With last year’s devastating homicide spike continuing, some proponents of “progressive” criminal-justice reforms are more convinced than ever that they have the right approach. Eric Levitz, writing at New York’s Intelligencer blog, views 2020’s 30 percent year-over-year increase in murder not as a political liability but as yet another reason to support a progressive reform agenda—one that reduces the footprints of incarceration and policing.
Petty theft is so out of control in San Francisco that a $3 tube of Colgate Anti-Cavity needs to be locked up for safe keeping!
Blood is flowing in the streets of American cities. Gang members and anyone in the vicinity are being shot by rivals. Random pedestrians are being shot and stabbed. Public transit customers are being stabbed on subway cars and thrown off the platform and onto the rails. Little children are being shot in their strollers, on their porches, and in their car seats.
Those pesky guns — that Lori Lightfoot blames for Chicago’s extraordinary murder statistics — had a busy holiday weekend in the Windy City. The Chicago Tribune laments in sorry detail.
Last week CNN published a story headlined “Concerns rising inside White House over surge in violent crime.”
A nationwide surge in violent crime has emerged as a growing area of concern inside the White House, where President Joe Biden and his aides have listened with alarm as local authorities warn a brutal summer of killing lies ahead…
CHICAGO—As Chicago aldermen took turns questioning Police Superintendent David Brown about an alarming crime wave on Friday, Brown said police officers had done their utmost and that the blame should be directed at the court system which had sent too many violent offenders back on the street.
About 20 aldermen requested the special city council meeting with Brown following two violent weekends that saw 24 people killed and 114 injured in Chicago. The day before the meeting, a 1-month-old baby and a 9-year-old girl were both shot in the head; another 8-year-old girl was shot in the arm.
The current levels and psychic costs of violent crime in many US cities are, well, criminal
Just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday June 1, 18-year-old Kennedy Hobbs of Jackson, Mississippi stopped at a gas station off of Medgar Evers Boulevard to gas up. She had graduated from Murrah High School in Jackson that same day and was on her way to a graduation party. While at the gas station, she made a phone call. While talking, she was shot multiple times by an unknown person and died on the scene. Details are murky and police are still investigating, but at this time it doesn’t appear that Hobbs knew the shooter.
Chicago continues to be the U.S. poster city for random and senseless violence. During the last weekend of June, 77 people were shot and two mass shootings occurred almost back to back.
Hours after Chicago’s Puerto Rico Day parade on June 19, a Puerto Rican driver and passenger were dragged from their car by a mob after a minor traffic accident and shot execution-style. The spark from the gunfire can be plainly seen in a video before the offenders run off. The slaying resembles a lynching that might occur in a lawless, poor country but not in the U.S.’s third-largest city.
#BREAKING: Police have charged 31-year-old Umar Zameer with first-degree murder in the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup this morning in the City Hall parking garage. https://t.co/C3Fd5tmXfD
— CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) July 2, 2021
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has reached a $850m (£617m) settlement with some 60,000 people over claims of historic sexual abuse.
Lawyers say it will be the largest sexual abuse settlement in US history.
In terms of reported numbers, it dwarves similar complaints made against the Catholic Church in the country.
The BSA has apologised to victims and filed for bankruptcy last year, saying it would set up a compensation trust for victims of sexual abuse.
A Toronto police officer has died following an incident near City Hall overnight, Chief James Ramer has confirmed.
“It is with profound sadness that I confirm the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup of 52 Division,” Ramer said while providing an update on the situation Friday morning.
More… Toronto police officer run down, killed in city hall parking garage
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned Bill Cosby’s 2019 sexual assault conviction, ruling that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous prosecutor should have prevented him from being charged in the case.
The 83-year-old comedian has served more than two years of a three-to-10 year sentence in a state prison in Montgomery County, after his conviction on charges he drugged and molested Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004.
Mere days after federal prosecutors recommended that Allison Mack receive leniency for her involvement with the NXIVM cult, the former Smallville actress and her attorneys have directly requested no time behind bars.
“It is now of paramount importance for me to say, from the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry,” said a letter from Mack herself, accompanying sentencing guideline recommendations from her attorneys.
In other Celebrity Deviant News – Ghislaine Maxwell began to share ‘little black book’ with Epstein as early as the 1980s
According to a recent report from Clairvoyance Cyber Corp., tech companies such as Huawei and China Telecom are now targeting Canada in a “multifaceted type of warfare.”
As reported by Global News of Canada, Clairvoyance Cyber Corp. provides consulting services for CSIS and the RCMP. The report was completed in 2019 for Public Safety Canada, and warns that “state-sponsored cybercrime could be costing Canada an estimated $100 billion per year.”
Cops in Florida and New York weren’t quick on the draw when it came to investigating billionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Too much money. Too many influential friends.
