footage, followed every step to the letter.

It was physically painful and difficult for me to even be there—trying to discreetly feed and soothe my two week-old for 6 hours on hard benches when we should both be home in bed. It was also terrifying discreetly breastfeeding in the same room as this monster.

When I finally took the stand, the attorney for the Commonwealth asked me if the man who was in the bathroom that day was in the room.

I paused, confused—because I knew what was going to happen next.

The courtroom had been packed all day but as case after case was handled, ours was the last one—now it was just the judge, court reporter, bailiff, the defendant, his lawyer, the Commonwealth attorney, and I. 

The arresting officer wasn’t in the room. The other victim and her husband had been given a new court date and sent home.

I adjusted my baby against my chest and looked at her as she repeated the question: Do you see the man you reported to police in this room today?

Why was she doing this? What was she doing?

I was sweating in my oversized cashmere nursing sweater and I felt prickles down my back. Everyone was staring at me. I’m not a lawyer. She asked me a question… and she was “on my side” so I should answer it, right?

I adjusted my baby again to give myself a free hand—and I pointed to him. 

And just as I expected, his lawyer immediately pointed out there was nobody else present in the courtroom who it could be and therefore we had violated his constitutional right to due process. The judge agreed. 

Hell, *I* agreed—but then I asked WHY hadn’t the Commonwealth given me a photo array to choose from? Why did she ASK that?

Too late. It didn’t matter that he was on surveillance footage entering the bathroom before us and pushing past us as we fled. 

He was set free. 

As I walked out of the court room the arresting officer spotted me from down the hall and ran over to me “Is it back in this courtroom? Is it starting?” 

No, I told him, it’s already over. He had been sent to another courtroom “by mistake.” He didn’t even get a chance to testify. He looked horrified.  

The Commonwealth attorney and “victims advocate” that morning assured us they were going to fight for us. They were SO SORRY this had happened to us. They were SO GRATEFUL that I had come to testify in my condition. 

Instead they seemingly intentionally let the monster walk free. 

It’s been two years.  

Yesterday he was released on bail for yet another crime—one of at least THIRTEEN he’s committed since that day in court—including sexual abuse of a child under 15. 

His arrest record from just the last 5 years spans four pages on the Virginia court website. 

Look at how many women—and CHILDREN—he’s victimized since that day.  Look how many times his victims have gone to court just as I did only to see him set free again and again and again. 

This is NOT happening by accident.  

This is deliberate.

Yeah, it’s long, but it matters.

And no, this doesn’t shake out well, because for all of these crimes, the individual doesn’t seem to have actually been punished in any real way.

I’ve been a criminal lawyer in Illinois for 25 years. The clerk’s minutes aren’t very detailed, but five of the six cases he had up on Wednesday the 29th were dismissed by the State.

He entered a plea of nolo contendere on one count of misdemeanor Indecent Exposure and… pic.twitter.com/jayKHkIqZV

— Rudolfo Gaspari (@scottdelaney98) October 31, 2025

This is a predator, from what I can tell, who didn’t start trying to mess with children. He had numerous cases of indecent exposure and “simulating masturbation” charges, but it looks like he just got away with it, not even paying the required fines.

And when I told Lyndsey what I was writing about, she wanted to point out just how safe Fairfax County wants people to be.

Please note that my local city council just expanded bans on firearms in our local parks – with no objection because none of us knew they planned to do it. https://t.co/PJ002WqU6y

— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) October 31, 2025

That’s right, they let the (alleged) predator keep going out in public, and they now want to disarm people so they can’t defend themselves from these kinds of people.

Crime is down, but it would go down a whole lot more if you actually punished criminals. That should go double for anyone who hurts a child, and that’s if we don’t formally institute the wood chipper punishment, which I’m partial to.

Those who would prey on others, be it sexually or just financially, aren’t generally the best and brightest anyway. They’re not going to be reasoned out of their predatory ways. They need to be scared out of them.

Violent crime is down, at least in part, because the bad guys don’t know who is armed and who isn’t. They don’t like this status quo, and that’s for the better.

But they’d like it even less where the best case scenario for them is ages in a prison cell. 

Most tend to figure they’ll get away with their crimes, so that needs to be dealt with, too, but that’s another topic and one we’re really going to have to dig into since police numbers are down across the nation. If you ever wanted to be a cop, you’ve got a better chance than ever before, but regardless of how many police we have, it doesn’t do a damn bit of good if there’s not some real punishment for those who have broken the law and hurt other people.

Yes, we have too many laws. Yes, we should probably end some of the more ridiculous criminal laws in this country, if for no other reason than to make it easier to know if you’re breaking a law or not, but no one thinks it’s OK to run over cops or mess around with children, for crying out loud. Everyone knows those are illegal, and the punishment has to be a deterrent.

And neither of these, nor thousands of other cases, is any such thing.

We can and should do better, and that means us holding officials such as judges accountable for their actions. These judges are elected. It’s time to make them understand what that trust entails.

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