Austin Justice on X - "Memphis was one of the most dangerous cities in America. It’s now becoming a model for how to fight crime when you have a terrible DA. From the peak:
- Murders down 47%
- Carjackings down 48%
- Robberies down 51%.
- Vehicle theft down 80%.
What changed:
1. State troopers took over interstate patrol, freeing up local officers.
2. Police launched focused initiatives targeting fugitives, violent repeat offenders, and gang members.
3. National Guard, federal agents, and US Marshals came in and made 9,000+ arrests, including 400+ gang members. Plus 629 illegal firearms seized, 150 missing children located.
4. Technology filled the gaps. Police deployed license plate readers citywide, expanded drone use, and opened a downtown command center. A cancer center went from a crime attempt every other week to none.
Overall crime is now down more than 43% compared to the same period last year Memphis has a long way to go and remains a dangerous city. Its DA is still dismissing 3 out of every 4 felony cases. In fact, the state legislature just passed a bill to audit and potentially remove him. But the city is showing that a rogue DA doesn't have to be a death sentence for public safety. Flood the streets with law enforcement, target repeat offenders, and make arrests faster than he can dismiss them."
Rafael A. Mangual on X = "And there it is… Six years ago, the man accused of committing a heinous mass shooting that claimed the lives of eight children in Shreveport, Louisiana this morning, was given probation rather than a lengthy prison term for a shooting (per the @nypost)."
Bonchie on X - "He got probation for shooting up a car outside a school. Probation. The left’s views on guns are totally contradictory. On one hand, they demand strict gun control laws. On the other, their social justice crusade requires not enforcing them. A circle that can’t be squared."
Thread by @ES_News_ on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is PC Lorne Castle. He’s pulled people from rivers, taken knives off the streets, mentored young people, and risked his life on the job. Last week, he was sacked. Not for corruption. Not for abuse of power. But for the way he arrested a knife-carrying teen who’d just allegedly assaulted an elderly man. π§΅π
The arrest was messy. The teenager resisted. A knife dropped from his waistband. Castle swore, lost his temper, and called him a name. The force deemed his techniques lawful. But they sacked him anyway. No complaint came from the boy. The outrage? From within the job itself. PC Castle's colleagues complained about his behaviour. This is the reality of frontline policing today. Knife crime is rising. Teenagers are carrying weapons and teenagers are being stabbed to death on our streets. And officers are expected to be therapists, robots, and punching bags all at once, with a smile on their face for the bodycam. Lose your cool for a second? Your career’s over.
We’re told trust in policing is low. Maybe that’s because officers are being forced to spend hours recording social media posts and logging “non-crime hate incidents”—instead of being backed when they take dangerous individuals off the street. The system is broken. Castle’s story proves it. We have written a full piece on this case; what happened, why it matters, and what it says about the state of policing in Britain today. This one deserves your attention."
Meme - T. Becket Adams: "Infrequent reminder that Disney made a movie recently that sympathetically recasts as a trauma victim a lady whose defining characteristic is her insatiable lust for skinning puppies." *Elphaba from Wicked*
Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner: "That 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."
nxthompson on X - "The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue."
Poplicola on X - "just waiting for the more perfect union coverage about how this tech is killing jobs"
Jeremy Carl on X - "Broken windows theory is undefeated."
@jason on X - "… basic law and order is better than chaos?!? Would have never guessed that having been to Singapore and Japan π"
Jason McMinn on X - "So if I hear you correctly, you are saying that if the “riff-raff” are kept out, we can go back to having nice things?"
Spikels on X - "As expected. The grifters and politicians - but I repeat myself - who run BART fought this basic public safety improvement for decades disproven their wack theory that criminals don't commit crime."
Gregory Kennedy on X - "BREAKING: Liberals discover that even the mildest forms of law and order, like fare enforcement with gates, can bring a tiny amount of sanity to BART, a system bleeding cash so severely it may have to shut down, which would kill their favorite playground for bizarre experiments"
Gregory Kennedy on X - "I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I read this. So I dug up a report from Yale that said the gates on Bart wouldn't work, I mean, "didn't really address the issue of public safety." Because I wanted to make sure I wasn't an insane person imagining that I had heard all these wackadoodle arguments against any common-sense solution that might make Bart more tolerable. Why is the Ivy League working so hard to destroy civil society?"
Trust the Experts!
Proof that public transport must be free
End Wokeness on X - "This bodega owner told ABC a year ago that he fears for his safety in NY. Last night, he was kiIIed by a shoplifter"
How ignorant. He didn't know that crime had fallen and was believing misinformation about danger
Heather Mac Donald on X - "We are not over-policing. We are not over-prosecuting. There is not an over-incarceration problem. We are under-policing, under-prosecuting, and under-incarcerating criminals."
John D. Macari Jr. πΊπΈπ½ on X - "I remember 2013, right after Bill de Blasio became Mayor. I was a Sergeant in Brooklyn. My team was working on a pattern of vehicle break ins occurring in a neighborhood. The night before, I changed our tour to put cops in the area at the exact time the crimes were happening. Late that night we spotted a guy walking down the block, peeking into car windows and checking door handles. At one point he stopped, pulled out a blunt, and started smoking marijuana right on the street. When he finished, he put it in his pocket and kept walking and continued casing vehicles. I had a young cop with me who was new to plainclothes work. He attempted to jump the guy too early, and we got made before we had enough to charge the individual for a car break in. So I made the call. We locked him up for smoking marijuana in public, which allowed us to identify him and search him for property connected to other break ins from the pattern. This also gave us an opportunity to see if he would confess to the prior crimes or give us intelligence related to those and other crimes. He didn’t have anything on him, and he didn’t confess or give us any info but that night there were no car break ins and the pattern died after that arrest. The next day I was called into my Commanding Officer’s office. Instead of asking about the crime pattern, I got a lecture about not locking up “black and brown people” for marijuana because they are locked up at disproportionate rates for this specific offense. I remember responding: “Black and brown people are locked up at disproportionate rates for major crimes like Rape and Robbery also, are you suggesting I only lock up white people?” He told me I should use more discretion for minor offenses. I told him: “I didn’t lock him up for marijuana. I locked him up for breaking into cars. Marijuana was just the only charge I had at the moment.” I also stated that he wasn’t just a dumb kid smoking marijuana, he had a lengthy criminal history and I observed him engaging in current criminal behavior. I walked out of that office confused. I remember thinking: How far is this not well thought out ideology going to go? Now, more than a decade late, we have the answer."
Helen Andrews on X - "My biggest “aha” moment in our post-2015 racial unrest was Ezra Klein’s piece calling Darren Wilson’s version of events “literally unbelievable.” Why would someone holding stolen goods mouth off to a cop? Implausible! It’s not “something a human would do”!"
Left wingers keep boasting about how much "empathy" they have, but they are unable to imagine how people would think differently from them. This naive view of criminals leads to pro crime policies
End Wokeness on X - "Chicago Alderman William Hall wants to see Walgreens face charges for closing (over a shoplifting crisis)"
Nick Minock on X - "π¨NEW: Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano's office reduced a rape charge (up to life in prison) against Alberto Ruiz Mendoza to assault and battery. Mendoza is now walking free. His sentence time was 90 days and his entire sentence was suspended. Descano also dropped the gun possession by an unlawful alien charges, a brandishing a firearm charge, and a threat in writing charge."
Patrick Casey on X - "What do Democrat officials at the state and local levels do other than raise taxes, profess love for minorities, and let criminals walk free? Honest question."
Dr Lawrence Newport on X - "City of London police arrested a handful of criminals in a bike theft gang. Bike thefts fell by 90%. It's pretty clear: if you imprison criminals, they can't commit crimes. If you imprison career criminals you stop the majority of offences. Capture. Convict. Imprison."
Too bad this hurts the left wing agenda, so left wingers push for unlimited social spending instead, because they're deluded/lying about the "true cause" of crime
Polymarket on X - "NEW: Home Depot & Lowe's to install parking lot cameras with license plate readers amid a surge in shoplifting."
Rothmus π΄ on X - "I present this evidence again to make one thing clear: your life is not worse because of the top 1% it is worse because of the bottom 1%"
Damn billionaires and greedy companies! They should just let people shoplift!
Marc Porter Magee π on X - "“approximately 50 violent groups or gangs in Oakland with an active membership of between 1,000 and 1,200 people, which represented just 0.3% of the population … were responsible for up to 85% of the city’s homicides”"
Daniel Friedman on X - "Oakland has a population of 450,000 people. It is blessed with geographic conditions existing almost nowhere else that allow year-round temperatures in the low 70s. It is also, notoriously, a crime ridden hellhole. 90 percent of the crime is committed by about 1200 recidivists. Oakland could make crime vanish by making these people vanish. Into a prison or whatever. Instead, Oakland elects progressive mayors and prosecutors who keep these people on the streets, keep encampments in the parks, provide no remedy for rampant property crime and disorder and keep spending hundreds of thousands of public dollars in social services and criminal justice expenditures every year for each of these individuals who are nothing but detrimental and will never be anything else."
Trust David Lammy to think adulthood begins at 25 - "That is the latest bright idea of Justice Secretary David Lammy. Buried in his recent white paper on youth justice is a one-line proposal that criminals up to the age of 25 should be dealt with as if they were under 18... younger adults already benefit from generous provisions in the sentencing guidelines... Treating adult criminals like children then feels like another abdication of the fundamental duties of the state: to protect our borders, and to keep the peace within. It is the inevitable consequence of a system that prizes and protects the interests of wrongdoers above all else, no matter the cost to the ordinary citizen."
D.C. police in turmoil after allegations of manipulated crime stats - "D.C.'s police department is in turmoil after its interim chief said 13 officials were served termination letters amid a widening investigation about crime stats being downplayed... Trump claimed last summer that D.C. police were putting out "phony" stats"
EXPOSING THE FALSE CLAIMS JUSTIFYING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ATTACKS ON THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: Evidence Demonstrates Significant Reduction in Crime in D.C. Since 2023. DEMOCRATIC STAFF REPORT - "As this report’s findings reflect, the investigation backfired on Republicans and the Trump Administration almost as soon as it began, thanks in large part to the testimony of every single one of the eight current and former MPD commanders who sat for transcribed interviews. The investigation provided evidence that President Trump lied about crime in D.C. to justify his attempted takeover of MPD and deployment of troops to D.C.’s streets. It also generated evidence refuting Republicans’ far-fetched conspiracy theory alleging a whole-of-department effort to manipulate MPD’s crime data. And the investigation undermined Republican attacks on home rule—the right of D.C. residents to govern themselves—by showing how D.C.’s government, including both the D.C. Council and MPD, was successfully reducing crime without federal intervention."
Oops. So much for this "conspiracy theory"
Meme - i/o @avidseries: "Antiracism in action:
> People do bad stuff
> Efforts are made to stop that bad stuff
> Those efforts involve identifying the people who do bad stuff
> But those identified people are virtually all black and brown
> Therefore the efforts are racist and must stop"
Truthout truthout.org: "Chicago Nixed Its Racist Database of Gangs. Other Cities Should Follow."
The ultimate sin in the West is Racism. You can destroy the West by just threatening to call it Racist
Vancouver man facing 227 days in jail after assaulting teen with feces | National Post - "A man who pleaded guilty to several “vile” offences that included assaulting a teenager and smearing fecal matter over her face and mouth has been handed a sentence of 695 days, or almost two years, by a judge in Vancouver. However, after time served in pre-trial custody, he will face just 227 more days behind bars. Fitsum Wode Zewdu, 33, pleaded guilty to sexual assault, assault, and committing an indecent act. In sentencing, Judge Reginald Harris of B.C. Provincial Court said he took into account the guilty plea and “the love and support of his parents,” including a letter from his father in his support... The judge noted that Zewdu has a criminal record that stretches back to 2019"
Left wingers want fines to be a percentage of the offender's income, so a $0 fine for someone with no income fits their worldview
Swan on X - "You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth."
The 1 % of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions - "The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality."
Previously quoted. Proof that stigma and discrimination cause crime!
Lauren Chen on X - "Progressives always talk about sympathy for criminals. But what about the families forced to live around violence and chaos because they can’t afford to move? Why does nobody talk about them? #Politics #Debate #Commentary #newsring"
MA city votes to disable gunshot detection system just one week after major "active-shooter event" in order to shield blacks, migrants from cops - "Police Commissioner Pauline Wells begged the council on Monday not to deactivate the devices, citing multiple recent cases where lives have been saved due to the system, but to no avail."
pagliacci the hated π on X = "WELL I was assaulted by a schizo homeless guy today in Toronto. I was walking to the grocery store when he started stalking me. I tried to get away from him but it didn’t work. He grabbed me, pinned me against a fence, and then tried to break my hand to steal my phone. Three people passing by helped save me. The police were quick and kind, but the officer I spoke with told me this guy had been arrested for attacking people repeatedly in the past month, and “fair warning, a judge will probably let him out by tomorrow morning.” π« lovely system we got goin on here folks"
Thread by @Slatzism on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "update: the schizo black guy who assaulted me has now self-identified as Indigenous and will be going through a special court where a judge is required to consider the impact of colonialism when determining his sentence and reduce it accordingly. :)
Was also amazing to learn today is that this guy has a violent track record dating back 20 years. He actually very much could have killed me. And the crown is only asking for 12 months anyway. So even if they get what they want with no reductions, he’ll be out in less than a year. And he may have been given documents with my identifying information."
Another Walgreens Is Closing in Chicago—Blame Criminals, Not the Company - "Walgreens is pulling out of Chicago’s South Side, home to some of the city’s most crime-ridden areas. The closure of a store in the city’s Chatham neighborhood, set for June 4, marks the seventh Walgreens location to shut down on the South Side in the past year. Who’s to blame for this departure? Chicago Alderman William Hall, who represents Chatham as part of Ward 6, blames the company. Walgreens, he said, should be charged with “first-degree corporate abandonment” for creating a “medicine drought,” and he even accused it of committing a “pharmaceutical genocide.” (It’s particularly rich that Hall is now castigating Walgreens for closing, given that he hadn’t been happy about Walgreens opening, alleging it “ran out” small, local businesses.) Hall is right to be concerned that residents and seniors with chronic health conditions may suffer. But criminals, not corporations, are to blame for the closures. Strengthening both policing and prosecution of property crimes is the key to bringing Walgreens and other businesses back to the South Side. Rhetoric like Hall’s, by contrast, continues to send the message that Chicago is closed for business. Walgreens has been clear that crime is the problem. At a town hall on May 9, executives revealed that the Chatham store lost more than $1 million last year due to shoplifting and declining prescription sales. The location loses 16 percent of its inventory to theft—four times the company average, according to Walgreens’ regional vice president. Like many stores reeling from the national surge of retail theft, the Chatham Walgreens was forced to install lock boxes to protect merchandise. And it spent more than $400,000 a year on security guards. Yet criminals were undeterred. Thieves broke the locks, leaped over counters to steal liquor and cigarettes, and assaulted workers... even in its difficult circumstances, Walgreens is doing far more to serve vulnerable residents than is Chatham’s own alderman. The company is reaching out to local customers to explain how they can receive their prescriptions by mail and offering free delivery for seniors. It has made its Chatham employees eligible to transfer to other stores, where, one hopes, they won’t have to fear as much for their safety. Meantime, Alderman Hall did not even bother to show up for this month’s town hall, according to residents. Amid backlash over the Walgreens closure, Ward 15 Alderman Raymond Lopez asked a common-sense question: “Where was that anger when the stores in our communities were under years and years of assault by criminals allowed to shoplift, vandalize, and destroy neighborhood institutions?” Lopez has it right. Crime is what’s closing stores in Chicago. It was the main reason that Aldi abruptly closed its Auburn Gresham neighborhood store in 2022, and it’s helped drive the departure from the city of other major businesses like Citadel."
Dustin on X - "Elon Musk just reduced American crime politics to a single question on Joe Rogan. And answered it like it was arithmetic.
Musk: “While obviously not everyone who’s a Democrat is a criminal, almost everyone who is a criminal is a Democrat.”
That’s not a partisan attack. That’s an observation about how incentives work. If you’re a criminal, you don’t vote for the party promising longer sentences and more cops. You vote for the one gutting bail laws and calling enforcement racist. This isn’t opinion. This is game theory.
Musk: “Because the Democrats are the soft-on-crime party. So if you’re a criminal, who are you gonna vote for?”
Nobody wants to follow that logic to its conclusion. But the math doesn’t care. The softness isn’t accidental. It’s architectural. No-cash bail. Decriminalized theft. Sanctuary cities. Defund the police. These aren’t compassion. They’re infrastructure. Every policy that removes consequences builds a constituency that needs them to stay gone. That’s not ideology. That’s customer acquisition. You don’t protect criminals because you care about them. You protect them because they show up in November. The people paying the price are never the ones writing the policy. It’s the working-class neighborhoods getting hollowed out. The immigrant families who played by the rules watching the system reward the ones who broke them. The small business owners boarding up windows because the DA won’t prosecute. They’ll spend the next week calling Musk reckless for this. But he didn’t build the incentive structure. He just described it. And that’s what they’ll never forgive."
That's why left wingers push "vote blue, no matter who" - so the Democratic party can continue to push its disastrous policies at will
