Vermont prosecutor is on the board of an organization that wants to abolish prisons

https://old.reddit.com/r/burlington/comments/wan88p/whats_the_deal_with_sarah_george/

She also used her political power to get rowboats banned from a lake her family owns property on so she could water ski there. And she got sued for discriminating against a black employee which is ironic considering her whole brand is racial justice.

#GetCondescending with Sarah George.

But also

Racial discrimination:https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/05/panel-sarah-george-discriminated-against-black-employee/

Pushing rowers off of a public pond so she has more time to waterski:https://vtdigger.org/2017/07/16/pond-rule-change-could-favor-lawyers-power-boat-over-rowers/

Letting a killer out against the will of the victimized family:https://www.vtcng.com/shelburnenews/news/police_blotter/convicted-killer-can-go-free-after-new-deal-by-prosecutor/article_899a8c16-8511-11ec-87f4-8f93ffebdb11.html

during her tenure as SA, she's decided not to prosecute mid-level offenders, despite many of them being arrested multiple times (I'm not talking about 3 or times, I talking 20+ times). She's opposed pre-trial confinement for high risk offenders. She's not requested bail for repeat offenders, making it more challenging to prosecute offences. While I think there should be a larger focus on treatment and rehabilitation, some people need to be incarcerated as they are a danger to themselves and others - Sarah George lets people walk that should be in jail

You did get that wrong. Sarah George has gone on the record SEVERAL times saying that she “wants to blow the whole criminal justice system up”, and has taken numerous steps to do so without ANY plan for how she’ll rebuild it, or offer justice to the victims who’ve been maligned as the result of her policies. One of the steps she took in doing so was refusing to prosecute offenses deemed unworthy of prosecution like shoplifting, regardless of the number of priors the person has. In some cases, she also wouldn’t charge for violent offenses if the perpetrator in question might have a mental health issue. We had an instance last year where a woman tried to break into our building after hours. After she refused to leave, we called the cops; when they showed up, she pulled a knife, threatened me, threatened them, and slashed one of the cop cars tires. Rather than arrest her, they created a perimeter and waited. What did the proceed to do? Take a dump in the parking lot, and throw the feces at the officers and passers by. This continued for a few hours, before she demanded to be taken elsewhere. Having no other recourse, the police obliged. In speaking with chief Burke, officers had had to respond to incidents involving the same individual over 90 times that year, and hadn’t been able to prosecute for any of them. Many of those calls were violent; more than one resulted in her stabbing someone. She was never arrested; she was never held; she never saw the inside of a courtroom. Not once over 90 cases.

This is only one example highlighting the failure of her policies. Another was from the shooting that happened a few weeks ago, where a man was shot in the head in broad daylight in the old north end. The kid who shot him had been pulled over two nights before the shooting. During the stop, they discovered that he had on his person a stolen handgun, was a suspected gang member, and had a criminal record replete with history of violent offenses. Due to Sarah George’s policies, they had no choice but to let him go. Two nights later, the same kid and the same gun killed an unarmed man in the street in broad daylight.

There are countless other examples of her incompetence. Any idiot can blow something up. It takes conviction, courage, compromise and competence to rebuild what will replace it. Sarah has failed to demonstrate any of these qualities. She’s more than happy to compromise public safety in order to both pursue her political agenda, and build her self-righteous brand.