According to the latest data, black Americans, who make up 13 percent of the population, comprised 60.4 percent of known murder offenders in 2021—a new record!
Crime
Liberal Media Spin Rising Violent Crime as Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Violent crime remains intolerably high, but the left wants you to think that perception is just a concoction of right-wing media.
After more than a decade of violent crime decreases with just a few interludes, crime has shot back up to levels not seen since the early 1990s.
When the left acknowledges this fact, it often does so by tying the violent crime increase to the sale of guns. However, there’s no evidence that the additional crimes are being committed by law-abiding gun owners.
h/t HN
Jamie Sarkonak: The Ontario homicide case that has ended racial fairness in court
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled late September that the criminal records of Indigenous persons can be excluded from their trials to preserve fairness. Trial fairness, to Ontario’s top court, means creating race-based procedural rules to supposedly make up for the effects of systemic racism. In other words, these rules aren’t fair at all.
The Twin Crusades Against Drugs and Guns
The war on drugs conspires with the war on guns to make a mockery of justice.
Weldon Angelos grew up in a musical family. His father, a Greek immigrant, aspired to be a country singer, while relatives on his mother’s side were jazz and country musicians. Angelos’ tastes were somewhat different: By his early 20s, he had gotten a start as a rap producer.
Angelos had collaborated with well-known hip-hop artists, including Snoop Dogg. He had his own label in Salt Lake City, Extravagant Records. To supplement his income and support his two young children, Angelos also sold marijuana, which is how he ended up with a 55-year federal prison sentence.
Las Vegas stabbing suspect is in US illegally, has criminal record
The suspect accused of killing two people and injuring six others during a stabbing rampage on the Las Vegas Strip is in the U.S. illegally, sources told Fox News.
Yoni Barrios, 32, is a Guatemalan national in the U.S. illegally with a criminal record in California, a source with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Two dead, multiple injured in stabbing attack on Las Vegas showgirls
A violent stabbing attack left two peole dead and at least eight others injured in Las Vegas Thursday.
Some of the victims were showgirls taking pictures with tourists, bystanders told Fox 5.
Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters on the scene there had been eight victims; two who had died and three who were in critical condition in hospital.
Criminal Neglect
Newly released numbers from the National Crime Victimization Survey confirm that violent crime in urban areas is rising dramatically.
Confirming widespread perceptions, the nation’s largest crime survey finds that violent crime in urban areas rose dramatically from 2020 to 2021. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical arm of the Department of Justice, recently released findings from the 2021 National Crime Victimization Survey. According to the NCVS, which dates to the Nixon administration, the rate of violent crime rose only in urban areas. It did not change to a statistically significant degree in suburban or rural areas.
Arrests are ‘futile’ to curb crime, B.C.’s attorney general says
More arrests are “futile,” British Columbia’s attorney general says as he rebuffed criticism of government policies on repeat offenders and violent crime across the province.
Murray Rankin told the legislature on Tuesday that increasing arrests is not the answer to battle crime.
His statement comes despite a recent government-commissioned report citing police and probation officers saying repeat offenders “are emboldened to continue offending, deteriorating community confidence in the justice system.”
‘Do not fight’: Toronto police announce carjacking arrests, warn residents of ‘troubling’ rise
Toronto police have made a series of arrests in connection with the “troubling” rise in carjackings, Insp. Richard Harris of the hold-up squad said Tuesday.
The arrests of several teenagers — including an 18-year-old woman — come as Toronto has 182 reported carjackings so far this year compared to 102 in all of 2021. Fifty-six of the vehicles stolen this year have been recovered.
Time to start shutting down basketball courts.
One thousand people, mostly blacks, have been killed in Philadelphia over 20 months – Soros DA says policies working!
Considering the unprecedented murder surge in America’s cities over the last two years, one might expect progressive district attorneys to reconsider the policies that have kept criminals out of jails and on the streets.
The Falling Black Incarceration Rate
The disparity between whites and blacks has shrunk.
William J. Sabol and Thaddeus L. Johnson of the Council on Criminal Justice have released a new report breaking down the black–white gap in incarceration since 2000—focusing on state prisons, which house the vast majority of prisoners in the U.S., and excluding Hispanics from both the black and white populations.
They find that the disparity has markedly decreased, a little-noticed trend. In 2000, fewer than 300 of every 100,000 white adults were in state prisons. For blacks, the number was about eight times higher—nearly 2,500. Over the next two decades, the black rate fell by nearly half, while the white rate first edged up and then dipped somewhat, bringing the disparity under five-to-one in 2020.
Road rage shooting: $7K reward offered after 3-year-old boy shot, killed in Chicago, police say
CHICAGO (WLS) — A $7,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the person who police said shot and killed 3-year-old Mateo Zastro, leaving his family torn.
“That mother is still grieving. All she’s doing is clutching onto two dinosaurs, and this was the baby’s favorite toy, said community activist Andrew Holmes.
The leftover shattered glass is a reminder of the terrifying moments that ended with the toddler fatally shot while riding in the car with his mother and three siblings.
Knife crime hits record high as one in six cases solved in London
Criminals are being ‘emboldened’ by declining prosecution rates
As few as one in six crimes involving a knife, including murders, rapes and grievous bodily harm, are being solved by police as the number of offences hits a record high in parts of England and Wales.
Analysis of police data by The Telegraph revealed that seven police forces – a quarter of the total in England and Wales – saw knife crime hit a record high in the year ending March 2022.
However, the proportion of knife offences resulting in a charge or other criminal sanction fell by at least 50 per cent in the past six years, despite the seriousness of the crimes and the risk posed to the public.
MANDEL: Another senior Toronto cop faces Police Act charges in promotions scandal
Another senior Toronto cop has been caught up in the promotions scandal, the Sun has learned.
Looking stern and displeased, Staff Sgt. Kirwin Marshall made his first appearance, albeit virtually, at a disciplinary tribunal Thursday on Police Act charges alleging he exchanged texts with Supt. Stacy Clarke that contained “racist or ethnic stereotypes.”
… “During your conversations with Supt. Clarke, you made comments that belittled the Pride parade, contained racist or ethnic stereotypes and were insulting to senior officers of the organization,” the notice alleges.
Apotex, Barry Sherman’s ‘fifth child,’ sold to American buyer as police continue to probe his murder
He was “butterball” to one teacher at Forest Hill Collegiate. Another called him “sluggish.” But Bernard “Barry” Sherman’s brain was alive with schemes and ideas that would eventually take him to the heights of the Canadian business and philanthropy scene.
“I like to make money and give it away,” Sherman would say when people asked what got him out of bed in the morning. In his life, Sherman did both, becoming a billionaire and giving enormous gifts to Jewish and non-Jewish causes.