Crime

Last week, the city of Malibu hosted a “Protect Your Property Security Workshop,” with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Malibu/Lost Hills Station as co-host. It’s an odd event: the city and the sheriff are telling people how to protect their own property. Isn’t the government supposed to do that?

This isn’t the first time Malibu has admitted to its residents that the city can’t keep them safe. In mid-May, two days before the Pacific Coast Highway re-opened to outside traffic after the L.A. fires, the Malibu City Council voted to spend $260,000 a month to hire private security guards to prevent homes from being burglarized.

Following a summer of horrific crimes — a fatal domestic assault in the street by a man on release, the stabbing of a grandmother in front of a grocery store, the execution of a loving father in front of his children during a break-in, to name a few — the Liberals want you to know that they’ve got a plan for justice reform.

It involves reforms for bail, domestic violence and hate crime — which were already reformed a few years back. Justice Minister Sean Fraser is coming into the fall session with the same old dusted-off stack of ineffective ideas that his predecessors already implemented.

Registered sex offender Daniel Senecal faces a new charge to go with the five already laid after a three-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in her Welland, Ont., home.

In St. Catharines court Wednesday morning, the 25-year-old was charged with breach of probation during a brief appearance via video, wearing green jail garb from the Toronto South Detention Centre.

Asked whether he understood the new charge, Senecal replied “yes.”

There are times when a lynching just saves money.

Two GTA men fighting extradition to the U.S. over their role in a drug trafficking syndicate allegedly led by Canadian ex-Olympian and fugitive drug lord Ryan Wedding are asking prosecutors to reveal more evidence to the defence in the wake of the apparent assassination of a “critical” FBI witness.

Gurpreet Singh, 31, and his uncle, Hardeep Ratte, 46, are in Canadian custody facing extradition for allegedly organizing shipments of more than 650 kilograms of cocaine into Canada on behalf of Wedding’s criminal enterprise.

Political crime, like the murder of Charlie Kirk, is one thing, and we are committed to crushing it – at this writing, there is a suspect in custody in Utah, which shoots criminals, and I’d hate to be his life insurance underwriter. Street crime is another issue, and after the assassination briefly took the focus off Iryna’s public transit murder, it will be back. As Republicans, solving street crime is a moral obligation as well as our ticket to victory in 2026. Luckily, the solution to the criminal disorder sweeping blue-run cities – yeah, Governor Hairstyle, the chaos in the red states is entirely within those parts of them that are deep blue – is pretty simple. It’s no secret. You simply refuse to tolerate disorder, from the worst manifestations of criminality like that shambling semi-human who decided to stab an innocent woman on a train car to the relatively minor (but still important) petty crimes like vandalism, shoplifting, fare-beating, and public disorderliness. But it’s not just actual crime that contributes to the inexcusable vibe of insecurity Dems tolerate. Some scumbag out in public who is demonstrating dominance of public spaces by acting menacingly, playing loud music, puffing on a spliff, or whatever, needs immediate and firm attention, whether by the official authorities or by citizens who understand that the government will have their back rather than the back of the miscreant.

h/t DS

OTTAWA — In Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Canadians have been dying violently — a pattern pointing to the rise of a global narco-kingpin, born not in Sinaloa, Jalisco, or Cancún, but in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

In January 2022, two men were gunned down in the lobby of the Hotel Xcaret, just south of Playa del Carmen. The victims were Vancouver’s Cong Dinh — long known to police as a money launderer within Chinese networks moving synthetic narcotics into the United States and bringing cocaine from Mexico back to Canada — and Toronto’s Thomas Cherukara, both 34. Six months later, in June 2022, two more Canadians, including one on Interpol’s wanted list for fraud, were found stabbed to death in a Playa del Carmen condominium. In December 2023, Montreal’s Samy Tamouro, connected to the Hells Angels, was shot dead inside a Cancún gym. A year later, another Hells Angels associate, Quebec fugitive Mathieu Bélanger — a high-ranking cocaine trafficker wanted on firearms charges — was sprayed with bullets in broad daylight as he climbed into a new Jeep SUV at a Playa del Carmen shopping plaza, the sicarios tearing off on a motorcycle as bystanders scattered.

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.

Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.

‘I got that white girl’, muttered Decarlos Brown Jr last month, as he walked down the aisle of a train, a bloody knife still in his hand. Behind him, 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska – a Ukrainian refugee on her way home from work – lay dying on the floor of the carriage.

Americans are learning this week about the urgent need to rebuild insane asylums and expand prison capacity, given the Democratic Party’s nation-killing progressive mass-release policies that have flooded city streets and communities with violent criminals, such as the one who brutally murdered a young Ukrainian refugee woman in broad daylight on public transit in North Carolina.

H/T DS

Don’t black lives matter to Democrats anymore?

The number of dead in their city quietly passed 300 even while Illinois Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson protested President Trump’s plan to send the National Guard to Chicago.

In Chicago, a person is currently shot every 4 hours and murdered less than every 20 hours. As I write this, the death clock has already passed 300 and stands at 303. The number of people who have been shot is at 1,399 and by the time you read this, will be well past 1,400.

The slaughter of Iryna Zarutska was horrific, unacceptable—and preventable.

The video of Decarlos Brown, Jr., slaughtering 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light-rail train on the night of August 22nd is sickening in many ways, but one aspect of the horror was how mundanely it unfolded. All of us who have had to contend with greater chaos and danger on mass-transit systems since 2020 have created useful fictions for ourselves: that wouldn’t happen to me, because I know not to sit near the crazy guy. I know to sit around other people. I know how to defend myself—punch someone, bite someone, scream. The video demolishes that fiction. We’ve also had to contend with a related fiction: that our transit systems remain safe. It’s time we stopped accepting random murders on our transit systems as normal.

The TTC is an urban transit nightmare.