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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, a guest on the "Chicago's Morning Answer" radio show, spoke to Dan Proft on corruption in state courts.

He empathized with similar issues going on in Cook County, Illinois, which had recently resulted in a former Cook County prosecutor leaving the state.

“These prosecutors view themselves more as social workers than they do as prosecutors," Miyares said. "They realize that they don't need to change governorships or state legislatures. They can get local prosecutors elected and they then decide not to enforce entire categories of criminal code ."

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Lower sentences and punishments from prosecutors increase the levels of violent crime in a community, where “roughly 3% to 5% of violent offenders are committing roughly 50% of the violent crime in its community,” the attorney general said.

He discussed how all the lesser sentencing and social justice reforms were tried in the 1970s. 

"Crime exploded and we learned some really really hard lessons in history and we did a variety of different reforms, pro-policing pro-law enforcement reforms," he said. "Between about 1992 and 2018 crime really went on a downward trajectory in this country. 

"And then around 2018-2019, when these so-called reforms all these bad ideas from the 1970s came back and being implemented, that's what you started seeing and these prosecutors are one part of a larger puzzle,” he added. 

Miyares is chairman of the Protecting American Action Fund, created to help stop and expose the favoritism and behind-the-scene politics that he says are getting puppet prosecutors elected naitonwide to help further certain agendas. He said his group was successful last year in getting pro-law enforcement prosecutors elected to help punish offenders and listen to the victims. 

That's why I challenged George Soros, 'Why don't you do a town hall a victims right town hall with me?'" Miyares told Proft. "Why don't you get in a room like I have with the victims of violent crime, those that have lost loved ones because of this criminal-first victim-last prosecutors? Why don't you come in and you hear their story?”