The first year of live facial recognition technology has been the biggest breakthrough for crime detection since DNA, the Metropolitan Police chief leading its introduction has said.
In an exclusive interview with The Times, the Met’s director of intelligence, Lindsey Chiswick, said that the tool had been a “game-changer”, triggering an arrest every two hours of alleged criminals including rapists, burglars and robbers since it was introduced last April.
I cannot stop watching this… pic.twitter.com/IDfvfryv6K
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 5, 2024
Deputy Toronto Police Chief Lauren Pogue said at a news conference Friday that police were confronted by “a very hostile crowd who actually assaulted our officers,” including a police horse, at a pro-Palestinian street protest last weekend. Pogue detailed how their concerns aren’t with the whole protest movement, but with a group of repeat agitators who continually ignore police warnings to follow the law.
Deputy Mayor speaking at Al Quds Day, notice the Hezbollah flag behind her pic.twitter.com/2mRugG99kb
— Yossi Gedank (@GedankYossi) April 5, 2024
Hamas rejected Israel’s latest proposal to cease fighting and release hostages, according to a Friday CNN report.
According to an unnamed diplomat cited by CNN, “They refused and asserted it doesn’t include any reply to their asks.”
According to the diplomat, Hamas believed the “Israeli proposal includes nothing new, so they see no need to change their proposal,” the official added.
Two more premiers are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to host a First Ministers’ meeting on the carbon tax.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Ontario Premier Doug Ford both released letters April 5 to request a meeting. The premiers of Alberta, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick have already done so.
Cameron Ortis, a former RCMP intelligence official who was found guilty of breaching the country’s secrets act, has been granted bail while his sentence is appealed.
Jon Doody, one of Mr. Ortis’s lawyers, said Friday in an interview that Mr. Ortis is expected to be released some time next week. His client remains at the Joyceville Institution in Kingston.
In February, Mr. Ortis, 51, was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison, which is being appealed by both the Crown and the defence.
“Be certain that Iran’s response to the targeting of its Damascus consulate is inevitable,” said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech on Friday. Israel appears to be taking the Iranian proxy’s warning seriously.
Nasrallah’s warnings mirror the rhetoric broadcast by the Iranian regime in response to an Israeli strike on an informal Iranian diplomatic consulate in Syria on Monday, in which two Quds Force operatives — Brigadier Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed. Israeli media has reported on speculation that Iranian retaliation could take the form of a missile attack on Israel launched directly from Iranian territory, but it could just as easily involve a volley of any number of the thousands of missiles in Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon. Israel has called up reservists in anticipation of an Iranian reprisal, warned the Biden administration of its intent to respond to an Iranian attack, evacuated diplomatic personnel from a number of embassies and consulates worldwide, and warned Israeli officials to lay low for the time being.
The FBI trained personnel on countering extremism with material from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to former special agent turned whistleblower Steve Friend.
In an interview with the Tennessee Informer last month, Friend recalled his experience at the FBI Academy in 2014: “We were shown a video that was produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” The film, Friend said, “ranked people who oppose abortion, pro-life activists, as a greater threat than Islamists.”
Police Scotland will target young men with “with ideas about white-male entitlement” under the new Hate Crime Act.
Scotland recently took a giant step towards becoming one of the most restrictive countries in Europe. The adjective ‘Orwellian’ trips too easily off of the lips these days, but with severe and significant restrictions to free speech being introduced in the contents of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which came into force on 1 April 2024, it is hard to imagine a more apt description.
Democrats hate black people. They hated them in the days of slavery and in the days of Jim Crow. In 2024, in our enlightened era of Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Democrats still hate blacks. In the old days, though, Democrats showed their teeth with open hostility. Their current, more effective tactic is to hide their hatred behind a mask of love.
In 1980 Peter Brown, a former assistant to Brian Epstein who later ran Apple Corps, managed the Beatles and was best man at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s wedding, started work on the definitive account of the Beatles. With the American author Steven Gaines, he spoke to the three surviving band members alongside wives, girlfriends, managers, friends, hangers-on and everyone else in the Fabs’ universe. The book promised to be the last word in Beatles history. Then in 1983 The Love You Make was published, and all hell broke loose.
Six months on, Jews are starting to lose faith
So have we reached the end of the line? Do the latest failures and miscalculations — the relentless assault on the al-Shifa Hospital, the fatal airstrike on aid-workers, the targeting of an Iranian General in Damascus, while Hamas’s hostages languish God knows where — mark a turning point in Israel’s relations with the world? Is this the hour when its most understanding allies call time on the killing and even a fervent believer in Israel’s cause, such as I am, begins to waver?
What are we seeing? Are the terrible scenes from Gaza the projections on a bloody screen of one brutal and clumsy man’s baffled obstinacy — the last days of a demented Roman Emperor — or do they show, as anti-Zionists would have it, indeed as anti-Zionists have had it ever since the Jewish longing to return to Zion gave itself a name and the anti-Zionists called it colonialism, that something is rotten in the soul of Israel?
Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Speech in Open Letter
Toronto Police have warned pro-Palestinian protesters to behave, saying agitators are escalating tensions on Toronto streets in the wake of multiple arrests at a downtown demonstration last Saturday.
Police have said that, during Saturday’s protest, they seized a truck to lay a charge of stunt driving, and that protesters then “became aggressive and assaultive” toward officers. They said one woman threw horse manure at officers while another “intentionally used a flagpole to ‘spear’ at an officer.” Organizers of the rally later accused the officers of using excessive force.
Bravo TPS.
TPS "has attended hundreds of demonstrations since October 7th…cost of policing these events has now surpassed $12M dollars… there are individuals consistently involved in these protests who act as agitators, and who are becoming increasingly confrontational and violent" pic.twitter.com/ScXZRPKHsU
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 5, 2024
Hundreds of far-right extremists and members of the Reichsbürger group were still in possession of a weapons license at the start of last year despite incipient efforts to disarm them, German media reported on Friday.
As of December 31, 2022, 1,051 extremists and some 400 Reichsbürger had permission to own at least one weapon, the corporate newsroom RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland said, citing the Interior Ministry’s response to a parliamentary question from the Left Party.
A year previously, 1,561 extremists and some 500 Reichsbürger possessed arms licenses, according to the ministry.
A steady drumbeat of articles about the “Far Right” threat is in my view driven by the establishment’s fear of the growing popularity of the AfD party.
