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Americans are watching their cities fall apart while the left keeps offering lectures and excuses instead of solutions, and that’s exactly what Bob Brooks tore into on Newsmax’s American Agenda. Brooks, who co-hosts the program, made plain what working families already know: when prosecutors and mayors treat criminals like victims, neighborhoods suffer and law-abiding citizens pay the price.
Even celebrities and talk-show hosts like Charlamagne tha God have waded into the conversation, making comments that excuse or downplay troubling reports of teens taking part in assaults and thefts — remarks that only embolden the lawless. Charlamagne’s broad forays into politics and social commentary have landed him in headlines before, and when cultural figures side with excuses over accountability it sends the wrong message to our youth.
Let’s be blunt: Chicago is a warning sign for the rest of the country. The city has endured years of violent crime, spikes in robberies and robberies on pace to be the worst in years, and too many incidents involve juveniles who have never faced real consequences for their actions. Local reporting and police data make it clear that the policies pushed by soft-on-crime prosecutors and indulgent city leaders do not make communities safer — they invite more victims.
The left’s reflex is always to blame poverty or to demand more social programs, but conservatives know the first priority of government is to protect citizens from violence and theft. That means backing police, supporting prosecutors who actually prosecute, and imposing meaningful penalties so the same teenagers don’t graduate into a life of repeat offending. No amount of hand-wringing about root causes replaces the immediate need for order on our streets.
Parents and community leaders share responsibility too, and so does a complicit media that normalizes criminal behavior when it fits a narrative. When influential voices excuse assault and looting by calling it youthful experimentation or systemic failure, they betray the victims and they fail the children who deserve discipline and structure. We should encourage rehabilitation, but not at the cost of public safety or the rule of law.
Conservative solutions are practical: restore bail for dangerous offenders, empower law enforcement with resources and manpower, and hold elected officials accountable at the ballot box when they choose optics over outcomes. Americans who work hard and play by the rules expect their leaders to deliver safe streets and functioning justice systems — anything less is a betrayal of the social contract.
Patriots don’t applaud chaos or coddle criminals; we stand with victims, support our police, and demand leaders who will protect neighborhoods instead of pandering to a failing ideology. Bob Brooks called that out because it’s plain common sense: soft-on-crime Democrat cities are not working, and it’s time to stop pretending they are.
