by Kent Scheidegger · Aug 18, 2020 3:45 pm
“Activists” who have been elected by nobody often claim to represent whole communities. Sometimes those people push back. This happened last week in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Protesters arrived to protest the fully justified shooting of a person who shot at the police first. The residents had other ideas, Tia Ewing reports for Fox 32 Chicago. Continue reading . . .
by Bill Otis · Aug 17, 2020 3:03 pm
I wish this were from the Onion. It isn’t. It’s from what “criminal justice reform” has in mind for you:
John Weed was enjoying the Frederick County, Maryland, Fair last September when a group of teens surrounded him and beat him to death. One of the two brothers involved who later spat on Weed’s lifeless body has now been sentenced by the judge. Did he get the death penalty, which is what Weed suffered in front of his own family in broad daylight at a rural county fair? Nope, he was told to report to anger management class. Welcome to justice in America.
Not that the problem here was anger, for that matter. The problem was sadism, very likely with a helping of the racist resentment the mainstream media never tires of spouting. Read the whole story if you have the stomach for it.
by Michael Rushford · Aug 14, 2020 10:55 am
Thirteen years after his conviction for strangling 10 women to death, the California Supreme Court will finally hear the direct appeal of Los Angeles serial killer Chester Turner. City News Service reports that while Turner’s appeal will focus on his 2007 conviction and death sentence for the murders of ten women between the ages of 21 and 45 between 1987 and 1998, in 2014 he was also convicted of the murders of four additional women over the same period. DNA evidence linked Turner to the killings.
by Michael Rushford · Aug 14, 2020 9:47 am
Over the years we have reported on the impact of California’s adoption of sentencing reforms, which have forced the early release of thousands of criminals from prisons and jails. Since Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown signed the 425-page Prison Realignment bill into law back in 2011, California has suffered from increases in violent and property crime, while crime was falling in most other large states. Now the state of Virginia seems ready to follow California’s lead. Hans Bader of Liberty Unyielding reports that the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature is considering bills to shorten sentences, and reinstitute parole.
by Katherine.Stiplosek · Aug 12, 2020 3:59 pm
Early Monday, August 10th, Don Babwin of the Associated Press reports that the city of Chicago hit a new level of crime, resulting in more than 100 arrests. Shortly after midnight, the city suffered looting and unrest that damaged its Magnificent Mile district and left 13 officers injured.
by Michael Rushford · Aug 12, 2020 12:17 pm
The marijuana legalization debate has been over for a while in many parts of the country. Recreational pot is legal in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Illinois, Colorado, Alaska, Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine. Medical marijuana is legal in 19 states, and possession has been decriminalized in most others. When states were considering legalization, advocates made several appealing promises. One of the most effective of these was that once pot was legalized, the illegal drug trade would die off and law more enforcement resources could be focused on serious crime. That turned out to be a lie.
by Kent Scheidegger · Aug 12, 2020 10:27 am
Being chief of police in a city with a council having anti-law-enforcement leanings has never been easy. It has gotten especially tough this year. Seattle Chief Carmen Best has impressed me as one of the few public officials in the two largest Pacific Northwest cities to have a cool head on her shoulders.
Chief Best resigned yesterday following votes by the city council to cut the department budget, including her own salary, and reduce the police force,” Deanna Paul and Dan Frosch report for the WSJ. The council’s actions are supposedly “part of an effort to reform policing,” in a bizarre parody of the word “reform.” Continue reading . . .
by Kent Scheidegger · Aug 11, 2020 4:01 pm
A reporter asked me for my comments on Veep pick Kamala Harris’s criminal law record. Here is my response: Continue reading . . .
by Bill Otis · Aug 11, 2020 12:44 pm
You would think that question answers itself, but the Left’s dismissive belligerence in lying about the causes of rioting is so persistent that, in some quarters, it has taken hold. Thus, it was only last week that Portland’s mayor was telling us that it was the introduction of federal agents (to protect federal property like courthouses), not the hoodlums who’ve spent weeks bringing violence and disorder to his city, that were the real cause of Portland’s continuing problems.
As the Wall Street Journal explains today, this was all nothing more than the usual aggressive tripe.
by Bill Otis · Aug 10, 2020 8:47 pm
In my post here, I discussed a “compassionate” COVID release of a defendant who didn’t waste a whole lot of time thereafter murdering the woman he raped and who was going to testify against him. As it turns out, this “compassionate” release cost more than one life.
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