Clem72
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You know the answer. Crime is down if you count crime as criminal convictions, and you don't even attempt to catch and convict your criminals anymore.
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SamSpade
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Every time I do a cursory search - I see the usual suspects - the tried and true left leaning outlets telling us that America is just wrong in THINKING that crime is up, because it isn't - the "numbers" say otherwise.
But the articles are brief and cite the same sources.
A deeper dive however, shows some differences - for one, property crime and carjackings are WAY UP. Another is that about a third of all police precincts just aren't reporting anything to the FBI. But perhaps the most relevant part is that while crime is down in the suburbs, the hot spots in the cities tell another story - they've turned into war zones - explaining the flight from the cities, because of the failure to address crime, there.
Another is - comparisons between conveniently selected years. The pandemic saw a HUGE spike in crime in a very short period - and everyone wants to pin that on Trump, even though the mechanics of fighting crime went to hell during months of lockdowns and misdirected police action - and the idiotic wave of "defund the police" which thankfully, is bearing the fruit of that stupidity and attempting to correct itself.
However, it's ridiculous to think as police precincts failed to meet recruitment levels and city after city saw early retirements and drops in their police rolls - that somehow, the crime took a vacation, too.
That would be like losing a third of the teachers and finding the kids excelling in standardized test scores. Who know, maybe teachers are the problem, but it wouldn't be logical.
You can't have a diminishing police force accompany an otherwise inexplainable nosedive in crime. It doesn't follow.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideartion ...
Because they must counter through gaslighting what people regularly observe and experience everyday. In other words, they tell us, 'do not believe your lying eyes'.
Because they must counter through gaslighting what people regularly observe and experience everyday. In other words, they tell us, 'do not believe your lying eyes'.
Same situation with the Economy ....
Bidenomics is winning
If Crime is down the Trump loses a Campaign Point
Wait, what? How could this happen? The New York Times of all places ran a top-of-fold story this morning headlined, “How California Became a New Center of Political Corruption. Just wait, it gets much, much better. Or worse, depending on where you live.
The sordid story begins right where you would expect: the mandate-happy Los Angeles City Commission. Commissioner Jose Huizar, 55, who was born in Mexico, educated at Berkeley, Princeton, and UCLA law school, was nicknamed the “King Kong” of LA City Hall. (No, it’s not racist, since he’s Mexican-American.)
Jose controlled the vastly influential Planning and Land Use Management Committee, which approves or denies major real-estate developments across the mega-city. Go big, or go home! Huizar went big:
King Kong Huizar became the third LA City Councilman to be convicted of corruption charges in the last year. A fourth still faces charges. The Times said those four were only part of “a much larger circle of staff aides, fund-raisers, political consultants and real estate developers charged in an extraordinary recent wave of bribery and influence-peddling across California.”
Extraordinary!
Actually, not that extraordinary. It’s kind of ordinary. According to Justice Department reports, during the last 10 years, a whopping 576 public officials in California have been convicted on federal corruption charges, more than New York, New Jersey, and Illinois put together. This explains a lot.
Even more shocking, the Times blamed the corruption superspreader, in part, on —get this— the growing Democrat super-majority:
For Jose’s part, when asking the judge for leniency, Huizar admitted being a bribe-factory, but he was just a poor public servant twisted into a greedy pretzel by crooked bribers:
Apparently, neither Princeton or Berkeley, nor even UCLA law school, prepared King Kong to resist the shiny temptations dangled before him like whatshername, Fay Wray.
California suffers from a complicated corruption problem; coincidentally, it also suffers from a Democrat problem:
It must be pretty bad when things are bad enough for the New York Times to report about bad Democrat behavior. Well, California voters? What are you going to do about it?
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BREAKING: A group of illegal migrants in San Diego County, California tried to hijack TWO school buses full of Elementary & Middle school kids from the Jamul-Dulzura Union District on Highway 94
Border Czar Kamala is RESPONSIBLE
The District issued a WARNING to all drivers and parents, “If a school bus encounters a group of migrants at a stop, it won’t stop, leaving students unattended.”
Border Patrol and the Sheriff's Office have also been alerted, according to District Superintendent Liz Bystedt
This is what we mean when we say, "Elections have consequences, but STOLEN elections have catastrophic consequences." Pray for all the kids who will now be fearing for their lives because Kamala Harris and Biden decided to import millions of dangerous illegals into their neighborhoods
New California Law Will Require Cars to Beep When Traveling 10 Miles Over the Speed Limit
The state legislature passed a bill that requires all cars built after 2030 to give a beep when the driver exceeds the speed limit by 10 MPH. Violations of the law wouldn't carry just a fine. The state would consider speeding 10 MPH over the limit a crime.
California state Sen. Scott Wiener was surprised by the vicious pushback from citizens to the bill. However, the current language of the bill has been modified considerably from the original text.
Reason.com:
Yikes.
Wiener believes reckless driving has increased since the pandemic and that the state should intervene to solve this problem.
“It did touch a nerve,” Weiner said in an interview. “The day that I announced the original version of the bill, one of my very best friends in the world texted me to tell me what a terrible idea it was. And then 10 minutes later, his boyfriend texted me to say, ‘thank you for getting my boyfriend to slow down.’”
If you need the government to tell you to slow down, you're probably either still in diapers or mentally challenged to the point you shouldn't be driving anyway.
