Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen raised concerns about an emerging trend of progressive district attorneys (DA) who are refusing to enforce the law while pushing their own agenda, saying that these “social reform” DAs are endangering public safety and undermining the Constitution.
Rosen, who spoke at Wake Forest School of Law on Nov. 8, said the “small but increasing number” of state and local prosecutors who have publicly announced “radical decriminalization policies” and have vowed to not enforce entire categories of law that do not conform to their personal notions of what they think the law should be, is threatening to undo the Justice Department’s (DOJ) progress in reducing crime across the country.
