In a 2020 article, the Heritage Foundation claims that "rogue prosecutors" (described in the article as prosecutors who are part of the "so-called progressive prosecutor movement") are partly responsible for increasing crime (my highlight):
There is nothing progressive about the rogue prosecutor movement. It is dangerous and fundamentally flawed for four reasons:
It usurps the constitutional role of the legislative branch;
It abuses and misunderstands the role of the county prosecutor;
Violent crime increases in cities where rogue prosecutors have been elected;
and Victims are forgotten and public safety overall suffers.
While less specific as to who they consider "rogue prosecutors", the Heritage Foundation reiterates the claim in a 2022 article (my highlight):
The very nature of criminal justice—to protect the innocent and increase public safety—is today undermined by a group of district attorneys (DAs) in America’s big, mostly Democratic-run cities.
These rogue prosecutors, and those who fund them, dress up their schemes with poll-tested feel-good language like “re-imagining prosecution,” and argue that “data and science” back their pro-criminal, anti-victim approach.
But that’s just nonsense when you see the actual results of their pro-criminal policies—urban disorder, mass shoplifting, open prostitution, and drug markets, and, in many cases, record numbers of shootings and murders.
