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Friday, June 14, 2024

Links - 14th June 2024 (1 - Pro-Crime Policies)

Meme - "Hill: He followed through. Well done
Ryan Thoresen Carson: BE_THE_LEFTIST_YOU_PRETEND_TO_BE_ONLINE . EXE"

Meme - Girl texting: "Black Lives Matter! *black fist*
*man crawling on ground with blood flowing out of mouth*

Meme - "The gf of the activist that got stabbed by a "police brutality victim" in NY
*ACAB* *K Marx*"

Meme - Frog with purple hair: "I WILL HELP YOU CROSS THE RIVER, MY OPPRESSED, BLACK FRIEND"
*Scorpion on frog's back*

Meme - "I GOT STABBED TO DEATH RECENTLY. I WAS PRETTY BUMMED OUT ABOUT IT. BUT I THINK WHOEVER TOOK MY LIFE was PROBABLY MORE HAPPY TO TAKE IT THAN I AM SAD TO LOSE IT. THE TOTAL HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD INCREASED. AND MY GIRLFRIEND DIDN'T CARE SO, WHATEVER."
This is a parody of My Bike Got Stolen Recently / Bike Cuck

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "According to the Grand Jury witnesses who testified in the Daniel Penny case, here is what happened:  Witnesses describe Jordan Neely taking on a fighting stance while shouting death threats:
- "someone is going to die today"
- he said he "would kill anyone"
- he said he wanted to "take a bullet"
- he was "ready to go to Rikers"
- "ready to do life"
A witness specifically recalled him saying: "I want to hurt people. I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison."  The witnesses all testified to being terrified.  Neely then started making "half-lunge movements” and coming within "half a foot of people."  That's when Daniel Penny grabbed Jordan Neely “[a]cross his chest” and brought him down from behind, in what a witness testified to being done in a “very safe manner.”  Multiple eyewitnesses confirmed that they did not see Mr. Penny appear to squeeze Jordan Neely’s neck and never heard Mr. Neely gasping, gagging, or saying that he could not breathe. These witnesses also recounted Mr. Penny asking for someone to call the police as he wrestled Mr. Neely on the ground.   Daniel Penny was nonetheless charged for the death of Jordan Neely with felony Manslaughter in the Second Degree (PL § 125.15). His motion to dismiss was denied."

Greg Price on X - "BREAKING: Daniel Penny, charged with second degree manslaughter for putting a homeless guy in a chokehold threatening people on the subway in New York, just had his request to dismiss the charges against him denied. Trial to begin in the fall"
Michael Wells on X - "Be forewarned: after cities refuse to enforce laws, allow open use of drugs, and give mentally unstable vagrants free reign on the streets, they can and will try to sentence you to prison if you DARE try to shield yourself or those around you from the carnage they unleashed."

NYC judge rejects Daniel Penny's motion to dismiss Jordan Neely case - "A Manhattan judge on Wednesday rejected former Marine Daniel Penny’s motion to dismiss the charges against him in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely — in what an attorney for the slain homeless man’s family called a “big win.”  Judge Maxwell Wiley batted down Penny’s attorneys’ October motion to can the manslaughter case because of alleged issues with prosecutors’ instructions to the grand jury and claims that the medical examiner didn’t establish that Penny’s actions killed Neely... “We’re gonna’ get your ass, cracker!” one man screamed through a megaphone as he bounded around the car. “Daniel Penny is a murderer! He’s a murderer! You a murderer!  “There’s a murderer in this car! He choked out a New Yorker!” the man continued, as the NYPD tried to clear him away and let the SUV through...   Penny has said he didn’t intend to do that, but felt he had to step in and protect other straphangers because Neely was throwing trash and screaming that he was willing to “kill a motherf—er” and “take a bullet” and go to jail.  “The rhetoric from Mr. Neely was very frightening, it was very harsh,” a witness previously told The Post."

Simon VanDyk on X - "When good men are prosecuted to stepping in to protect the innocent more people will choose not to get involved."

Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "Daniel Penny (24) put a homeless felon in a fatal chokehold to stop him from attacking people on his NY train.  
Bail: $200,000
Appeal: Rejected
Jordan Williams (20) stabbed and kiIIed a homeless man to stop him from attacking people on his NY train.  
Bail: $0
Charges: Dropped"

Edmonton murders expose Canadian justice's failed operating philosophy - "Muorater Mashar, if Parsons’ dope is solid, was found guilty of a series of Edmonton robberies in late 2009. After serving his sentence, Mashar stabbed someone in the heart at a bus stop in Manitoba. He did about three years in custody, apparently the going rate for a felon who tries to empty a transit user’s aorta, and was released with conditions, “including being seen by a psychologist and a psychiatrist.”  With such a powerful mental-health Voltron working on him, it’s almost inconceivable that he could reoffend, but he tested positive for methamphetamine. Nevertheless, he ended up back in Edmonton within a few months, ringing up more convictions for crimes against persons and property — including at least one physical attack on a child (in a public-transit setting, of course). We have that particular niblet of fact only by virtue of Edmonton police Chief Dale McFee’s passing mention at a Monday press conference, where he explained how this nightmarish double murder definitely doesn’t reflect badly on the cops — which I suppose we all know it probably doesn’t. (They did a good job of keeping the body count low.) “There were multiple intervention points,” McFee observed, “multiple opportunities to hold the suspect accountable and provide him the professional support required to manage his behaviour. But the system once again failed.” McFee’s politician language kinda makes one wonder if the system did fail according to its own purposes. Instinctively, he sees the butchering of a mother and child as a failure to provide sufficient “professional support” for the butcher. The only purpose that can be fathomed or articulated for criminal justice, even by a cop, is therapeutic. The failure of the justice system to protect innocent lives is essentially … managerial in nature, I guess? We just have to seal up those notorious bureaucratic “cracks” that habitually violent maniacs keep falling through. This is the failed operating philosophy of Canadian “justice”; any resemblance to brain damage is coincidence. I am sure McFee has feelings that it would cost him his job to express — and come to think of it, I do too. What I will observe is that the public character of criminal justice has now been virtually destroyed thanks to lunatic “privacy” obsessions. In this environment of total obscurity, judges have obviously lost even the most minimal sense that punishments ought to compound — perhaps exponentially — according to the track record of a convict."
It's the most left wing city in Alberta, so this is what they want

Child molester bragged about light sentence as LA DA faces recall - "The transgender woman convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl reportedly boasted about her two-year sentence as Los Angeles’ progressive district attorney admitted the punishment may have been too lenient calls.  District Attorney George Gascón, who faces an ongoing recall effort, said Sunday that he would have handled Hannah Tubbs’ case differently had he known about her “disregard for the harm” that she caused her 10-year-old victim... While in custody, Tubbs made crude and disparaging comments about the girl while boasting that she wouldn’t have to register as a sex offender now...   Gascón’s decision caught the ire of the prosecutor in the case and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who said the judge’s “hands were tied” on sentencing because of the DA’s inaction.  Critics also blasted Gascón’s general policies, which have prevented prosecutors from seeking life sentences and filing cases against juvenile offenders in adult court.  Gascón, who took office in late 2020, announced revisions late Friday to those policies."

Far-Left “Anti-Landlord” Activist Launches Address Directory Of “Empty” Properties For Squatters To Seize - "Australian “anti-landlord” activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners. Jordie van den Berg, also known as “PurplePingers,” has been posting the addresses of homes he has staked out in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania.  Van den Berg is behind the site ShitRentals.org, which purports to be a resource for prospective tenants to use to learn more about landlords prior to signing a rental agreement."
Clearly, there are no shit renters, because commies think all landlords are shit

Melissa Chen on X - "NYC has tipped so far into elevating “squatters rights” because (tenants = victims) and (landlords = oppressors) that the laws have emboldened the brazen behavior of squatters. It has now resulted in murder.  Police are looking for two who murdered a woman who traveled from Spain to get the apartment ready to be occupied a family friend.   It had been vacant for months after the death of her mother.   Nadia didn't know when she went to the apartment that two squatters had been living there. She had no idea she would end up in a body bag.  Why did some American cities decide to forego property rights? Its undermining was gradual at first and then accelerated during Covid (remember the eviction moratorium). Landlords essentially have no right to evict squatters today.  Local news recently reported that a homeowner in Queens was arrested by the police for changing the locks on men she says are squatting in her home. Another family in Douglaston has been unable to move into a $2 million home they purchased due to a man who refuses to leave.  If you can’t enforce property rights, you basically have the Peoples’ Republic of New York.   That’s what empathy is getting you. Mao is smiling from his grave."
Squatters suspected of killing woman in NYC apartment, stuffing her body in duffel bag, police sources say

Police could investigate JK Rowling ‘for misgendering trans people’, says SNP minister : unitedkingdom - "Could they investigate the burglary that occurred at my house a few years ago, where we had clear evidence of who done it?"
"Next time accuse the burglars of mis-gendering you.  They will be caught in no time...!"
"It’s absolutely true. We were attacked in the street and the police were going to do nothing until my husband said he was called a racial name by the attackers."
"The police woman who arrived specifically asked why he thought the racial word was used.  We said “he was probably just angry- not racist” and we never heard anything again."

'Will we get to the stage of only sending murderers to prison?' Fury over advice for 'deprived' criminals to be given lenient sentences - "Guidance suggesting that 'deprived' criminals could be given more lenient sentences has been greeted with fury by senior politicians and police leaders... Judges and magistrates have been told they should consider 12 'disadvantage' factors before handing down a sentence, including negative experiences of authority, family members' offending, drug and alcohol misuse, and negative influences from peers. The guidelines were issued this week despite warnings from the Justice Secretary Alex Chalk, who said the 'patronising' ruling could lead to these factors becoming excuses to commit crimes... 'When judges keep making excuses as to why they are not sending someone to prison who deserves to be there, then what message does that send? Many of us had a tough upbringing but did not turn to crime.' Shadow business spokesman Jonathan Reynolds said justice should be fair and consistent for everyone."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Save subway riders from a raging maniac threatening to hurt them? $100k bond Get arrested 9 times for a slew of gang related crimes? Released 9 times without bail. Welcome to the NYC Justice System."
Brazen NYC gangbanger Emmanuel Santiago, who's already racked up 9 arrests this year, keeps getting cut loose due to woke bail reform: sources - "A Bronx gangbanger who has racked up nine arrests this year on a bevy of wild charges is free on the streets of New York City after being repeatedly sprung without bail.  Alleged Latin Kings member Emmanuel Santiago, 32, keeps ending up in cuffs even as he faces seven open cases in the Bronx on charges ranging from intent to sell dangerous drugs, grand larceny of cars, possession of weapons, and allegations of domestic violence, according to law enforcement sources. The brazen gangster was most recently arrested after a December heist in the Bronx where he broke into a police officer’s car and made off with an arsenal of gear including gun belts and ammunition, bullet proof vests, a riot shield and baton, mace, handcuffs, and a radio, the law enforcement sources said.  Despite the laundry list of alleged offenses — including at least 31 domestic incidents ranging from alleged assaults to death threats against women — Santiago has repeatedly been let go on non-monetary release... Even after he was re-arrested on bench warrants for ditching required court appearances, Santiago continued to add to his criminal resume. He is just one of numerous NYC recidivists who have been allowed to walk free without bail — only to soon land in cuffs again once out — since state lawmakers in Albany passed sweeping criminal justice reforms in 2019.  The reforms eliminated cash bail for most non-violent felonies and misdemeanors, exacerbating problems from laws dating back to 1971 which barred judges from considering the risk of allowing somebody back on the street when setting bail.   “If this guy is who Albany had in mind when they conceived of this bail reform — then I see it’s going exactly as planned… the march forward for the sake of ideology,” an exasperated law enforcement source told The Post.  “Albany and reformers think simply not jailing criminals is championing criminal justice reform —  but it’s not — especially if criminals keep committing the same crimes without any corrective action.”  Recent crime figures out of the Bronx show a surge year to date.  In the East Bronx, rape has soared by 175%, felony assault by 18%, grand larceny by 70%, and major crimes overall by 27%, according to NYPD figures. Other numbers suggest that repeat offenders are to blame for chunks of crime — last year, the NYPD reported that a mere 327 people were to blame for 30% of the city’s shoplifting crimes in 2022.  That breaks down to recidivists being arrested a collective 6,600 times — more than 20 times each.  Also in 2022, NYPD numbers showed that just 10 criminals had racked up 500 arrests since bail reform took effect in 2020. “And that’s the real problem with recidivism — it is not the sheer number of arrests, but the persistent thought or mindset of disregard for a functioning society,” the law enforcement source said.  “The reforms apparently don’t treat a known member of the Latin Kings different than a jaywalker.”"
Daniel Penny released on bail after arrest in subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely

End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: 3 police officers were gunned down this morning by "teen suspects" in Memphis. Officer Joseph McKinney was kiIIed. One of the teens wa arrested weeks ago for possessing an illegal firearm and stolen car. THEY RELEASED HIM WITHOUT BAIL."

Thread by @wanyeburkett on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The body-cam backlash is beginning, because the use of body worn cameras did not turn out the way activists had hoped. The thing about activists is that they’re going to say exactly the same thing after every shooting no matter what, so thank God for the cameras in this latest case which clearly exposed their lies. What good do cameras do the activists here? A man is shot by police and the activists are going to say the exact same words about that no matter what the footage shows. They are insane liars and ignoramuses who benefit in no way from evidence that is so often inconvenient.This would have been obvious to the activists from the beginning if they weren’t such stupid people.Evidence is only useful if you care about evidence and activists plainly do not care about evidence, which they have demonstrated in case after case after case. What were arguing about on Twitter today isn’t new or isolated. Activists say the same thing about every single shooting, every single time, no matter the details, no matter the differences. They say the exact same words in the exact same way every single time. So what is the point of collecting evidence? Activists really should have realized before this debate even began that body-worn cameras could only harm their cause.A body-worn camera in Ferguson in 2014 would have shown Michael Brown attacking the officer in that case and stopped the “hands up don’t shoot” narrative dead in its tracks.It should be totally obvious that rumors and ambiguities benefit the activists.The other thing about activists is that they are too stupid and impulsive to separate the things they say about police officers in the public from what any intelligent person would know to be the case in private.If you’re an activist and you want to tell the public that cops are insane, bloodthirsty maniacs who are looking for any excuse to kill with impunity, then, you know, get your bread, I get it. But surely in private you should understand that this isn’t actually true and that the presence of cameras probably won’t change police behavior all that much, since the majority of police are just morally normal people trying their best.But, this is a kind of good news, in a way, because it shows that activists really do believe what they say. I guess that’s better than a world in which they are all cynical Machiavellians. No, they actually believe the shit that comes out of their mouths and it’s why even when they get their way it doesn’t turn out like they think it will.Progressive policies on things like crime and policing never have any hope of working, because it’s garbage in, garbage out. Progressives have an insane theory of human behavior that totally denies every shred of evidence we have about human nature and so they really are flailing in the most literal sense.If you start with the position that police are insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs, then constant surveillance of their behavior can only possibly be disappointing to you, because obviously what it’s going to show is that the police are not actually insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs. But imagine if you really believed that that’s what the cameras were going to show? They really believed that! They really thought that if we could just videotape their actions it would reveal them to be insane, bloodthirsty, maniacs.Of course, that’s actually more or less true of the 1% most violent people in the country, which is what we pay police officers to deal with, so a proper understanding of the world would have led you to realize that body cameras would mostly be exonerating and reveal to the public just how dangerous and insane criminals are.There needs to be a service of conservatives for hire who can explain basic things about human nature to progressives and help them design policies that get them what they want."
The article is inappropriate for the tweet thread, though

Libs of TikTok on X - "This is Jean Carlos Zarzuela. He was arrested for randomly punching a 9-year-old girl in the face yesterday in NYC.  He was arrested on assault charges and released from jail WITHOUT BAIL just a FEW DAYS AGO. Now he hurt another innocent kid.  The result of progressive bail reform policies."
Ankush sharma on X - "Leniency toward the guilty is cruelty toward the innocent."

Man found guilty of killing wife after being bailed out by nonprofit - "Samuel Lee Scott was found guilty of murdering his wife in 2019 after he was bailed out of jail by the St. Louis Bail Project.  The nonprofit posted Scott’s $5,000 bail in April of 2019 while he was being held on assault charges that alleged he hit his wife, Marcia Johnson, earlier that year. Scott was also served with an order of protection, which prohibited him from being within 300 feet of his wife or from entering her home. St. Louis Bail Project officials claimed the order of protection was issued after the bail was posted and that the organization did not know about the order"
Thread by @wanyeburkett on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - " The important thing to remember here is that these people aren't (just) dumb. They have different values. They *know* that some percentage of the people they let out will reoffend, but they imagine that to be a kind of statistical truism with no solution. They think of it like this: everybody reading this is free and some percentage of *you* will commit a crime this year, too, so should we lock everybody up?  The move that makes this work is an unwillingness to consider that criminals might in any way be different from everybody else. On this view, recidivism is just the price of a free society. And it's actually worse than that, because they cite data showing that prisons are criminogenic to justify the position that we sort of have it coming. It's no good to repeat, "but don't they know that these people they're releasing are going to commit more crimes?!?!" over and over again until the sun burns out. Of course they know that. They think it's just the price to pay for living in a democracy, etc. This is all part and parcel of a worldview that says that it's unfair to hold people's past behavior against them. They want to make it illegal for landlords to even *ask you* if you've committed a crime! This is the party of endless second chances. You can always start anew with a blank slate. I'm trying hard here not to ridicule or strawman the position. This is just what they really believe!"

America’s ‘Social Justice’ Nightmares Have Only Intensified - "Seattle is in King County, Washington, where Joe Biden got 75 percent of the vote in the 2020 election. King County had more than 1,000 drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2023. These two facts are almost certainly related, but which is the cause and which the effect? Or could it be that both (a) the tendency to vote for Democrats and (b) the addiction to dangerous drugs are caused by some unknown factor? Without a careful analysis of the available data to identify that unknown background factor, is it wrong to hazard a guess that the overdosing dopeheads and Democratic voters in King County are just plain stupid? Beyond sarcastic put-downs, it behooves those interested in public policy to take a look at what’s going on in places like Seattle, where Democrats dominate and “progressive” ideas therefore advance unhindered by any effective opposition. In the case of King County’s skyrocketing drug overdoses — which increased nearly 50 percent in just the past year — local officials have declared the problem “a public health crisis.” However, fentanyl is illegal, which means that the overdoses are also indicative of a crime problem, and progressives are against putting criminals in prison...   For decades, intellectuals and activists told us that the “War on Drugs” was misguided and ineffective. However, if recent experience has shown us anything, it’s that you can’t reduce the drug problem by legalizing hitherto outlawed substances or refusing to enforce existing drug laws. Just take a look at the streets of Seattle, where addicts crowd the sidewalks in open-air drug markets...   The cause-and-effect questions about the correlations between (a) voting for Democrats and (b) disastrous outcomes like the drug problem in Seattle are matters of national consequence. The progressive policy agenda that tolerates — nay, that enables — the squalid scenes on the streets of Seattle and other Democrat-run cities is far-reaching in its ambitions. Even while urban “blue zones” turn into crime-ridden hellholes, the people responsible for these disasters lecture us about their plans to “save democracy” and, indeed, to “save the planet.”... Democrats don’t seem to mind if the streets of their cities are littered with discarded hypodermic needles and other detritus. They have more important priorities, like making sure restaurants don’t provide plastic straws to their customers. This is not a joke. In 2018, Seattle became “the first major U.S. city to ban single-use plastic straws and utensils in food service.”  Think about that for a minute. Police in Seattle are patrolling restaurants to enforce the city’s plastic utensil ban, even while the city’s “progressive” policies require cops to ignore the junkies shooting up on the sidewalks. Peddlers of fentanyl go about their deadly business unmolested, but a restaurant owner could go to prison for giving his customer a plastic straw. How many exclamation marks do you want me to put after a sentence like that? It is difficult to express in words how crazy Democrats have become. What can explain this madness? Thomas Sowell once outlined it as The Vision of the Anointed — the belief that what matters in public policy is not practical consequences but rather the expression of good intentions. This vision turns politics into a narcissistic competition in which support for “progressive” ideas is considered symbolic of one’s moral and intellectual superiority, without regard for the efficacy of the resulting policies. Even when progressive policies produce disaster — e.g., the squalor in cities like Seattle — the people who vote for such policies still cling to the vision that tells them they are more enlightened and caring than their opponents and critics who point out the failures of their policies... the progressive agenda is the basic cause of most problems in California, a state where a majority of voters have chosen Democrats in every presidential election since 1996. Democrats control the state legislature and every statewide office in California, where Joe Biden got 63 percent of the vote in 2020. Is anyone surprised to learn that (a) the state now has a record $68 billion budget deficit, and (b) it is now losing population as fed-up residents leave the state?"
When you weaponise the state to push a left wing agenda while allowing crime to ran rampant

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