Crime prosecutions DOUBLE in St. Louis after new DA Gabe Gore takes over following George Soros backed Kim Gardner’s resignation

St. Louis’ new district attorney has doubled the number of criminal prosecutions in his first three months in office, compared to his ultra-woke, disgraced predecessor and the same time last year.

District Attorney Gabe Gore, 54, replaced Democrat Kim Gardner, 48, in May after the George Soros-backed attorney resigned under pressure by Missouri‘s attorney general Andrew Baileya Republican.

Gardner was criticized for her lax enforcement of crimes, which left criminals back on the streets of St. Louis with little punishment even as crime rose across the Midwest.

Gore was sworn in on May 31 and has filed more than 1,400 cases in the past three months, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Kim Gardner filed just 620 in the same three-month period last year.

“I don’t think there’s any magic in what we do,” Gore told the Post-Dispatch. “We only denounce violations of the law.”

Gore was sworn in as St. Louis district attorney on May 31 and has filed more than 1,400 cases in the past three months

The crime-ridden city saw a rise in charges after their new district attorney spent more time reviewing cases requested by the St. Louis Police Department and prioritized less serious offenses that largely went unprosecuted under Gardner – who Gore called “quality of life crimes.”

“These are things that drive people out of the city,” Gore said. “These are things that cannot be considered the cost of living anywhere.”

Gore said, “I don’t think there’s any magic in what we do. We only accuse those who violate the law.”

Gore’s goal is to eliminate the backlog Gardner created during her tenure by early 2024.

One tactic Gore’s office is using to shorten the list is not to add anything; instead, they aim to determine whether cases should be arraigned the same day.

The officer’s office in St. Louis was drastically understaffed during Gardner’s leadership. When she took office there were 60 lawyers, but when she left there were only about 30 left.

Gore has hired 21 new attorneys, meaning the firm is still short-staffed but is in a much better position to handle the high volume of cases left over from its predecessor.

Gore said: “We still rely on lawyers to basically come to work every day and do more than should be asked of them.

Everyone is doing their best and doing their best.”

Gardner filed just 620 in the same three-month period last year

“I don’t think there’s any magic in what we do,” Gore told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We only denounce violations of the law.”

Gore, the former assistant U.S. attorney, was chosen by Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson, 67, who said: “We believe Mr. Gore is a qualified and experienced leader that our great city of St. Louis needs for this new day and this historic opportunity. for Change” a courthouse in St. Louis in May.

Gardner’s approach to crime focused on prevention, including punishing low-level crimes with diversion to mental health facilities or substance abuse treatment centers.

She promised to hold police more accountable and release prisoners who had been wrongly convicted.

In 2019, Gardner announced an “exclusion list” that included about 75 St. Louis police officers who were no longer allowed to bring cases to her office because their “integrity is at risk.”

Gore’s office has cleared a backlog of pending charges left over from Gardner’s tenure.

One of the last cases Gardner oversaw was a Cinco de Mayo shooting, for which the district attorney declined to press charges against the suspected woman due to a “lack of evidence” despite surveillance footage of the suspect wielding a gun.

According to Gardner’s office, the suspect – Amber Booker, 33 – was not charged due to a “lack of evidence” and because the victims did not cooperate with the investigation.

The Democrat-elected prosecutor won her seat in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020

Gardner was backed by billionaire George Soros and received about $116,000 from the Soros-backed PACS from his Vera Institute of Justice

The Democrat-elected prosecutor won her seat in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020.

Gardner was backed by billionaire George Soros and received about $116,000 from Soros-backed PACS, his Vera Institute of Justice.

Under her watch, homicide rates in St. Louis reached a 50-year high and the city saw fewer and fewer crimes prosecuted.

So was one of the Republican lawmakers who called for Gardner’s resignation Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, 63, who called on the Democrat DA to resign after releasing the man who hit a teenage volleyball player with a car, causing her to lose both legs.

“Instead of protecting victims, District Attorney Gardner is creating them,” Bailey wrote in a statement. “The driver of the speeding car, Daniel Riley, should never have been in that car. He is a dangerous shooter who should have been in jail.”