Crime

The black Mercedes-Benz with dealer plates cuts us off at the lights on the corner of Highways 7 and 27, in the middle of the Greater Toronto Area, nearly clipping our front fender. It’s deliberate. He sees we’re a cop car. He wants a chase.

Sergeant Mark Walton gives him one. The second the siren wails, the Benz is gone, 180 according to the dashboard radar, 180 in a 70 zone, well past the threshold for stunt driving in Ontario. Weaving through traffic, it careens south down the cloverleaf onto the 407, going well over 200 kilometres an hour. We are in pursuit until the Benz rises to 220, 240 and Sgt. Walton eases up. The situation is too dangerous to continue.

The Washington Post’s Fatal Force tool can be useful, but its mistakes reinforce a false narrative.

According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. Wolford, Jr. was, in fact, non-fatally shot by the Columbus police after stabbing a woman and pointing a shotgun at officers. In 2019, he received a three-year prison sentence (which he appealed, and lost, in 2020). He died in his home in April 2023.

Any police use of force, especially deadly force, is a grave matter. But the reason that videos of police shootings tend to go viral is that they are quite rare—and the unjustified or even questionable use of deadly force is rarer still. Our calculations—based on the annual average of police–public contacts from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Police Public Contact Survey in 2015, 2018, and 2020, and on the annual fatal shooting counts of the Post database—show that police use force of any type in less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all 911 calls. Less than 0.002 percent of police encounters each year result in a fatal shooting by police.

A 32-year-old man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in London’s Leicester Square on Monday.

Ioan Pintaru, a Romanian national with no fixed address, is also charged with possession of a bladed article.

The prosecutor told the court that Mr Pintaru allegedly placed the girl into a headlock and stabbed her eight times. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Victoria police say a man was able to target the same business twice in one day.

Around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, police officers were called to Ocean Garden Restaurant on Fisgard Street after a man broke through the front door.

He ran away and was arrested, police said.

However, he didn’t stay behind bars for very long.

h/t DS

Alex Murdaugh’s sins were heartless and vast, cruel and violent. They were often described as shocking, but not by the people of Hampton County, S.C., who lived under the control of the Murdaugh family for a century. To them, Alex’s behavior was all too familiar.

Every crime that disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of has some precedent in the past, from the theft of $10 million from his most vulnerable clients over the course of a decade, to the coverup of a deadly boat crash in 2019 and even the murders of his wife and younger son in 2021. Alex had been raised to believe that he could get away with all manner of wrongdoing because his forebears had done so for generations.

Venezuela’s democratic forces are a pretty observant lot, having spotted evidence of fraud in some background pictures of the regime’s vote-counting houses as employees took selfies.

As a police officer – what's it like to take a bribe from organized crime?

Is it common? Do police ask for bribes, or do criminals offer them without solicitation?

For over a year my @torontopolice squad took bribes from the Chinese mob.

They paid four of us. The stakes were… pic.twitter.com/S7INAXHx9A

— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) August 1, 2024

The Southport attack suspect has been named in court as Axel Rudakubana, 17.

Appearing at Liverpool & Knowsley youth court on Thursday morning, he was charged with three murders, ten attempted murders and of possessing a kitchen knife with a curved blade.

He will appear at Liverpool crown court later on Thursday.

Things you’ll never see English police do against Mohammedans …

Police ‘deal swiftly’ with protesters in London and Hartlepool after previous Southport riot

Protests over the mass-stabbing that took place in Southport spread to other areas of the country on Wednesday evening.

Hundreds gathered outside Downing Street, in the centre of London, at 7pm for a rally following the killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town on Monday.

In Hartlepool, Co Durham, a number of arrests were made after protesters clashed with riot police in the centre of town as they attempted to march towards a nearby mosque, reports suggest.

A dozen policemen to arrest a female patriot. The same police that flee when Muslim immigrants are there. The London police are a joke. https://t.co/XkUUhbiJWL pic.twitter.com/irpomBWTHC

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) July 31, 2024