repeat offenders, currently 5,000 cases in seattle waiting for charging decision. some of the cases are two years old. the new city attorney anne davidson, the first republican elected in decades is pledging to get through the backlog and make charging decisions in five days of the crime. closing that time gap will start to say to the public if you commit a misdemeanor crime we will have a response. and john, the suspect is being held on $150,000 bail and the victim has several surgeries coming up. john. john: same old story all over again, a person with a long rap sheet out there on the streets when they probably shouldn t be. that woman so lucky to be alive. dan springer, thank you. gillian: now to new york, a horrifying incident was caught on a doorbell cam. armed robbers burst into an apartment before beating up a man and making off with his stuff. one of the latest examples of the violent crime surge plaguing
they re not doing more to take safety and make it a priority. for example, we still have retailers that won t institute■ç plans like having security officers in your stores, making sure that they ve got cameras that are actually operational. david: she s disappointed in the retailers that are being robbed. a lot of people are disappointed in her reaction. yeah. there s a woke word for that, and it s victim-blaming. that s exactly what she s doing here. you know, it s not the responsibility of retailers to be concerned about security. that s what we have police for. but i think in cities like chicago, in places like california we ve really cultivated a culture of lawlessness and impunity. you know, when you looked at a similar situation in california, you can steal up to $950 worth of stuff, and it s a misdemeanor crime. you may be arrested, you ll be right back out on the streets. many of these criminals know it, and they re going right back to the same walgreens or cvs and
the way that the texas voting law is? if they would eliminate giving unfetterred control of poll watchers. i ve been in a polling place where they have walked behind me and tried to make me fearful and afraid. they didn t know who i was. i demanded they get away from me, and they did. the new law empowers partisan poll watchers to have, quote, free movement around voting facilities except to watch the ballot cast. election officials, who reject poll watchers, can be charged with a misdemeanor crime. poll watchers have been in these precincts for decades. james white is the only black republican in the texas legislature and supported the new voting law. poll watchers are already there. they have a lot more leeway now. poll watchers are already there. is it fair they have more leeway? do you agree with that? no, i don t. you can look voters in texas,
and tried to make me fearful and afraid. they didn t know who i was. i demanded they get away from me, and they did. the new law empowers partisan poll watchers to have, quote, free movement around voting facilities except to watch the ballot cast. election officials, who reject poll watchers, can be charged with a misdemeanor crime. poll watchers have been in these precincts for decades. james white is the only black republican in the texas legislature and supported the new voting law. poll watchers are already there. they have a lot more leeway now. poll watchers are already there. is it fair they have more leeway? do you agree with that? no, i don t. you can look voters in texas, particularly voters of color, in the eye and promise them that this new law that you voted for yes. will not suppress their vote, will not make it harder
for months now federal judges in washington have been expressing frustration at what they see as too much leniency in the treatment of many of the insurrectionists. the federal judge who presided over robert palmer s guilty plea today in a separate case this morning, well, she did something no judge has done before in a jan 6th case. she handed down a harsher sentence than what government prosecutors were asking for. this particular capitol rioter pled guilty to one count of, quote, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the capitol. that s a misdemeanor crime. it carries six months in prison. that parading charge is actually one that several capitol rioters have pled to. the prosecution had recommended that this guy get three months home confinement plus probation. but the judge rejected that recommendation and ordered the defendant to spent 45 days in prison. the judge saying from the bench, quote, there have to be consequences for participating in attempted violent overthrow of th