[FOX] Attempts at criminal bail reform that put violent offenders like Waukesha suspect Darrell Brooks Jr. out on the street at low or no cost is endangering communities around the country, according to experts on criminal justice and law enforcement.
Police in cities including Milwaukee, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are facing understaffing and low morale — in part due to such policies, according to Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and spokesperson for the National Police Association.
"These extremely liberal prosecutors who want to talk about restorative justice, and what that means is is that we are putting the public in danger by trying to give these people too many opportunities to re-offend," she said. "It's incredibly frustrating for law enforcement, and it's just absolutely dangerous for our communities."
She pointed to Milwaukee prosecutors’ decision earlier this month to request just $1,000 bail for Brooks, who had a violent criminal history stretching back to 1999 and an active warrant for jumping bail on a sex crime charge in Nevada.
Brantner Smith acknowledged that high bail for minor and nonviolent offenses is unfair, but Brooks’ history is extreme: multiple firearms and battery convictions, strangulation, sex offenses and drug charges on a 50-page rap sheet that spans three states.
[Townhall] Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.
Yet American conservatives still adamantly supported the nation's traditional investigatory, intelligence, and military agencies - especially when they came under budgetary or cultural attacks.
Not so much anymore.
For the first time in memory, conservatives now connect the FBI hierarchy with bureaucratic bloat, political bias, and even illegality.
In the last five years, the FBI was mostly in the news for the checkered careers of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok. Add in the criminality of convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.
The colossal FBI-driven "Russian collusion" hoax was marked by the leaking of confidential FBI memos, forged documents, improper surveillance, and serial disinformation.
Prior heads of the CIA and FBI, as well as the director of national intelligence, have at times either not told the truth under oath or claimed amnesia, without legal repercussions.
Mention the military to conservative Americans these days, and they unfortunately associate its leadership with the disastrous flight from Afghanistan. Few, if any, high-ranking officers have yet taken responsibility - much less resigned - for the worst military fiasco of the last half-century.
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Prior heads of the CIA and FBI, as well as the director of national intelligence, have at times either not told the truth under oath or claimed amnesia, without legal repercussions.
Part of this is that taking an oath, which used to be considered a serious act with serious consequences, has been completely devalued. There really isn't much point in swearing Congressional witnesses in any longer, and I wonder how many witnesses in ordinary legal proceedings have gotten the message that they can forswear themselves without consequence.
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Is perjury even prosecuted anymore?
I notice that Grosskreutz perjured himself at least once in the Kyle trial, yet no one even mentions the possibility of prosecuting him.
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N9 government body is a "pillar of our civilization". Individual liberty, Judeo-Christian ethics, and Renaissance curiosity are what built our civilization -- and none of those require government.
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[Red State] RedState editor at large Kira Davis wrote Sunday about a very dumb yet predictable move by the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board to stop referring to sex offenders as "sex offenders" because of hurt feelings and stigmatization and whatnot.
The term was changed to "adults who commit sexual offenses."
Unfortunately, as Kira also noted, the language police have been running wild in recent years as it relates to both the "transgender rights" debate as well as criminal justice matters, like using "justice-involved individuals" to refer to criminals and using the term "person" to describe convicted felons, because apparently changing the way these people are referred to will decrease the likelihood of them becoming repeat offenders or something.
The debate on the terminology used to describe the accused or convicted is not just confined to the criminal justice system, however. The debate has also played out perhaps even more extensively in the mainstream media, with one notable example being the AP’s decision last October to encourage media outlets to not refer to riots the likes of which we saw during the Antifa/BLM-led "protests" as "riots."
The newest debate around the language used to describe suspected or confirmed offenders in the media comes after a wave of flash mob robbery incidents in the San Francisco area over the weekend that saw criminals block off city streets and bum rush department stores and grab possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise and then flee the scene.
The incidents — and some in the law enforcement community referring to what happened as "looting" — apparently unnerved ABC7, which consulted "experts" who suggested the use of the term "looting" was not only technically wrong according to California law but was also supposedly stigmatizing to people of color and should not be used:
[Babylon Bee] SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Small business owners have devised a clever solution to the mostly-peaceful looting problem that has plagued retail stores in the nation’s democrat-run cities.
Standing near a Kyle Rittenhouse scarecrow outside her fifth-generation vintage VCR boutique, Reeba Hastings said, "We’re already seeing positive results from this bad boy. Just yesterday, a flash mob of fifty looters was ready to pilfer my precious vintage VCRs, but one look at this scarecrow and they scattered like politicians from a polygraph machine!"
However, some have pointed out the scarecrow’s downside. One store owner complained that, while scaring off potential looters, they tended to lure unemployed communist Antifa activists from out of their parents' basements and into the streets.
"The commies are perfectly harmless when near the Kyle Rittenhouse scarecrows," said the store owner, "One of them kept trying to hit the life-size replica of our national hero, but kept missing and punching himself in the face over and over."
The scarecrows also reportedly cause celebrities to lose their minds and froth at the mouth.
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[NYSun] It is undoubtedly true that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was a victory over dishonest and overreaching prosecutors, over a largely dishonest national press, and over the same elements that produced mob rule in Kenosha in the summer of 2020.
The jurors, in their questions and their diligence, clearly overcame the immense media bias against Mr. Rittenhouse, and the intermittent chanting and howling by mobs outside the courthouse
...led by members of Antifa/BLM/Black Block “activists”...
of often rather explicit threats against the jurors if they did not convict. The case was widely misrepresented as a trial of white-supremacist vigilantism intruding into Wisconsin from outside to aggravate the oppression of blacks in Kenosha.
...whereas in reality young Mr. Rittenhouse went there as a naive, independent supporter of the Black Lives Matter idea, though perhaps no longer of BLM Inc...
The jurors deduced that the defendant was invited to Kenosha by his family, had been asked to help defend an automobile dealership in the event of violence, was a legal carrier of the specific weapon that he owned, which was legally in the home of relatives in Kenosha.
The initial portrayal of the case, including by then-candidate Joe Biden, of white supremacist violence, was exposed as defamatory fiction, and even the prosecution witnesses powerfully contributed to the perception that Mr. Rittenhouse, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, had acted in self-defense.
It emerged that he was a well motivated and presentable young man, a good kid, and in no way a troublemaker or a bigot, contrary to what was instantly claimed by most of the media, all the way up to and through the trial.
The judge, too, deserves credit for criticizing the prosecution when it attempted to construe the defendant’s previous silence as an acknowledgment of guilt, in plain contravention of approximately 50 years of overwhelming constitutional interpretation, and for the prosecution’s attempt to hold that shooting someone had no legal character of self-defense if the gunshot victim was himself not armed.
The footage of the defendant being kicked in the face by one of those he shot, bashed over the head with the skateboard by another, and responding in the third case to having a gun pointed at his face at point-blank range, were all of great assistance to the defense.
Yet as the facts unfolded, and the lies of the press and political lynch mob that had attempted to try and convict young Mr. Rittenhouse for the last 15 months before the matter could get to court were exposed, there was no accommodation of the sharply evolving picture of what had actually occurred in Kenosha on August 25, 2020.
Not only did the defendant’s good character and background come to light; the fact that the two deceased and the other complainant party were all rioters and to some extent vandals and bullies, did not visibly shake the prosecution in its determination to proceed with four counts of actual or attempted homicide, plus a related lesser count.
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1st my apologies for getting the decimal in the wrong place for the 50M barrel release a few days ago. As Lord G. pointed it SHB 2.9## days, not 29.## days.
Regarding the latest Socialcrat nutroll.
Shutting down the Key Stone and etc. that were to bring in Northern Oil was likely one of the stupidest stunts they could have done.
The Negative Return on Votes (RoV) is likely well over 60+ to 1. The Junta result will only keep the usual small percentage "Tree Hugger" votes they will get in return usually anyway. But pissed off millions, including independent voters.
But as long as the Socialcrats have 20+ Special Interest Groups... TOO many with agendas contrary to the overall good of America., They will always be in a conundrum, COW-TOWING for votes, instead of doing whats best for America as a whole.
BTW: Now that 50 of the 714 million barrels in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve were drained off.
What cost was applied to it (ROI) and what will it cost to replenish it. Or did the Fed turn a profit selling it off?
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(Quote) My brain is drained, I'm an empty suit (end of quote)
Could someone please add this line, to president talking head's speech on the next go around (question mark). Many Americans might sleep better at night, if they knew the truth.
WASHINGTON, D.C (LifeSiteNews) — Robert Kennedy Jr. shed light on the deep-seated corruption occurring within Big Pharma and the federal regulatory bodies, including their worrisome ties to billionaire population control advocate Bill Gates.
In an interview on November 15 with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr., the nephew of late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, detailed the decades-long corruption occurring within the pharmaceutical industry and the federal regulatory agencies. Included is the collusion between Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Gates pursuant to vaccine development, vaccine safety, mass vaccination programs, and legal immunity.
"[The corruption] began in 1986 when they passed the Vaccine Act and gave complete shield from liability to all vaccine companies," Kennedy told Carlson. "So, if you’re a vaccine company and you injure somebody, no matter how grievous the injury, no matter how reckless your conduct, no matter how negligent you were, no matter how toxic the ingredient, nobody can sue you."
According to Kennedy, it "wasn’t a bunch of hippies" who thought the vaccines were dangerous, but rather it was "insurance companies" who refused to insure vaccine manufacturers because their products were "too dangerous."
Kennedy explained that when Pfizer, called Wyeth at the time, developed and administered a "diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine (DTP)" in the "early ’80s," they quickly discovered that there was serious risk of injury. Despite their "internal documents" presuming a "one in 15,000" rate of "permanent brain injury or death," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed the serious injury rate at merely "one in a million."
Kennedy described that after the mass reports of injury and death, Wyeth (Pfizer) conducted its own study with the National Institute of Health (NIH) and found that the true injury rate was a staggering "one in 300."
"[After the frightening discovery] they went to the Reagan administration, and to the Democrats in Congress ... and they said, ’if you don’t give us blanket freedom from liability, we are going to stop making vaccines and you will be out of a vaccine supply,’" Kennedy informed Carlson. "So, Congress passed and Reagan signed [the Vaccine Act]."
In the interview, Kennedy told Carlson that "everybody was reluctant" to pass the measure, and Reagan had even asked Wyeth (Pfizer), "why don’t you just make the vaccine safe?" to which the company stated, "Because vaccines are unavoidably unsafe."
Confirming Kennedy’s assertion, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 uses the phrase "unavoidable side effects" verbatim when enshrining into law that "no vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death."
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Kennedy shows how even coming from the fambly of "Camelot," you can become an outcast by speaking against the dogmas of the left's "cathedral."
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If anyone has familiarized themselves with the global locus of power, it would be a Kennedy. Three or four generations of sustained wealth did not arrive via accident or Irish luck.
I hope Mr. Kennedy is careful. Those contesting for the power are quite unscrupulous. Many of the old hond's masters have never come home.
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because of the 1986 act a reporting system (vaccine adverse event report system) was established; subsequent studies over the next half decade or so showed no causal connection between the DPT vaccine and negative outcomes
it took several year of data collection, analysis and re-analysis to come to this conclusion and of course since some people do have unfortunate illness people are always looking to blame someone
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Townhall] Millions of citizens long ago concluded that professional sports, academia, and entertainment were no longer disinterested institutions, but far Left and deliberately hostile to Middle America.
[Babylon Bee] SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Small business owners have devised a clever solution to the mostly-peaceful looting problem that has plagued retail stores in the nation’s democrat-run cities.
WASHINGTON, D.C (LifeSiteNews) — Robert Kennedy Jr. shed light on the deep-seated corruption occurring within Big Pharma and the federal regulatory bodies, including their worrisome ties to billionaire population control advocate Bill Gates.
If anyone has familiarized themselves with the global locus of power, it would be a Kennedy. Three or four generations of sustained wealth did not arrive via accident or Irish luck.
