Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast on JustTheNews.com. I hope you'll check out all the Just The News podcasts. You

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Today we're looking at the soft-on crime debate. We're talking to a George Soros funded

Reform Prosecutor, Steve Discano of Fairfax County, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Police

Chief Robert Conti.

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A recent poll found that the vast majority of American voters say that America's current

violent crime wave is going to be a big factor in the upcoming midterm elections. Today

we're going to hear from flip sides of the same coin, a fascinating and insightful interview

with Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney in Virginia, the top prosecutor there, Steve

Discano. He's one of the dozens of so-called Reform prosecutors elected in recent years

across the country, instituting what many critics say are soft-on crime policies that they blame

for America's crime surge. You'll hear his side of the story. He makes a lot of great points.

He and some of his colleagues were heavily funded by George Soros, the billionaire activist.

I asked him about that too. You won't want to miss it. But first, a different perspective from

a man who's at ground zero. Let's call it one of America's biggest tough neighborhoods,

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