Allow me, dear reader, to regale you with a tale. A tale of a government contractor, laboring as a crime analyst in the sun-scorched city of Phoenix. A tale of the left and the right, of law enforcement pitted against academia. A tale that elucidates the current crime wave sweeping across our great nation, a wave of fire, pestilence, and flood, all courtesy of a diluted form of Marxism.

I once collaborated with a director, a man adorned with a PhD in criminology, who, while ensconced in Phoenix, yearned for the grand stage of Washington D.C. His ambition was eventually sated in that den of iniquity and despair we know as the U.S. Department of Justice. Let's refer to him as Bryan Rotter, PhD. Dr. Rotter and I first locked horns over an analysis he had conducted, an analysis that was endorsed by the rest of the Academic and City and County Justice governments, a motley crew of career bureaucrats with a startling lack of insight into the nature of criminals and criminal behavior.

These bureaucrats would prattle on about the necessity of early prisoner release, about the dangers of prolonged incarceration turning inmates into career criminals. The data, however, painted a different picture: over sixty percent of arrests were of individuals already well-acquainted with the inside of a jail cell. But these bureaucrats were not interested in such inconvenient truths; they preferred to rewrite reality to suit their narrative.

Dr. Rotter was fond of citing a study from Justice that claimed boot camp style training in prison was ineffective. I would be most interested to see this study scrutinized by a Replication Crisis team, given that the military has successfully employed this method for 2,000 years, transforming countless troubled youths, myself included. But I digress. The crux of the matter is that these individuals, including Bryan Cotter, had a worldview that was diametrically opposed to all historical qualitative references, all in honor of a handful of studies of questionable quality.

Returning to the topic of prisoner release and sentence suspension, it is clear that our criminal justice system is under siege. The first prong of this assault is the war on our police force, the ludicrous "Defund the Police" movement. The second, less visible but far more insidious, is the attack on our County Attorney's/State's Attorney Offices and the judiciary. These attacks have effectively transformed many of our cities into battlegrounds, where criminals operate with impunity, knowing there will be no consequences for their actions. And individuals like Bryan, these so-called criminologists and legal savants, have, by promoting this agenda, wreaked havoc on a significant portion of our country.

What is perhaps most striking about this group is their smugness, the self-satisfied air of those who have never been challenged, who are uninformed, who reject the existence of a higher power that might instill in them a modicum of humility. This lack of humility is leading us down a path shrouded in darkness.