Judge Judy delivers scathing verdict about America’s out-of-control crime – as she rips ‘ridiculous’ liberal policies

Liberal prosecutors have left America’s cities “devastated” and would be better served “filling ice cream cones,” according to Judge Judy.

The veteran reality TV star said the country is in worse shape than it was 30 years ago because “a small group of people with very loud voices have created a scenario where bad people are rewarded.”

And she lashed out at a culture that increasingly excuses people’s behavior based on their background.

“Oh, I know how we got here,” she told Fox News Digital.

“When society started making excuses for bad behavior, and responding to crime based on those excuses, society fell apart.”

The veteran reality TV star reflected on how society had deteriorated since she began her on-screen career thirty years ago

Judy, real name Judy Sheindlin, spoke out after Portland District Attorney Mike Schmidt became the latest of the liberal prosecutors chosen to lose their jobs in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.

“When you have prosecutors who are being charged, whose job is to do justice but to keep the community safe, when you have elected prosecutors who don’t know what their job is, they need to go find another job ‘, she says. said.

“Fill ice cream cones somewhere. But don’t ruin cities.

“And what happened around New York City, Portland and San Francisco, you had prosecutors who didn’t know what their job was. And the cities are destroyed, people are moving away.’

Robberies in New York City are up 5.2 percent so far this year, while recorded hate crimes are up 11 percent.

In Portland, thefts rose to more than 26,000 in the year to April, while arrests for prostitution more than doubled due to the ongoing drug and homelessness crisis.

Murders rose 35 percent in DC last year, while robberies rose 67 percent, and in San Francisco, District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost his job in a 2022 recall election after receiving just three drug convictions last year.

The Liberal DA was defeated in its re-election bid in Portland last week by ‘tough on crime’ opponent Nathan Vasquez, after being elected in 2020 with 77 percent of the vote

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin lost a 2022 recall election after securing just three drug convictions last year

Sheindlin lashed out at New York’s 2019 decision to raise the minimum age at which a suspect must be tried as an adult to 18, calling it “ridiculous.”

“If you have family, if you have a 65-year-old mother walking to the grocery store and some lunatic for no reason hits her over the head with a steel pipe and kills her, and they’re 17, that person should never be allowed to walking the streets again, because society cannot take risks,” she said.

“If I wouldn’t take the risk of him living next door to me, why would I take the risk of him living next door to you?

‘You’re just as dead if someone of eighteen kills you, or seventeen.

‘And if you are seventeen and kill someone, you don’t belong with twelve-year-old children who are in a youth institution.

“But in New York State, for example, a very small group of people have persisted, raising the level of criminal liability.”

And she emphasized that the explanations for why someone becomes a criminal should never be confused with excuses.

“You know there’s always a reason for criminal behavior,” she said.

‘I didn’t have a good upbringing, not two parents in the house, not one parent in the house, there is always a reason.

Progressive Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx (left) was replaced in March, and Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Progressive Prosecutors,” faces a tough reelection challenge from Republican hardliner Nathan Hochman

‘You are mentally ill. That’s a reason. You used drugs, that’s a reason. You drank alcohol, your brain is fried, whatever it is.

“There is never an excuse for bad behavior.”

And she reflected on how the situation has deteriorated since she started her TV career.

“Here we are, thirty years later, and are we in worse shape as a country and as a world than we were in 1993? You bet we are.

“I think we better get smarter before we get lost,” she said. ‘Lost forever.’