America doesn’t have a crime problem; it has a repeat offender problem. High crime in this country has mostly been a matter of choice by reckless politicians beholden to prison “reform” ideologues. A recent story highlights that reality. On Tuesday, NYPD arrested 47-year-old Damon Johnson, a resident of Brooklyn, and charged him with murder, assault, and reckless endangerment. Johnson was charged in connection to the lighting of a homeless man on fire in Penn Station, one of the busiest train and subway stations in the country. This wasn’t the defendant’s first rodeo with violence. “Johnson has about 131 prior arrests dating back to 1995 in the Bronx,” ABC News 7 reported. “He is on parole for a 2018 robbery, when he slashed a student’s face and took cash from his pockets. That victim required more than 100 stitches.” Other outlets, like the New York Post, reported that Johnson had only been arrested a mere 88 times. The Post noted that Johnson had been previously arrested for assault, “petit larceny, drug use, theft of service, and forcible touching.” He’s had, according to the district attorney, “a pair of violent felony convictions and 39 disciplinary convictions.” Honestly, it doesn’t matter if Johnson had been arrested 88 times or 131. It’s beyond absurd that a man with such a lengthy record of villainy was free to roam the streets. “There is a systemic effort by the Left to keep savages on the streets,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts wrote of Johnson’s alleged misdeeds on X. “To them, violent criminals are the real victims: victims of some social injustice that entitles them to endless chances for ‘reform,’ regardless of how many innocents they maim or kill along the way. It is a worldview of the purest evil.” Damon Johnson in NYC, Abdul Jalloh in Fairfax County, or DeCarlos Brown Jr. in Charlotte—there is a systemic effort by the Left to keep savages on the streets. To them, violent criminals are the real victims: victims of some social injustice that entitles them to endless chances… https://t.co/mIrVqTHVLL— Kevin Roberts (@KevinRobertsTX) March 5, 2026 I agree. The Left routinely portrays such folks as the “true” victims of crime in America. If only we were more committed to anti-racism and their endless social programs that shovel equally endless amounts of money into failed projects that never fix the issue. The truth is, most Americans aren’t criminals. This country doesn’t have to be known for having dangerous cities. Our problems can be solved if we focus on stopping anti-social behaviors and putting larger penalties on repeat offenders. The issue isn’t the criminals, it’s the broken, perverted justice system that doesn’t properly punish them until they commit the most heinous crimes imaginable. The New York Post reported in September that “63 career criminals” had been arrested over 5,000 times in the subway system, “yet only five of them are currently behind bars.” Many of these folks go on to commit crimes elsewhere too, of course. According to data released in 2024 by NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, 38 people who had been arrested for assault in the subway had been linked to an additional 1,126 crimes in the city. There are all kinds of stats like that in New York. The New York Times found that in 2022, nearly one-third of all shoplifting arrests “involved just 327 people,” who were collectively arrested over 6,000 times. It’s the same people, committing crime after crime after crime. Imagine for a moment if we actually kept these people behind bars. New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino said it well on X. “We actually have an incredibly small criminal element in this city,” she wrote. “The problem is they’ve been allowed to do whatever they want with virtually no consequences for years now, so their impact on our quality of life is disproportionately huge.” This is a very simple fact that nobody seems to realize. Eric Adams talked about it often, and so have others, myself included.We actually have an incredibly small criminal element in this city.The problem is they’ve been allowed to do whatever they want with virtually no… https://t.co/2HuBpEeMSF— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) March 6, 2026 Paladino explained: “Catch and release, chronic downgrading of charges, decriminalization, bail reform, sanctuary policy—it all serves one purpose, to get recidivists back on the streets committing crimes.” Yep. And this isn’t just a New York City thing.  New York was significantly better following the “broken windows,” crime-fighting revolution under Mayor Rudy Guiliani. The city is merely backsliding into the attitudes that brought on the disastrous crime waves of the past. No, this issue crops up in one big, blue urban area after another. It’s built on the inversion of traditional justice, the insistence that career criminals be given three, five, 80, 100 chances to prove that they are “reformed” this time. Until that issue is resolved, crime in these areas will continue to be a problem regardless of national trends. The post Alleged Man-Burner With Over 100 Arrests Represents Repeat Crime Problem in America appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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HBO’s Bill Maher welcomed former CNN anchor Don Lemon to Friday’s edition of Real Time where he did his best to make Lemon feel better about his federal indictment, where he is alleged to have violated the rights of Minnesota church attendees by disrupting their service and intimidated the pastor. According to Maher, the charges are “powerful bullshit.” Maher began by inviting Lemon to take a victory lap, “Don, I see you're in the news quite a bit lately. Oh, I was at the Clive Davis Grammy Party when Clive introduced you, and you got the biggest ovation in the room. Kristi Noem fired this week. Do you feel vindicated? Do you feel like doing the Trump dance now? Do you want to be jerking off two guys at once?”   Bill Maher tells Don Lemon that on church incursion "they said that you stood in close proximity to the pastor and attempted to oppress and intimidate him? That's some powerful bullshit there, isn’t it?" A thankful Lemon tells him "I’m glad you can see through that." pic.twitter.com/aMn93bA9YH— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 7, 2026   Lemon declined, “Not until Pam Bondi is. Then I’ll do the double BJ.” Speaking of Bondi, Maher continued, “But Pam Bondi, she this week announced federal charges against 30 more people accused of civil rights violations there in the Minnesota church you were in. So, it explains, the pastor there was, we think was part of ICE? That's why the protest was going on there?” Maintaining the narrative that he is just a simple journalist, Lemon replied, “Well, according to the protest group, one of the pastors was, I think, a regional director for ICE in that region.” Maher then touched on the allegations against Lemon, “Pastors do that? Pastors are also regional directors of ICE? There’s things going on in this country—I'm just—I try to keep up with the news, and I’m—and they said that you stood in close proximity to the pastor and attempted to oppress and intimidate him? That's some powerful bullshit there, isn’t it? I mean—” An appreciative Lemon answered, “I’m glad you can see through that.” The truth is Lemon joined a crowd of people in invading private property and refused to leave when asked. If, during this interview, an audience member stormed the set with his phone and started videotaping it while asking Lemon questions, nobody would describe that person as a journalist. Here is a transcript for the March 6 show: HBO Real Time with Bill Maher 3/6/2025 10:38 PM ET BILL MAHER: Don, I see you're in the news quite a bit lately. DON LEMON: Am I? MAHER: Oh, I was at the Clive Davis Grammy Party when Clive introduced you ,and you got the biggest ovation in the room. Kristi Noem fired this week. Do you feel vindicated? Do you feel like doing the Trump dance now? Do you want to be jerking off two guys at once? LEMON: Not until Pam Bondi is. Then I’ll do the double BJ. MAHER: But Pam Bondi, she this week announced federal charges against 30 more people accused of civil rights violations there in the Minnesota church you were in. So, it explains, the pastor there, was, we think was part of ICE? That's why the protest was going on there? LEMON: Well, according to the protest group, one of the pastors was, I think, a regional director for ICE in that region. MAHER: Pastors do that? Pastors are also regional directors of ICE? There’s things going on in this country—I'm just—I try to keep up with the news, and I’m—and they said that you stood in close proximity to the pastor and attempted to oppress and intimidate him? That's some powerful bullshit there, isn’t it? I mean— LEMON: I’m glad you can see through that. MAHER: I mean, so where are you now? I know they arrested you out here, right, and then what happened? You went to jail for a minute? LEMON: I went to the federal courthouse and I was in, you know, an isolation room or room by myself and— MAHER: Really? LEMON: Yeah, yeah, I had to spend the night in jail. MAHER: Like Steve McQueen in—throw the ball against the wall like in— LEMON: I spent the night in a holding room in—at the federal courthouse.

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