Over the past two election cycles rich white liberals, such as George Soros, have pumped millions into passing ballot measures, and electing political candidates, including district attorneys that will reduce sentences for criminals, restrict prosecutions and essentially empty out jails and prisons based upon the myth of over-incarceration.  The expressed motive behind this fiction is that consistently enforced laws against crime and increased sentences for repeat offenders is racist.  The proof:  blacks and Hispanics, which commit crime at higher levels that other races, are more frequently arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated than other races.  Their narrative leaves out the which commit crime at higher levels part, and so does most of the national media.  But to sell a lie over a long period of time, one must prevent the majority from finding out the truth.  Today’s Wall Street Journal provides a case in point.  The powerful Democratic City Committee in Philadelphia has voted not to endorse progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner’s reelection this year.

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CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger will be delivering oral argument remotely to the California Supreme Court Tomorrow morning (April 7) at 9:00 am.

The argument will be live streamed at this link:  https://www.courts.ca.gov/35333.htm

The name of the case is In re Friend (Jack Wayne) on Habeas Corpus, S256914.

This will be the first case argued tomorrow and you should be able to click on it to watch it occur.
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Hat tip to Prof. Doug Berman for this post, “Detailing ‘perfect storm’ of factors that may account for increase in violent crime.”  As it notes:

Sixty-three of the 66 largest police jurisdictions saw increases in at least one category of violent crimes in 2020, which include homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, according to a report produced by the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Raleigh, North Carolina, did not report increases in any of the violent crime categories.

If Baltimore did not report any increases, that has to mean that whatever reporting mechanism Baltimore was using was stolen in the crime spree.

But I digress.  The obvious question is, what brought about the surge in violent crime?

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This is probably not news for anyone who regularly looks at reporting standards at the New York Times, but Manhattan Institute Scholar Heather MacDonald puts the paper’s double standard regarding its coverage of crime and crime related stories in stark relief.  Her piece in the City Journal notes the way the Times reported last month’s police crackdown of the riot-like rampage of mostly black spring breakers at Miami Beach was to characterize the shootings, street brawls and property damage as “by and large, nonviolent.”  The Times went on to report that the only reason the police were confiscating guns and arresting the revelers is because most of them were black.  It was racial bias.  Responding to this claim, Miami’s Mayor, a Democrat, told the Times “we do not target race, we targeted conduct.”

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