Author: Michael Rushford

Proponents of sanctuary city and state policies including non-political groups such as the Cato Institute have told us for years that prohibiting local police cooperation with federal  immigration authorities has no impact on crime.  But the question has to be asked, if local government policies prevent federal agents from deporting illegal aliens, including those being released from jail, do the crimes they commit actually have no effect on the crime rate?  I’m sorry but that does not make sense.   Josh Friedman if Cal Coast News reports that Mexican national Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez was sentenced to 50 years in prison for multiple rapes and burglaries he committed in 2017 and 2018 while working as an Uber driver in the seaside college town of San Luis Obispo.  Nunez had been previously deported, but slipped back across California’s border, got him self a state driver’s license and a job with Uber, where I’m sure they can’t ask applicants their immigration status.  He prayed mostly upon intoxicated college co-eds, raping at least five of them.   In 2018 SF Gate reported on the arrest of the “rideshare rapist,” illegal alien Lyft driver, Orlando Vilchez Lazo, for raping at least four women.  California is, of course, a sanctuary state.

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The Los Angeles Police Department released first quarter 2021 data showing that shootings in the city have increased by by 73% compared to last year and homicides are up over 30%.  City News Service reports that more than half the shootings were gang related.  While vehicle thefts were up 20%, the Chief of Police was encouraged that the increase appears to have slowed compared to last month.  This comes as Fox News reports that six cities in Los Angeles County have passed no-confidence votes for District Attorney George Gascón, whose policies have restricted prosecutors under his authority from pursuing the full sentences allowed by law for gang members and violent criminals.  As of yesterday the cities of Lancaster, LaMirada, Whittier, Beverly Hills,  Pico Rivera and Santa Clarita have voiced opposition to Gascón.   The progressive DA has also ordered deputies to rescind prior sentencing enhancements in order to give roughly 20,000 convicted criminals the opportunity for early release.

A Nevada man sentenced to death for the 1999 shotgun murders of 4 is asking a judge to order the state to carry out his execution by a firing squad.  Ken Ritter of the Associated Press reports that attorneys representing murderer Zane Floyd are arguing that the three-drug protocol used in Nevada executions would amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.  Floyd is also asking that his execution, scheduled for the week of June 7, be delayed until June 22 to allow him to seek clemency from the State Pardons Board.  “This is not a delaying tactic,” said one of his defense attorneys.  Yeah right.

One of the more troubling aspects of America’s recent version of protests, involves activists actually attacking the homes of government officials whose opinions or actions don’t fit the latest woke narrative.  James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times reports that in recent months the homes of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, LA Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, and liberal Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg have been the scene of late night protests, sometimes with bullhorns and vandalism.  The reporter actually touched upon a much broader problem, that involves activists groups doxing (giving out the addresses) of reporters, politicians and television personalities they don’t like and encouraging, over social media, organized attacks on their homes.  This has typically happened to conservatives including Senator Lindsey Graham,  Fox host Tucker Carlson and Congressman Josh Hawley for example.  But now liberals, who aren’t liberal enough are getting this treatment.  What to do?

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Posts on this blog have repeatedly exposed intentional misreporting of news events by the major media.  Often this takes the form of a reporter or news editor simply excluding important information because it would conflict with a narrative that the network or newspaper is advancing.  Sometimes the facts are actually doctored.  As noted in 2012, when Hispanic neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot black teenager Treyvon Martin after Martin attacked him.  The New York Times initially reported that a white man had shot an unarmed black man.  Later, when  Zimmerman’s ethnicity was correctly reported on local news the national media identified him as a “white Hispanic.”  Later, NBC  broadcast an audio recording of Zimmerman’s 911 call reporting on a suspicious person (Martin).  The network edited out the dispatcher asking the race of the suspect and pieced together Zimmerman’s statements “This guy looks like he’s up to no good.  He looks black.”  Mission accomplished….the message most people heard was “white guy shoots unarmed black kid.”  There were few headlines when, months later, a jury concluded that Zimmerman acted in self defense,

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As reported by Mychael Schnell of The Hill,  the City Manager of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota was fired yesterday after a vote by the City Council.   Curt Boganey’s dismissal followed the shooting death of 20-year-old Duante Wright last Sunday by a Brooklyn Center police officer during a traffic stop.  Boganey’s transgression…..he told reporters at a press conference Monday that the officer involved in the shooting “was entitled to due process.”  The nerve of this guy!

City Manager Curt Boganey

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