When talking about the post-2020 crime wave, the ‘experts’ claim to be baffled. They attribute the huge boost in murders and all sorts of crimes to some sort of undefined stress due to the pandemic.

That’s nonsense. Obviously.

One of the big drivers of crime was BLM and the assorted pro-crime policies adopted by local governments. Another, which has been rarely discussed, was a crossover COVID-pro-crime policy of freeing as many criminals as possible to save them from dying of the virus in crowded prisons where there was no social distancing. The entire thing, like so much of the COVID policy regime, was a lie and few criminals died of COVID.

I documented a lot of this in 2020, but most are still not aware of it.

New York City released over 2,650 criminals from prison to protect them from the pandemic. But they didn’t stay home or wash their hands. They went back to their old jobs and 100 of them accounted for 190 arrests for crimes like burglary and robbery.

Los Angeles County released about 5,000 criminals accounting for around a third of imprisoned criminals. And with no bail, arrested criminals were set loose and then arrested again. In the first 30 days of the experiment, 213 criminals were rearrested again after being put back on the street.

In March, Governor Cuomo’s administration ordered nursing homes to accept infected coronavirus patients and prohibited even testing incoming patients for the virus. The same month that Cuomo began the process of infecting countless nursing home residents with the virus, he also began freeing thousands of criminals from prison to protect them from the virus.

Over 3,000 criminals have been freed from New York State prisons to protect them from the virus, and New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio freed 1,500 criminals, and they swiftly began committing a variety of crimes, but despite the media hype claiming that prison was a death sentence and a campaign by woke celebs like John Legend, criminals were not at risk.

Only 19 inmates in New York State actually died of the virus.

Meanwhile an estimated 11,000 nursing home patients have died of the virus statewide.

There are some recent numbers about the recidivism rate of Newsom’s criminals.

Nearly one-third of California prisoners released early during the pandemic by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration ended up back in prison, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation data.

In total, between April 2020 and December 2021, the corrections department freed about 14,800 people early. Roughly 4,600 had gone back to prison as of Jan. 31, 2025.

Consider the impact of the crimes committed by these thousands of Newsom’s criminals

According to our analysis, 23% of people released early during the pandemic returned to prison in less than three years.

Three years. That would amount to a hell of a crime wave..

And it wouldn’t be woke policymaking without a transgender angle.

Santiago Contreras, 44, said she told prison officials she didn’t want to be released. As a transgender woman, “I had nowhere to go,” she said. “It was hard to survive.”

Contreras was in prison for stalking, vandalism and assault, according to the corrections department.

State officials released her to San Diego County probation officials for supervision, and she was given an ankle monitor, she said. A few months later, she said, she started drinking again and cut the monitor. Contreras was on the run when she strangled 43-year-old Tonya Molina to death inside a San Diego motel room, she said. Contreras is now serving 15 years-to-life, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office said.

More blood on Newsom’s manicured hands.

Jammerieo Austin, 29, was released in April 2020, after serving time for possessing/purchasing cocaine for sale, the corrections department said. He was out of prison for a little over a year when he shot and killed 40-year-old Karmen Anderson while a four-year-old sat in the backseat, according to the San Diego District Attorney’s office. Austin’s now serving a life sentence without parole, the corrections department said.

In Los Angeles County, David Grace was released from prison in August 2020 after a burglary conviction. In June 2023, he went back to prison after pleading no contest to killing someone while drunk driving, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and data from the corrections department. In a news release, the Long Beach Police Department said Grace hit a 62-year-old father who was pushing a van alongside his daughter.

And the variety of sexual lifestyles California became famous for.

In Tuolumne County, David Pacheco was first sentenced to prison for eight years in 2012 for employing a minor to sell a controlled substance and a few other crimes. He was released on parole in 2016, went back in 2019, and was released again in July 2020 during the pandemic.

Within the year, Pacheco was arrested for using “Snapchat to send and receive sexually explicit images and videos with juveniles in exchange for marijuana products,” according to a Facebook post from the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s office.

Newsom locked up Californians and freed criminals to terrorize, rape and kill them.