> Foxx has directed her office to not prosecute shoplifting cases under $1,000 as felonies.

I mean you can still prosecute them as anything else i.e. misdemeanor. Personally, I'm not sure that stealing a backpack with a laptop should count as a felony.

If not getting to put somebody away for a decades for stealing an iPhone makes you quit your job; maybe you're not in it to protect and to serve.

> declining to prosecute low-level shoplifting and drug offenses and by diverting more cases to alternative treatment programs.

So instead of sending people to jail she's sending them to rehab. I'd personally say a very short prison sentence followed by rehab is probably most effective (I mean look at how hard white collar criminals try to avoid prison; it has a powerful effect even if its for <7d). But unless he's going to show that the people in rehab instead of prison are committing these crimes (which it almost always isn't; plenty of fresh criminals available) it's an argument without any evidence.

I also don't think firing gunshots in a playground (his actual complain) counts as "low-level shoplifting" as well as crime is increasing everywhere including non-democratic states/counties. She'd never get elected in the bible belt so many he should consider employment there. (note: bible belt has the highest homicide rate [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...