Toronto Boxing Day killer granted full parole 7 months before shooting - "The man convicted in the 2005 Toronto Boxing Day murder of a 15-year-old was granted full parole in January after being assessed as having a 76 per cent chance of recidivism. Seven months after getting parole, 43-year-old Jeremiah Valentine faces one count of first-degree murder in the killing of Abdeck Kenedith Ibrahim. The 33-year-old Ibrahim was gunned down in a downtown Montreal square around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday... In its decision granting parole, the Parole Board of Canada says an August 2021 psychological assessment of Valentine indicated he had the highest level of risk — a 76 per cent chance of recidivism over a period of five years after release. However, the parole board says he made “observable and measurable” change in prison, adding that his release will “contribute to the protection of society.”"
Santi Ruiz on X - "Fascinating paper "...We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths.""
Crรฉmieux on X - "Holy shit If your town elects a Republican prosecutor, firearm homicides go down and young men have MUCH lower death rates. As it turns out, you can just choose to prosecute criminals and that saves lives!"
Left wing policy literally kills people and this reasonably foreseeable. So much for jailing criminals not working and needing to expand the welfare state to stop crime.
Weird how covid meant authoritarianism was justified even if virtually no lives were saved (and more might have been lost) but if you're against pro crime policies you're a terrible racist who violates human rights and hates minorities (even though minorities are the disproportionate victims of pro crime policies)
Skating Coach ID'd as victim in fatal drive-thru shooting - "Sam Linehan, was a beloved skater, coach, mentor and friend to many... St. Louis Circuit Attorneys have charged Keith Lamon Brown, 58... Court records indicate that Brown’s criminal history spans all the way back to 1986 on offenses such as burglary, robbery and armed criminal action"
Judge denies bond change for Keith Brown, accused in Starbucks drive-thru murder amid parole violation - "The prosecutor pointed out Brown's two prior convictions of armed robbery and sentences. The prosecutor said that Brown committed all of these recent crimes, while he was on active parole and absconding. Absconding on parole means a parolee intentionally hides or stops reporting to their officer, violating supervision terms. A spokesperson with the Missouri Department of Corrections said Brown was released from prison on July 24, 2020. The Missouri Parole Board told 5 On Your Side Brown was officially declared an absconder June 2, 2023 and warrants were issued for his arrest."
MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE. KIM GARDNER REPORTREPORT - "Certain officeholders may forfeit their office for violating or neglecting their official duties... the events in State v. Campbell demon- strated an inexcusable failure to comply with the law and a persistent failure to prosecute. And, unfortunately, they epitomized Ms. Gardner’s profound and willful failures in carrying out her duties... The willful neglect of victims was a pervasive problem under Ms. Gardner’s watch... Inevitably, Ms. Gardner’s willful failure to ef- fectively prosecute her cases resulted in a ter- rible tragedy that could not be swept under the rug. In September 2020, in State v. Riley, 2022- CR01534-01 (St. Louis City Cir. Ct.), Ms. Gardner had charged Mr. Riley with the violent felonies of First Degree Robbery and Armed Criminal Action for stealing a firearm from Victim at gunpoint. Mr. Riley was released on house arrest, which Ms. Gardner did not oppose... Ms. Gardner issued a statement, claiming that the charges were dismissed because the robbery victim had died. However, Ms. Gardner’s statement was incorrect, as the victim was, in fact, alive. Both before and after the refiling of the charges, Mr. Riley incurred dozens of violations of his pre-trial bond conditions; however, Ms. Gardner did not file a motion to revoke his bond. Instead, Ms. Gardner consented to his remaining free on bond while the case remained pending."
Former Soros-backed St. Louis prosecutor admits to misusing public funds - "Former George Soros-bankrolled St. Louis Circuit Court attorney Kimberly Gardner has admitted to misusing public funds to pay for personal court costs and fees while serving as the city’s lead prosecutor. Gardner resigned from her post in June 2023 after receiving repeated bipartisan calls for her resignation from officials across the state for allegedly neglecting her duties and being soft on crime... Gardner is one of the first progressive prosecutors whom Soros, a liberal billionaire and Democratic megadonor, bankrolled in 2016 and again for her re-election in 2020. She was also St. Louis' first Black chief prosecutor."
There was a lot of interesting cope about how Kim Gardner was not responsible for Linehan's death and Missouri is a red state so left wing policies can't be blamed either
Pro crime policies are at a bare minimum gross negligence, but where the state actively lies to get criminals off, and the criminals go on to kill others, this moves beyond condoning and into enabling the reasonably foreseeable deaths. So in a very real sense, the state does murder people. But of course, left wingers love criminals, so they don't get upset like they do when criminals who attack the police get killed in self-defence
Unlimited L's on X - "NEW: Father speaks out after his 18-year-old son is arrested for jumping 15 feet into the air on a dirt bike “He’s not a criminal” The video shows Sam Campbell making a large jump over a road in Arizona His father, Nick Campbell, says the clip was posted without their consent “We did not post that video… We requested that video be taken down and it was. It got reposted about 30 days later.” He says Sam has been riding since he was three and has competed in countless races “He’s a very accomplished rider. He’s a national A level racer,” he said The jump ended with Sam being arrested and charged with reckless driving “He’s not a criminal, he’s not egging houses, he’s not vandalizing, he’s not selling drugs. He’s never done that. He’s a racer. He made a mistake.”"
Will Tanner on X - "Anarchotyranny is where your son gets arrested and shown no mercy by the legal system for riding on his dirt bike, but were a 55-time felon to rob him at gunpoint, that felon would be let off with charges dropped within mere hours"
Suspect in Vancouver Starbucks stabbing 'unmedicated' at the time, his lawyer said - "The lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing another man on a Vancouver Starbucks patio in 2023 told his murder trial that her client suffers from psychosis and schizophrenia and was unmedicated on the day of the killing. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 34, pleaded not guilty last month to the second-degree murder of Paul Schmidt on March 26, 2023."
Too bad we are told forced treatment doesn't work and is against human rights, so we need to let the crazies roam around killing others at will
Man accused of assaulting alleged home intruder in high-profile Lindsay, Ont., case sees charges withdrawn - "The resident, Jeremy David McDonald, was charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon after he confronted Michael Kyle Breen, who allegedly carried a crossbow as he broke into the apartment."
End Wokeness on X - "Damon Johnson just set someone on fire in NY while on parole. 131 prior arrests."
Matt Walsh on X - "Something like 70 to 75 percent of Americans are never arrested in their lives. Another 20 to 25 percent are arrested once, usually for something minor. Almost all of the arrests, especially for violent crimes, are coming from about 5 percent of the population. If all of these people were just thrown in a cage forever and forgotten about, the rest of us could live in peace. That's a fact. You could essentially solve the crime problem, almost completely, by arresting the tiny minority of the population that commits basically all of it. Instead we let them roam the streets, continually release them back into the public, and watch helplessly as they kill, rape, and destroy, even though nobody on Earth can explain why this system makes sense, or is fair, or moral, or just."
Collin Rugg on X - "JUST IN: 19-year-old USC student arrested after he stabbed a homeless man who threatened him and broke into his car. Ivan Gallegos confronted the man who was breaking into his car at the rear parking lot of the fraternity houses at University of Southern California. The man threatened Gallegos by saying he had a gun. A scuffle broke out and Gallegos ended up stabbing the homeless man who died at the scene. "The male victim was breaking into vehicles at the location when the suspect confronted and stabbed the victim," the LAPD said. Gallegos is a high achiever and is passionate about making his "community a better place and being a positive role model for the youth," according to his LinkedIn profile. He is being held on bail of $2 million. The homeless man has not been identified but is believed to be in his 30s."
Mass Daily News on X - "Sanusi Sadiq, 31, was sentenced by a Massachusetts judge to just 3-6 years for sucker punching an Irish carpenter from behind on St. Patrick’s Day in downtown Boston. Barry Whelan, 46, never got back up. He died three days later at Tufts Medical Center"
HoodlumDoodlum on X - "Reminder: the guy who drove the car *behind* the guys who shot Ahmaud Aubrey while trying a half-assed citizens arrest will die in prison; he got life in GA and 35 years federal time. Enjoy the evenhanded justice afforded by the sacred Rule of Law!"
Reza Chowdhury on X - "~90.3% of New York residents have never been arrested. Yet our political class keeps rewriting criminal justice policy for the tiny fraction of repeat offenders who cycle endlessly through the system. Millions follow the law. But the rules are rewritten for the small subset of the population who break it. Why is public policy designed around criminals instead of the citizens they terrorize?"b
Daniel Friedman on X - "Every New Yorker I know has a terrifying encounter every few months. If half a percent of New Yorkers were removed from the city, we’d be safer than Canada. If 2% of New Yorkers were removed from the city, we’d be safer than Tokyo or Geneva. This tiny fraction has an enormously negative impact on the quality of everyone else’s lives. Why do we tolerate it?"
Danie ❤️ you on X - "Before everyone asks for the murder of these children. Just know that if it is true, there is ample rehabilitation for children sex offenders who rape. The rehabilitation is VERY successful and it doesn’t require incarceration"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "A leftist is a person who, when reading a story about a gang rape, feels empathy for the coming agony of the gang rapists."
Kristan Hawkins on X - "The death penalty is inconsistent with a pro-life worldview."
Robert Sterling on X - "I used to believe this. Then I sat on jury duty for a guy who raped and strangled a 7-year-old girl. He was a repeat offender. He had already gone to prison for a similar crime. I now no longer believe the death penalty is inconsistent with a pro-life worldview."
Southern Chestnut ๐ on X - "I’m tired of living in a society where we constantly cater to the lowest common denominator to the near total exclusion of normal people."
burnice on X - "My mom was a teacher. When no child left behind came along she said "if no child is left behind, you have to get back there with them"."
Lauren Chen on X - "The bottom 10% make our lives infinitely worse than the top 1%"
Miss Jo on X - "This is Sarah Halimi. She was a retired doctor and teacher and lived happily in Paris. One day, Kobili Traore, a 31 year old Muslim man of Malian descent forced his way into her apartment while she was sleeping. He beat her for a long time, whilst shouting anti-Semitic statements and reciting verses from the Koran. The neighbours called the police but, despite having a key, they would not enter the apartment. Eventually Traore threw her out of the window, killing her. What sentence do you think he got? Well, he was not even tried. The court decided that he could not be blamed because, despite being a heavy drug user and drug seller, his cannabis consumption that day had given him a “psychotic episode”. This was confirmed by the highest court in France in 2021. Instead, Traore was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he has continued to take drugs. Now he has been let out on day release, even returning to his building, which happens to be the same place he killed Sarah. It is expected that he will be out amongst us again soon since psychiatrists have confirmed that he “does not have any long standing mental illness”. A farce. A dangerous farce."
Tablesalt ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ on X - "๐จMAJOR BREAKING 2-TIER GUN CONTROL IN CANADA Inderjit Gosal of Brampton, Ont and Jagdeep Singh of New York were charged with illegal possession of a prohibited handgun in Sep 2025. CBC confirms that charges were DROPPED because “Between Aug. 20 and Sept. 10, the RCMP visited them eight to 10 times" to advise them their lives were in danger due to "Gosal being the leader of the Canadian chapter of Sikhs for Justice""
Canada's National Firearms Association on X - "This is what two-tiered justice looks like. Murderous repeat offenders get caught and released on a loop — yet an aging Canadian farmer gets six months. Whenever we point out these contradictions or anecdotes, someone fires back: “That never happened.” So here’s one case laid out plainly, backed by the receipts. ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐ข๐, ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ด, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ"
Whatifalthist on X - "When Pennsylvania was a Republican state from the civil war until the 1960s it was one of the wealthiest places on earth. When the cities turned Democrat after they immediately collapsed into poverty with Philadelphia being the poorest and most crime filled of America’s ten largest cities. The state only works on any level now since it’s a swing state where you can look to Upstate New York which is much worse off as an example of if that wasn’t the case"
Meme - Topher Field @TopherField: "This is how they lie. They know most people won't read the graph carefully, so the put up a graph with a declining trend and say 'see?' But look closer... this isn't a graph showing the number of OFFENCES... it's showing the number of OFFENDERS. The number of OFFENCES is up something like 16% in Victoria, but those are multiple OFFENCES being committed by the same OFFENDERS. So simultaneously we have a declining number of offenders, AND an increasing number of offences, because our 'justice system' isn't dealing with the offenders. Thing is, Dan Fangirl knows this is a lie, but she lies to you anyway. This is gaslighting."
Dan Fangirl @ChristyDanFan: "I love it when raw data debunks hysteria that works on gullible idiots who consume tabloid BS. Youth crime is down. That's the data."
"Across Australia, youth offending has been broadly in decline. According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, in 2023-24 there were 1,764 offenders per 100,000 people aged 10-17, down 28% in ten years."
Austin Justice on X - "NYC is proving that shoplifting is a simple repeat-offender problem. And an easily solvable one. Shoplifting increased 64% from 2019 to 2023. It was the same 300 people committing a third of the shoplifting in the city. But only a small portion of retail complaints led to arrests, so retailers stopped calling police and just put their deodorant behind plexiglass, or have you press a button and wait four minutes to buy toothpaste. It's been stupid. Now the city and state are going after those repeat offenders with a few key tactics:
1) The state now lets prosecutors aggregate thefts across incidents, so five $200 shoplifts from the same Rite Aid becomes a serious felony, not misdemeanor slaps.
2) NYPD started banning serial shoplifters from stores with trespass affidavits so they prosecutors can stack charges when they came back
3) NYPD used data to put foot patrols in commercial corridors and officers at subway stops shoplifters used as escape routes.
4) NYPD encouraged retailers to call them about the thieves who show up everyday to steal small stuff, and then they followed through with arrests.
Thanks to these measures, retail theft is down 20% in the first quarter of 2026, with double-digit declines in every borough. And the recidivism rate dropped from 20% to 13%. The NYC economy was hemorrhaging $4.4 billion a year to shoplifting. They're now reversing it pretty cheaply, just by tracking repeat offenders, arresting them, and upgrading their charges to make it easier for prosecutors to punish them."
You're Too Rich to Shoplift - Cartoons Hate Her - "whenever this topic comes up, and some crazy radical says “stealing is bad,” they invariably get called a Karen, fascist or bootlicker, accused of believing shoplifting is worse than murder and genocide, and then accused of trying to prosecute some variation of “single mother on food stamps stealing baby formula.” And, sure, I’ll be honest—as anti-crime as I may be, I would look the other way if a poor person stole something from a large corporation for the purpose of feeding their family. There is a reason we are meant to be on the side of Jean Valjean while watching Les Miserables. There’s just one problem—most of the time, that is not the profile of a shoplifter. In fact, shoplifting is a crime predominantly committed by educated middle and upper middle class people looking for a cheap thrill, and using the guise of anti-capitalism to justify their pilfered Prosecco."
Who actually steals? A study of covertly observed shoplifters - "Based on their dress (style and name brand), jewelry, and other class proxies (type of car observed through the store window, cell phones, money or credit cards in hand, etc.), our observers categorized 8.1% of the shoppers as lower class, 36.6% working class, 49.5% middle class, and 5.8% at least upper middle class."
Rich robbers: why do wealthy people shoplift? - "evidence suggests the rich actually do steal more than the poor. The paper cited most often to support this theory, Prevalence and Correlates of Shoplifting in the United States (American Journal of Psychology, 2008), states that people with incomes of $70,000 shoplift 30% more than those earning $20,000 a year... Every psychiatrist, substance abuse counselor and social scientist has a theory to explain this counterintuitive behavior."
New York Magazine on X - "At Whole Foods, you are apparently being monitored by a swarm of security officers, some of whom wander the aisles in plain clothes, and the company’s surveillance tech is improving. When security officers catch you, they will take you to Whole Foods Jail. Sometimes with glee. The Union Square Whole Foods jail is a windowless storage closet near the entrance, says Astrid, a photographer. She mostly remembers the wallpaper: “Layers and layers of grainy faces,” she tells Nora Deligter. “All the thieves that had come before me.” A sculptor we’ll call Gina found herself in the Bowery Whole Foods Jail. She was late to an Alex G concert at Bowery Ballroom and had decided to slip into Whole Foods for a quick spicy-tuna-roll walk-and-dine. She had a system: Approach the item with confidence, grab it, then head upstairs to the dining area and surreptitiously place it into her bag. But this time, she headed straight for the exit. “A rookie mistake,” Gina says. Gina remembers keeping her head bowed and her eyes low as she was escorted back to Whole Foods Jail. The windowless office was almost too bland to recall, she says, except for a rudimentary banner, that read: ALL SHOPLIFTERS ARE BANNED FROM WHOLE FOODS FOR LIFE. A few weeks later, Gina says her parents received a $90 ticket in the mail from the company. Deligter reports on what happens after you get caught stealing at Whole Foods: https://nymag.visitlink.me/9lsDcq"
Carl on X - "My mom wasn’t parent of the year, but she took a firm stand against theft. We were poor, but theft was dishonorable. So this article pissed me off. The jaded entitlement shielded by university vocabulary—“collective nihilism”, please, you just wanted the stuff—grates on my soul."
Karol Markowicz on X - "NYMag working really hard to avoid the words “stealing” or “shoplifting” here. “When security officers catch you” what, exactly?"
Kris Schnee on X - ""Gina found herself in the jail" is the best part. She seems dimly aware that she made a mistake, but since "she had a system" she's a habitual thief and sees nothing wrong besides having made a tactical error."
John Carney on X - "The entire article presents theft as some kind of neutral act, nothing to be condemned, and thieves as almost completely without agency. “She was late…and had decided to slip into Whole Foods for a quick spicy-tuna-roll walk-and-dine.” No she didn’t. She decided to rob the store."
Josh Barro on X - "Funny theme through this piece of people feeling entitled to steal because they’re artists"
Jeremiah Johnson ๐ on X - "The defense of shoplifting from the left has roots in the idea that 'the personal is political' The artsy people who think it's fine to steal from Whole Foods are envious losers, downwardly mobile types who think they're owed something by society. They can't grapple honestly with their own lack of success, or how they perceive themselves. So they tell themselves a fairy tale about how it's actually fine to steal, mumbling incoherently about Big Business or Life Under Late Stage Capitalism or whatever pre-defined phrase hits their ego in the right place. They don't have the finances to buy what they want. But they're entitled to that fancy hand cream, life owes them that neatly pre-packaged sushi roll! And so it's fine if they steal it, because, you know, Bezos is, umm, killing the planet. Yeah! They try to make their personal grievances into a political issue to justify their lack of morals."
Montreal man charged with murder previously stabbed a woman to death in Vancouver - "A 35-year-old Montreal man who previously stabbed a mother of two to death in Vancouver has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a homicide at a Plateau Mont-Royal dรฉpanneur. Xavier Gellatly has a long criminal history, both in Quebec and in British Columbia. It includes numerous convictions for violent offences and a previous parole board decision that said he would likely kill again... He was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Chong Woo Kim, who owned the corner store — which are commonly referred to as dรฉpanneurs in Quebec... Gellatly has had numerous, often violent, run-ins with the justice system — including a case of animal cruelty and the previous fatal stabbing in Vancouver. In 2012, he killed Chelsea Holden, a 28-year-old mother of two, inside the Cobalt Hotel. During the same incident he stabbed another man seven times. He was convicted of manslaughter and aggravated assault and sentenced to seven years in prison... Even before the manslaughter conviction, Gellatly had a history of violent offences. In 2009, in Montreal, he was convicted of assaulting a peace officer and mischief causing property damage. While awaiting his manslaughter sentence, he also pleaded guilty to assaulting an inmate with a razor blade and punching a guard inside a B.C. detention centre, according to court records. In 2016, a Parole Board of Canada decision said Gellatly was at high risk for violent recidivism. The board noted that Gellatly had been seen making a knife while incarcerated and that he was violent with other inmates. "Police have indicated that you are prone to violent outbursts that result in stabbing the people you fight with and you are known to carry knives," the decision says, "which is a likely contributing factor to your index offences, and other stabbings on your record. They also believe that, if released, you will reoffend and kill someone else." Following the end of his prison sentence in B.C., he returned to Quebec where he was convicted of additional crimes, including uttering threats, failing to comply with a release order and animal cruelty in 2022."
How disgusting. Where's the empathy for this poor victim Gellatly?!
