America’s favorite judge, court television host Judy Sheindlin, divulged why she thinks drove of residents are leaving “woke” cities, which, according to her, have become crime-ridden.
Sheindlin served as a Manhattan family court judge once upon a time, but made her mark on the “Judge Judy” show from 1996 to 2021, and recently came back to screens with “Judy Justice.”
The outspoken television personality recently gave her hot take on the lack of punishment for crimes committed in liberal hotbeds.
“Oh, I know how we got here,” Sheindlin, 81, told Fox News. “We got here because a small group of people who had very loud voices created a scenario where bad people got rewarded. And the victim got punished by the system.”
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“When society started to make excuses for bad behavior, and react to criminality based upon the excuses, it fell apart,” she added.
Sheindlin noted that there “is never an excuse for bad behavior,” but pointed out that certain liberal states have let crime run rampant and reduced punishments.
She also doesn’t believe that older teenage offenders should be charged as or housed with younger tween criminals just because they’re still minors.
“You’re just as dead if somebody who’s 18 kills you or 17, you’re just as dead,” Sheindlin added.
She said that cities like her native New York have fallen victim to rampant lawlessness.
“A very small group of people pushed through, in New York state for example, raising the level of criminal responsibility,” the television judge criticized. “That’s ridiculous.”
“You have a family, you have a mother who’s 65 years old that’s walking to a grocery store, and some crazy, for no reason hits her over the head with a steel pipe and kills her, and they’re 17; that person should never be allowed to walk the street again,” she cited as an example.
“Society can’t take a chance,” she went on. “I wouldn’t take a chance putting them living next to me, why would I take a chance putting them next to you?”
Sheindlin criticized district attorneys like Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, who released a group of migrants that assaulted NYPD officers in Times Square without bail, for being soft on crime.
“When you have district attorneys who are charged, whose job it is to do justice, but to keep the community safe,” she slammed.
“When you have elected district attorneys who don’t know what their job is, they should go find another job.”
“Fill ice cream cones someplace. But don’t ruin cities,” she continued. “What’s happened around New York City, Portland, San Francisco, you had district attorneys who didn’t know what their job was. And the cities are ruined, people are leaving.”
“We better get smart before we get lost, permanently,” Shendlin told the outlet.
Judge Judy is putting her money where her mouth is, by selling her upscale penthouse at 14 Sutton Place South so she can flee New York.
Sheindlin and her husband, former New York Supreme Court Judge Jerry Sheindlin, 90, bought the Manhattan property in 2013 for $8.5 million, and want to flip it for a million dollar profit.
“We’ve enjoyed this jewel of an apartment,” she told The New York Times in an email. “Time to simplify.”
Earlier this month, Sheindlin filed a defamation lawsuit against the Enquirer and InTouch Weekly owner Accelerate360 over an article claiming she is pushing for a new trial for the infamous Menendez brothers.
The story alleged that she thought that Lyle and Erik Menéndez, who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1989, did not get a fair shake during their 1996 second trial.
The lawsuit, filed in Florida state court, seeks unspecified “general and special damages,” and a jury trial.
“When you fabricate stories about me in order to make money for yourselves with no regard for the truth or the reputation I’ve spent a lifetime cultivating, it’s going to cost you,” she told Deadline.
“When you’ve done it multiple times, it’s unconscionable and will be expensive. It has to be expensive so that you will stop.”
The 20-page filing said that a Fox Nation documentary was misquoted for the InTouch and Enquirer articles, which fasly identified Sheindlin as an alternate juror named ‘Judi Zamos’ in the Menendez trial.
“The article was unequivocally false,” states the 20-page court document states. “After Plaintiff publicly indicated that she would seek to right the wrong done to her reputation.”