It’s difficult to keep track of all the public policies being advocated in the name of “social justice,” but the damage is mounting. And no one is harmed more than the people in whose name the policies are promoted.

Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its front page that the City Council president wants “to revisit stop-and-frisk,” a police tactic that involves officers’ stopping, questioning and sometimes searching pedestrians engaged in suspicious behavior. For decades, police departments around the country have used stop and frisk to remove illegal guns from the street and reduce crime rates. But social-justice activists—who, ironically, support gun control—have decried the practice because blacks and Hispanics are stopped more often than other groups.

For critics, the racial imbalance in stops is evidence of racial bias, rather than a reflection of higher violent crime rates among blacks and Hispanics versus other racial and ethnic groups. Men are also stopped more often than women. Is that evidence of sexism? In big cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Baltimore, violent crime is highly concentrated, not only among certain groups but also geographically. “A small sliver of blocks—just 4 percent in Chicago, for example—can account for a majority of shootings in a city or a county,” the New York Times reported recently.

Yet in their efforts to correct racial disparities in policing, social-justice activists play down or ignore the racial disparities in crime victimization. When Michael Nutter was mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to 2016, he supported stop and frisk, and “its use—combined with other law-enforcement strategies—coincided with the city’s lowest murder rate in 50 years,” according to the Inquirer. Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union and other activists, however, the current mayor curtailed the practice, the number of stops plummeted, and violent crime spiked.



Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s district attorney, Larry Krasner, prides himself on not prosecuting lawbreakers, and the results are what you might expect. The city set an all-time record for homicides in 2021 with 562 deaths. Blacks are a little more than 40% of the city’s population but about 85% of those killed. In addition, 1,800 people were shot and wounded last year, which might be related to the fact that more than 60% of people arrested on gun charges faced no penalty and were turned loose.

After Mr. Krasner nevertheless insisted that “we don’t have a crisis of lawlessness, we don’t have a crisis of crime, we don’t have a crisis of violence,” Mr. Nutter unleashed on his fellow Democrat in an Inquirer op-ed. “It takes a certain audacity of ignorance and white privilege to say that right now,” Mr. Nutter wrote. “I have to wonder what kind of messed up world of white wokeness Krasner is living in to have so little regard for human lives lost, many of them Black and brown, while he advances his own national profile as a progressive district attorney.”

Soft-on-crime policies may be one of the more dramatic illustrations of how social-justice activism can backfire to the detriment of its intended beneficiaries, but there are others. Recent efforts to diminish or eliminate education standards effectively amount to giving up on low-income minority children in the name of helping them. Ending use of the SAT in college admissions won’t close the learning gap that the test exposes. It will merely delay the exposure until some future date.

This misguided focus on even or proportionate group outcomes is what distinguishes social justice from traditional concepts of justice, where the focus is on impartial processes. As Thomas Sowell has written, “a defendant in a criminal case would be said to have received justice if the trial were conducted as it should be, under fair rules and with the judge and jury being impartial. After such a trial, it could be said that ‘justice was done’—regardless of whether the outcome was acquittal or execution.” By contrast, “rules and standards equally applicable to all are often deliberately set aside in pursuit of ‘social justice.’ ”

Exempting favored minority groups from academic or behavioral standards that apply to others in society fuels racial tensions and does nothing to address the disparities and gaps that ostensibly motivate social-justice advocates. Permanent welfare-state expansions in the guise of “temporary” pandemic relief will increase dependency and hamper economic growth insofar as able-bodied adults spurn the labor market. By reducing the need for people at the bottom to enter the labor force, a growing welfare state contributes to the economic inequality that liberals never tire of lamenting.

In a New York Times/Siena College poll released this week, President Biden’s job-approval rating sits at 33%, and only 13% of voters say the country is on the right track. No single development fully explains the malaise, but the administration’s social-justice agenda probably isn’t helping.


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https://www.breitbart.com/poli...rth-of-crystal-meth/

New York’s “No Bail” law, approved by statewide Democrats in 2019, has helped free from jail two Mexican drug cartel smugglers arrested with about $1.2 million worth of crystal meth.

This week, the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York announced the arrests of 19-year-old Luis Estrada and 34-year-old Carlos Santos — both from southern California — for charges related to smuggling crystal meth.

According to investigators, Estrada was arrested on July 5 with more than 40 pounds of crystal meth in his possession. Estrada also had two cellphones and a room key to a lower Manhattan hotel.

Then, on July 8, Santos was arrested with more than 100 pounds of crystal meth in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. Like Estrada, Santos was carrying two cellphones and, in addition, had cocaine on his person. Santos, investigators allege, drove a rental car across the United States to smuggle the drugs to New York.

Despite the massive quantity of drugs found on Estrada and Santos, the pair were released from jail on supervised release with no bail thanks to New York’s Democrat-passed bail law that eliminated bail for a myriad of crimes — including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, child sex crimes, and making threats of terrorism.

Meanwhile, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reveals that meth seizures in New York have increased 1,300 percent since 2021, calling the region “a bullseye for traffickers.”

“This seizure is a calculated treachery by Mexican cartels to flood the United States with their poison and expand their customer base while driving addiction and increasing profit margins,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Tarentino said.

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Estrada was arrested on July 5 . . . Estrada also had two cellphones and a room key to a lower Manhattan hotel.

Two cellphones and a hotel room key.

The problem is: No Accountability.

Yes, the "No Accountability" for the criminals is one thing.

The larger problem still remains- No Accountability for the progressive States / District Attorney's, Judges, Mayors... That come up with these stupid ideas.

Once THEY are held accountable, shit is gonna change! And I'm not talking about loosing an election, getting to keep your campaign contributions. Charges, prison time, opening up the door a little more for being held liable in civil suits and getting slapped with punitive damages!

THAT WILL START TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION!

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
The problem is: No Accountability.

Yes, the "No Accountability" for the criminals is one thing.

The larger problem still remains- No Accountability for the progressive States / District Attorney's, Judges, Mayors... That come up with these stupid ideas.

Once THEY are held accountable, shit is gonna change! And I'm not talking about loosing an election, getting to keep your campaign contributions. Charges, prison time, opening up the door a little more for being held liable in civil suits and getting slapped with punitive damages!

THAT WILL START TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION!

100%

Until we hold the real problem children accountable, the unelected state and federal workers who hold the real power, drive policy and cripple anything that doesn't feed the machine, feed themselves and their liberal agendas.

Radio report, Starbucks is closing 16 (?) stores because of safety concerns.

The newsguy named off six or more in large Dem/woke cities all over the continent.

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Radio report, Starbucks is closing 16 (?) stores because of safety concerns.

The newsguy named off six or more in large Dem/woke cities all over the continent.

16? For Starbucks, that's not even a drop in a bucket. Not even in one city.
60 in one city might be noticed.

There's been a few large stores here in Chicago that have packed up shop because of the violence/looting/theft/politics/pilferage... And not just in the inner city. One more incident downtown and there's going to be a lot more high-end stores leaving too.

Philadelphia appears to be the leading example of all that's wrong with the direction of criminal justice system. In the pursuit of reducing incarceration rates AND the appearance of 'racial profiling', rather than working on policies to get people to make better behavioral choices, their answer instead is to not charge criminal offenders ergo, we can lower our prison numbers, voila! Meanwhile, the areas these violators come from, low-income population centers, the people that live in these areas, have to suffer the predation of these people. There's no penalty for breaking the law or, being anti-social, at what point does vigilantism rise-up? Will a new Bernhard Goetz become visible?

Philly in Black and White

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A curfew won’t solve violent crime in the City of Brotherly Love.
Thomas Hogan
July 13, 2022 Public safetyCitiesPolitics and law
Philadelphia is experiencing the dreaded long, hot summer. Violent crime continues to soar, from premeditated ambushes to seemingly random juvenile attacks. Under district attorney Larry Krasner’s catch-and-release crime policies, Philadelphia homicides are in a statistical dead heat with last year’s record-breaking numbers. The response of city leaders? They’re imposing a lockdown, creating a curfew, and politely asking murderers to stay home at night.

The summer literally started with a bang, as the first hot weekend led to a mass shooting in the popular tourist destination on South Street, with three victims murdered and many others injured. Then, at a Fourth of July celebration, two police officers were shot, leading to Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney’s now-infamous admission that he was tired of being the city’s leader and would be happy when he was out of office. Just a few days after the Fourth of July disaster, another Philadelphia murder victim—a young man allegedly killed by gang violence—was taken in a procession to a cemetery. As the line of mourners in cars crossed a street on the city’s outskirts, men lying in wait drove up alongside the procession, got out of their car, and opened fire on two other young men in one of the funeral cars, killing both. Police did not hesitate to call the murders an “ambush.” So now the funerals of homicide victims are themselves occasions for more murders—a stark testament to Philadelphia’s out-of-control retaliatory violence.

The latest high-profile murder almost defies belief. A 73-year-old man was walking along a North Philly street when seven teens, boys and girls, attacked the man with a traffic cone, beating him to death. It all was captured on video, which has since been released to the public in an attempt to identify the teens, who looked like they were having a great time killing a defenseless old man.

Philadelphia’s response to the violence would be laughable if the subject matter weren’t so grim. The fainthearted Mayor Kenney, who wishes to be elsewhere, signed a bill establishing a 10 p.m. curfew for everybody under 18. But police aren’t even allowed to fine juveniles out past curfew; instead, officers must make “every reasonable effort” to take them home. Not surprisingly, criminal-justice experts call the curfew “pointless.” Perhaps it should have occurred to the mayor that teens who will not follow the law against killing are also unlikely to observe a law that says be home by 10 p.m.

There may be a ray of hope, however, thanks to an increasingly vocal wing of the city leadership. Several Philadelphia leaders sound like they’ve had enough. Former mayor Michael Nutter has called out Krasner’s failure to prosecute murderers and other violent criminals. Philadelphia city council president Darrell Clarke suggested that the police should go back to the practice of stop-and-frisk when reasonable suspicion exists that somebody is committing a crime, such as a felon carrying a gun—a law-enforcement practice constitutional in the United States since 1968. (Krasner and Kenney disagree with Clarke, naturally.) City council majority leader Cherelle Parker wants to fund putting more police officers on the street in the most violent sections of Philadelphia.

Kenney and Krasner are white liberal politicians who ran on promises to save Philadelphia’s oppressed minorities. Nutter, Clarke, and Parker are moderate black leaders who actually live and interact with the city’s crime victims. Kenney and Krasner want to pontificate; Nutter, Clarke, and Parker want to protect residents. And that’s the black-and-white of the current politics of violence in Philadelphia.

Prior to being elected as D.A. "let 'em loose" Larry Krasner never prosecuted a single case. Not one. He worked as a criminal defense lawyer for 30 years prior to his election. He also filed numerous law suits against the police for excessive force.

I'm tempted to say that Philadelphia residents voted for this, so they deserve it. But that wouldn't be fair to the innocent victims of this crime wave. The defense attorney who is representing one of the little shits who beat the 73 year old man to death was interviewed on the local news today. He said that trying his client as an adult wouldn't solve anything. Actually it would. It would hopefully result in a longer prison sentence, offering protection for society for a longer period.

I have a friend who was a discharged veteran who was hired by the security company that had my office's guard service contract. Looking for a professional upgrade, he got hired by Philadelphia and became a Philadelphia cop. I stayed in touch for a while. He says that the word is out in the Philadelphia PD. If there are any close calls, the D.A. is not going to have your back. The opposite is the case. So this does affect how Philadelphia cops confront criminal behavior when they see it.

Philadelphia is probably the worst city in the USA for voter fraud, and other fraud as well. There is a reasonable chance the Krasner was not voted in, only picked by the Dem machine.

Detroit is no different only thing is different is the 36th District Court is allowing more criminals to be released on personal recognizance. In the last week at least two of these releases have backfired.

From The Detroit News: Michigan's busiest district court will limit the use of cash bail, saying the practice disproportionately burdens poor people and puts them behind bars.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, the National ACLU and law firm Covington & Burling joined 36th District Court judges on Tuesday to announce that the Detroit court will not detain people for being unable to pay bail unless a judge determines — after reviewing evidence — that their release poses a flight risk or danger to the public.

The announcement, in front of the 36th District Court, settles a 2019 federal class-action lawsuit, filed on behalf of seven Black plaintiffs, against the court for discriminating against low-income people because they were unable to post bail. It argued that poor defendants didn't have access to lawyers during arraignment hearings when bails were set. The suit called for an overhaul of the bail system.

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Estrada was arrested on July 5 . . . Estrada also had two cellphones and a room key to a lower Manhattan hotel.

Two cellphones and a hotel room key.

For the hookers and blow!

How is it that the U.S. allows foreign money into local elections? All of these "Soros-backed" prosecutors, he can just give them millions legally? Or is it "soft money" advocacy ads?

For Federal elections foreign money is banned (but they cheat) and there are donation limits. PAC's are essentially unlimited but cannot directly fund the campaign and there are rules about how they can advocate for a candidate.

State and local would be a state issue I suppose...

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
The problem is: No Accountability.

Yes, the "No Accountability" for the criminals is one thing.

The larger problem still remains- No Accountability for the progressive States / District Attorney's, Judges, Mayors... That come up with these stupid ideas.

Once THEY are held accountable, shit is gonna change! And I'm not talking about loosing an election, getting to keep your campaign contributions. Charges, prison time, opening up the door a little more for being held liable in civil suits and getting slapped with punitive damages!

THAT WILL START TO GET PEOPLES ATTENTION!

As Voltaire wrote in his book “Candide”, accountability is everything: “But in this country it is considered useful now and again to shoot an admiral [Byng], ‘to encourage the others’”.

Regardless of what you think of Starbucks, I think their CEO is right on track…

I give him bonus points for being will to say it publicly.

Starbucks CEO: Progressive Cities ‘Have Abdicated Their Responsibility in Fighting Crime’

I only read the first paragraph of the article... So, you are saying that if a LEO, just say employee of the state, decides you are suspicious while walking out in front of your home they have the right to not only stop you but to also search your person? Just because you look 'suspicious?

That dog don't hunt for me.....

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I only read the first paragraph of the article... So, you are saying that if a LEO, just say employee of the state, decides you are suspicious while walking out in front of your home they have the right to not only stop you but to also search your person? Just because you look 'suspicious?

That dog don't hunt for me.....

What article are you referring to?

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Regardless of what you think of Starbucks, I think their CEO is right on track…

I give him bonus points for being will to say it publicly.

Starbucks CEO: Progressive Cities ‘Have Abdicated Their Responsibility in Fighting Crime’

Personally? Fuck him and the horse he rode in on...
How much did Starbucks give to black lies matter?

Yes, he's saying "crime is on the rise". No shit, Sherlock! But when he's the one that lets homeless people hang out in his stores, then bitches about people using drugs in his stores... What the fuck did he think was going to happen? Kinda hypocritical, or just plain stupid isn't it?

Yes, he's saying "crime is on the rise". Is he pointing out some of the causes of this phenomenon? How much of Starbucks bucks went to campaign contributions for liberal States / District Attorney's, Mayors, Governors and other assorted Politicans?

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Radio report, Starbucks is closing 16 (?) stores because of safety concerns.

The newsguy named off six or more in large Dem/woke cities all over the continent.

16? For Starbucks, that's not even a drop in a bucket. Not even in one city.
60 in one city might be noticed.

I guess you're correct, CPD SIG, but I've sure had fun sticking it into my Starbucks-addicted friends' livers and twisting it a bit.