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Raising penalties has been an effective deterrent to crime since the beginning of time. It does not even take half of a brain to know this. But many elected officials in New York don’t have what you would call a "sound mind." And ironically, that is because they don’t even have a fraction of a brain.

The New York Assembly Speaker refuses to back the governor's efforts to toughen up on crime because he claims it will not do much of anything.

According to the New York Post:

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie shut down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to toughen up penalties for thugs who attack retail workers — saying Tuesday he didn’t think it’d crack down on crime.

Heastie told reporters that lawmakers and the governor should not address criminal sentencing as part of negotiations over the state’s massive spending package in a blow to Hochul’s agenda.

“I just don’t believe raising penalties is ever a deterrent on crime,” Heastie said.

“I don’t want to make it sound like we’re not concerned about stemming what’s happened to retail workers,” he added. “We care very deeply about that. We just have other ideas of how to get there.

“If you just keep dealing with the penalties, what happens after people get arrested? You’re still only worrying about what happens after something has already happened.”

If progressives would just keep criminals in jail then they would not have to keep arresting them but I digress.

Why should people care what happens to them after they are released? That sounds like a personal problem. We should be caring about the rights of victims, women, children, and just about everyone but the rights of recidivists.

Hochul’s budget called for a crackdown on an explosion of retail theft including jacking up penalties for people who assault retail workers as well as investments in state police and district attorneys teams to go after the biggest crooks.

Heastie said he was still open to part of Hochul’s plan that sought to cut off organized rings that coordinate the thefts and sell large amounts of stolen goods.

If I did not know any better, I would say that he might even be claiming that the tougher the sentence is, the more likely thugs are to commit crimes. But I digress.

I have an idea. How about we enforce the laws that were already in place before theft became de facto legal? How about that?

And it’s incredibly stupid to claim that “ raising penalties” is not a crime deterrent since the status quo is not working. Obviously, something needs to change.

It is pretty typical for progressives to claim that they are concerned with getting to the "root cause" of crime. But in reality, we know the cause of crime. It is the victimization of criminality and the condoning of lawlessness that contributes to this. In other words, a lack of morals from both the criminals and the officials the criminals vote for.

That said, Heastie does not care about any of this. He does not even pretend to care. These are the type of people New Yorkers are dealing with and the worst part about it is that the most vulnerable and innocent members of society will suffer because of it.

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