You do not need to look hard to find proof that the criminal justice reform movement is less about creating a more just legal system and more about fighting “mass incarceration” with pro-criminal policies. You simply need to look at how “reform” prosecutors treat murderers.

The latest example of this comes from Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, one of the many liberal prosecutors funded by Democratic megadonor and “reform” advocate George Soros . Price has previously announced that she was trying to seek non-prison punishments for gang members who shot and killed a toddler and dropped special circumstances against a convicted murderer, which removed the possibility of him serving a life sentence without parole.

Her latest entry in pro-criminal “prosecutions” comes in the case of Sergio Morales-Jacquez, who was 17 years old when he shot and killed newlywed Rienhart Asuncion in a road rage incident. Not even two weeks later, Morales-Jacquez and two other teenagers opened fire at a party in Oakland, resulting in the deaths of two teenagers.

That’s three murders that Morales-Jacquez directly participated in. But, because he was 17 and the criminal justice reform movement demands little to no accountability for juvenile offenders regardless of how heinous or violent their crime, Price refused to try him as an adult. Instead, she secured the now-18-year-old just a seven-year sentence in a juvenile facility, with the possibility of probation.

Morales-Jacquez is also a person of interest in an ongoing homicide investigation, because of course he is.

This is not some mistake or a one-off issue. This is what criminal justice reform looks like. Activists make their pitches on “racial equity” or claims about how "no one should be in jail for smoking marijuana" and then turn around and implement policies designed to benefit criminals. Murderers, including gang members, are treated with kids’ gloves because liberal reform prosecutors do not care about their crimes, only that they keep as many people out of prison as possible.

In Oakland, Price’s policies have led to women becoming regular targets of violent criminals. Price and prosecutors like her continue to put the lives of law-abiding residents at risk in order to protect the violent criminals they should be working to keep behind bars. This is the reality of the criminal justice reform movement, and it will continue to be the reality in communities that elect Soros-backed reform prosecutors.