JD Vance on X - "The big lie the Democrats told about violent crime is that it's "systemic" and therefore no one's really responsible. If the "system" is to blame then you fund a bunch of nonprofits that don't do anything besides give jobs to underqualified radicals. The reality is that the gross majority of violent crime is committed by a very small group of people and we should be throwing them in prison."
Meme - Landshark @LandsharkRides: "It's genuinely crazy that there is basically zero downsides to executing violent criminals and if you just keep doing it again and again society eventually effectively turns into paradise but we can't actually do it because leftists still control all governments and legal systems"
Another Sainsbury’s in London completely ransacked while security stands helpless. It seems like security guards are too afraid to act, knowing the risks of being accused of assault if they intervene. : r/london - "Meanwhile, thieves roam freely, emboldened by a system that appears to protect their "rights" more than the victims'. What do you think is going through the minds of these thieves? Are they laughing at the system, or do they truly feel untouchable?"
Starmer’s Britain is descending into anarcho-tyranny - "If you are a shoplifter, an illegal immigrant, a ne’er-do-well pretending to be disabled to claim benefits or a “petty criminal” no longer deemed worthy of prison, you have little to fear in anarchical Britain, where there is little money and limited policing resources to come after you. If you are a responsible pillar of the community exercising your traditional right to free speech, and have forthright or anti-woke views, you risk trouble from the commissars of authoritarian Britain, who suddenly have endless capacity to track you down, monitor your public and private messages and detain you... Nobody who engages in wrongthink is safe: thousands of ordinary people have been harassed, but so have leading journalists such as our own Allison Pearson, the author Julie Bindel and even a former Labour MP. As in all authoritarian regimes, the knock on the door can come at any time, for anyone, for any reason. The process is the punishment. Many stay quiet for an easier life. The great paradox is that the advent of “human rights” as our secular religion undermined our traditional liberties and coincided with the decline of freedom of expression. Human rights curtailed our real rights, the very opposite of what we were promised. The Blairite revolution, which began in 1997, is to blame. It is true that free speech was insufficiently protected in the 1980s and 1990s. But the Human Rights Act (HRA), the creation of the Supreme Court, the Left-wing takeover of our institutions, the rise of quangos, the onset of lawfare and the rest not only didn’t solve the problem but actually made it, and much else, worse. The public ended up less free to say what it thinks. The rot spread further during the technocratic Tory years of 2010-2024, under whose watch we suffered an explosion in the recording of non-crime hate incidents, further encroachments in freedom and mass monitoring and a war on dissent during Covid. We keep being told that leaving the ECHR and HRA would turn us into a new Russia, and yet it increasingly feels as if we are already living in a Soviet-lite dystopia. We aren’t free to speak out despite these treaties and declarations. The Left-wing juristocracy doesn’t believe in true freedom: it believes in weaponising the law for social engineering. The ECHR is a useful tool to promote open borders, but it won’t stop Linehan from being arrested. Starmer felt obliged to defend Linehan, and Wes Streeting went as far as calling for a change in the law, but nothing meaningful will happen. Lord Hermer, the attorney general, would never allow it. The best we can hope for are tweaks and slightly more liberal guidance for the police. Yet if the mainstream Left is bad, the far-Left which may soon replace it is worse. Zack Polanski, the Green Party’s new Corbynite leader, said on the BBC of Linehan that “these are totally unacceptable tweets… I think it was proportionate to arrest him”. This is a new development: the rise of a class of politicians who don’t seek to hide their authoritarianism. Many are influenced by woke ideology, which claims that speech is violence, a tool of oppression when in the hands of the “privileged” class of white overlords, and that only the “oppressed” have the right to speak out. We need a radical break with the past 28 years. The Blairite project must be undone. We need fresh protections for free speech. The police must be retaught liberal values. Its operational autonomy must be curtailed. We must firmly resist digital ID cards as these would further shift power from citizen to state. The Online Safety Act has gone too far, and needs radical reform, as do many other laws. Non-crime hate incidents must be abolished. We need to quit the ECHR, scrap the HRA and return to Law Lords in Parliament. We need Parliament to legislate for a UK version of Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the US Supreme Court judgment that determined what sort of speech advocating illegal conduct can be restricted under the First Amendment... Last but not least, we must start reading again, if only to know how bad it could get – George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report for a start. Science fiction cannot be allowed to become our new reality."
Knock knock, it's the Thought Police: As thousands of criminals go uninvestigated, detectives call on a grandmother. Her crime? She went on Facebook to criticise Labour councillors at the centre of the 'Hope you Die' WhatsApp scandal exposed by the MoS - "In a chilling clampdown on free speech, two police officers pay a visit to a grandmother – simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook. Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany's feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Police conceded that the 54-year-old had committed no crime – yet Mrs Jones says she has effectively been silenced by the officers, as she was intimidated by them calling at her door and is too terrified to post on social media again... Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: 'This is typical of the weird authoritarian atmosphere that has grown up in Britain since Sir Keir Starmer took control. Good luck persuading Greater Manchester Police to send two police officers to your house if you're burgled or your car is stolen.' It is the latest in a string of incidents in which police have investigated people for social media posts, including newspaper columnist Allison Pearson, feminist writer Julie Bindel, and former policeman Harry Miller, whose name was added to a database for his 'non-crime hate incident'. Mr Miller, who founded the Fair Cop campaign group, said of Mrs Jones's treatment: 'It flies in the face of our freedoms and it's wrong. That's far more akin to a European police force – or even worse a Stasi police force.' The two plain-clothes officers arrived at Mrs Jones's home and demanded to talk to her after she commented on the offensive messages shared in a Labour WhatsApp group that The Mail on Sunday exposed this month. Our story led to the sacking of health minister Andrew Gwynne and the suspension of Burnley MP Oliver Ryan and 11 Labour councillors. Police knocked on her door in Stockport within 48 hours of receiving a complaint, in contrast to how they have responded to other crime reports. Mrs Jones, a school administrator, said police failed to investigate a spate of car thefts in the surrounding streets last year. Greater Manchester Police has one of the highest crime rates in Britain and fails to solve almost three out of four shoplifting incidents. The extraordinary episode took place days after this newspaper revealed how Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, posted a vile message to Labour colleagues on a WhatsApp group saying he hoped one elderly constituent, who didn't vote for the party, would die before the next election. He made the offensive comment on the 'Trigger Me Timbers' WhatsApp group after the pensioner sent a letter to Stockport Labour councillor David Sedgwick complaining about her bin collections. Gwynne also posted racist and sexist messages and joked about a cycling campaigner being 'mown down' by a truck. Parliament's standards watchdog has launched an investigation into him. In the wake of the scandal, Mrs Jones repeatedly posted that Cllr Sedgwick must resign from his Heatons North seat on a closed Facebook group called 4Heatons Hub, and another publicly available page called Reddish Matters... She asked if Cllr Sedgwick or his partner had made the complaint. '[The officer's] exact words were 'Your thought process is correct in that',' said Mrs Jones. 'I asked the police officer, have I committed any sort of crime. Why did you call at my door? They said, 'Someone has spoken to us about your social media posts.'... The controversy is set to reignite concerns about the police wasting time probing so-called 'non-crime hate incidents' instead of pursuing their core mission of fighting crime Figures obtained by the MoS reveal Greater Manchester Police recorded 881 so-called 'non hate crime incidents' over the past two years – more than one a day. Manchester has the fifth-highest crime rate in England and Wales, with 158 offences for every 1,000 people, according to Home Office data"
Alex Armstrong on X - "76% of burglaries go unsolved. 89% of all rapes go unsolved. 56% of all shoplifting goes unsolved. 75% of all car thefts go unsolved. The UK is fast becoming a totalitarian nightmare where citizens are targeted over hard native and foreign criminals."
Anarcho-tyranny strikes again
This even goes beyond two tier policing, since she didn't even commit a crime
Ellie Close on X - "Back in 2022, just four days after my baby was born, three men wearing balaclavas and armed with knives forced their way into my home. They demanded my car keys and every bit of cash I had. The police didn’t show up for THREE hours. He then told me that since no one was physically harmed they wouldn’t look into it any further due to ‘lack of resources’."
NBC10 Boston on X "A man accused of hacking someone to death with an axe and eating part of the victim's brain and an eyeball has been granted conditional release after a careful review of his clinical progress, officials in Connecticut say."
wanye on X - "An argument I never really heard for the death penalty when I was arguing about it growing up that has now become one of the primary reasons for supporting it is that if you don’t kill them, people will try to release them later"
Meme - The Economist @TheEconomist: "Gangs are gaining ground in Latin America. This is why iron-fist policies won’t beat them back: "
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "El Salvador's iron-fist gang crackdown led to murders dropping by 70% in 2023."
Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 on X - ".@nayibbukele: “What about the human right of a woman not to be r*ped? What about the human right of kids to play or to be free or go to the park? What about the human right to live? Or to walk in the street? But no, they were worried about the human rights of the k*llers.”"
PhilosophyDad on X - "It's really astonishing how much Bukele is hated by the international establishment because he actually solved a problem. El Salvador is a stark reminder that you can actually do things to make your country significantly better."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Bukele also, incidentally, disproved an entire nonsense academic literature."
Trust the Experts. Trust the Science
Ian Jaeger on X - "BREAKING: El Salvador has been upgraded to level 1 travel advisory, listing it as one of the safest tourism destinations on earth. In the summer 2020, El Salvador was listed as a level 4 “do not travel.” President Bukele has changed his country for the better."
US Upgrades El Salvador as Safer to Travel Than France, UK - Bloomberg - "The upgrade to Level 1 puts El Salvador ahead of some more traditional travel destinations for Americans like France, the UK and Italy. They’re all at Level 2, a recommendation to “Exercise Increased Caution,” because of threats from terrorists. Some other nations in Central America, including Panama and Costa Rica, are Level 2, with neighboring Guatemala Level 3, which carries a recommendation to “Reconsider Travel.” Last November, El Salvador was upgraded to Level 2 from the previous Level 3... El Salvador was one of the deadliest nations on earth before Bukele took office in 2019. He’s ridden a crime crackdown to a 90% approval rating and made the world’s former murder capital less violent than Canada, spurring a boom in tourism."
HOT SPOT on X - "Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”"
Of course, freedom means anarchotyranny and sending the police after someone who has a squirrel at home
Florida teen Brendan Depa wrote apology letter to teacher's aide Joan Naydich he severely beat up over Nintendo Switch - "The hulking Florida high schooler who severely beat a teacher’s aide over a Nintendo Switch wrote an apology letter to his victim that was never read in court, claiming he made a “mistake, one I will never let happen again.” Brendan Depa, 18, was sentenced to five years in prison for felony aggravated battery – bodily harm after he attacked paraprofessional Joan Naydich in a hallway inside Matanzas High School in Palm Coast in February 2023... Hallway security cameras captured Depa, who stands 6 feet 6 and weighs roughly 270 pounds, sprinting toward the female educator, who turns and spots her assailant a split-second before he shoves her to the floor. Depa, then 17 years old, repeatedly stomps on the unconscious paraprofessional before punching her 15 times. Several staff members were needed to remove Depa from Naydich and hold him to the floor... During the sentencing, Florida Seventh Circuit Court Judge Terence Perkins claimed Depa had no remorse for the attack and said it wasn’t an isolated incident as the teen had numerous battery charges in the past. Depa argued that the February 2023 attack and subsequent conviction should not define him... Depa’s adoptive mother, Leanne, fought against the five-year sentencing as they were punishing her son because “he is black, they are punishing that he is large and they are punishing his disability.”"
Press Release: Autism Society of America’s Autism Justice Center Condemns Sentencing of Brendan Depa - "Scientific evidence shows that most neurotypical brains do not fully develop until age 25. Brendan was only 17 when this incident occurred, and with Autism, he will likely require lifelong therapeutic and intensive support from specialized professionals. No state correctional setting can provide the behavioral support Brendan needs; therefore, he is likely to spend much of his sentence in solitary confinement. This violent act was not committed with malice; rather, it was a manifestation of Brendan’s disability... Throughout the trial, Brendan’s race, size, and disability were likely weaponized against him. During the sentencing hearing, Judge Terence Perkins stated that Brendan had a violent history, had not shown any remorse, and insinuated that Autism did not influence Brendan’s behavior"
Ironically, if you believe what the Autism Society is saying, then autistic people are violent and cannot be treated as adults (so we shouldn't let them vote, drink, drive etc at normal ages)
If you don't let autistic people repeatedly beat up others, you are a bad person (either that or autistic people need to be institutionalised until they are no longer a danger)
Meme - "NYC when a man is burning people alive in the subway *fake blind Bart Simpson*
NYC when a man is protecting people in the subway *Bart Simpson with telescope*"
Savanah Hernandez on X - "District court judges keep releasing accused murderers back onto the streets of Texas, with 900 released so far. Judge Hilary Unger of Harris County is one of these judges. She released 8 criminals, via bond, who then went on to murder innocent Texans:"
Houston police union slams Texas judge who granted bond to accused deputy killer - "The police union stated that there have been 162 homicides in Harris County since 2021 where the suspect was out on bond when the murder took place and accused Unger, who is up for re-election in 2026, of being an activist judge who is "gambling with public safety."... Unger is known for letting repeat offenders out on bond and ran her election campaigns on prioritizing "alternatives to incarceration with an eye towards rehabilitation, a reduction in recidivism, and an increase in community safety.""
Benny Johnson on X - "This is MN District Attorney Mary Moriarty. Today, she filed felony charges against a 19-year-old woman for allegedly keying her co-workers car. Just yesterday, she refused to charge a Tim Walz staffer who did over $20k in damage to 6 Teslas. Two-tier justice."
Logan Federico, NC college student, executed by 'career criminal as she slept: cops - "An aspiring teacher and devoted Swiftie was executed as she slept by a “career criminal” who stole her credit cards and went on a shopping spree, cops said."
Daniel Concannon on X - "40 prior charges. 25 felonies. This is “Restorative Justice” manifest. How do you solve imaginary “systemic racism?” By releasing Alexander Dickey 40 times until he finally kills Logan Federico."
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Has A Seriously Concerning Record On Criminal Cases - "Judge Jackson’s Record As A District Court Judge Shows She Was Frequently Soft On Crime, Even Saying At The Beginning Of The Pandemic That ‘It Would Be ‘Reasonable’ To Release ‘Each And Every’ Person In Washington, D.C. Jails"
Supreme Court Justice Proves She’s Totally Clueless Yet Again - "Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson talks a lot. That’s not just a qualitative observation. She consistently tallies up the most words spoken per justice. Take care not to confuse quantity with quality. When Jackson does open her mouth, it’s usually to expose her incompetency. During a Supreme Court hearing, Jackson made the case for rule by nationwide injunction. “I would think we’d want the system to move as quickly as possible to reach the merits of the issue, and maybe have this court decide whether or not the government is entitled to do this under the law,” the justice said. “Wouldn’t having universal injunctions actually facilitate that?” Jackson apparently isn’t much for Article II of the Constitution, which vests executive power in the president. It seems she’d prefer the president permanently subordinated to a clique of appointed judges. Herself included... The Supreme Court’s stated role is to interpret law. Jackson’s interpretation of the court’s role would see America guided by the whims of the judiciary – whims which, as has become obvious under the Trump administration, are ideological to the bone. It’s a vision straight out of the Progressive playbook: arbitrary rule by elected officials with the right credentials (and by extension, the right politics). The administrative state isn’t sending their best, folks. That Jackson would prefer a judiciary-run government is fairly unsurprising. That she would say this outright is proof she has no sense. Even her fellow liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has been critical of nationwide injunctions. “It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process,” she said in 2022. Jackson infamously refused to provide a definition of a “woman” in her confirmation hearing. This was broadly interpreted as a political gesture. But she genuinely might be confused. She certainly doesn’t seem to understand other important concepts, like criminal justice. The U.S. Sentencing Commission, of which Jackson was a member, unanimously passed an amendment in 2010 slashing the prison terms of crack-cocaine convicts by as much as three years... “If we keep them in jail for the extra 36 months, or whatever, they’re going to recidivate at the same rate as if we released them early. So I don’t see how public protection is being affected one way or the other in that scenario,” Jackson said, according to Real Clear Investigations. “Because during the three years they are in prison, they are not out committing new crimes, that’s the difference,” countered Rose. As a D.C. District Court Judge, Jackson chose leniency in sentencing the worst of offenders: sex offenders accused of violating young children. Christopher Michael Downs appeared before Jackson in 2020. Downs had previously bragged about molesting his 13-year-old cousin, according to transcripts obtained by the New York Post. He also uploaded a video of a prepubescent girl being sexually abused. Though Jackson admitted Downs was at “risk of reoffending,” according to the Post, she only sentenced the man to 60 months – six years less than the prosecutors demanded... It’s a fairly damning indictment of the selection process for the Supreme Court that Jackson – who appears better suited to the office of Theater Kid – made it there in the first place."
The power of DEI
Lauren Witzke on X - "They spent the last 60 years lying to you about police "brutality," when in reality, it was just police efficiency making sure your towns and cities didn't get overrun by these savage terrorists."
MILO on X - "“Police brutality” is all that stands between your children and hungry rapists, kidnappers, murderers and pimps."
Tube passenger who killed 'gentle' engineer, 28, with one punch because he brushed past him on escalator may serve less than six years in prison - "A Tube passenger who killed a 'gentle' commuter with one punch after he brushed past him on an escalator will serve less than six years in jail. Rakeem Miles, 23, grabbed AI engineer Samuel Winter, 28, from behind and ripped his top at Southwark underground station at 9.30pm on August 22 last year. Miles then viciously knocked out Mr Winter with a powerful punch to the head before fleeing... Judge Benedict Kelleher sentenced Miles to eight years imprisonment with an extended licence period of five years."
Luckily he didn't do something truly horrific, like be racist or Islamophobic
Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - Progressive DA Amy Padden of Colorado plans to drop all charges against Solomon Galligan who attempted to kidnap a child near Black Forest Hills Elementary due to “mental incompetency.”"
memetic_sisyphus on X - "A lot of people are saying, “incompetent to stand trial doesn’t mean he goes free.” I would direct them to the sister of the suspect: “Sarah Galligan, his older sister, described the familiar routine of his past arrests: Galligan would be deemed incompetent to stand trial due to his mental health, but a shortage of beds in mental health facilities meant he couldn't be treated or institutionalized. Consequently, he would eventually be released back into society, only to repeat the cycle.”"
Joe Lonsdale on X - "Progressive DA’s reflect a deep sickness in our country. Voting them in leads to more rape, murder, and suffering of people of all backgrounds. We need better cultural mechanisms to share the truth and anecdotes like these, to scare naïve D voters from making idiotic choices."
It's up to the public to stand up to shoplifters, says police chief - "It comes after the Information Commissioner’s Office told shopkeepers that putting up pictures of thieves in shop windows could violate the criminals’ data rights... “If you’ve got someone in your store now stealing from you, call 999. Also ideally try and stop them leaving, don’t just stand there and watch, which a lot of people do, which frustrates me.” His remarks were criticised as potentially ‘dangerous’ by Joshua Reynolds, the Liberal Democrat MP for Maidenhead. Last week it was revealed that a store owner in North Wales who put up a sign criticising ‘scumbags shoplifting’ was told by police to consider changing the wording because it was offensive... Mr Davies put up a note in his shop in Wrexham that read: “Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets.” As a result, officers from North Wales Police attended and told him to take down the sign because it could cause offence or impinge on their rights under GDPR laws. He said: "If you're offended by my sign, then you're obviously intending to steal from me or are stealing from me."
It figures that a Liberal Democrat is pro crime
It's up to the public to stand up to shoplifters, says police chief | LBC : r/unitedkingdom - "And if U don't get stabbed trying to stop a baby formula theft you'll be arrested for assault on the thief. Yeah, no thanks."
Shoplifting is the most visible manifestation of lawless Britain - "Katy Bourne, national lead for shoplifting at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, has pointed out that with prison ruled out as a punishment by the lack of places, there is currently “no point arresting shoplifters if there is no effective deterrent”. This is certainly the case if we do not intend to incapacitate offenders by separating them from the general public. It is an absurdity that police appear to have time to visit shopkeepers for signs criticising shoplifters even as the level of criminal activity soars and offences go unpunished. As Ms Bourne states, we seem to have reached a point where forces are “more worried about upsetting career criminals than catching them”... If the Government wishes to combat the impression that Britain is an increasingly lawless place, it should start by dealing with the most visible manifestations of disorder."
Rampant shoplifting is the ultimate symbol of our descent into anti-Western decadence - "Take the grotesque moral inversion exhibited by Labour when it tells shopkeepers not to place “high value” items close to store entrances, in effect blaming the victims of crime for enticing shoplifters. A minister, Dame Diana Johnson, complained that “some stores…put bottles of alcohol at the front of the store which obviously people will nick.” Note the use of the colloquial “nick”, which trivialises the violation, demonstrates an inability to take shoplifting seriously and implies that it is a cheeky, opportunistic, almost child-like act of rule-bending... Labour, in common with many Tories, civil servants, charities and the police establishment, succumbed long ago to “progressive” woke ideology. This divides the world into oppressors and oppressed, powerful and powerless, bad and good. Shop-owners are part of the capitalist class, and regardless of whether they are a major chain or the local independent corner shop, are tainted: they control the “power structure” and are inherently guilty of racism, sexism and every sin. Shoplifters are defined, equally reflexively, as oppressed, latter-day Jean Valjeans, after Victor Hugo’s character in Les Misérables jailed for 19 years for stealing bread for his sister’s starving children. Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, was asked by the Big Issue last year “if you saw someone shoplifting essentials in a supermarket, what would you do?“ Khan’s answer, in which he also cited people stealing nappies: “I suspect I’d l take my wallet out, and I would pay for it.” Yet in 99.99 per cent of cases, this would be the wrong strategy. It would hand moral victory to the thieves, legitimise their lifestyle choice and laziness, send a message that it’s fine to steal food, promote warped incentives, militate against work and self-reliance, and promulgate the incorrect view that shoplifting is the only way for tens of thousands of perpetrators to survive... a store owner who understandably put up a sign criticising “scumbags shoplifting” was told by police to consider changing the wording because it was offensive. Once again, the victim is turned into a perpetrator. The authorities police speech rather than crime."
