Monthly Archive: April 2021

The Black Lives Matter protests last year, characterized by the national media as “mostly peaceful”  and called “critically important” by then-Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, regularly devolved into riots causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and at least 25 deaths. Joshua Rhett Miller of the New York Post reports that, at least in Minnesota, some of the rioters are receiving consequences for their crimes. On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced 23-year-old Dylan Shakespeare Robinson to four years in prison and $12 million in restitution for helping to set fire to a Minneapolis police station during rioting on May 28, 2020. Three of his buddies, also caught by security cameras setting fire to the station, are awaiting sentencing. Robinson stupidly bragged about his involvement on Snapchat.
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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.