Links - 2nd April 2026 (2 - Pro-Crime Policies: Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska)

Meme - ""Don't let kids talk about Hitler or else..."
"Or else what?"
"Or else we'll keep releasing schizophrenic lifelong criminals onto the street to kill female white war refugees"
"You'll keep doing that anyway, which is why the kids are talking about Hitler""
"CAREFUL! I GRADUATED FROM REDDIT UNIVERSITY"
PoliMath: "Here is the thing... and I genuinely need conservatives to listen when I say this: When you protect coddled little idiots who joke about Hitler, you are putting people like Iryna in more danger"

The Free Press on X - "Psychiatrist Sally Satel explains why she believes the execution of the schizophrenic man who stabbed a Ukrainian refugee on a train would be an act of cruelty, not justice."
pagliacci the grinch 🎄🎁 on X - "no one who believes this shit can ever explain why these “schizophrenic men” always seem to exclusively target the tiniest women in their proximity. why don’t their “delusions” ever tell them to attack, say, a black man their own size"

Why did nobody? : r/TeenagersButBetter - "Partly because she wasn’t killed by the state, and afaik her killer was brought to justice"
"Technically she was killed by the state. Her killer was spared from prison multiple times by a state appointed judge who helped facilitate the states failed policies."
"Yeah that much different than state officials killing her directly. That's like saying that mass shooting victims were killed by the state because the police ingoned red flag laws against the shooter."
"Nope?... I see the connection but a kid being edgy at school and a person having 10+ cases of breaking the law are WAY different when it comes to being noticable. And it's COMPLETELY the State's job to protect it's people."

Laura Loomer on X - "EXCLUSIVE:  🚨Teresa Stokes, the magistrate judge who let career criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr. walk free before he violently slaughtered Iryna Zarutska in North Carolina, sold chicken wings to drug addicts in 2021 before becoming a DEI magistrate judge in April 2023.🚨   Mecklenburg County Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, the DEI Shaniqua magistrate judge who released DeCarlos Brown Jr., the feral career criminal, in January 2025, who was caught on video viciously murdering Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte, NC light rail train last month, sold chicken wings before she became a judge. @LoomerUnleashed  has uncovered an old news clip about Teresa Stokes and her chicken wings.   See video below 👇🏻   Perhaps she should have focused on selling chicken wings instead of unleashing dangerous predators back into our society.  Magistrate Judge and fried chicken restaurateur Teresa Stokes, co-owner of Wing Heaven Sports Haven, openly admitted in a March 15, 2021 interview in Lansing, Michigan with FOX 47 to losing a brother and a nephew to drug addiction in 2020, revealing a clear bias for those struggling with substance abuse—and her statements suggest she extends excessive compassion to such individuals, perhaps too much so in the case of DeCarlos Brown Jr.  Wing Heaven Sports Haven described itself online as a “sober and recovery atmosphere” that catered to drug addicts and criminals before it permanently closed.  The interview also confirmed that Teresa Stokes is co-owner of Pinnacle Recovery Services, a Lansing nonprofit housing program.   Radical leftist judges who are deliberately ignoring our Constitution and common sense are unleashing an uncontrollable violent black crime wave on innocent civilians in our country. These radical activist judges are literally just as dangerous as the killers they are unleashing upon us.  How do you go from selling chicken wings to being a magistrate judge?   This is insane. And it’s one of the most obvious examples of how DEI= DIE.  WATCH 👇🏻"
Time to denounce private prisons and their conflicts of interest

Reform urged as public questions magistrate qualifications after brutal NC train murder - "the judge who reportedly released Brown in January 2025, Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, is under fire for allegedly not passing the bar exam... North Carolina is not the only state that allows magistrate judges to not pass the bar exam to serve in their position. According to a study by the Columbia Review, thirty-two states allow judges to serve without a law degree, and seventeen states don't require a judge who presides over eviction cases to have a law degree.  Over 80% of magistrates in North Carolina do not have a law degree, the study shows."

Meme - *Fork in the road*
*Daniel Penny restraining Jordan Neely*
*Decarlos Brown killing Iryna Zarutska*

Meme - "r/DoomerCircleJerk
Memorial for dead Ukrainian immigrant is "Fascist Astroturfing"
Elon Musk and Andrew Tate Backed Fascist Astroturfing on Jefferson and Evergreen
Exactly what it says. The new mural on the corner of Jefferson and Evergreen is part of an Elon Musk and Andrew Tate backed campaign to memorialize Iryna Zarutska in hundreds of murals across the country."
Left wingers love criminals

Megan Basham on X - "Another factor in the death of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte's light rail--the left-wing MacArthur Foundation giving Mecklenburg county a $3.3 million grant to reduce the jail population. Specifically as part of "racial equity aims. Like Soros' Open Society, the MacArthur Foundation incentivizes local municipalities to make residents less safe by leaving threats like Decarlos Brown on the streets."

Meme - Ivor Cummins: "Netflix is working on a drama about the recent horrific murder of Iryna Zarutska:"
"La triste vicenda di Iryna presto su Netflix *white man about to kill black woman*"

Meme - David Sant...: "Which of these two immigrants got wall-to- wall sympathetic news coverage from the media?"
"Ukrainian refugee escaping war"
"Wife-beating MS-13 gang member"

Meme - "If you stop a violent Black man, you make national news. *Daniel Penny*
If you are a violent Black man, you don't. *Decarlos Brown*"

Meme - "r/TooAfraidToAsk
Why is there no riots in the streets or national outrage over the killing of Iryna Zarutska?
Iryna Zarutska was a Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed in Charlotte. The killer was Black. Liberals seem to care so much about refugees, but I haven't heard anything from them about this incident
You're currently banned from this community and can't comment on posts.
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/TooAfraidToAsk"
Turns out you have good reason to be afraid to ask questions that threaten the left wing agenda

Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - The official black lives matter account has posted a video stating that black people “have a right to violence” amid mass outrage over the slaying of Iryna Zarutska at the hands of a black male in Charlotte, North Carolina."

Colin Wright on X - "The left will only report on stories inconvenient to their narrative when the right makes enough noise about an issue that it suddenly becomes useful to report on the right's outrage about it."

Meme - "POV: Just trying to make it home alive on public transit despite the 'socioeconomic factors' behind you *woman in knight armour*"

Meme - 0liver✨⛈️🌴🐊🦈 @0Iiver_Sister: "decarlos brown wasnt crazy, he knew exactly what he was doing and why he was doing it because he rehearsed his magical get out of trouble words as he was exiting the train. this is the lede. dont bury it."
"She called me nigger"

Meme - End Wokeness: "Not a single celebrity or feminist activist has said a word about this"

Meme - Netflix: *white man about to murder scared black woman*

Johan Jelqington on X - "I wonder what percentage of historic "lynchings" were actually in response to black guys doing shit like this."
Thread by @Trust_Lion_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Looking back on lynchings being discussed in history class is so funny in retrospect. "Yeah white people used to become very angry and very violent all of a sudden for NO REASON and find a black person and hang them and this happened all the time"
"It happened basically every single day and we're only ever going to discuss one case which we insist was motivated by a false accusation which we'll never acknowledge originated as a claim almost 50 years after the event and was denied by every authority that investigated it"
"So off of this one case which we claim was falsified with no credible reasoning, now believe that there were thousands and thousands of episodes of white people just getting together to harm Minorities™️, again- FOR NO REASON. Do not consider that!!""

Thread by @jessesingal on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "After Jordan Neely randomly punched a 67-year-old woman in the face, which led to one of his three dozen or so arrests, several for assault, he spent 15 months in jail, max. Then The Helpers arrived(!), leading to "a carefully planned strategy between the city and his lawyers to allow him to get treatment and stay out of prison." The traumatized, violent, deeply mentally ill guy got to do basically an honor-code type of deal where he sorta pinky-swore to stay in treatment. But 13 days later he just walked out (because of course he did!).  Then outreach workers saw him on the subway. They approached him and he started pissing in front of them. They called the cops, who didn't bother to check if he had a warrant out -- they just shooed him off the train. Three weeks later he was killed.
The reason I'm reminding people of this story is that I think it's a really really really bad idea to treat "If someone commits multiple public assaults and is not in any control of their own life or actions, it's okay to incarcerate them for awhile" as a MAGA position."

Morgoth on X - "What I find striking about this image is that it mocks the conventional liberalism of the West. The killer has never known hardship or war. He has no recent cultural memory of communism or forced famines and poverty. Unlike her, he isn't a refugee; he's a pampered pet from a demographic that has been indulged to the point of madness."

Meme - ""What terrifies me more than a White girl getting her throat slashed by a subsaharan repeat offender is White people getting mad about it""
Plantation scientist @plantationdrip: "New York Times article on the murder of Iryna Zarutska"
"In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality. Among other things, such stories served as a precursor to a white supremacist uprising in Wilmington, N.C., in 1898, in which at least 60 Black men were killed."

>Meme<.a> - shoe @shoe0nhead: ">NYT finally covers it
>it’s about the people covering it
however much you hate journalists i promise you it will never be enough"
""New York Times. A Gruesome Murder in North Carolina Ignites a Firestorm on the Right. Security footage capturing the unprovoked stabbing in Charlotte became an accelerant for conservative arguments about the perceived failings of Democratic policies."

i/o on X - "The NYT just can't help itself. Every few months it provides yet another breaking update on the Emmett Till situation, but it has only printed the phrase "black homicide rate" in its pages three times in 52 years. The staggering rates of black homicidal violence embarrass the paper. So rather than report on them, it prefers to deflect, project and obfuscate."

Meme - Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics: "This is what black twitter is posting right now just so you understand what time it is"
"Deserved"
"Clean up in aisle 13"
"We even for George now *decarlos brown as Derek Chauvin kneeling on Iryna Zarutska as George Floyd*"

Thread by @webdevMason on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "People talking about "situational awareness" like it's perfectly normal to sit down in a train and spend the entire ride assessing angles of attack rather than reading a book or checking your messages. I don't know why you people want to live in a post-apocalyptic nightmare but I would simply rather not"
When left wingers admit public transit is dangerous

She had already been stabbed at this point and cowers in fear while she bleeds out and these people just sat and watched. While her killer says "I got that white girl". The hate filled rhetoric of democrats is responsible for this kind of violence and apathy. The DNC is a plague on our society. : r/libsofreddit - "What that girl needed was a Daniel Penny."
"And they locked him up immediately and then a PIECE OF SH!T DA tried him for murder."
"Which is why you’ll never see the likes of his actions again from a bystander. The inactions those people is exactly what the right said would happen by charging Daniel Penny for murder."

The brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska exposes the cost of the Left’s ‘compassion’ - "A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words. You could replace this article with the photograph of Iryna Zarutska and her alleged killer: a Ukrainian refugee still in her work uniform reading her phone on the bus, and a hooded man rising from his seat on a train to swing a knife into her neck. You would get the essential dynamics: American cities are unsafe, with a criminal class left to run riot at the expense of the innocent people around them. Then again, much of polite society across the West has dedicated itself to not noticing the patterns that keep unfolding across these horror stories. The “compassionate” thing to do is turn a blind eye, look elsewhere until the news cycle moves on, then continue to make the same mistakes until the next slaughter... While it may not have fed into this decision, Republicans have also seized on the actions of North Carolina’s “Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” set up in the wake of George Floyd’s death. A report released last year set out progress against a laundry list of aims, many concerned with lowering arrests, incarceration, and the use of cash bail. “Compassion” apparently requires that disparities within the criminal justice system be eliminated regardless of the wider impact.  Even after watching a woman killed on video, with the suspect then walking away in a trail of blood, the values of liberal America were on full display. The mayor of Charlotte, Vi Lyles, called for “compassion” to be shown to the suspected killer on the grounds of mental ill health; Zarutska wasn’t mentioned by name in the statement. Meanwhile, a fundraiser was immediately opened for Brown, who was “failed categorically” by the “judicial system and the mental health services” of the state; another attempted to crowdfund for his legal fees, to “fight against the racism and bias against our people”. If this sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve heard every element of it before. A criminal released after multiple incidents; judges who don’t want to be responsible for putting him or her away; a mental health system that thinks the kindest way to treat those failing to manage is to put them onto the street; the defensiveness of the Left who maintains overrepresentation of particular groups in the criminal justice system is the result of pure racism; a political system which panders to this belief.  Together, these “compassionate” behaviours have wreaked havoc on American communities. Studies around the world have shown that criminal behaviour is hugely concentrated among a small group of hardened offenders. In Sweden, for instance, a group consisting of just 1pc of the total population racked up 63pc of all convictions for violence. The last time I ran the numbers, the rough implication was that fractionally harsher sentencing in a handful of US cities would prevent dozens of murders and thousands of assaults each year.If lawmakers had genuine empathy for society and for those forced to live near dangerous people, they would do the sensible thing: they would remove them from the streets, ending their ability to terrorise new victims. If they were genuinely concerned about people with severe mental health problems, they would institutionalise them rather than leave them homeless. A society where a man can be accused of shooting another person in the head, be found incompetent to stand trial, be released, and then be charged with committing the exact same crime a second time is one which has abandoned all sense of reason. Being unable to understand your actions or restrain them is if anything a reason for a sentencing enhancement rather than release. And if lawmakers are worried about racial disparities, they should look at the victims of crimes as well as the perpetrators. In cases where the race of an offender is known, African Americans made up roughly 58pc of homicide offenders in the last five years, but also around 56pc of victims. Turning a blind eye to these figures, to claim that is racist to arrest dangerous criminals, is an abrogation of duty that leaves communities to rot. There is nothing compassionate about this inaction, or its consequences. Jordan Neely was also homeless with mental health issues, and a long criminal record: he had been arrested 42 times, including three times for unprovoked assaults on women on the New York subway. When he threatened passengers on a journey in 2023, he was restrained by Daniel Penny, a former marine, and died in a chokehold. The same set-up, with a different outcome.  Neither incident should have happened. Neither needed to. Donald Trump is completely correct when he says the people who “refuse to put bad people in jail” have blood on their hands. Until America abandons “compassion” for common sense, however, the death toll will continue to rise."
Left wing "empathy" is highly selective and weaponised

Show compassion for Ukrainian refugee murder suspect, says Democratic mayor - "Ms Lyles said that Charlotte “must do better” for people like Mr Brown, who is homeless, as they “need help and have no place to go”... “I want to be clear that I am not villainising those who struggle with their mental health or those who are unhoused. Mental health disease is just that – a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease.  “Also, those who are unhoused are more frequently the victim of crimes and not the perpetrators. Too many people who are on the street need a safe place to sleep and wrap around services to lift them up.  “We, as a community, must do better for those members of our community who need help and have no place to go.”... a GoFundMe account set up for Mr Brown was pulled soon after it was set up and garnered $5 in donations out of a $35,000 goal.  The fundraiser claimed that the suspect had been “failed categorically by the judicial system and the mental health services of North Carolina, and as such is not entirely to blame for what happened”."

TheBlaze on X - "Van Jones on CNN discussing the brutal Charlotte stabbing: “We don’t know why that man did what he did. This man was hurting. Hurt people hurt people.” 🤡🤡🤡"
Michael Shermer on X - "“Hurt people hurt people” is not a theory of violence or mental illness. It’s an absurd statement meant to excuse the murderer. Would he say “Derek Chauvin was hurting and hurt people hurt people”? Woke poisons everything it touches. Progressives make Fox News seem rational."

Geoff Russ: North Carolina train killing shows why soft-on-crime urbanism has failed - "The killing of Iryna Zarutska is a tragic example of why people are not convinced by the evangelists of city life. The YIMBY movement , and other urbanist voices, grew much loude r in recent years as the housing crunch took hold across the West. Besides calls for denser housing, they also uphold old, walkable European cities as a template for restructuring car-centric cities. Urbanism sounds great, until mentally-ill people with knives get on the train. People see crimes like what happened to Iryna Zarutska and buy houses in the suburbs or move away to a small town. We are not immune to this in Canada. In 2022, 31-year old Vanessa Kurpiewska was fatally stabbed on Toronto’s subway. It can happen to anyone. Arguments for expanded public transit fall apart when you see drug addicts lighting up glass pipes on the bus , releasing toxic fumes that might contain deadly hits of fentanyl . It is not pleasant standing next to a gaggle of mentally ill addicts milling around City Hall/Bow Valley College station on Calgary’s C-Train line. Such company is tense for an average-sized man, and much worse for women. Just in March at that same station, a woman was attacked by a mugger. Anybody can go for a walk in that part of Calgary, and be treated to sad scenes of homelessness, mental illness, and drug addiction. A city like Calgary can try and pedestrianise itself as much as it likes. It can fill the Beltline’s parking lots with condo towers, open new transit routes, and brag about falling crime rates . Professionals and young families will not sit down for a picnic in Calgary’s downtown Central Memorial Park, the location of the city’s cenotaph, when people are doing drugs in the bushes. They’d rather hop in their car and drive back to the suburbs, leaving most of downtown empty after 6 p.m. Our cities should be vibrant, walkable, and full of life. For that to happen, however, they have to not only be safe on paper, but make people feel safe and at-ease. Some are comparing the killing of Iryna Zarutska to the death of George Floyd in 2020, which resulted in a wave of anti-police rhetoric and soft-on-crime policies that caused havoc in American cities. That year, Canadian politicians eagerly tried to imitate their American counterparts, with then-Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart flagellating himself for his “ white privilege ” and dramatically stepping down as spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Board. In the 2022 Vancouver election, amidst heightened fears of public safety, Stewart was thankfully defeated by challenger Ken Sim, who had promised to hire 100 new police officers. Sim kept that promise , and officials announced in June violent crime rates in Vancouver were at its lowest in 20 years. It turns out that the problems of public safety have simple solutions. What happened to Iryna Zarutska should be the death rattle of permissive attitudes towards criminals and urban crime. We need police on transit platforms, prosecutors who keep violent offenders away from them, and transit agencies that help keep cities safe for the taxpayers that fund them. Like it or not, what happens in the U.S. affects the entire English-speaking world, and the story of Iryna Zarutska is now being reported in Britain and Australia , whose cities are also stricken with rising disorder and violence . People deserve to live in safe cities, and should not have to see human degradation on their way to work, or be at risk of random, deadly assaults."

Meme - bla bla bla @nakkaiiii: ""all were black" who cares?"
Renson Seow @lefireRS: "The people like me who have affirmed that avoiding black people on public transport for safety care."
@BSalm25931: "You are racist"
Renson Seow: "She wasn't racist. And now she's dead."

Meme - Democratic Donkey Judge: "EVERYONE DESERVES A 2nd CHANCE!"
DeCarlos Brown Jr.: "or 14th chance..."
Democratic Donkey Judge: "except for THE VICTIM" *DeCarlos Brown Jr. stabs Iryna Zarutska*

🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 on X - "The criminal who killed Iryna Zarutska had 14 prior arrests and was released back onto the streets every time and eventually he killed her. Irynas blood is on Democrats hands. Irynas blood is on the Leftist DA’s hands"

Links - 27th March 2026 (2 - Left Wing Economics [including Poverty and Crime])

Meme - John Rain: "Poverty does not cause crime. You will find a correlation between neighborhood deprivation and violent crimes as a whole, but it disappears once you "adjust for genes', ie by comparing siblings for example."
"The Impact of Neighborhood Deprivation on Violent Crime: It Declines With Added Controls"

Childhood family income, adolescent violent criminality and substance misuse: quasi-experimental total population study - "There were no associations between childhood family income and subsequent violent criminality and substance misuse once we had adjusted for unobserved familial risk factors."
More proof that poverty causes crime

Does Poverty Cause Crime? - "the relationship between poverty and crime is inconsistent. If poverty causes crime, why don’t all similarly impoverished groups—by race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, and so on—commit violent crimes at the same rate? The fact that they don’t suggests that other factors are at play. Consider some striking facts that illustrate the inconsistency between poverty and violent crime. Some cities and countries with high poverty rates have low murder rates, and vice versa. Calcutta, for example, one of the poorest cities in India—and, indeed, the world—recorded a murder rate of just 0.3 per 100,000 people in 2008. The rate in Delhi, by contrast, was 2.9 per 100,000. That same year, the rate in far wealthier New York City was 7 per 100,000—more than 23 times higher than Calcutta’s.  Zimbabwe, among the poorest African countries, had a remarkably low murder rate of 0.5 per 100,000 in 2023. By contrast, Jamaica, with a relatively modest 16.7 percent of the population in poverty, had the world’s highest murder rate: 49.3 per 100,000. What explains the relative nonviolence of impoverished Zimbabweans? And why are Jamaicans so homicidal, despite their relative affluence? Clearly, poverty can’t be the answer to both questions.  Turning to macro trends in the United States, we find similar anomalies. In the late 1930s, as the Great Depression worsened, homicide rates declined, as I note in my book The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Likewise, during the so-called Great Recession of 2007–09, murder rates, which had begun to sink in the early 1990s, kept falling. And in the late 1960s, when the American economy was booming, the great crime wave (more like a crime tsunami) was beginning its deadly multi-decadal surge—a pattern that I discuss in The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. Criminological research has revealed similar surprises, with no consensus on the explanation. Over 40 years ago, criminologist Steven F. Messner, studying more than 200 metropolitan areas, was astonished to find that, after controlling for various demographic variables, poverty was inversely related to homicide. In other words, the more poor people there were in a metro area, the lower the murder rate was. As a follow-up, the same researcher studied Manhattan neighborhoods, this time finding that, while poverty was associated with homicide, economic inequality—the concentration of wealth in fewer hands—bore no connection to killing.  In a 1996 study of extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, which included poverty as part of its definition of disadvantage, Lauren J. Krivo and Ruth D. Peterson found that, even at comparable levels of hardship, black communities had higher rates of violent crime than white ones. In 2009, Krivo and Peterson and a third coauthor identified significant differences in violent crime levels between black and Latino neighborhoods, despite similar levels of disadvantage and segregation... I wrote for City Journal about a new study on Asian poverty in New York City. Columbia University researchers found that more Asians than African Americans were living below the poverty line, a surprising result. Curious about how this affected crime, I examined violent crime arrests. The data showed far more arrests of blacks than Asians... while more Asians live in poverty than blacks, African Americans are 16 times more likely to be arrested for murder.  The disparities extend to other violent crimes. The black arrest rate is 4.5 times higher than the Asian rate for felony assault, 3.3 times higher for rape, and 11.4 times higher for robbery. Latino arrest rates are also higher than Asian rates, though generally lower than black rates.   Clearly, poverty alone does not explain these disparities. But what does? Given that black violent crime rates have been elevated relative to other social groups since the late nineteenth century, it appears that something in the culture of poor blacks, especially young males, predisposes them to violence.  The phenomenon is often described as a “subculture of violence,” marked by a heightened sensitivity to perceived slights and threats, along with a readiness to use violence in response. Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson, who spent four years immersed in Philadelphia’s inner cities, identified a “code of the street”—a set of unofficial rules for poor black neighborhoods. The essence of this code is to display violence, or a predisposition to violence, to ward off the all-too-common attacks and assaults in these communities... Lifting the poor into the middle class does reduce violent crime, as we saw with Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century and Italian immigrants in the early twentieth. But there is little agreement on how best to achieve this through government policy."
The cope is that blacks are wrongly arrested and convicted, inflating the arrest and conviction numbers
If the Scottish influence theory is right, Scots should be as prone to violence as African-Americans. But...

Poverty and Violent Crime Don’t Go Hand in Hand - "in New York City, Asians’ relatively high poverty rate is accompanied by exceptionally low crime rates. This undercuts the common belief that poverty and crime go hand in hand.  Asians had consistently low arrest rates for violent crime—usually lower than their proportion of the population, lower than those of blacks and Hispanics, and in one category (assault), even lower than that of whites, who, as a group, are far less often impoverished... At 1.2 per 100,000, Asian murder arrest rates were nearly one-ninth of black rates. If poverty were the principal cause of crime, we would expect Asian rates to be as high, if not higher, than those of blacks. That the Asian rates are relatively low illustrates what I call the “crime/adversity mismatch,” a recurring phenomenon. As I observe in my history of crime: “Throughout American history, different social groups have engaged in different amounts of violent crime, and no consistent relationship between the extent of a group’s socioeconomic disadvantage and its level of violence is evident.”   When it comes to violent crime—murder, assault, robbery, and the like—history tells a complicated story. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, impoverished Jewish, Polish, and German immigrants had relatively low crime rates, while disadvantaged Italian, Mexican, and Irish entrants committed violent crime at high rates. This crime/adversity mismatch also seems to be a global phenomenon. In Great Britain, for instance, a criminologist observed that “all of the minority groups with elevated rates of crime or incarceration are socially and economically disadvantaged, but some disadvantaged ethnic minority groups do not have elevated rates of offending.” There, too, it was the case that Asians were more disadvantaged than blacks, but the latter had much higher offending rates.   Why is it that poverty is not consistently related to crime? A major reason is that crimes of violence are usually motivated by quarrels, personal grudges, perceived insults, and similar interpersonal conflicts, not by economic necessity. Consequently, a decline in one’s financial condition is not likely to cause violent criminal behavior. This explains why an economic recession or depression does not invariably produce a crime spike. In the second half of the 1930s, for instance, violent crime declined, even though the country experienced some of the worst years of the Great Depression. Likewise, during the Great Recession of 2007–2009, when the economy tanked, crime fell."
Clearly, white people are victims of racial profiling, which is why they are arrested more than Asians

Revisiting the Income Inequality-Crime Puzzle - "The economics literature generally supports a positive theoretical link between income inequality and crime. However, despite this consensus, empirical evidence has struggled to yield definitive conclusions. To address this puzzle, I conducted a meta-analysis based on 1,341 estimates drawn from 43 studies in economics journals. The findings indicate a statistically significant but economically insignificant true effect of inequality on crime, ranging between 0.007 and 0.123 using UWLS FAT-PET and advanced methods. In essence, if there is an impact of inequality on crime, it is, at best, minimal. Additionally, there is some limited evidence suggesting positive publication bias. Results from Bayesian model averaging reveal that inequality does not affect exclusively property crime, as predicted by the rational choice models. Moreover, this analysis shows that inequality measures which are sensitive to changes in income at the middle and top of the distribution are associated with higher coefficients. The study also underscores the biases arising from the exclusion of relevant variables. The implications of this research suggest that inequality may not be the primary motivator for criminal behaviour, with other factors potentially playing more significant roles. Lastly, if inequality does affect crime, it might do so in different ways than those discussed by the majority of the existing empirical studies."

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In 2014, David Graeber wrote an article for the Guardian in which he argued "Working-class people... care more about their friends, families, and communities. In aggregate... they're just fundamentally nicer."  The Economist put up a similar article at the time.  Were they right?
To make his case, Graeber wove a nice little narrative together about how the rich don't need to care, so they don't, and thus they're bad at empathy and they do things like hiring out the sons and daughters of the poor to do the job when empathy is needed.  The meat of Graeber's case was a set of two social psychological papers.  The first was a set of three studies in which the poor appeared to outclass the rich at tasks like the Mind in the Eyes, or figuring out the emotions of people they're talking to.  The main effects from these studies had p-values of 0.02, 0.02, 0.04, 0.01, 0.04, 0.03, and 0.04.  This first article was severely p-hacked. To make matters worse, one of the studies featured priming and two of them used "subjective" measures of social class. The second article was a series of seven studies that were, at times, just bizarre.  In the first two studies, students watched cars at a four-way intersection and tallied up how often the "upper-class" and "lower-class" cars cut off other vehicles and pedestrians.  What's an upper-class car? Beats me. It was based on student judgment.  p's = 0.046 and 0.040. In the rest of the studies, things were similarly dodgy: almost all of the p-values were barely less than 0.05, the hypotheses were unbelievable, priming was featured, low power was abused, and liberties were taken in sampling and in defining key variables
So what happens next?  Some researchers looked at these studies and the media coverage saying that the rich were bad at being empathetic, were selfish, etc. and thought  Wait, why does every field but social psychology say the opposite? Social psychology, alongside nutrition, is a paragon of the replication crisis. Not in a good way, mind you, in the sense that remarkably many of its studies failed to replicate  Studies from outside social psychology got less coverage, but indicated the rich were more prosocial. The researchers decided to use large, population-representative samples with objective measures of social class to figure out if the rich were more prosocial or antisocial than the poor  To start, in these two studies from Germany (SOEP) and the U.S. (CEX) they donated more often   This is key. The reason is, some studies had indicated that the poor donate relatively larger portions of their incomes.  But, those studies all looked at donations among those who donated. In other words, they didn't account for differences in the likelihood of donating at all. Account for that difference, and a proposed curvilinear relationship between relative amounts of donations and poverty disappears. Now, the rich just donate more absolutely and relatively! In the GSS, measures of both objective and subjective social class were available, so they could be discriminated and... it appears subjective social class might be weaker than objective social class as a predictor of at least this prosocial behavior:
You could argue donations aren't a great metric.  Fine.  So look at volunteering, which the rich in the SOEP were more likely to do (and do more frequently—not shown here). In the GSS, the same result emerged: the objectively and subjectively rich volunteered more usually (and frequently—again, not shown here).  This happens despite the poor having more free time and the rich spending more time each week gainfully employed on average. If you look in the ISSP—a large international survey covering more than 30 countries—the rich are more likely to volunteer at all in aggregate, and they volunteer more frequently, although there is some heterogeneity across countries in the frequency of volunteering relationship:
You could argue that the poor are more selfish because they're poor. And, OK! But even in the setting of the well-known trust game, the rich were more trusting and more trustworthy:
Since the poor commit more crime, are more likely to act indecent and loud, show less trusting and trustworthy behavior, and so on, we really have no reason to believe Graeber's article and so many others like it.  They were, at best, a relic of the replication crisis. At worst—and this is likely what they really were—they were political wishcasting.  So let's not denigrate the rich, because it's not true that they deserve it."

Kevin Bass on X - "At least 20% of healthcare spending is waste and fraud. That's $1,000,000,000,000 on waste and fraud in healthcare alone. Maybe as much as $2,500,000,000,000. The federal deficit is $2,000,000,000,000. America is being bankrupted by waste and fraud."
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA on X - "I believe this.  Some of it is the obvious cartoon villain stuff. The outright fraud like the Minnesota autism scam.  But a lot of it is softer fraud.  When a hospital charges $18k for an MRI that can be done for $400, that is not technically fraud. It is still an extraction racket.  When state Medicaid programs award massive contracts to politically connected nonprofits or vendors, they will insist it is not fraud.  All of these revenue streams started with good intentions. Of course we want to support disabled children. Of course we want low income patients to have access to imaging and specialty care.  Then people figured out how to enrich themselves inside those programs.  What we now have is a massive wealth extraction industry hiding behind moral language and complexity.  Audit everything."

The Minnesota fraud scandal is just the tip of the iceberg - "Minnesota is not the exception but rather the example Americans finally noticed. Medicaid fraud has been endemic at the state and federal levels for decades. Politicians haven't done much, even with scholars and journalists raising the alarm.  Medicaid reports $543 billion in "improper payments" over the past decade, though that figure omits one of the largest sources of error: whether states correctly determined the eligibility of the individuals they enrolled and paid providers on behalf of. According to Paragon Institute calculations, this brings improper payments to $1.1 trillion over those 10 years.  Improper payments are not identical to fraud; many involve missing documentation or administrative errors. But that distinction offers little comfort considering how little money is recovered. They are also an open invitation for more abuse.  Actual fraud, meanwhile, is widespread and persistent. In 2024 alone, state Medicaid Fraud Control Units reported more than 1,151 convictions and more than $1.4 billion in civil and criminal recoveries. Federal enforcement recovers a tiny share of what is stolen. Fraud that goes undetected never appears in the data.   That's only the tip of the iceberg. Medicare, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and many other welfare programs also suffer from massive fraud. The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) exchange subsidies provide another cautionary example.  A recent Government Accountability Office report shows that the fraud risks in the ACA's advanced premium tax credit remain severe a decade after they were first identified. The ability to gain subsidized coverage for fictitious applicants without providing required documentation, tens of thousands of Social Security numbers used for overlapping coverage, and more than $21 billion in subsidies never reconciled with tax filings are among the findings. Nonetheless, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has not updated its fraud risk assessment since 2018 and still lacks a comprehensive anti-fraud strategy.   It's tempting to treat the Minnesota scandal as a morality play about managerial incompetence. And yes, Gov. Tim Walz deserves some blame. When red flags persist for years across multiple programs, failure of leadership is part of the story. But focusing on a single official or state misses the deeper lesson.  The problem is not administrative capacity; it's incentives. Spending other people's money with little personal consequence for failure leads to a collapse of accountability, regardless of who's in charge. In addition, voters have limited incentives to monitor complex programs. Interest groups, by contrast, have strong incentives to organize around government spending.   None of this requires bad intentions—it's predictable human behavior flowing from predictable incentives—but it creates an environment for waste and fraud to take root."
If you don't want to relentlessly expand government programmes, you're a terrible person who has no "empathy" and if you're a Christian you're a hypocrite. If you want a pause while programmes are audited, you just want people to die

Big Labor's child care racket - "in the last 12 years, the number of child care workers has increased by about 33%, while the number of children ages 5 and under fell by 8.8%. The explosion of the child care industry has persisted even while the number of stay-at-home mothers has risen in recent years.   The story here is not just a matter of Somali fraudsters. It’s a much bigger story about special-interest politics boosted by ideology and masquerading as family policy.  For the past two decades, Democrats have been pumping billions of dollars into the child care industry at the behest of labor unions, who then use the state funding as a lever by which to unionize all child-care workers, including the unwilling.  These same unions, in turn, funnel this taxpayer money back to the Democratic politicians.  When you hear a Democratic politician say they want “universal child care,” or campaign on expanding “affordable, high-quality child care,” you should suspect that they are playing patronage politics with the labor union allies.   Minnesota’s raft of child care subsidies is just one example, but it’s a telling example.  Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was reelected in 2022, and his party took control of both legislative chambers — its first “trifecta” in a decade.  The margins were thin, but the party’s ambitions were great. It accomplished almost everything it set out to do. Liberals celebrated this as “the Minnesota Miracle.” The biggest thing they did was expand all sorts of subsidies for child care.  Politicians such as Walz painted this as a win for parents, but it wasn’t parents who crafted these policies and pushed them across the finish line.   Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Jamie Long explained the progressive approach: “You need good ideas. … You need elected politicians who are going to be supporting those ideas, and then you need outside organizing for elections and to support those votes.”  The Washington Post’s EJ Dionne elaborated: “All three are key to getting things done. In Minnesota, key players included unions, environmental groups and faith-based organizers in the appropriately named Isaiah organization. In the run-up to the session, the outside groups were brought into the task of crafting an agenda.”  That is, Democrats let the outside groups, including the unions, craft their child care policies.  It was telling that Democrats did this with a razor-thin majority. Their aggressive actions in 2023 should be understood in part as a strategic effort to build political strength: funnel more money to their political allies, which will help them win in two, four, and eight years.  Building their political power is explicitly the goal of these outside groups. Isaiah, one of the groups Dionne cited, has “Build Power” in its motto. Isaiah’s biggest project is a program called “Kids Count on Us,” which is a lobby effort to boost state subsidies for child care.   This is explicitly a supply-side project more than a demand-side one. As Kids Count on Us describes itself, “Providers, teachers, and parents organizing together.”  This is an industry lobby looking for more federal funds. The organization brags, “We won over $1 Billion in childcare funding in Minnesota.”  One item the industry won: increasing the amount the Child Care Assistance Program will pay to child care providers. Under the new law, the taxpayer would pay these subsidized child care providers well above the average going rate — specifically, equal to the 75th percentile.  In that 2023 session, the groups also lobbied successfully to extend special COVID-19-era direct payments to child care providers. Called the “Great Start Compensation Support Payment Program,” it is “designed to support the child care and early learning industry and workforce,” according to the legislature. It’s a $100-million-a-year subsidy directly to the industry. This money never goes to parents. It just goes to the businesses, and thus to the unions.  In that 2022 cycle, government unions, such as AFSCME and SEIU, spent more than $13 million on Minnesota politics, with almost all of the money going to Democrats.   A similar story has played out in other states.  Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in 2019 signed AB 387, which effectively transformed tens of thousands of child care workers into state employees for the purposes of union organizing...   This bill was crafted and pushed by a child care lobby called Child Care Providers United, a coalition formed by SEIU and AFSCME.  So, taxpayer subsidies were the mechanism by which day care workers became members of SEIU and AFSCME. These unions, which are very liberal and 100% aligned with Democrats, then tapped into these 40,000 workers as an organizing army and a source of funds — both of which were put to work for the Left.  As an added bonus, the unions often pocket money from unwilling child care workers.   “In several states, governments are automatically deducting a portion of Medicaid or other government aid from home healthcare and family childcare (day care) providers’ assistance checks and giving that money to government unions,” the State Policy Network reported. “Many providers are unaware this money is even being taken; others are aware but struggle to stop their state and union from skimming money from their checks; and some caregivers allege the unions and governments are fraudulently skimming the money.”  In Washington state, this little racket started much earlier. Since 2004, SEIU has been the bargaining representative for any licensed childcare provider that receives state money through the “Working Connections Child Care” subsidy. Of course, SEIU is “bargaining” with liberal state politicians who are spending other people’s money, and so it gets a lot of what it wants.
 In short, Democratic politicians create subsidies for day care for poor parents, the subsidies effectively turn day care providers into members of Democrat-aligned unions, those unions then lobby to expand these subsidies to pay above market rate, and to cover more families.  Meanwhile, most parents do not want formal child care. The Bipartisan Policy Center published a paper in 2022 asking “What Keeps Employed Parents Out of the Childcare System?” The answer: parents don’t want to be in the “childcare system.”  “More than half of parents would still prefer informal child care, even if formal care was free and convenient,” BPC found.   This is the consistent finding of polls and studies in the United States. Most parents would like to simply work less and thus take care of their children, and to the extent they need or want outside help, they would prefer informal, often unpaid child care, such as neighborhood babysitting co-ops or help from grandma.   But stay-at-home mothers and informal networks do not pump money into the system that allows the unions to grow and kick money back to politicians.  So if you wonder why Democrats’ only answer, when asked about family policy, is day care subsidies, just follow the money."

Strawberries and Balsamic - "Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me."
"Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason."
"“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter"
Of course, all this is paid for by "taxing the 'rich'"
And then left wingers keep claiming healthcare is "underfunded", when they want to treat the whole world for free

It’s Not Just Minnesota—Fraud Is Everywhere - "If you tried to steal a billion dollars from a bank, you would probably fail. You might even get shot for your trouble. But if you tried to steal the same amount from Medicaid, Medicare, or other federal safety-net programs, your odds of success are much better. Just submit phony bills, and the government will pay you.  That’s what Somali fraudsters did in Minnesota. They netted more than $9 billion, according to a top prosecutor. It’s an old trick that has worked thousands of times... frauds against government health-care programs are both common and costly. Fraudsters routinely scam CMS for billions of dollars. States themselves run schemes of their own. Covid-related frauds, for example, exceeded $280 billion, with another $123 billion wasted or misspent. Obamacare enrollment fraud is pervasive, likely costing taxpayers $27 billion in 2025 and $21 billion in 2024.  Fraudsters in Russia and other East European nations scammed Medicare for $1 billion over three years by submitting phony bills for durable medical equipment. Companies operating out of Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, New York, and Texas pilfered about $2 billion by submitting phony bills for products like wigs for cancer patients and urinary catheters. Fraudsters who submitted bogus bills for orthotic braces, pain creams, and other items took federal health programs for more than $1 billion. CMS’s own estimate—“comfortingly low,” in the words of one professor—is that it made $87 billion in “improper payments” to fraudsters and people who provided insufficient documentation in 2024. The real number is likely double the official estimate; over the past decade, it totals more than $1 trillion in Medicaid losses.  State officials also engage in behavior that, while not technically fraudulent, is at least sketchy. Every year, 49 states (all but Alaska) use “provider taxes” to tap CMS for about $160 billion. Federal law says states should be raising this money themselves, but states use the “provider tax” loophole to evade this restriction. That’s one-sixth of total Medicaid spending. States can even divert some of the money to non-Medicaid purposes. Either way, each state that participates is effectively (if legally) stealing from taxpayers in other states. Further, when the federal government has repeatedly tried to constrain the provider-tax provision, states have created new workarounds and loopholes to keep the money flowing from the U.S. Treasury...   It’s politically risky to confront fraud, given how dependent states are on the dollars. Financial controls would also imperil payments to doctors, hospitals, and other health-care businesses, all of which together make a powerful lobby.  Public officials have had six decades to impose needed financial controls on Medicaid and Medicare. It seems unlikely they ever will. If we can’t fix them, we should remake these programs on the model of Social Security, a program harder for fraudsters to raid because it makes direct payments to beneficiaries. Giving money directly to consumers could also make health care better and more affordable by allowing market forces to work."

World Food Programme on X - "Enough food is produced to feed everyone on the planet. Yet millions of people struggle to feed themselves and their families. Learn why it's time to transform our #FoodSystems - for people, for the planet, and for our future."
ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs on X - ""Is produced", passive voice The food just falls from the sky, and all we need is some super smart people at an NGO to tell us what to do with it"

Incidence, allocation, and efficiency costs of tenancy rent control - "Tenancy rent control limits rent increases for sitting tenants while allowing market resets at vacancy. When demand grows or household composition differs across segments, spillovers raise rents in the unregulated market. We study its general equilibrium effects in Switzerland, where a nationwide regime meets large spatial variation. Linking administrative records on all households from 2010-2022 to detailed unit data and market rents, we estimate a structural sorting model with heterogeneous preferences, correcting for selection and price endogeneity. Counterfactual simulations show unregulated rents would be 8-21 percent lower, with the largest drops in supply-inelastic cities. Older, lower-income, and less educated households gain most, while newcomers face higher entry rents. The policy reduces mobility and induces space overconsumption, generating efficiency losses."
I was told that rent control works in Switzerland

Rent Control - Clark Center Forum
Only 2% of economists agreed that rent control "had a positive impact over the past three decades on the amount and quality of broadly affordable rental housing in cities that have used them" (and none strongly agreed). When weighted by confidence, only 1% agreed. In contrast, we are told that 97% of actively publishing climate scientists agreeing that "humans are causing global warming and climate change" is a scientific consensus and that if you disagree, you are a "climate change denier".

Links - 21st March 2026 (2 - Pro-Crime Policies [including Public Transit])

Meme - meatball times @meatballtimes: "wait this graph is crazy. BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero. strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people"
BART @SFBART: "And there are other real benefits such as fewer corrective maintenance requests and time spent cleaning and fixing things.
Next Gen Fare Gate Successes. Hours spent on patron related Corrective Maintenance (CM) within the paid area of stations reduced significantly after NextGen Fare Gate (NGFG) installations"
Left wingers want to make public transport free. This suggests that there're many hidden costs to that (assaults on staff is another)

Crémieux on X - "I think it bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by *95.7%* Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!"

dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 on X - "I cannot tell you how many gun cases I worked on started with the perp jumping a turnstile. Turns out, “do you have the impulse control to not commit petty theft while carrying a loaded unregistered firearm” is a really good filter for bad behavior!"
big_pedestrian on X - "It is not progressive to let a very small group of highly dysfunctional people to occupy and degrade the public realm. They should be helped, treated and housed. But severe mental health and drug addiction result in wildly antisocial behavior that cannot be tolerated or indulged."
Garrett Langley on X - "Incredible example of a pattern we see all the time - simple rules, when enforced, improve public spaces across the board. Shopping malls that push back on shoplifting tell us the same thing."
Thread by @sivori on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The frustrating thing about many of our social issues is that we merely lack the will to solve the problems.  We are shouted down by lunatics who want to live like pigs in filth so that the outer world matches their inner world of chaos and disorder.  “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” while we sink into the abyss. Life will not improve until sober moderate people are making the decisions while the hysterics are treated for the unserious people they are."
Social chaos is a choice - that left wing elites make on everyone's behalf

SDL on X - "Cars kill 40,000 people a year. Homicide kills 20,000 people a year, ~90% among people who know each other. Not strangers on the bus. In New York City's worst year, it had 10 subway murders in ~1 billion rider-days. The average is 3. NYC has ~200 fatal car crashes per year."
HowlingMutant on X - "You guys burned cities down over a single black junkie overdosing in proximity to a police officer"
Right Wing Dice Squad on X - "Not even. He was alive when he got to the ER."
Time to force even more people to use public transport

Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 on X - "“I care abt the sick and disenfranchised! This is why I think they should live like animals, urinating on public transport, and scaring little children!”"
constans on X - "A big resentment of the left is that society relies on participation of the middle class to have a functional society. You can’t fund schools unless they’re good enough that middle class people want to attend them. You need transit the middle class will use or they’ll just drive"

𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter on X - "every six months left twitter debates whether people should tolerate riders smoking crack and pissing on the subway where one person meekly raises a concern and then they get dog piled by people calling them a reactionary"
constans on X - "The modern left has a noble savage view of criminals and the homeless and thinks they can serve as the vanguard of the revolution and feel that the working class has betrayed the cause because they see transit as a way to get to work that should be safe and orderly"

daniela on X - "My husband was on a crowded train yesterday when a homeless woman got on, pulled down her pants, and peed all over the train in front of everyone. He hasn’t stopped talking about it for the past 24+ hrs. It is the single most traumatizing thing that’s happened to him in nyc."
Kate Willett on X - "The other night I moved train cars bc of someone’s bodily functions and I managed to do it without becoming a fascist. Lived another day to keep fighting for housing as a human right too, if anyone needs inspo."
Thread by @constans on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "“Fascist” for you means “ wanting the person not on the train”  Your problem ultimately is that you’re anarchist who wants to attack and destroy the lives of the working class and you hipe that the homeless & lumpenproletariart will assault and harm quality of life for workers. The arguments being made are that the working class has allied with the bourgeois and that they have to be punished for not trying to destroy the capitalist system. The homeless and criminals are the instruments of punishment who you believe are “pure” for refusing to conform. You guys all hate transit workers and working New Yorkers and like to watch them suffer disorder and crime on transit because you think they’re “squares” who didn’t become anarchists allying with criminals"

mindy🌷 on X - "agree that this probably isn’t the single most traumatizing thing someone could see in a city but it’s still not normal or OK and the left shouldn’t act like it is. we all deserve to live in functioning cities where public displays of anti social behavior are not tolerated"
Alexander McCoy on X - "Having a baby really changed my mind about this stuff (unwell people experiencing episodes on public transit). I went from “whatever, look the other way” when I was just a sturdy adult man on my own, to being like “fuck fuck this guy is gonna kill my baby strapped to my chest.”"
Danie ❤️ you on X - "“Having a baby made me fascist” is a real phenomenon. That’s why we must abolish the nuclear family Homeless ppl have children too, homeless ppl are sometimes children. And instead of thinking of them as human, you’re falling into racist and classist anxieties"
This is a good reminder that you can't take left wingers seriously when they go on about "fascism"
This is why left wingers are anti-natalist

Cassie Pritchard on X - "Like on the left we fundamentally don’t care about ‘crime,’ it’s morally uninteresting to us—it’s just a thing that happens in the world, like the weather, so we are willing to excuse mentally people for theft, violence, etc."
indy5432 on X - "The weather analogy is very telling of the underlying fallacy here. Unlike weather, crime is in fact very responsive to policy choices, and a society that wishes to be civilized should choose wisely."
Ironically, left wingers obsess about climate change and think they can change the climate

ℜ𝔞𝔢 on X - "People in the replies think that leftists would start to care about crime if they were personally victimized, but this is a misunderstanding of the leftoid psyche. For many leftoids, their politics are a projection of self harm onto society. They fundamentally don’t value their own lives. They want to hurt. This makes them incredible ideological soldiers — unlike many rightoids (who have families they care for and cherished possessions), these people have no attachments and nothing to lose. It’s a mistake to model them with anything resembling a healthy, normal mind"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "If your "cognitive, emotional, neurological limits" make you less than human, we should put you down like any other mad dog, to save real people. Also....why exaaaaaactly would this horrible logic apply to the serial rapists and IQ 79 gang shooters she's explicitly defending, but NOT to moderate bigots?   I say: sanction all bad behavior, some with fire and some with a light slap on the head. But, what IS her argument for sanctioning any? "Being poor white in a trailer park in 2025 MADE me say all that 'bout mah Spanish ex-bi*ch!!!"  Gee, Officer Krupke!"

Meme - Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon: ""Keep your eyes on the ball guys - look at how much worse we've made everything over decades of *slowly* eroding public life while controlling media reports about it to not allow complaints. By going mask off like this you're endangering our ability to keep making society worse in the name of progress!""
Jill Filipovie: "l am begging leftists and liberals to not do this again. It is normal and smart to be nervous and on high alert when someone behaves in a profoundly anti-social way (peeing on the subway) and/or a threatening way (screaming on the subway). The more cities tolerate this, the fewer people ride public transport, the worse that transport gets, and eventually it gets to a breaking point and people wind up voting for right- wing politicians who come in and crack skulls and way over-police. It is possible to nip these problems in the bud early and using more human measures. "Toughen up" is a bad and strategically stupid answer."
welcome to our trash revolution @trash_panda97: "i've been on the subway with homeless people that peed, screamed, all sorts of stuff. it was mildly uncomfortable but truly didn't impact my day in any way. maybe your husband needs to toughen up"

shoe on X - "“clean, safe cities and social order is fascism” every normal person ever:"
"Oh wow, that sounds great. You told me that's fascism? Err, waiter, more fascism please"

Yeerk.P 🦆 on X - "Leftists are now arguing that women with little babies are "fascist" and have to be "abolished" so vagrants can piss on public transport in peace"

Toronto engineer turns commuter frustration into site that exposes TTC delay data - "The engineer says she was also surprised to find out that disorderly patrons were actually the number one cause of delays, and that track fires are a persistent problem, causing significant disruptions."
Too bad it's fascism to do anything about it

Thread by @Chris_arnade on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yes it’s statistically true you probably wont be set on fire while riding the Blue line — but man oh man does American cities not get it. If you want Abundance — lots of people living close together having to share stuff like subway cars, parks, and neighborhoods - then you first need foundational safety. That is you need citizens who can fully trust their neighbors, and that means you need zero tolerance for antisocial behavior, including having someone walking around with a rap sheet that should have long ago eliminated them from free access to public spaces.
You know who has an abundance agenda? China, and I’m guessing America won’t accept that level of surveillance, anti-liberal policies, and authoritarianism. Also, Japan, but again, America doesn’t seem to want (or enact) their level of personal responsibility, immigration restrictions, and self control"

Max on X - "I think we underestimates how much all the ideological insanity today is solely a function of modern life being too easy. There is literally just no selective pressure against retarded ideas anymore. If you were this much of an idiot even a century ago, you died. Today we have so much safety net that these people just stack up at “basic sustenance” and then continue on their merry retarded way."

End Wokeness on X - "Nassadir Tate punched a 55 year old on the NYC subway 2 days ago. The man died. Nassadir got a misdemeanor ticket. He's already out of jail."
WPL (subscribe on YouTube) on X - "In America you’re just allowed to kill people if you’re black, there’s no consequences anymore."

Nate Fischer on X - "Leftists want the state to replace Jesus as the source of salvation. Thus—instead of removing a criminal to protect law-abiding citizens—they look for every excuse to give him another chance, every theoretical path to rehabilitation. Category error on the role of the state."
Bama Chan on X - "Yes. Tax the rich to care for the poor, rather than the church doing it. Universal healthcare instead of the church helping the sick. Food stamps instead of the church feeding the hungey. Government is God. It's terrible."
Relentless_Dissent on X - "Everybody wants to be the savior. But they want someone else to hang on the cross."
This is a more profound aspect of secular religion - the State becoming God. This also ties into how left wingers believe that government intervention is the solution to all problems

ZUBY: on X - "Many people are OK with crime as long as it isn't affecting them PERSONALLY. The same people often consider themselves 'compassionate'."

Daniel Concannon on X - "Remember the 2021 shooting in Oregon, where a drunk Black man attacked a White man and his White fiancée, was shot by the man he attacked, and then the White male victim went to prison? Last month, the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed the decision and remanded the case for a new trial. Here's a refresher on what's transpired:
~ Barry Washington (Black man) gets drunk at bar, hits on Allie Butler (White girl)
~ Allie tells Washington she's not interested
~ Washington pursues Allie outside, continues to knowingly make unwanted advances
~ Allie's fiancée, Ian Cranston (White man), tells Washington "move along, she's taken"
~ Washington becomes belligerent, shouts "fuck you White boy," and smashes Cranston in the head twice, resulting in a mild traumatic brain injury
~ A face-off ensues between Washington, with 3 male friends, and Cranston, with a male friend and his girlfriend
~ Allie begins recording, at which point Washington strikes her, attempts to knock her phone away, and then lunges at Cranston, who he's already violently assaulted
~ At this moment, Cranston shoots a single round at Washington in self-defense, killing him
~ Anti-White justice systems charges Cranston, the victim, with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, and second-degree manslaughter
~ Jury finds Cranston guilty on both manslaughter charges, which then merge into the higher (first-degree manslaughter) charge
~ During trial, Shitbag judge Beth Bagley refuses to inform the jury that, in the State of Oregon, Ian Cranston had no duty to retreat
~ In October of this year, the appeals court reverses the decision due to shitbag Beth Bagley's withholding of information from the jury
~ Ian Cranston, the White victim, remains locked up, awaiting the state's inevitable petition to review the rejection of the verdict, which will result in either restoration of the original verdict, or Cranston being tried yet again
For four years, Ian Cranston has been locked away - all for defending himself and his girlfriend from a violent, drunken attack. While the decision from the appeals court is good news, there remains a hell of a long road ahead. At best, Ian, now 31 years old, will have to endure yet another trial. At worst, the original decision will be reinstated upon state's petition and the recent reversal will prove inconsequential. Defending oneself while White remains a high crime in the United States of America, but we see here a rare chance for a (singular) course correction. Justice would dictate Ian Carroll exiting his prison cell and "Judge" Beth Bagley being led in, but hopefully we'll see the part where Ian walks free sooner than later."
J͎Λ͎Y͎ on X - ">Black guy keeps hitting on a White guy’s fiancée, refuses to back off
>Gets aggressive, punches White guy hard enough to cause a TBI
>Comes at him again, gets shot and killed
>White guy is convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter after judge intentionally withholds  from jury (despite being explicitly asked) that he had no duty to retreat
>Years later, appeals court overturns the conviction (due to judge misleading the jury), but White guy’s still in prison while the state decides what’s next
Judges are anti-White terrorist scum"

memetic_sisyphus on X - "If you search for this judge there is nothing but ethics complaint after ethics complaint. She is constantly using her position to rule in favor of those she has personal connections to. She’s had serval cases overturned or she has been forcibly removed from cases for not disclosing conflicts of interest. In one lawsuit she was presiding over, she was going to be called as a witness due to direct pertinent communications she had with the subjects of the lawsuit."

Covfefe Anon on X - "The number of delusions that make up the progressive world-view is astonishing. "Funding" for "mental health services" has (of course) gone nothing but up everywhere - "funding cuts" always exist in the progressive mind as a catch-all excuse for the results of their policies not being what they pretend to believe they would be. "Education" is another area - every education fad is only ever undermined by "funding cuts" - when every year there is nothing but more and more funding for "education". "Mental health services" don't actually stop "violence" - they're an excuse for leftists to unleash evil people who should be executed ("we can't punish him for hurting people because he just can't help it and will always hurt people"). The murderer in this case is not meaningfully "mentally ill" - he's a lifelong criminal who should have been executed years ago or imprisoned for life at minimum but that was stopped by people progressives. Absolutely no one on the left was begging for there to be more people locked in mental institutions - the idea has always been that saying someone is "mentally unfit to stand trial" is a way of getting him out of prison. Trump literally addressed this with an executive order and leftist pro-crime groups (naturally) fought it. I would say that everything these people believe is contrary to reality but actually, these people don't even believe this - it's just a nervous tic of "the only reason for progressive failure is insufficient progressivism" as an excuse but in reality, all of these progressive policies are working as intended to create the crime and disorder these people crave because they are driven by spite and envy"

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "🚨NEW: Just-released chilling video footage—previously withheld from the public by Chicago officials—shows the brutal “Loop Puncher” attack on an Illinois mother that took place two months ago.  The video captures Kathleen Miles walking home from work with a friend when she is randomly assaulted by William Livingston, a career criminal with more than a dozen prior arrests since 2012 for battery and aggravated assault.  Livingston can be seen running, placing himself between two women and punching Miles without warning, knocking her to the ground. Disturbingly, he remained at the scene, casually watching her lie unconscious in the street as bystanders rushed to help. The footage, which lasts over 10 minutes, shows Livingston calmly observing the aftermath of his attack.  Miles sustained multiple facial fractures, a black eye, and a concussion.  Records show that Livingston has a long history of similar violent attacks. Despite repeated arrests, he has benefited from progressive policies that downgraded felony charges to misdemeanors and from lenient rulings by activist judges—allowing him to be released time and time again to reoffend, targeting women."

SaltyGoat on X - "On November 7, 2025, 40-year-old James Bowman III was arrested in Maryland for assault after punching a woman in the face. A District court commissioner released him with NO BAIL! One hour later, he returned and assaulted her AGAIN while she held her child, a toddler. NO BAIL NEEDS TO BE COMPLETELY ABOLISHED!!"

Driver who killed Grammy-nominated musician walking his dogs had been arrested over 100 times - "The driver, 41-year-old Shannon Godbout, hit multiple objects, including two telephone poles, before striking MacLeod as he walked on the shoulder of the road with his dogs."
A Gene Robinson on X - "See this filthy savage?  She killed a man in Rhode Island this weekend.  Now here’s the part that should make every sane American furious…  She wasn’t a first-time offender. Not a second-time offender. Not even a tenth-time offender.  She had been arrested… over 100 times.  Let that settle in… 100 arrests… 82 warrants… 40 traffic citations… And she was still free to get behind the wheel long enough to take an innocent man’s life.  This isn’t compassion… this is engineered chaos. This is what happens when a system protects predators and punishes the people they victimize. This is what happens when ideology replaces accountability. This is what happens when criminals are treated like “misunderstood citizens” instead of what they are… dangers.  A man is dead because a repeat offender was cycled in and out of a justice system that refuses to deliver justice.  You want to know why America is breaking? Because too many in power would rather virtue-signal than safeguard human life.  This didn’t have to happen… But when you design a society where consequences don’t exist, tragedies like this become inevitable.  You know what makes this worse?  There are thousands of people just like her walking our streets right now… scott-free… dodging accountability… stacking arrest after arrest… released again and again as if innocent lives don’t matter.  Ask any cop in America… they’ll tell you the truth. The same five percent of offenders commit most of the violence, most of the theft, most of the destruction… yet they’re the ones the system keeps protecting.  Meanwhile… law-abiding citizens are left to bury their dead.  We are being governed by people who think consequences are “harsh,” but body bags are not.  You want engagement? This is the formula. This is the truth people feel in their bones.  #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove"

Nobody Rioted for Iryna Zarutska / Teresa Stokes Conflict of Interest

"nobody rioted for this immigrant
*Iryna Zarutska cowering after she's stabbed*"

"RELEASED FOR THE 14TH TIME BY JUDGE TERESA STOKES.
REPEATEDLY SENT TO PINNACLE MENTAL ILLNESS RECOVERY CENTER.
Teresa Stokes She/Her. Magistrate Judge
Experience
Magistrate Judge
State of North Carolina - Full-time
Apr 2023 - Present . 2 yrs 6 mos
Co-Owner
PINNACLE RECOVERY SERVICES Self-employed
Feb 2015- Present 10 yrs 8 mos
GUESS WHO OWNS PINNACLE, AND GOT PAID EVERY TIME?"

Time to abolish private prisons because of conflicts of interest and judges sending convicted criminals there!

Links - 15th March 2026 (1 - Pro-Crime Policies [including Lawrence Reed Chicago, El Salvador])

Benny Johnson on X - "Meet Lawrence Reed.   He is facing terrorism charges after setting a 26-year-old woman on fire aboard a Chicago train.  According to reports, he doused her in gasoline and ignited it saying “burn alive b*tch.”  Reed has been arrested 49 times. FORTY-NINE. 10 of them being felonies. And yet judges kept putting him back on the streets.  They failed to protect the public. They failed that young woman.  This tragedy was preventable, and the judges who enabled it need to be held accountable."

CTA fire attack suspect knocked a psych ward employee unconscious, but a judge decided to let him walk the streets: court docs - "The man being questioned by Chicago police, suspected of setting a woman on fire as they rode a Blue Line train in the Loop on Monday night, was walking the streets only because a Cook County judge refused to keep him in jail after he allegedly knocked a social worker unconscious at a west suburban psychiatric hospital, court records show. (UPDATE: Charges filed. Story here.) Rather than detaining the man, who was deemed too dangerous for a psych ward, the judge rejected prosecutors’ requests in August to keep him safely locked in jail. Instead, she sent him home on an ankle monitor. And while clerk of court entries indicate he was on “24/7” electronic monitoring, paperwork shows the judge actually allowed him to leave his home from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays...   At about 9:25 p.m. Monday, the 26-year-old woman was sitting on the train using her phone when the man walked up and poured liquid from a beverage bottle on her head, a source said. The woman ran through the train car, but he caught up with her and set the liquid, as well as portions of his own body, on fire... The victim, who was on duty at the time, suffered “extreme nausea, severe pain in the eye and head, and difficulty with balance” that prompted two emergency room visits, the petition said. She “likely has optic nerve bruising and a concussion causing her to experience memory issues, headaches, and daily nausea”...  electronic monitoring only tracks location. It does not restrain people, and authorities do not deploy arrest teams when someone on monitoring fails to return home... In 2022, the attack suspect pleaded guilty to setting a sizeable fire that damaged the exterior of a government building in the Loop, court records show. A judge sentenced him to two years of “mental health probation.” While on that probation, he was arrested three times for misdemeanors, including twice for battery. Prosecutors dropped all of those cases, and he completed probation “satisfactory.”   Over the weekend, someone matching the suspect’s general description set a fire outside City Hall on LaSalle Street, according to a CPD report. Mayor Brandon Johnson told the press on Monday, “While we do not know the motives of this attempted arson, it goes without saying that this type of violence has no place in our politics.”  Yesterday, we asked his office if Johnson had any evidence that politics played any role in the City Hall fire. We are still waiting for a response."
Send in more social workers to help him! The police will execute him because they are judge, jury and executioner, and we can't have that

Benny Johnson on X - "Meet Judge Theresa-Molina Gonzalez. She freed Lawrence Reed despite 72 prior arrests, letting him set 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on fire on a Chicago train. Here she is on video admitting that skin color and ethnicity influence her rulings."

Growing fury at Chicago judge who freed career criminal with 72 arrests and is now accused of setting devout Christian woman, 26, alight on train - "The billionaire also shared a post showing Zarutska and Magee together, captioned with a quote from Scottish philosopher Adam Smith reading: 'Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.'   'Wise words,' Musk added, in an X post that was viewed over 24 million times in one day.   Other X users also shared footage of a speech the judge gave at a Hispanic Heritage Month event, where she said she enjoyed her previous role as a prosecutor because she had a 'chance to decide' what cases were prosecuted, as she often faced 'defendants who looked like me.'... The Trump Administration seized on the attack and Reed being out on bail to bolster its claim that the National Guard should be deployed to Chicago.  'As President Trump has long said, violent crime in Chicago is out of control,' White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Daily Mail.  'Local Democrat leaders, like (Illinois Governor JB) Pritzker, should spend their time addressing violent crime and welcoming the president's help on the issue instead of succumbing to their Trump Derangement Syndrome and letting violent crime run rampant.  'This tragic crime should have never happened and it sadly highlights the dangers of Democrat control.'"
Left wingers are going to blame Trump for inciting this attack

Woman, 26, identified as Chicago victim set on fire on CTA train by serial thug with 72 arrests : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Of all the murders and gun violence that happens, why does the NY Post put a magnifying glass to this tragedy? What is it that makes viewers flock to videos like this one?  The NY Post is operating with a similar strategy that newspapers during Jim Crow used: Find a white victim, black perpetrator, racialize the crime, increase far-right lynch mob mentality, white vigilantism, and galvanize whites to collectively "punish" the black population by means of control through carceral institutions, so they can profit off the outrage.  Before anyone responds, be mindful of your emotions, as I will be reporting any targeted attacks on my appearance (I'm black), character, or strays outside discussions over the merits of my ideas."
"Well this is a random attack where someone had gasoline poured over them and was set on fire in a public place which is shocking and newsworthy even by American standards irrespective of race. Are you suggesting that reporting on this is racism and it should go unreported to the wider public?"
"To the young person reading this, this is what they think of you. Just another story in a news reel that should be covered up immediately otherwise it’s racist."
"No, we have to underreport minorities committing crimes or people's feelings would be hurt :("
"The situation is racialized because the perpetrator has been given unique leniency because of his race. Far left soft on crime extremist like Chesa Boudin factually give slaps on the wrist to minority criminals because woke ideology says anyone theoretically oppressed in anyway can do no wrong... If black communities actually policed their own worst elements instead of enabling and glorifying them white people would be far less likely to feel that vigilantism was their only option left. They could unite with innocent moral black people against mass murderous gang bangers but such can't happen while good black people get branded uncle tom or "skin folk not kin folk" if they dare to demonize the violent monsters raping their own community to death."
"Remember their motto "Never ever, ever talk to the police"  Oh what's that, your mom got killed by some YN on your block in a crossfire shooting? Too bad, no snitching"
"Even though there is nearly twice as many white people below the poverty line as black people, black on white violent crime happens about 2.5X more than white on black violent crime.  But you're complaining about real instances of heinous crimes being reported? Maybe that's not the real issue."
"Imagine being more upset by the news actually being reported than an innocent person being lit on fire"
"Are you seriously crying about the purps skin color and then asking everyone else to check their emotions?"
If you report on a problem that's inconvenient for the left wing agenda, you're the problem and a bad person for noticing. You can't let people know about black criminals because the truth makes people "racist"

Woman, 26, identified as Chicago victim set on fire on CTA train by serial thug with 72 arrests : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "The same people telling you to trust them with your safety and to give up your self protection are the same ones who let him back out all those times."

Meme - Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer: "I want high-speed rail. I want public transit. But when you live in a country where a violent criminal is released 72 times, no one will ever be willing to take that transportation, so we will never invest in it. And that's fair. Address antisocial behavior first, then build."
Hayden @the_transit _guy: "France has 2,185 miles of high-speed rail, btw. *Texas overlaying map of France, being somewhat bigger*"
France has twice the population despite being smaller too

Geiger Capital on X - "El Salvador is on track to be the safest country in the Western Hemisphere in 2025… You can just remove violent people from society and make life better for everyone else."
Geiger Capital on X - "The reason many of our leaders hate Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is because he has quickly proven that crime and societal decline are not inevitable or beyond control… It’s a deliberate choice allowed by weak leaders and terrible policies."

Crémieux on X - "We now have the confirmed and finalized homicide rate for El Salvador in 2025. 1.19. 38% and about 75% lower than the rates in Canada and the U.S., respectively, in 2024. This even beats some European countries, like France. This is staggering."
Tom Harwood on X - "Turns out removing violent people from society massively reduces the amount of violence in society."

Benny Johnson on X - "To Democrats, BLM, and the activist judges who side with and protect criminals: if you truly care about black lives, lock up the career offenders. Just 1% of offenders commit 90% of violent crimes. Washington D.C. cut crime by 94% by putting them behind bars. El Salvador did the same.  Face evil. Punish it. Protect innocent lives."

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "El Salvador is now a safe country.  The reason why should teach us something about commitment.  The government there has previously attempted crackdowns twice in the form of mano dura—hard hand—, but they failed because they didn't hit criminals hard enough.  Then Bukele really did
In fact, previous attempts backfired compared to periods in which the government made truces with the gangs.  The government cracking down a little bit actually appeared to make gangs angrier!  You'd have been in your right to conclude 'tough on crime fails', but you'd be wrong. You have to *actually* enforce the law or policy won't work. Same story with three-strike laws, or any other measure. Incidentally, when did the gang problems begin for El Salvador? When the U.S. exported gang members to it.  This was bad for El Salvador:"
Leonard J Davis on X - "They disbanded hundreds of judges including several Supreme Court judges. I suspect war on crime didn’t fail because mano dura was soft, but because Bukele rooted out the saboteurs from within."

Hardik Gohil on X - "A 98% drop sounds great on paper… but when half the country feels safe because they're scared to even question the govt, is that really freedom?"
ZUBY: on X - ""Here's why reducing the murder rate by 98% is bad ackshually... We'll also ignore the 90% approval rating.""

Ottawa police reporting 63 per cent increase in crime in last 10 years : r/OttawaNewsPulse - "Harper was in office exactly 10 years ago so what did he do to start this?"
This amazing cope is still in play

End Wokeness on X - "Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell: "When a man does 6 or 7 crimes, we do not know his life story… Maybe he was hungry. Therefore, I have zero desire jailing him.""
Hunter Ash on X - "The liberal false belief that crime is caused by society being mean to people is far more consequential for public policy than young earth creationism. Liberals are often right about a greater total number of things, but the ones they’re wrong about are civilization-defining."

Meme - "If a bartender overserves a drunk and that person kills someone on the road, the can be sued. If a physician discharges a psychiatric patient too soon and they go on to hurt others, the doctor can be sued. Society decided they had a duty to protect the public and can be held liable when they fail. So why are judges who release career criminals- known threats with long rap sheets-never held accountable when those animals assault, rob, or kill innocent people?"

Meme - Ron Chhinzer @RealRonChhinzer: "Reality check: if you think crime is bad now, just wait. Crime doesn't magically disappear, it explodes when a government ignores it. And that's exactly what the Liberals have done since 2015. Violent crime has surged, spiking after Bill C-75 weakened bail. Bill C-71 and C-21 punished lawful gun owners while gangs armed themselves freely. Then Bill gutted mandatory minimums, letting repeat violent offenders walk sooner. This is the Liberal legacy: policies that protect criminals, punish citizens, and leave communities less safe. You can't fix a problem with the same mind that created it, Canada."

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "🚨🚨BREAKING The mayor of Pickering, Kevin Ashe says that the Pickering suspect who allegedly stabbing a random elderly woman multiple times was "affected by the Burden of mental health" and that the "arrest was troubling because it will have an impact on his life"
Luckily, the 83 year old victim Eleanor Doney died, so there will be no impact on her life

150 charges, 11 guns seized after traffic stop leads police to arrest of five Brampton residents - "of those charged with violent crimes, “nearly 50 per cent” are people who’ve been previously arrested and are out on bail or some other form of conditional release when arrested again...   Peel police Chief Nishan Duraiappah said the vast majority, if not all illegal guns seized by police in Ontario originate in the U.S. and were smuggled into the province by criminal networks."
Time to crack down on legal gun owners to keep people safe, and release more suspects on bail because not to do so is racist

Group of boys, ages 14 and 15, assaulted and stabbed man in Riverdale, police say : r/Toronto_Ontario - "Why shouldn't they?  Just a couple of weeks ago the last girl in that swarming, stabbing murder of that homeless man was tried and found not guilty. None of them were found guilty or sentenced to any meaningful time.  I'm sure that even with mountains of evidence, none of these boys will be found guilty, or serve any meaningful time.  So why shouldn't they assault and stab? If we pretend to punish crime, then people will only pretend to follow the law."
"If those people successfully defended themselves, our government would try everything to imprison them. We need a complete reform to our self-defense laws. It's stupid that in US, lives of innocents matter more than in Canada and we make our laws just so we are not like US."

Toronto what the hell is going on. : r/toRANTo - "Not only do the police do nothing, the judges who hold pre-trials and trials for the criminals also do nothing. I've had cops told me that they've arrested and turned over guys to the courts multiple times in the same day.  They arrest some criminal for assault in the morning, the guy gets let out on bail by noon, and they arrest him again for another assault in the afternoon.  It's as if the court system in Toronto and Ontario actually want to encourage crime. That's the only explanation. "The purpose of a system is what it does.""

Police ‘did nothing’ despite over 100 reports of shoplifting at same store - "A shopkeeper who has called police more than 100 times in a year to report shoplifting says they have done nothing to help.  Mohammad Sheikh, the owner of News Plus in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, said the shop was targeted “every day” by shoplifters and had lost around £20,000 of goods in the year since it opened.  He said he had reported every incident to the police but had yet to see any action taken against offenders.  Mr Sheikh said: “The police tell us we can’t touch them, can’t stop them and can’t lock them in the store to await officers arriving.’  “The only advice police give us is to have two members of staff on all the time. We can’t afford to do that.  “Even if we could, we could have 10 staff in here and it wouldn’t make a difference because we’re powerless against them.”... A shop staff member said: “It’s shocking, they come in at certain times of the day and they’re lifting sometimes hundreds of pounds worth of stuff.”  In one of the most recent shocking incidents a person entered the shop, barged behind the counter and grabbed products before jumping over the counter, destroying the perspex screen and pulling over display units. Mr Sheikh said: “The city centre crime rate has gone up. It will create a bad image for Glasgow and people won’t want to come any more. People are afraid.”"
Weird. Left wingers keep proclaiming that the police only exist to protect property

Libs of TikTok on X - "Las Cruces, New Mexico Police Chief begs for help as he exposes career criminal repeat offender Neal Garcia who keeps being released back onto the streets by woke judges Garcia has 108 arrests including 15 felonies‼️ WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS"
Based Electrician⚡️🇺🇲 on X - "How does a career criminal get released after being arrested 108 times? Because activists have been granted power in the form of DA's and judges to wreak havoc on our communities. Remove the activists and solve the crime."

3 adults, 2 teens charged in fatal Kleinburg home invasion - "One of those individuals, 26-year-old Mississauga resident Amir Wiam Mohammad Abuhmaid, is charged with first-degree murder and several other related offences.  “At the time of the homicide, Mr. Abuhmaid was out on four separate forms of release,” Fiore said during the news conference... YRP Chief Jim MacSween said the fact that the adult offender charged with first-degree murder in this case was out on four different types of release orders shows there’s a need for change.  “I’m incredibly disappointed that dangerous criminals are continuously released back into the community, only to reoffend and revictimize the public,” he said during the news conference, adding it’s “extremely concerning” that a 16-year-old youth is wanted in connection with this incident.  “We’re seeing the perpetrators become increasingly younger, while the severity of these crimes continues to escalate.”"
Clearly, he needs to be let out again, and the police are useless because their budget keeps increasing but they can't stop violent crime. Youth offenders need to be rehabilitated, so we can't punish them

Dapper Detective on X - "🚨BREAKING: Mugged by reality — staffer to Defund The Police advocate and Illinois Senate President Don Harmon — robbed at knifepoint. Harmon has legislated some of the most extreme soft-on-crime policies for Illinois and criminal justice reform at the behest of BLM."

New York Post on X - "Michigan man fatally shoots teen who broke into garage, sparking debate over ‘Stand Your Ground’ law"
Lauren Chen on X - "The problem isnt Stand Your Ground laws The problem is "teens" breaking into people's houses"

captive dreamer on X - "Prison abolition just means "inner city thugs" from "disadvantaged backgrounds" get to get off scot free and any normal home owner defending their house and family gets thrown into the gulag"

Meme - Noah Smith @noahpinion: "Remember, "prison abolitionist" actually just means "I should personally get to decide who goes to prison""
"evan loves worf @esjesjesj one piece, communist, prison abolitionist, Elon Musk-obsessed much, anti-zionist. on bsky"
evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "I think you should go to prison for blindly gunning down a teenager x.com/ mattwalshblog/..."

Meme - Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen: "Evan has recognized the flaw in prison abolition: if there's no prison, people will use force against criminals. So to resolve that, he wants a system where criminals can attack people and steal from them at will, but prison still exists to lock up anyone who defends themselves."
evan loves wort @esjesjesj: "It's a belief that the system needs to be unrecognizably overhauled but you would still need to defend people (teenagers) from violence (a guy who shoots teenagers)"

The Patriot Oasis™ on X - "🚨HOLY CRAP! Jeanine Pirro reveals that the Biden prosecutor for Washington, D.C., didn't prosecute 65% of the crimes in DC. She has prosecuted 92% of Crimes committed in DC!"

Andy Ngo on X - "Waldorf, Md. — James Bowman III, 40, was arrested on Nov. 7 for domestic violence. He allegedly bit and punched a female victim.   Six hours after his arrest, Bowman was released without bail on the promise that he wouldn't harm the woman again. Less than an hour later, he returned to the scene of the previous night's crime and attacked the same woman again while she was holding a toddler.   Police say Bowman struck the child in the forehead and beat the woman so badly that she was covered in blood. Bowman was charged with assault and child abuse, and is being held without bail.  Though leftists and BLM activists claim that black men are imprisoned just for their race, a pattern emerges among offenders that they live a life of being repeatedly let out of prison or not held accountable for prior multiple crimes."
DLP on X - "When you see this type of judicial action, this is what they mean by “restorative justice” which is no justice at all."

Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 on X - "A voicemail from my early morning police check. My phone is always on dnd. I can see how this is going to be a problem going forward. Thankfully my daughter was coming off of nights and adjusting her sleep schedule. She was still awake and heard the knock at the door at 00:26."
Ari Goldkind on X - "As you all go to sleep tonight and tuck yourselves in, please rest safely, knowing that your CDN police are knocking on Tamara Lich’s door, but not knocking on the doors of the hundreds of home invaders, rapists, child, abusers, and wife beaters that are also out on house arrest"
Anarcho tyranny strikes again. Enemies of the regime must be dealt with. Political prisoners are shown no mercy

ZUBY: on X - "Many people on 'the left' sympathise with criminals more than they sympathise with law-abiding people. I see it constantly and it's bizarre. I don't think it's even a conscious process... They just reflexively defend bad guys. It's like a mothering instinct gone wrong."
Lex Jurgen on X - "There is a narrative on the Left that people only become criminals after being victimized themselves due to born circumstance, racism, colonizer oppression, classism, etc. If individuals have no control over becoming criminals, how can you hold them accountable?"
Paul Anleitner on X - "That’s because there’s been a radical change in how postmodern culture told stories about “villains.” Villains were reframed as victims of prior oppression or trauma. Crime became the excusable result of an unjust system, & “law abiding” meant being complicit in that system. *Elphaba from Wicked*"

Matt Van Swol on X - "🚨#BREAKING: Detabian Fortenberry of Charlotte NC, who has been arrested a MIND-BOGGLING...  ...56 times (!!!)   Was arrested AGAIN on Friday for ASSAULTING A WOMAN multiple times.  Oh... and he's already out of prison.  He's back on the streets today."