With twelve major cities hitting all time murder rates, maybe she is highlighting the increase. The smash and grab, arrested released, smash and grab, arrested released is a novelty as well.
You know if you Listen to the opposition’s point of view and how they Check their facts and how they backup their evidence you may have a change of Mind Of what is true and what is falseBecause I know both sides lie but the truth is in there somewhere
It wasn’t even a Christmas tree. Fox built a metal pyramid, hung greenery (probably fake), then hung decorations on it. You can call it a tree, I suppose, but it has the same relationship to a real tree that Fox’s construction of patriotism has to real patriotism.
You might remember that under the last administration, someone who ran his car into peaceful demonstrators was called a good guy by the leader. He would also refuse to say that such things were bad.
The police can’t be everywhere so, the best solution to crime is for crime is for the criminal,if they are convicted of ANY felony to be punished by the nature of what they are convicted for. I.E. arsonists, murders, etc. Rapists and child abusers should be publicly castrated in the most painfully possible! If you abuse an animal,you should be treated that way! Another idea is to treat bank robbers like they treated the James – Younger gang up in Northfield Minn. Goodnight and Good luck.
Yes it was wrong to burn that fake tree (?) In front of a fake news provider (!) I Don’t know if I should shake my head in disgust or give a thumbs up to the symbolism !
MSNBC sends a guy to follow the Rittenhouse jury back to their hotel, to photograph them and therefore intimidate them, meanwhile CNN can’t attract flies in the ratings and their #1 show gets pulled off the air for the host helping gather info on women who have accused his brother of sexual assault, but yeah, keep saying Fox (#! cable news channel for years now) is fake. Nice try, idiot.
To be honest soneone should have set the White House Christmas decorations that Melania and Ivanka designed on fire. Those things were horrors and abominations. Out in the front lawn, on fire, yuck.
Fox News Enters Second Day of Wall-to-Wall All-American Christmas Tree Fire Coverage
FOX News had a very, very emotional day on Wednesday after someone burned down their Christmas tree. The man suspected of lighting the fire was arrested and charged with multiple crimes before being released. His motives are unclear, but Fox News’ on-air personalities took turns suggesting it was an attack on America, Fox News, Christianity and even Hanukkah.
Things started early in the morning on Fox and Friends as Ainsley Earhardt explained how important the tree was. She had a bit of a Bluto Blutarsky moment as she threw Hanukkah in there, but nobody stopped her because she was rolling.
“The fire is believed to have started after Fox News’ pants caught on fire,” Kimmel cracked.
He was just getting warmed up: “The fire is believed to have started because judge Jeanine Pirro ate one too many rum balls and breathed on a cigarette.”
Kimmel noted the tree was actually a hollow structure in the shape of a tree, “the same way Tucker Carlson is a hollow structure that sort of resembles a human.”
Philadelphia has shattered its 30-year-old record for annual murders, surpassing the much larger cities of New York and Los Angeles as a dozen major cities post all-time records for homicides — all of them with Democratic mayors.As of December 6, Philadelphia had recorded 521 homicides for the year, surpassing New York’s 443 and Los Angeles at 352. This is despite the fact that with a population of 1.5 million, the City of Brotherly Love is less than half the size of Los Angeles and one-fifth of New York. Robert Boyce, a retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, blamed the nationwide murder surge on a sharp decline in arrests and pre-trial detention.’Nobody’s getting arrested anymore,’ Boyce told ABC News. ‘People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.’ Among the dozen cities setting new homicide records this year, five shattered previous records that were set the year before, in 2020: Indianapolis, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; Toledo, Ohio; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Four other cities have blown past records set during the crime wave of the 1980s and 90s: St. Paul, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Rochester, New York.Tucson, Arizona broke the prior murder record it had set in 2008.
In progressive Portland, soaring crime prompted the city council to last month restore $5.2 million of the $15 million it cut from police budgets during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Portland has recorded more murders this year than much larger San Francisco, and has roughly twice as many homicides as its larger neighbor, Seattle. ‘Many Portlanders no longer feel safe,’ Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, acknowledged. ‘And it is our duty, as leaders of this city, to take action and deliver better results within our crisis response system.’ Portland’s police department has struggled to keep up with the soaring crime rate amid an acute staffing shortage and budget cuts. The liberal Pacific Northwest city has responded by implementing novel solutions aimed at improving safety, including adding traffic barrels to prevent drive-by shootings and suspending minor traffic stops so officers can focus on immediate threats. So far this year, Portland has had more than 1,000 shootings, at least 314 people have been injured by bullets, and guns have accounted for three-quarters of homicides. Police attribute much of the gun violence to gangs, fights and retaliation killings, but the shooting wave is also killing and injuring innocent bystanders.
In Ohio’s capital city, Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther proposed boosting funding to recruit new police officers after the city broke its homicide record for the second year running.
‘We know, based on data and information, it’s a very small number to folks that are committing the overwhelming majority of violent acts in our community,’ Gitner, a Democrat, said last month, urging residents to share tips about crimes with police.
‘We need to bring these folks to justice, get them off our streets to help make our neighborhoods safer,’ he said.
Austin’s murder rate broke the longest-standing record of the dozen cities, recording more more homicides this year than the city has seen since 1984.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat, insisted last month that while homicides are increasing, the progressive Texas capital is still a safe city.
‘Those numbers are going up and in cities across the country,’ Adler told KTBC-TV last month. ‘But even with those numbers going up, our [per capita] murder rate lost and is still one of the lowest among major cities.’
According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report released in September, the nation saw a 30% increase in murder in 2020, the largest single-year jump since the bureau began recording crime statistics 60 years ago.
’Nobody’s getting arrested’Robert Boyce, retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department and an ABC News contributor, said that while there is no single reason for the jump in slayings, one national crime statistic stands out to him.
“Nobody’s getting arrested anymore," Boyce said. “People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.”
The FBI crime data shows that the number of arrests nationwide plummeted 24% in 2020, from the more than 10 million arrests made in 2019. The number of 2020 arrests — 7.63 million — is the lowest in 25 years, according to the data. FBI crime data is not yet available for 2021.
A workforce survey released in June by the Police Executive Research Forum found the retirement rate in police departments nationwide jumped 45% over 2020 and 2021. And another 18% of officers resigned, the survey found, a development which coincided with nationwide social justice protests and calls to defund law enforcement agencies following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
Chief LeRonne Armstrong of the Oakland, California, Police Department told ABC News recently that the lack of resources to fight crime is one of the reasons he suspects is why his city is seeing the highest number of homicides in decades. Oakland police have investigated at least 127 homicides in 2021, up from 102 in all of 2020. The Bay Area city’s all-time high for homicides is 175 set in 1992.
Armstrong said his department’s 676 officers is the smallest staff his agency has had in years, nearly 70 fewer officers than in 2020.
“To have 70, nearly 70 less officers a year later,” Armstrong said, “is definitely going to have an impact on our ability to address public safety.”
Fox’s Christmas tree got burned down – Democrats MUST have sent the arsonist and Soros MUST have paid him… “proof” that liberals are violently trying to cancel Christmas and Hanukkah and intimidate loyal GQPs – and for this Biden MUST be impeached and replaced directly with Trump… /s
Skin Colors Matter… not accountability or one’s character, so backward and extremely hypocritical.Who supports and believes this crap?Black Lives Matter is a sham organization, and they further demonstrated this with their ridiculous statement supporting Jussie Smollett.They called the trial a “white supremacist charade” and stated they could never believe police. They don’t seem to care if Smollett perjured himself. Their statement reveals that the only thing that matters to BLM is skin color.BLM did not have to provide any opinion or feedback regarding Smollett. But since they did, they should have at least condemned him for causing irreparable harm to those who suffer legitimate hate crimes. Instead, this is what they wrote:It’s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it’s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.The only system that is corrupt in this instance is Jussie Smollett’s honor system. If the group cannot find fault with those who do wrong, regardless of skin color, then the group is not worth taking seriously ever again. – Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner
Inarticulate? more like bullsh*tDistrict Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday said he was “inarticulate” earlier this week when he told reporters at his weekly news conference: “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence.”In a statement released by his office, Krasner said he recognized “that some inarticulate things I said earlier this week have offended people.” While suggesting that some of what he said had been “edited down to sound bites,” he said it was nonetheless his responsibility to speak carefully, adding: “It is my obligation to do better.”The reform-oriented district attorney ignited a firestorm Monday when pushed back on the notion that the city was gripped by violent crime. He pointed out an unusual phenomenon that’s been occurring in Philadelphia for several years: Even as gun violence and homicides have reached record heights, crimes without firearms have been flat or falling.Still, even though the statistics he cited were accurate, the spirit of his remarks was swiftly criticized as seeking to downplay or minimize the city’s unprecedented spike in killings and shootings.Critics included former mayor Michael A. Nutter, who wrote a blistering Inquirer op-ed calling Krasner’s remarks “some of the worst, most ignorant, and most insulting comments I have ever heard spoken by an elected official.” Some community advocates also said they felt the portrait Krasner painted did not line up with the reality people in impacted neighborhoods live with on a daily basis.
Committed to crime victims and implementing real solutions by lowering arrest threshold, lowering bail and spewing anti police rhetoric? More Libtard logic, lies and fake emotions.
Krasner, in his statement Thursday, said his office was committed to working with crime victims and survivors, and he pointed out that he has teared up at news conferences in the past when discussing episodes of gun violence.
“Those tears were real,” he said, “as are sleepless nights, and my frustration with a system that for decades has disregarded real solutions to our local and national gun violence
When the Biden Elitist Mafia sets the example of criminal behavior and MSM covers it up, what is to be expected of the common folk. Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to HideThe inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret.When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.This is the unvarnished story of what’s really inside the laptop and what China knows about the Bidens, by the New York Post journalist who brought it into the open.It exposes the coordinated censorship operation by Big Tech, the media establishment, and former intelligence operatives to stifle the New York Post’s coverage, in a chilling exercise of raw political power three weeks before the 2020 election.A treasure trove of corporate documents, emails, text messages, photographs, and voice recordings, spanning a decade, the laptop provided the first evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s ventures in China, Ukraine, and beyond, despite his repeated denials.This intimate insight into Hunter’s dissolute lifestyle shows he was incapable of holding down a job, let alone being paid tens of millions of dollars in high-powered international business deals by foreign interests, unless he had something else of value to sell—which of course he did. He was the son of the vice president who would go on to become the leader of the free world.
Hard data indicate that they are not. Research conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) strongly suggests all claims that illegal aliens commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born U.S. citizens, or lawfully-present immigrants, are a myth. In fact, this report finds that in the states examined, illegal aliens are incarcerated up to five and a half times as frequently as citizens and legal immigrants.A False Narrative, Based on Bad DataAs noted above, for decades, open-borders proponents have parroted the same narrative: “Illegal aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens.” However, this claim typically rests on studies that manipulate data in order to support the fictitious “illegal aliens = less crime” narrative.Why are the majority of studies of illegal alien criminality so flawed? First, as Peter Kirsanow, of National Review notes, “Illegal-immigrant crime calculations conveniently and invariably steal a base by leaving out the millions of crimes committed by illegal immigrants related to procuring fraudulent social security numbers, obtaining false drivers’ licenses, using fraudulent green cards, and improperly accessing public benefits.”2 That error is then compounded when researchers intentionally elect to leave out broad classes of crimes for example, drug offenses — as the Cato Institute frequently does.3Secondly, most federal, state and local government agencies do not collect data on the rates at which illegal aliens are convicted of crimes. Most likely, this is due to political correctness, and a desire to keep the truth about the number of crimes committed by illegal aliens from coming to light. Peter Kirsanow is one of the few who has commented openly on this tendency. He states,
“Unfortunately, almost every public official not named Jeff Sessions guards against disclosure of illegal-immigrant crime data more tenaciously than disclosure of nuclear launch codes.”4 Regardless of why this information is not collected, the end result is that there are a limited number of sources for obtaining data on crimes committed by known illegal aliens.Finally, most researchers tend to ignore the few established sources that provide data on criminal acts by known illegal aliens. They point to all types of alleged, and typically baseless, “flaws” in this data, ranging from “limited sample size” to an inability to determine whether illegal aliens are being counted more than once. In actuality, however, the only real flaw, from the perspective of mainstream research organizations, is that examinations of data on criminal activity by known illegal aliens tend to establish that those who enter the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws also commit other crimes at a higher rate.This should not be surprising to anyone. The simple fact that illegal aliens violated American immigration laws – and must continuously violate other federal, state and local laws in order to mask their ongoing illegal presence in this country – demonstrates a blatant lack of respect for the rule of law.
Until lawmakers in the United States are able to review accurate, transparent data regarding the rate at which illegal aliens commit criminal offenses, they will, inevitably, continue making bad immigration policy. As a result, too many Americans will continue becoming victims of preventable crimes, and the terrible stories that occupy our news cycles all too often will remain a regular part of daily life in this country. Hopefully, this study represents a step in the right direction, and will encourage legislators, the media and academic researchers to demand better information on illegal aliens and crime.https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/scaap-data-suggest-illegal-aliens-commit-crime-much-higher-rate-citizens
LOS ANGELES, CA – Following the defund the police narrative, the Democrats promoted, then tried to walk back on when crime spiked. Cities like Los Angeles, California, have become a hotbed for robberies, violence, and crime. While the Democrats are to blame for the lawlessness that Los Angeles and other cities have witnessed over the last few months, voters and even officials are starting to blame the individuals responsible for the disappearance of law and order. One of those people is none other than L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon, who happens not only to be a Democrat but was funded by Democratic billionaire George Soros. Thanks to the actions taken by Gascon, like not charging juvenile suspects as adults, eliminating tough-on-crime measures, and attacking the death penalty, crimes have become somewhat of a hobby as repercussions are practically non-existent. Still, Gascon said, “We have set a path for ourselves and turned around the criminal legal system in the country in a way that will be more humane, more equitable and, above all, will create a safer environment for all of us.”While Gascon might believe his agenda will create a utopia, for Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who witnesses the district attorney’s results on a daily basis, he blasted the Democrat for abandoning his duty of prosecuting criminals. Recently, the Sheriff said, “I had hoped the press conference by George Gascon today was to announce his resignation, which is what anyone would expect from a DA who will not prosecute criminals, values offenders over victims, and has received a formal vote of no confidence from 31 cities.” Although Villanueva didn’t hold back and used facts to attack Gascon and his weak stance on crime, the district attorney fired back with his own statement, literally referring to the Sheriff as a “PIG.”
How to open the eyes of anyone who still thinks Covid vaccines are working as promised Alex BerensonLet’s say you wind up talking about the vaccine. (I know, what are the odds?)And let’s say the folks you’re talking to are not crazy vaccine fanatics who think the only problem with Australia’s interment camps is that they don’t go far enough. They’re reasonable people. Maybe they’ve even been vaccinated and are not sure about boosters, or what to do about their kids.They’ve heard nearly all Covid deaths in Britain are in vaccinated people. But they’ve also heard about the CDC report that the unvaccinated are at much higher risk. They’ve heard about the new variant too, of course. So many numbers. So much science! And despite the last 20 months, they still believe the public health authorities wouldn’t exaggerate the threat of Covid or manipulate data to scare them. They are legitimately confused. And you have about five minutes before halftime is over to help them understand the truth. What do you do? First, don’t talk about all-cause mortality. We don’t know yet what’s driving that (though I have some upsetting charts to drop soon), and it’s just too weird and scary for most people to consider.
Second, don’t overwhelm them with detail. Marek’s disease, antibody-dependent-enhancement risk, healthy vaccine user bias, age stratification, clinical trial design manipulation, unadjusted confounders, declining titers, B-cell maturation, booster schedules, anti-idiotype antibodies, spike protein migration, vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia – don’t go there. Even trying to explain that the CDC changed the definition of a vaccine – and yes, the CDC sure did change the definition of a vaccine – may be tough.Instead, try one simple question. The simplest possible. The public health equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s, Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The question is this: If the vaccines work, what’s go on? Remind them: We are almost a year into into mass vaccination campaigns. Even before they began, public health experts and media and politicians explicitly and repeatedly promised that vaccines would end the epidemic if enough people took them.
America is so full of racial & homophobic crimes that Juicy Smallset has to fake a crime and the MSM and Hollywood has to support it no matter how ridiculous it sounds. Neither group of fools could not care any less when it’s black on black crime, following right along with BLM’s hypocrisy. Thank God for jurors with common sense.
America has about 329.5 million people—36.2 million of which are Black, and you point to one and go, “SEE!” You must be proud of your observational skills.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 2 years ago
Wow! Lisa just realized there is crime in big cities.
Daeder over 2 years ago
Yeah, Lisa, you sure pwned that mentally disturbed, homeless guy who allegedly lit that tree on fire!
LVObserver over 2 years ago
With twelve major cities hitting all time murder rates, maybe she is highlighting the increase. The smash and grab, arrested released, smash and grab, arrested released is a novelty as well.
suv2000 over 2 years ago
You know if you Listen to the opposition’s point of view and how they Check their facts and how they backup their evidence you may have a change of Mind Of what is true and what is falseBecause I know both sides lie but the truth is in there somewhere
Judge Magney over 2 years ago
It wasn’t even a Christmas tree. Fox built a metal pyramid, hung greenery (probably fake), then hung decorations on it. You can call it a tree, I suppose, but it has the same relationship to a real tree that Fox’s construction of patriotism has to real patriotism.
RAGs over 2 years ago
You might remember that under the last administration, someone who ran his car into peaceful demonstrators was called a good guy by the leader. He would also refuse to say that such things were bad.
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 2 years ago
Yes and your point?
B 8671 over 2 years ago
The police can’t be everywhere so, the best solution to crime is for crime is for the criminal,if they are convicted of ANY felony to be punished by the nature of what they are convicted for. I.E. arsonists, murders, etc. Rapists and child abusers should be publicly castrated in the most painfully possible! If you abuse an animal,you should be treated that way! Another idea is to treat bank robbers like they treated the James – Younger gang up in Northfield Minn. Goodnight and Good luck.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
I guess when Lisa shows us a trite truth, we should applaud that it’s true.
Daeder over 2 years ago
^So you think “they” should try and take over the capitol building?
scote1379 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Yes it was wrong to burn that fake tree (?) In front of a fake news provider (!) I Don’t know if I should shake my head in disgust or give a thumbs up to the symbolism !
My First Premium Member over 2 years ago
MSNBC sends a guy to follow the Rittenhouse jury back to their hotel, to photograph them and therefore intimidate them, meanwhile CNN can’t attract flies in the ratings and their #1 show gets pulled off the air for the host helping gather info on women who have accused his brother of sexual assault, but yeah, keep saying Fox (#! cable news channel for years now) is fake. Nice try, idiot.
Durak Premium Member over 2 years ago
To be honest soneone should have set the White House Christmas decorations that Melania and Ivanka designed on fire. Those things were horrors and abominations. Out in the front lawn, on fire, yuck.
TrulyTexan over 2 years ago
I’ll lay odds it was Faux News themselves as a false flag (their favorite flag) to promote their lies about the war on Christmas.
1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member over 2 years ago
Christmas in the ghetto= crime and “Smash and Grab”! Great ‘toon. Let’s go, Brandon!
The Nodding Head over 2 years ago
Fact: there is also crime in rural areas
Fact: there is less crime in rural areas
Why: there are fewer people living in rural areas
That didn’t take much smarts, did it?
quixotic3 over 2 years ago
Fox is going to turn this into the Reichstag fire.
Alberta Oil Premium Member over 2 years ago
Makes one wonder how many of these.. incidents.. are planned and staged, just to create a story.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Fox News Enters Second Day of Wall-to-Wall All-American Christmas Tree Fire Coverage
FOX News had a very, very emotional day on Wednesday after someone burned down their Christmas tree. The man suspected of lighting the fire was arrested and charged with multiple crimes before being released. His motives are unclear, but Fox News’ on-air personalities took turns suggesting it was an attack on America, Fox News, Christianity and even Hanukkah.
Things started early in the morning on Fox and Friends as Ainsley Earhardt explained how important the tree was. She had a bit of a Bluto Blutarsky moment as she threw Hanukkah in there, but nobody stopped her because she was rolling.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-enters-second-day-of-wall-to-wall-all-american-christmas-tree-fire-coverage/ar-AAREtoF?ocid=uxbndlbing
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
CNN mocks Fox News for freaking out over Christmas tree burning — but not about the Capitol attack
https://www.rawstory.com/cnn-mocks-fox-news-christmas/
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
‘Invokes fear in the public’: Fox News contributor claims suspect who burned Christmas tree was ‘targeting the country’
https://www.rawstory.com/invokes-fear-in-the-public-fox-news-contributor-claims-suspect-who-burned-christmas-tree-was-targeting-the-country/
nodjt over 2 years ago
It figures. Fox’s tree is every bit as fake as their news.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
“The fire is believed to have started after Fox News’ pants caught on fire,” Kimmel cracked.
He was just getting warmed up: “The fire is believed to have started because judge Jeanine Pirro ate one too many rum balls and breathed on a cigarette.”
Kimmel noted the tree was actually a hollow structure in the shape of a tree, “the same way Tucker Carlson is a hollow structure that sort of resembles a human.”
casonia2 over 2 years ago
Last I heard, by a homeless person…
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Fox shouldn’t burn books so close to a tree.
DrDon1 over 2 years ago
Benson “belongs” on Fox News….
cdbro over 2 years ago
Philadelphia has shattered its 30-year-old record for annual murders, surpassing the much larger cities of New York and Los Angeles as a dozen major cities post all-time records for homicides — all of them with Democratic mayors.As of December 6, Philadelphia had recorded 521 homicides for the year, surpassing New York’s 443 and Los Angeles at 352. This is despite the fact that with a population of 1.5 million, the City of Brotherly Love is less than half the size of Los Angeles and one-fifth of New York. Robert Boyce, a retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department, blamed the nationwide murder surge on a sharp decline in arrests and pre-trial detention.’Nobody’s getting arrested anymore,’ Boyce told ABC News. ‘People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.’ Among the dozen cities setting new homicide records this year, five shattered previous records that were set the year before, in 2020: Indianapolis, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Kentucky; Toledo, Ohio; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Four other cities have blown past records set during the crime wave of the 1980s and 90s: St. Paul, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Austin, Texas; and Rochester, New York.Tucson, Arizona broke the prior murder record it had set in 2008.
cdbro over 2 years ago
In progressive Portland, soaring crime prompted the city council to last month restore $5.2 million of the $15 million it cut from police budgets during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Portland has recorded more murders this year than much larger San Francisco, and has roughly twice as many homicides as its larger neighbor, Seattle. ‘Many Portlanders no longer feel safe,’ Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, acknowledged. ‘And it is our duty, as leaders of this city, to take action and deliver better results within our crisis response system.’ Portland’s police department has struggled to keep up with the soaring crime rate amid an acute staffing shortage and budget cuts. The liberal Pacific Northwest city has responded by implementing novel solutions aimed at improving safety, including adding traffic barrels to prevent drive-by shootings and suspending minor traffic stops so officers can focus on immediate threats. So far this year, Portland has had more than 1,000 shootings, at least 314 people have been injured by bullets, and guns have accounted for three-quarters of homicides. Police attribute much of the gun violence to gangs, fights and retaliation killings, but the shooting wave is also killing and injuring innocent bystanders.
cdbro over 2 years ago
In Ohio’s capital city, Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther proposed boosting funding to recruit new police officers after the city broke its homicide record for the second year running.
‘We know, based on data and information, it’s a very small number to folks that are committing the overwhelming majority of violent acts in our community,’ Gitner, a Democrat, said last month, urging residents to share tips about crimes with police.
‘We need to bring these folks to justice, get them off our streets to help make our neighborhoods safer,’ he said.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Austin’s murder rate broke the longest-standing record of the dozen cities, recording more more homicides this year than the city has seen since 1984.
Austin Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat, insisted last month that while homicides are increasing, the progressive Texas capital is still a safe city.
‘Those numbers are going up and in cities across the country,’ Adler told KTBC-TV last month. ‘But even with those numbers going up, our [per capita] murder rate lost and is still one of the lowest among major cities.’
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
It wouldn’t have happened if the tree had a gun.
FOX will make the miracle story last for 8 days.
Colbertcdbro over 2 years ago
According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report released in September, the nation saw a 30% increase in murder in 2020, the largest single-year jump since the bureau began recording crime statistics 60 years ago.
’Nobody’s getting arrested’Robert Boyce, retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department and an ABC News contributor, said that while there is no single reason for the jump in slayings, one national crime statistic stands out to him.
“Nobody’s getting arrested anymore," Boyce said. “People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.”
The FBI crime data shows that the number of arrests nationwide plummeted 24% in 2020, from the more than 10 million arrests made in 2019. The number of 2020 arrests — 7.63 million — is the lowest in 25 years, according to the data. FBI crime data is not yet available for 2021.
cdbro over 2 years ago
A workforce survey released in June by the Police Executive Research Forum found the retirement rate in police departments nationwide jumped 45% over 2020 and 2021. And another 18% of officers resigned, the survey found, a development which coincided with nationwide social justice protests and calls to defund law enforcement agencies following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Chief LeRonne Armstrong of the Oakland, California, Police Department told ABC News recently that the lack of resources to fight crime is one of the reasons he suspects is why his city is seeing the highest number of homicides in decades. Oakland police have investigated at least 127 homicides in 2021, up from 102 in all of 2020. The Bay Area city’s all-time high for homicides is 175 set in 1992.
Armstrong said his department’s 676 officers is the smallest staff his agency has had in years, nearly 70 fewer officers than in 2020.
“To have 70, nearly 70 less officers a year later,” Armstrong said, “is definitely going to have an impact on our ability to address public safety.”
cdbro over 2 years ago
A billboard of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden with the film title Dumb and Dumber underneath has begun to go viral.
The picture was shared on Twitter by JonCover2 to his over 6,000 followers and has since been liked 14,000 times and retweeted over 3,000 times.
Another added: “This billboard is needed everywhere from East to West coast.”
While another wrote: “I disagree – clearly Biden is the dumb and Kamala is the dumber.”
And another added: “Cool, I like to call them Sh**s and Giggles, but this works.”
ferddo over 2 years ago
Fox’s Christmas tree got burned down – Democrats MUST have sent the arsonist and Soros MUST have paid him… “proof” that liberals are violently trying to cancel Christmas and Hanukkah and intimidate loyal GQPs – and for this Biden MUST be impeached and replaced directly with Trump… /s
zxcar1 over 2 years ago
Somebody must have learned how to cut and paste. That’s okay and thanks; my scroll finger needed some extra exercise today.
dafydd liam over 2 years ago
Big BLUE Cities!
imbas5511 over 2 years ago
Big Democrat Cities
cdbro over 2 years ago
Skin Colors Matter… not accountability or one’s character, so backward and extremely hypocritical.Who supports and believes this crap?Black Lives Matter is a sham organization, and they further demonstrated this with their ridiculous statement supporting Jussie Smollett.They called the trial a “white supremacist charade” and stated they could never believe police. They don’t seem to care if Smollett perjured himself. Their statement reveals that the only thing that matters to BLM is skin color.BLM did not have to provide any opinion or feedback regarding Smollett. But since they did, they should have at least condemned him for causing irreparable harm to those who suffer legitimate hate crimes. Instead, this is what they wrote:It’s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it’s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.The only system that is corrupt in this instance is Jussie Smollett’s honor system. If the group cannot find fault with those who do wrong, regardless of skin color, then the group is not worth taking seriously ever again. – Christopher Tremoglie, Washington Examiner
cdbro over 2 years ago
Inarticulate? more like bullsh*tDistrict Attorney Larry Krasner on Thursday said he was “inarticulate” earlier this week when he told reporters at his weekly news conference: “We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence.”In a statement released by his office, Krasner said he recognized “that some inarticulate things I said earlier this week have offended people.” While suggesting that some of what he said had been “edited down to sound bites,” he said it was nonetheless his responsibility to speak carefully, adding: “It is my obligation to do better.”The reform-oriented district attorney ignited a firestorm Monday when pushed back on the notion that the city was gripped by violent crime. He pointed out an unusual phenomenon that’s been occurring in Philadelphia for several years: Even as gun violence and homicides have reached record heights, crimes without firearms have been flat or falling.Still, even though the statistics he cited were accurate, the spirit of his remarks was swiftly criticized as seeking to downplay or minimize the city’s unprecedented spike in killings and shootings.Critics included former mayor Michael A. Nutter, who wrote a blistering Inquirer op-ed calling Krasner’s remarks “some of the worst, most ignorant, and most insulting comments I have ever heard spoken by an elected official.” Some community advocates also said they felt the portrait Krasner painted did not line up with the reality people in impacted neighborhoods live with on a daily basis.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Committed to crime victims and implementing real solutions by lowering arrest threshold, lowering bail and spewing anti police rhetoric? More Libtard logic, lies and fake emotions.
Krasner, in his statement Thursday, said his office was committed to working with crime victims and survivors, and he pointed out that he has teared up at news conferences in the past when discussing episodes of gun violence.
“Those tears were real,” he said, “as are sleepless nights, and my frustration with a system that for decades has disregarded real solutions to our local and national gun violence
cdbro over 2 years ago
When the Biden Elitist Mafia sets the example of criminal behavior and MSM covers it up, what is to be expected of the common folk. Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to HideThe inside story of the laptop that exposed the president’s dirtiest secret.When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.This is the unvarnished story of what’s really inside the laptop and what China knows about the Bidens, by the New York Post journalist who brought it into the open.It exposes the coordinated censorship operation by Big Tech, the media establishment, and former intelligence operatives to stifle the New York Post’s coverage, in a chilling exercise of raw political power three weeks before the 2020 election.A treasure trove of corporate documents, emails, text messages, photographs, and voice recordings, spanning a decade, the laptop provided the first evidence that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s ventures in China, Ukraine, and beyond, despite his repeated denials.This intimate insight into Hunter’s dissolute lifestyle shows he was incapable of holding down a job, let alone being paid tens of millions of dollars in high-powered international business deals by foreign interests, unless he had something else of value to sell—which of course he did. He was the son of the vice president who would go on to become the leader of the free world.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Hard data indicate that they are not. Research conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) strongly suggests all claims that illegal aliens commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born U.S. citizens, or lawfully-present immigrants, are a myth. In fact, this report finds that in the states examined, illegal aliens are incarcerated up to five and a half times as frequently as citizens and legal immigrants.A False Narrative, Based on Bad DataAs noted above, for decades, open-borders proponents have parroted the same narrative: “Illegal aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens.” However, this claim typically rests on studies that manipulate data in order to support the fictitious “illegal aliens = less crime” narrative.Why are the majority of studies of illegal alien criminality so flawed? First, as Peter Kirsanow, of National Review notes, “Illegal-immigrant crime calculations conveniently and invariably steal a base by leaving out the millions of crimes committed by illegal immigrants related to procuring fraudulent social security numbers, obtaining false drivers’ licenses, using fraudulent green cards, and improperly accessing public benefits.”2 That error is then compounded when researchers intentionally elect to leave out broad classes of crimes for example, drug offenses — as the Cato Institute frequently does.3Secondly, most federal, state and local government agencies do not collect data on the rates at which illegal aliens are convicted of crimes. Most likely, this is due to political correctness, and a desire to keep the truth about the number of crimes committed by illegal aliens from coming to light. Peter Kirsanow is one of the few who has commented openly on this tendency. He states,
cdbro over 2 years ago
“Unfortunately, almost every public official not named Jeff Sessions guards against disclosure of illegal-immigrant crime data more tenaciously than disclosure of nuclear launch codes.”4 Regardless of why this information is not collected, the end result is that there are a limited number of sources for obtaining data on crimes committed by known illegal aliens.Finally, most researchers tend to ignore the few established sources that provide data on criminal acts by known illegal aliens. They point to all types of alleged, and typically baseless, “flaws” in this data, ranging from “limited sample size” to an inability to determine whether illegal aliens are being counted more than once. In actuality, however, the only real flaw, from the perspective of mainstream research organizations, is that examinations of data on criminal activity by known illegal aliens tend to establish that those who enter the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws also commit other crimes at a higher rate.This should not be surprising to anyone. The simple fact that illegal aliens violated American immigration laws – and must continuously violate other federal, state and local laws in order to mask their ongoing illegal presence in this country – demonstrates a blatant lack of respect for the rule of law.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Until lawmakers in the United States are able to review accurate, transparent data regarding the rate at which illegal aliens commit criminal offenses, they will, inevitably, continue making bad immigration policy. As a result, too many Americans will continue becoming victims of preventable crimes, and the terrible stories that occupy our news cycles all too often will remain a regular part of daily life in this country. Hopefully, this study represents a step in the right direction, and will encourage legislators, the media and academic researchers to demand better information on illegal aliens and crime.https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/scaap-data-suggest-illegal-aliens-commit-crime-much-higher-rate-citizens
cdbro over 2 years ago
LOS ANGELES, CA – Following the defund the police narrative, the Democrats promoted, then tried to walk back on when crime spiked. Cities like Los Angeles, California, have become a hotbed for robberies, violence, and crime. While the Democrats are to blame for the lawlessness that Los Angeles and other cities have witnessed over the last few months, voters and even officials are starting to blame the individuals responsible for the disappearance of law and order. One of those people is none other than L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon, who happens not only to be a Democrat but was funded by Democratic billionaire George Soros. Thanks to the actions taken by Gascon, like not charging juvenile suspects as adults, eliminating tough-on-crime measures, and attacking the death penalty, crimes have become somewhat of a hobby as repercussions are practically non-existent. Still, Gascon said, “We have set a path for ourselves and turned around the criminal legal system in the country in a way that will be more humane, more equitable and, above all, will create a safer environment for all of us.”While Gascon might believe his agenda will create a utopia, for Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who witnesses the district attorney’s results on a daily basis, he blasted the Democrat for abandoning his duty of prosecuting criminals. Recently, the Sheriff said, “I had hoped the press conference by George Gascon today was to announce his resignation, which is what anyone would expect from a DA who will not prosecute criminals, values offenders over victims, and has received a formal vote of no confidence from 31 cities.” Although Villanueva didn’t hold back and used facts to attack Gascon and his weak stance on crime, the district attorney fired back with his own statement, literally referring to the Sheriff as a “PIG.”
zxcar1 over 2 years ago
Wow, get your own website, create a blog, buy an IPO media company…or write a freaking book.
cdbro over 2 years ago
How to open the eyes of anyone who still thinks Covid vaccines are working as promised Alex BerensonLet’s say you wind up talking about the vaccine. (I know, what are the odds?)And let’s say the folks you’re talking to are not crazy vaccine fanatics who think the only problem with Australia’s interment camps is that they don’t go far enough. They’re reasonable people. Maybe they’ve even been vaccinated and are not sure about boosters, or what to do about their kids.They’ve heard nearly all Covid deaths in Britain are in vaccinated people. But they’ve also heard about the CDC report that the unvaccinated are at much higher risk. They’ve heard about the new variant too, of course. So many numbers. So much science! And despite the last 20 months, they still believe the public health authorities wouldn’t exaggerate the threat of Covid or manipulate data to scare them. They are legitimately confused. And you have about five minutes before halftime is over to help them understand the truth. What do you do? First, don’t talk about all-cause mortality. We don’t know yet what’s driving that (though I have some upsetting charts to drop soon), and it’s just too weird and scary for most people to consider.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Second, don’t overwhelm them with detail. Marek’s disease, antibody-dependent-enhancement risk, healthy vaccine user bias, age stratification, clinical trial design manipulation, unadjusted confounders, declining titers, B-cell maturation, booster schedules, anti-idiotype antibodies, spike protein migration, vaccine induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia – don’t go there. Even trying to explain that the CDC changed the definition of a vaccine – and yes, the CDC sure did change the definition of a vaccine – may be tough.Instead, try one simple question. The simplest possible. The public health equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s, Are you better off today than you were four years ago? The question is this: If the vaccines work, what’s go on? Remind them: We are almost a year into into mass vaccination campaigns. Even before they began, public health experts and media and politicians explicitly and repeatedly promised that vaccines would end the epidemic if enough people took them.
zxcar1 over 2 years ago
How do you say the LSD is really good without saying the LSD is really good.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
I guess Fox forgot to rake.
cdbro over 2 years ago
America is so full of racial & homophobic crimes that Juicy Smallset has to fake a crime and the MSM and Hollywood has to support it no matter how ridiculous it sounds. Neither group of fools could not care any less when it’s black on black crime, following right along with BLM’s hypocrisy. Thank God for jurors with common sense.
zxcar1 over 2 years ago
America has about 329.5 million people—36.2 million of which are Black, and you point to one and go, “SEE!” You must be proud of your observational skills.
lawguy05 over 2 years ago
Right you are, Ms. Benson. And coincidentally, the highest crime rates are in Demoncrat run cities….hmmm? I wonder if there is a reason for that?
UnklGene over 2 years ago
US State’s Atty. Rachel Rollins says, “Rest easy, I promise not to prosecute any crimes in Massachusetts!”