🧩 BND Motif Index · M148
Soft on crime
A politician sides with criminals over victims, letting offenders go or tying the police's hands.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ Crime and punishment🗂️ Politician Archetypes
- 14claims filed under it
- 1center show it came up on
- 5right shows it came up on
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Sanctuary city
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Abdul El-Sayed addresses past criticism of Obama 2026-10-08 to 2026-10-13
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “Rogue district attorneys are releasing violent felons to commit more crimes.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-26 “Democrats support defunding the police and ending cash bail.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show 🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-24 “Kathy Hochul is the most pro-criminal governor in the United States due to cashless bail and lack of ICE cooperation.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-23 “Democrats are the party of more crime and less safety.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-16 “Sanctuary cities protect criminals and refuse to cooperate with law enforcement to catch them.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ Fox News Rundown - 2026-10-15 “Sanctuary jurisdictions prevent federal authorities from picking up illegal immigrants who have been arrested in local jails.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-15 “Governor Kathy Hochul is preventing law enforcement from turning criminals into ICE custody.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-14 “The American prison system is a corrupt system that fails to punish criminals.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-11 “Mass deportations result in the release of more violent criminals.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-08 “El-Sayed supported defunding our police. Then he called for abolishing prisons and releasing criminals into our neighborhoods.” 🔎 FactCheck.org
- 2026-10-08 “Politicians are often hesitant to support changes to death penalty laws to avoid being perceived as soft on crime.”
🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-03 “The voter states that their town, Waterford, defunded its police department” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-09-28 “Abdul El-Sayed supports defunding the police and emptying prisons” 🔎 PolitiFact
- 2026-09-12 “Ken Paxton pardoned a friend who was a child molester.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M148 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works