There is hypothesis that a pullback in policing activity following high-profile arrest incidents and subsequent protests and riots causes an increase in crime. This has been dubbed the “Ferguson Effect,” after the location of one particularly high-profile incident. But is it real? Charles Fain Lehman has this article in the City Journal reviewing two recent studies. Here is his bottom …
A Martin Luther King Day Reminder on Genuine Humanity
First a question: If Martin Luther King were alive today, would he be more likely to agree with the anthem that black lives matter, or with the view that all lives matter? I don’t think it’s a close question. The whole point of the civil rights movement was equality. And in the days of Dr. King, no one thought “equality” …
Early Test for New Virginia Gov. on Sentencing Reform
Virginia’s new Governor, Glen Youngkin, was sworn in Saturday and immediately announced eleven executive orders to fulfill promises he made during his campaign last year. One of them was to terminate the members of the criminal-coddeling state Parole Board. Youngkin also appointed former U.S. Attorney Richard Cullen as Councelor to the Governor. Cullen was Vice-Chairman on a 1994 commission under …
What Larry Krasner, Philly’s “Progressive Prosecutor,” Owns
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is not a stranger to followers of the blog. He’s a “progressive prosecutor,” in the mold of the State’s Attorney a hundred miles south in Baltimore, the recently indicted Marilyn Mosby. A Facebook friend of mine, Matt Rosenberg, author of “What Next Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed Off Native Son,” writes an on-the-ground account of what …
Leading Progressive Prosecutor Federally Indicted for Lying and Cheating
Baltimore is a disaster area for its grotesque number of murders. Almost all the victims are black. The police force, at one time at least marginally effective, has been cowed ever since the Freddie Gray indictments. In that case from 2015, the State’s Attorney charged six police officers with a variety of offenses stemming from the death, in police custody, …
Federal Agency Wants Quotas for Juvenile Offenders
For decades liberal and progressive politicians in Washington have funded numerous “studies” on racial profiling and then forced consent decrees on big city police departments to address the disproportionate arrest and prosecution of black and Hispanic criminal offenders. The purpose of these activities has been to advance the narrative that the American criminal justice system is racially biased, targeting black …
FirstPort Property Services Ltd (Appellant) v Settlers Court RTM Company and others (Respondents)
12 January 2022 | [2022] UKSC 1 | UKSC 2020-0066
The January 6 Show Was a Flop
The disappointment was palpable. As the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot approached, the Department of Homeland Security had warned state and local law enforcement officials that “domestic violent extremists” could strike again. Security forces were on guard and many people were on edge, reported the New York Times. Yet, as a CNN anchor morosely observed during …
What Constitutes a Serious Crime in Los Angeles County?
Last Sunday, (January 2) a woman and her 13-year-old daughter were driving through an intersection in the the LA County town of Norwalk when a speeding car ran a red light and T-boned their car. Both died from their injuries. CBS Los Angeles reports that the driver of the speeding car, 26-year-old Brittany Lopez, was driving without a license. Investigators …