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What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? On Monday, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway—though this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police pressed him about what happened. Had he set his own clothes ablaze to attract attention? In the wild environment our subways have become, a malicious attack or a madman’s self-inflicted injury are both all too believable. Most trips on the New York subway or Washington, D.C.’s metro system don’t resemble a clip from “Mad Max,” but sooner or later, anyone who rides the rails of our cities regularly encounters insanity, aggression, and the prospect of violence—or actual violence, including the murderous kind. The life-changing and very nearly life-ending attack on Bethany MaGee, the woman set aflame on a Chicago Blue Line train last month, was no hoax. Nor was the assault that killed Iryna Zarutska on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, this summer. Nor was the burning alive of Debrina Kawam on the New York subway last December. None of those women had any reason to fear for her life, yet a commute turned into unspeakable terror. And it was predictable—not because these victims had anything special to fear but because everyone knows what’s allowed to happen in the tunnels and on the trains. If a thug with 72 arrests to his name, like the man who tried to immolate the 26-year-old MaGee in Chicago—or with “just” 14 arrests, like Iryna’s murderer—decides this is the day to take an unsuspecting victim, what chance does she have? Her fate was already decided by judges who chose not to lock up men who were a demonstrated threat to the public. The killers and would-be killers are only half the problem. The other half are the judges and lawmakers who put them on the streets in the first place, leaving them free to ambush unsuspecting victims on train cars, where they can’t escape. (MaGee did try running, but her attacker caught up and torched her.) Legislators in North Carolina, at least, are trying to stop this murderous chain of events before it begins, by putting men with criminal records like those of Iryna’s killer in prison or mental institutions as soon as they start breaking the law. “Iryna’s Law” restricts cashless bail, requires judges to order more mental evaluations, and makes it easier to involuntarily commit offenders found to be disturbed. It also attempts to restore the death penalty in North Carolina, which has been blocked for nearly 20 years by legal challenges. The law is a good start, and other states need similar reforms to incarcerate and institutionalize more of the people who commit horrors like the subway attacks of recent months. There’s a federal role in this, too, including rigorous enforcement of immigration law: Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the man charged with burning Kawam to death, is an illegal immigrant who should never have been in this country to begin with. Yet more is needed: Not only zero tolerance toward violent and repeat offenders but zero tolerance in the political process for judges who go easy on them. Some states elect judges, and voters in those places can make known just how they feel about judges’ culpability for crimes committed by the lawbreakers they set loose. And states have provisions for impeaching judges, just as the federal government does. Where judges egregiously endanger the public with their leniency toward criminals, they should be impeached and removed from office. It wouldn’t take many examples before soft-on-crime judges got the message. Of course, judges themselves, where they aren’t elected by the public, are appointed by politicians who have to answer to voters—and those pols should feel the heat, too. Five years ago, progressives were pushing, in all seriousness, to “defund the police” and “abolish bail,” meaning, in the latter instance, simply releasing a wider array of arrestees. In most of the country, those slogans were not political winners, but advocates for these policies count more on elite sympathy, especially within the legal profession, than they do on ballot-box victories. Their gamble is that most Americans pay no mind to the inner workings of state courts and legislatures, so what loses in an election can still win where laws and legal precedents are actually made. This populist moment in national politics arises from the distrust our leaders have engendered among the public. But leaders in states and cities have betrayed Americans’ trust, too, and their betrayal turns public transportation into scenes of public execution for innocents like Iryna Zarutska. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post ‘Iryna’s Law’ and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary appeared first on The Daily Signal.

After some Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2021, the national media aggressively reported on people who showed disrespect for the Capitol Police and for the rule of law itself. They touted groups like “Sedition Hunters” who aided Biden’s Justice Department in prosecuting Trump backers inside the Capitol, the violent and the non-violent. But now, with the parties in power switched, suddenly it’s the media who favor “sedition,” in disrespecting law enforcement and the rule of law itself, especially on mass deportation. Exhibit A is National “Public” Radio and Odette Yousef, NPR's so-called “Domestic Extremism Correspondent.” In January of 2022, Yousef touted the “Sedition Hunters” for seven minutes, never once classifying them as on the Left. They were “independent researchers” and “online sleuths.” Some of these hunter heroes weren’t even Americans. Yousef gushed about the Dutch: “Mary has been working with a group called Capitol Terrorists Exposers from her home in The Hague.” But you couldn’t use her last name, because heroes face villains. These days, it’s somehow not “domestic extremism” when radical leftists seek to undermine attempts to enforce immigration laws and capture illegal immigrants, both the violent and the non-violent. Instead, Yousef and NPR championed the “ICE Resistance” in two days of reports lasting 15 minutes on the badly named show All Things Considered. On November 19, the headline online was “Grassroots resistance swells in the wake of the immigration crackdown in Chicago.” Anchor Juana Summers began by noting the deportation effort has “touched the lives of citizens and non-citizens deeply,” leading to “a swell of grassroots resistance.” Yousef chronicled a group called Protect Rogers Park, a “community defense network,” and went riding around with “community organizer” Gabe Gonzalez. They banded together against “an expected onslaught of federal immigration enforcement.” Their goal? “to make the work of immigration enforcement as inefficient as possible.” To rage against the machine, in leftist parlance. But no one was identified as the Left. NPR also interviewed activist Jill Garvey, and described her take: their project is opposing “an authoritarian strategy that, unchecked, could ultimately eat away at the freedom and rights of everyone in this country.” Garvey claimed Trump is forming a “national police force” to “occupy” and “terrorize” cities. None of this is pernicious conspiracy theorizing or “domestic extremism.” On the night of November 20, Yousef leaked out one label about Protect Rogers Park: “It’s known for its international diversity and as kind of a hotbed for lefty activism.” This makes them a pile of NPR listeners, for sure. Anchor Ailsa Chang described it as “hyperlocal grassroots work to counter enforcement activities.” Yousef said the group’s goal was “getting people to the scene of an ICE arrest to make it annoying – you know, loud, slow, and ultimately expensive.” In this second report, Gonzalez claimed ICE’s goal is “kidnapping people.” Yousef allowed a brief rebuttal from the Department of Homeland Security: “Illegal aliens are not kidnapped. They are arrested for breaking the law.” But the leftists performed “continuous proactive patrolling” to foil “aggressive immigration raids.” NPR wrapped up with Garvey touting their work to “protect vulnerable people” with “a little bit of contagious courage.” Ailsa Chang repeated for effect: “A little bit of contagious courage.” This is not how NPR would describe right-wingers blocking an entrance to an abortion clinic. You could describe that activism as “protecting vulnerable people” with “contagious courage.” It’s designed to be loud and make abortion clinics “as inefficient as possible.” But that’s not heroic at NPR. Performing the abortions is heroic. This is why conservative taxpayers are happy that NPR was defunded. They’ve never “considered all things.” 

A man living in Oklahoma was convicted for charges related to the attempted sexual trafficking of a minor after getting caught in an undercover sting operation. Braulio Luna, 59, arranged to purchase an 11-year-old girl for sexual activity, but unbeknownst to him, he was speaking to police officers pretending to be human traffickers.'There is actually ... code words that people use to advertise these. And once you are in the trade, you understand what these code words are.' The operation involved officers posting ads as a mother who was trying to sell her 11-year-old daughter."Mr. Luna responded to that ad and started making preparations to actually purchase an 11-year-old for a sexual encounter," said Maj. Adam Flowers of the Canadian County Sheriff's Office to KFOR-TV. Investigators noted that Luna brought a McDonald's Happy Meal with him to purchase the fictitious girl, which they said demonstrated his intent to exploit a minor.Rather than finding his intended victim, Luna found deputies waiting in a hotel room and was arrested on August 29, 2024. Luna confessed to investigators that he had harmed a child in the past, and police are working to identify that victim."But unfortunately, it's kind of like a cold case. We know they're out there. We just don't know who they are. He wasn't forthcoming with that," Flowers added. Luna pleaded guilty to felony child exploitation and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He must serve at least 18 years before being released. Court documents indicated that Luna would also be deported to his country of origin after serving his time in prison. He was a legal U.S. resident but not a citizen. RELATED: Oklahoma attorney allegedly took Viagra and bought condoms before meeting to sexually assault 5-year-old, but it was a police sting Flowers said that traffickers use everyday apps such as Snapchat, Tinder, and Facebook to seek their victims. "There are numerous websites out there that cater to this type of black market, illicit activity where people are selling themselves for sex," Flowers said. "Family members, foster families, even kids that are being trafficked by pimps," he explained, "they all have people that use these apps for illicit purposes. There is actually ... code words that people use to advertise these. And once you are in the trade, you understand what these code words are."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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