Bannon Charged With Fundraising Fraud
Acting U.S. Attorney for SDNY Audrey Strauss announced today that leaders of the “We Build The Wall” online fundraising campaign, including Steve Bannon, have been charged with fraud. The WSJ has this story.
Fed Crackdown on Violent Criminals Paying Off
Operation Legend, launched in early July to address the explosion of violent crime accompanying the George Floyd riots, has pulled more than 1,000 serious criminals off the streets and seized 400 firearms so far. Danielle Wallace of Fox News reports that the $78 million campaign, which swarmed hundreds of federal agents into Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Memphis, and Indianapolis has resulted in arrests for crimes including murder, firearm possession, carjacking, drug dealing and bank robbery. To date 61 defendants are facing federal charges. Among those arrested with the help of federal agents is 22-year-old Ryson Ellis for the June 29 murder of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro , who was shot and killed while he slept in his mother’s Kansas City apartment.
This is who they want to defund
Wes Bowers reports for the Lodi News-Sentinel
“A Lodi Police Department officer pulled a pedestrian from the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Lodi Avenue Wednesday morning, narrowly escaping a fatal collision with an oncoming train.” Continue reading . . .
Englewood residents kick protesters out of their neighborhood
“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 . . .
Commit Murder, Get Anger Management
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.
Serial Murderer’s Appeal Reaches CA Supreme Court
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.
Virginia Poised to Adopt California-Style Sentencing Reform
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.
Chicago Sees New Level of Crime and Violence
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.
Another Lie: Legalizing Pot Stops Smuggling
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.
Grace Under Fire
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 . . .
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