The Rest Is Politics on X - "The chance of re-offending after a short prison sentence is 55% compared with 25% for suspended sentences, according to Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk. Do you think the current prison system is working?"
Inquisitive Bird on X - "Luckily there are no other differences between those who receive suspended sentences and those who receive prison sentences other than the sentence itself"
Aylmer on X - "The difference in one year reoffending rates largely or wholly disappears when you match offenders by offence type, risk to the community and a number of other variables. The MoJ's analysis found a 4 percentage point difference without even controlling for number of previous offences (they picked non-custodial sentence offenders with a "higher than average number of previous offences so that they were similar to those offenders receiving short term custody". Nevertheless, offenders receiving custodial sentences had committed twice as many previous offences on average)."
Mythinformed on X - "Why isn’t the media covering the fact that Daniel Penny was complemented by other passengers and also put Jordan Neely in the recovery position? Seems like key details to leave out."
Emily Galvin-Almanza on X - "The Trump DOJ will basically override local voters and prosecutors, bringing federal charges where they deem states not punitive enough. (553)"
stricture on X - ""Trump is going to kill everyone in PROJECT 2025."
"Oh really?"
"Yes. You know that Chesa Boudin thing where we get the DA to let the criminally insane go after they get arrested over and over? They're going to make us stop doing that.""
Haitian migrant accused of raping girl in Boston freed on $500 bail - "A Haitian migrant accused of raping a 15-year-old at a Massachusetts shelter has been released on bail — despite a request from federal immigration officials to keep him in jail. Cory Alvarez, who had been held without bail since his March arrest, was freed on a measly $500 bail on Tuesday after the Plymouth County Superior Court ignored a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the suspect in custody... “We then requested that Alvarez be held on $10,000 cash bail with numerous conditions of release. The judge set bail at $500”... Alvarez, 26, was released with an ankle monitor, but ICE officials can’t track him because Boston is a sanctuary city — meaning local authorities don’t have to cooperate with the feds... “California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and other blue states all do this bulls–t. If we run records checks on people out of those states, they have policies that are in place to prevent sharing of any information.”... "this recent case involving an accusation of rape by a Haitian national admitted under the Biden parole program highlights the ongoing issue. Additionally, sanctuary city policies continue to provide protection to foreign-born criminals rather than safeguarding law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.” Alvarez had no known criminal history when he entered the US at JFK Airport in June 2023 under President Biden’s controversial parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV). Following Alvarez’s arrest in March, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) spearheaded an inquiry into the CHNV program. Alvarez’s entry documents indicated he would be living with a sponsor in Elizabeth, NJ, but he eventually ended up at the Comfort Inn in Rockland, Mass., which had been converted into a migrant shelter."
No wonder left wingers want to abolish ICE
Violent sexual offender, known to prey on girls, released again in Edmonton: police - "Edmonton police issued a public warning Thursday about the release of a violent sexual offender who they believe will commit another violent offence. David Jonathan Hay, 23, is a convicted sexual offender. He also goes by the name Chance Morgan. He will be living in Edmonton, under a series of court-ordered conditions, after he’s released from jail. He has been violent in the past, EPS said, causing physical harm to his victims. “Hay has victimized a number of adolescent females in a sexual manner,” police added. An Edmonton Police Service spokesperson said Hay has breached conditions twice in the past two years. Hay was previously released from jail in August of last year, then re-arrested a few days later for violating his curfew. He was released again in December 2023 and Edmonton police issued a public warning about him at that time as well."
‘A camera is not going to provide accountability’: Activist questions Hamilton police board approval of body-worn cameras : r/Hamilton - "The “we need cameras” group now upset that they’re getting cameras. Gold Jerry."
‘A camera is not going to provide accountability’: Activist questions Hamilton police board approval of body-worn cameras : r/Hamilton - "Kojo is an activist, he can't be happy."
"Kojo Damptey, the same guy that compared the actions of Hamas to those of Nelson Mandela in a tweet 3 days following October 7th. Hard to take anything he says seriously."
San Francisco Chronicle on X - "A woman was killed after a man allegedly pushed her into an oncoming BART train at the San Francisco Powell Street station on Monday night. Bay Area Transit Police officers arrested Trevor Belmont, 49, on the train platform."
David Pivtorak on X - "Was at a friend's BBQ this weekend and someone mentioned taking public transportation in LA. I jokingly asked if they relished the prospect of getting stabbed and the resident AWFL immediately started making noises about why don't I just move to the country. And it dawned on me that they really do think like this—for them, there is no reality where public transportation is safe and clean and the streets aren't lined with tents, feces, and violent, drug-addled vagrants terrorizing anyone within earshot. That's why they make no effort to actually improve the cities they live in. For them, it's either accept living in a third-world hellscape or move to the middle of nowhere. There's no other option. They genuinely are that broken and deranged by their politics."
Wesley Yang on X - "There used to be a myth that prisons were full of nonviolent offenders and that the prison population could be reduced by freeing the nonviolent criminals. Then we faced up to the fact that most of those in prisons are repeat violent offenders -- and went ahead and began reducing the prison population by freeing violent criminals."
L.A. robbery crew targeted prominent New Zealand couple at Newport Beach mall, DA says - Los Angeles Times - "McCrary is a third-striker who had not served prison time for his most recent two felony convictions in L.A. County. He also faces charges of felony attempted second-degree robbery and evading while driving recklessly. He was previously convicted of residential burglary in 2018, criminal threats in 2020 and robbery in 2023, all in L.A. County, according to prosecutors. In 2023, McCrary pleaded no contest to charges of robbery and being a narcotics addict in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to two years of probation with three years in state prison suspended. He also was previously arrested in a nearly identical armed robbery. Santa Monica police said McCrary and another suspect placed a gun to the head of a man while stealing his Rolex in September 2022. He was arrested in January 2023 while in court on another case, and it was that robbery case that resulted in a suspended sentence and two years’ probation."
someonesalt on X - "I remember so many supposed stories about people getting life in prison for stealing a pair of socks or something like that, because of those terribly unjust three strikes laws. Then it would inevitably turn out if you looked into it that the person stole the socks at gunpoint and pistol whipped the elderly clerk into a coma."
AEIOU on X - "They don't go to prison for a violent crime. They plead down from a violent crime to a lesser offence."
Nayib Bukele on X - "Thousands of non-dangerous prisoners, including associates of gang members (though not gang members themselves), are being trained to help us rebuild our country. In this way, they can repair part of the damage they have caused to society."
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Keep the worst of criminals locked up, give measured opportunity to those who want to try and turn around their lives around. It’s not that hard. Imagine if America had leaders like this who didn’t care about the tabloids and did what they needed to do to clean up the country."
Meme - ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa: "OPINION: The Right should be ashamed of their admiration of Nayib Bukele - the fact he has improved quality of life in El Salvador on every metric does not justify his betrayal of liberal ideals and principles. It makes everybody better off in practice but what about in theory?"
"It's easy to see why so many on the right have become enamoured with the idea of not being gunned down for accidentally stepping in the wrong neighborhood. They too lack basic respect for rules and institutions. They, like Bukele, just seem to want mostly competent pragmatic government that improves their quality of life instead of an incoherent set of schizophrenic ideas or philosophy." - G. PATRICK LYNCH. UNANCHORED IN EL SALVADOR
LAW & LIBERTY
Law & Liberty: "The American right should be ashamed of their admiration of @nayibbukele , writes @plynch1966 . The fact that he has ended El Salvador's violent crime epidemic does not justify his betrayal of liberal ideals and principles. https://lawliberty.org/unanchored-in-"
How Canada became a car theft capital of the world - "In 2022, more than 105,000 cars were stolen in Canada - about one car every five minutes. Among the victims was Canada’s very own federal justice minister, whose government-issued Toyota Highlander XLE was taken twice by thieves. Early this summer, Interpol listed Canada among the top 10 worst countries for car thefts out of 137 in its database - a “remarkable” feat, said a spokesperson, considering the country only began integrating their data with the international police organisation in February... “We had one client whose street had so many home invasions that he’d hired a security guard every night outside his house because he just didn’t feel safe.” The pervasiveness of car thefts in Canada is surprising given how small the country’s population is compared to the US and the UK - other countries with high rates of such crime, says Alexis Piquero, Director of the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. “[Canada] also doesn’t have as many port cities as the US does,” said Mr Piquero. While the US, Canada and the UK have all experienced a spike in car thefts since the Covid-19 pandemic, Canada’s rate of thefts (262.5 per 100,000 people) is higher than that of England and Wales (220 per 100,000 people), according to the latest available data from each country. It is also fairly close to that of the US, which sits at around 300 vehicle thefts per 100,000 people, based on 2022 data... the way that Canada’s ports operate make them more vulnerable to this type of theft than other countries. “In the port system, there’s a greater focus on what is coming into the country than what is exiting the country,” he said, adding that once the vehicles are packed up in shipping containers at a port it becomes harder to get to them... Patrick Brown, the mayor of Brampton - another Ontario city hard-hit by car thefts - recently paid a visit to the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey to compare inspection tactics between the US and Canada. He told the National Post newspaper that US authorities have “got scanners. They measure density. They work closely with local law enforcement”. “These are things that we don’t do in Canada,” he said."
Homeless homeowner living in her car gets eviction hearing expedited as tenants still refuse to leave : r/canada - "RCMP is tripping over stolen cars to give you a 10km over speeding ticket."
Twisted broken windows strikes again. But then, random motorists are unlikely to shoot you
How Canada became a car theft capital of the world : r/oakville - "Bring back the Crime Free Canada of the 1990s right? Or 1980s? Wait, was it the 70s? 🤔"
"Canada didn't have literally zero crime in the past therefore you should tolerate infinity immigrants per year and shut up about the consequences"
Meme - Resist the Mainstream: "In 2010: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor co-signed a dissent that said the Constitution does not protect "a private right of armed self-defense" in the case of McDonald v. Chicago."
"Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's bodyguards shoot would-be carjacker outside her home"
Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD on X - "Several months ago, a dear older friend (and anti-crime activist) was violently assaulted in the beautiful Palisades Park in Santa Monica by a drugged-out homeless man - kicked in the head 17x, needed many jaw surgeries and two brain surgeries for life threatening brain hemorrhages. The @SantaMonicaPD did an outstanding job apprehending the criminal. Last week, my friend finally got to see the assailant in court. And guess what: despite having a long rap sheet, past violent offenses, the DA and judge want this man, charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER of my friend, to be sentenced to “diversion”, meaning NO prison, freedom, back on the streets. My friend nearly died and will suffer serious mental and physical problems for the rest of his life. But the disgusting pro-criminal DA Gascon and the “equity” driven judge seem to want this guy to face zero consequences. Remember that a year ago, a man who committed armed robbery in Santa Monica was let go without jail time, and recently killed an elderly woman in Newport Beach during a robbery gone bad. We cannot continue like this. In what world is absolute lawlessness OK?"
wanye on X - "My son did something to get himself in trouble this morning and then later we were in the store and he wanted a toy, so I explained to him that he couldn’t have it because I’m still upset about what he did this morning, to which he responded, “but I was good when we went to x and I was good when we were doing y” and it struck me that this is literally the progressive response to criminality — “ that guy who was just shot after trying to wrestle a gun from a cop? Have you considered that he didn’t commit crimes literally every second of his life? Here’s a picture of him in his graduation cap.” It’s literally like reasoning with a toddler."
2 Abbotsford men released on bail pose 'significant public safety risk,' say police - "The Abbotsford Police Department (APD) is issuing a public warning about two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder who have been released from custody on bail. Anmol Sandhu and Navpreet Dhaliwal (whom police previously identified as "Navdeep"), both of Abbotsford, were each released Tuesday (July 30) on a $100,000 surety. APD Sgt. Paul Walker said both men are connected to the ongoing B.C. gang conflict and "present a significant public safety risk.""
@amuse on X - "DEI: Soros-backed DA points out that Blacks are more likely to be carrying illegal firearms and drugs in their cars than whites. As a result, her prosecutors will not be allowed to pursue gun and drug charges stemming from traffic stops."
Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ on X - "How wild is 🇨🇦 rn? Check out this brazen car jacking in greater Toronto. Police almost immediately identified the suspect as Giani Zail Singh Sidhu, of no fixed address. How? He literally went from a bail hearing to a carjacking."
York Regional Police have shared footage of a brazen, daytime armed carjacking in Richmond Hill. Suspects wanted. YRP said the victim was sitting in her vehicle when approached by a male suspect armed with a knife. The suspect demanded the keys and fled in her 2023 Mercedes GLE SUV. : r/TorontoDriving - ""Peel Police took down a major car jacking organized crime group back in May this year. Have a look. All released on bail." All either out on bail at time of arrest or on probation at time of arrest for similar offences. That pretty much says everything you need to know about our so called Criminal Justice System (or should I say Catch and Release System). Really, in this day and age, you are more likely to spend more time behind bars for "misgendering" someone, or posting "rasacist" comments online, than carjacking."
Nicolas Mulroney on X - "Got invited to a farm last Sunday, decided to stop at @LCBO to buy a gift. I walked in and a man ran past me, stole 2 bottles of booze. I yelled “stop”. The employee told me he was a “regular” and said he would “be fired” if he tried to stop him. To make things worse, the crook waited for me outside - yes, waited… outside the scene of the crime. The guy told me to “mind my business”, clearly stealing is his. If the @LCBO , with terrific margins and run by the province, can’t keep products and patrons safe, what’s the point of it?"
Meme - Toronto Police Association @TPAca: "On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody. @TPAReid @TPACallanan"
"OFFICERS INJURED BY REPEAT VIOLENT OFFENDER
On August 16, 2024, Sheriffs called police to help with an eviction. During this process, police learned the man was wanted for not attending court in relation to multiple charges including theft, assault peace officer, and assault with a weapon. A struggle took place during the arrest as the man violently resisted the police officers. Three officers sustained injuries. Thankfully, they will be ok. The man now faces, in total, at least 17 charges, involving two jurisdictions. These charges include multiple counts of assault peace officer, assault with a weapon, theft, mischief, utter threats, and fail to comply with a release order and fail to comply with an undertaking. The man is also a CBSA overstay and is currently in the "Open Removal" process. On behalf of our members, and the public, we are asking all levels of government to stop pointing fingers and explain why this man was still in Canada and why he was not in custody."
Glenn Gumbley @glenn_gumbley: "I'm not finger pointing but it might have something to do with the people who are instructing this nonsense."
"City of Toronto: The City is committed to supporting all residents, regardless of immigration status. Join us on Aug 20 for Undocumented Residents Day event and learn about the realities, challenges and contributions undocumented Torontonians make to our city.
UNDOCUMENTED SHOULDN'T MEAN UNRECOGNIZED."
Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ on X - "A Toronto Realtor went missing after leaving for work. Her torched remains were found 3 days later. 3 kids caught w/her possessions, after one of them used her credit card. Two were 17 years old, one was 16 years old. 🇨🇦 really prefers teen criminals instead of RICO laws, eh?"
Corruptario on X - "Innovative use of child labour. 😑"
Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ on X - "If it’s not child labor, it’s a heck of a coincidence how many kids are now stealing cars to send to Africa, murdering strangers, and in possession of dead people’s stuff."
People respond to incentives
Meme - wanye @wanyeburkett: "It’s really a shame that the grocery store did this for no reason at all, in response to nothing, like shapeless, contextless beings floating in space"
Tara Brooky @expiredtylenol: "The criminalization of being a child in Baltimore City continues—No unaccompanied minors in the 33rd st Giant after 6 PM"
Dozens let out of prison under emergency release scheme were freed by mistake - "A Ministry of Justice source said 37 people were released in error on 10 September, because their offences for breaching restraining orders were wrongly logged under repealed legislation. This meant these cases were not flagged for exemptions, which were designed to prevent those guilty of certain types of crime from being released... One of those mistakenly released is understood to have allegedly reoffended, charged with 'intentionally touching' a woman. He was recalled to prison."
Thread by @Will_Tanner_1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "At this point, we all know that they're doing this. Britain's locking up protesters for speaking against immigration, and American prosecutors won't lock up felons. But why do they do it? It's the time-tested way tyrants like them win power 🧵👇
First, there are various people and interests behind this, of course. George Soros and his Open Societies Foundation are a good example: that's where woke American AGs and prosecutors who won't lock up felons get their campaign cash from. Similarly, you can bet a whole host of NGOs fund those who are letting criminals out of jail to make room for normal people who will be locked up. But it's bigger than that. It's not just that insane woke people are causing chaos. It's also that this is a repeated tactic communists, and tyrants generally, use to gain power: create chaos and then exploit stopping it to become popular and have an excuse for solidifying power and crack down on dissent
The communists, for example, opened up the prisons and let all manner of violent thugs out of jail, letting them prey on the populace. It's one of the more shocking parts of "Always with Honor" by General Wrangel, for example: as the Revolution began, the prison population of the Crimea was suddenly out on the streets and causing chaos, often when garbed in the insignia of the communists and with their support. Similarly, much the same thing began the French Revolution: the mob stormed the Bastille, killed the guards, and freed the (couple remaining) prisoners, including the Marquis de Sade. Anarchy then followed, which the worst of the revolutionaries were quick to exploit.
In both cases, it ought be remembered, it wasn't that those taking power were against locking people up in prison. Both were known for covering their hands with blood in the years that followed, with many a poor soul sent to a prison camp and killed. So, it's not that they were against prison, whatever their rhetoric surrounding it might have been. Rather, it's that they knew criminals were their allies in the war against the old order. Whether the scum of Russia locked up during the Great War for stealing, murdering, draft dodging, and so on, or the enemies of the enemies of the French state, rotting in the symbol of the king's power, those locked up by the sane state were beloved by its demented attackers. The old orders in France and Russia weren't prison camp states in the Soviet mold, after all. Yes, both had prisoners and the Russian czars had the exile camps in Siberia. But their hands were hardly stained with blood. They weren't wiping out an entire order like France or murdering millions like the Soviets
But it wasn't just that the bloodthirsty revolutionaries were ideologically allied with the sorts who would steal and murder. It was also that they knew letting such people out of prison would help them gain power. Thousands of criminals running loose during the revolution would cause chaos, reduce the existing state's legitimacy, distract people from paying attention politically, and, most importantly, tire them out and make them crave order, no matter who provided it. Countless tyrants have done this. The Nazis were well known for it with the street fights against the communists, the Soviets did it during the Revolution, and the blood-soaked tyrants of the French Revolution used the preceding chaos to justify their rule. Augustus, similarly, was accepted by Rome in part because of the decades of chaos and bloodshed that preceded him. He was less of a tyrant, but it was a similar justification
To return to Britain, and the rest of the West as well, particularly crime-wracked and illegal migrant-saturated countries like the United States, that's why they're doing this. Think, for example, of all they want to do. The Great Reset. Civilian disarmament (gun control). Outlawing beef. 15-minute cities. Getting rid of gas-powered cars. All of that will be highly unpopular. No one wants to eat cockroaches and not be allowed to leave a small radius, like some medieval peasant
But they might be willing to accept all of it, to accept the outcome @Babygravy9 wrote about in The Eggs Benedict Option, if there's enough chaos to make them accept it. If the Great Reset seems worth it in comparison to the chaos of rampaging, crime-causing foreigners. So, their whole goal is to make The Great Reset seem worth it, just as earlier their goal was to make Marat seem worth it or Lenin and the Reds seem worth it. So, when normal people are locked up for speaking their mind and some illegal immigrant gets away with murder, that's why. They want you to accept their tyranny"
Explaining anarcho-tyranny