[NYPOST] It didn’t take long after New York’s bail-reform laws took effect in January 2020 for crime to surge, yet at the time, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie claimed there wasn’t enough data to suspect a link. Now, after two years under those laws, crime has continued to soar.
Heastie and those in his camp need to take another look at the damage those laws, along with lenient judges and other pro-crime measures, have done.
Consider the horror stories from 2021 alone:
In June, 31-year-old Raymond Wilson was free in connection with a burglary case when he broke into a 10-year-old girl’s bedroom and molested her while she slept. He’d already been arrested for burglary more than a dozen times, but because of the new statute, judges couldn’t set bail.
Isaac Rodriguez was nabbed almost 50 times this year alone but was released back on the streets because his petit-larceny and stolen-property charges didn’t qualify for bail. It wasn’t until Rodriguez was arrested for a June 7 assault on a 39-year-old Jackson Heights man that he was finally put behind bars.
Ricardo Hernandez was also released without bail after being charged with three hate crimes for pushing an Asian NYPD officer onto Queens subway tracks on April 17. Per the new bail reform, the judge couldn’t do anything about it, saying, “I have absolutely no authority or power to set bail on this defendant for this alleged offense.”
At just 18, Steven Mendez, a reputed gang member, had already racked up three collars yet was freed on probation before allegedly shooting and killing 21-year-old college student Saiko Koma in October. Bronx Judge Denis Boyle had given him five years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to violent armed robbery.
The overall major-crime number this year rose, too — up 5 percent from last year. The NYPD CompStat program reported more than 98,580 major crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft) in 2021, vs. 93,231 at this point for 2020.
Shootings are up another 2.4 percent, after doubling last year. And murders are up, too, on track to hit almost 500, compared with 452 cases tallied last year. The city hasn’t seen that many killings in a decade.
Outgoing Police Commissioner Dermot Shea has been resolute in blaming New York’s bail-reform laws and woke prosecutors. “We are in a place right now which, by any definition, is insanity,” Shea told NBC New York. “When you make public statements, ‘I’m not prosecuting X,’ you’re sending a real strong message to the criminal element.”
He’s right. When you refuse to prosecute low-level crimes, as some city prosecutors have, felons see it as a green light to reoffend. Couple this with New York’s lenient bail-reform laws and soft-on-crime judges, and crime is sure to spike. Yet in 2020, Big Apple prosecutors let 6,500 suspected felons off the hook, twice the rate of 2019.
Fixing the bail-reform laws won’t by itself solve the problem. Fortunately, incoming Mayor Eric Adams has hinted he’ll take other necessary measures, too, like restoring some form of stop, question and frisk and reinstating undercover anti-gun officers.
But giving judges more discretion and keeping dangerous perps behind bars are absolute prerequisites. Pray Adams can finally convince Heastie & Co. of that.
[Just The News] Often at the center of controversy, Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing transparency questions, along with leading state Republican lawmakers, after they signed nondisclosure agreements preventing them from informing taxpayers about a pricey new economic development initiative. I'd FOIA the F*&K outta this bullshit
Whitmer, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, and House Speaker Jason Wentworth all signed the NDA with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation regarding a $1 billion business incentive program that became law last week, The Detroit News reported.
On Wednesday, the governor said she was "covered" by the agreement signed on behalf of the administration, being one of the few who "had to be aware of some of the details" regarding possible business interests in the incentive bill.
"There's a lot of proprietary information that is shared as states are vying for the opportunity to draw this kind of potential massive investment and future critical economic manufacturing opportunities into our states. That information is not going to be shared with anyone who doesn't do that," Whitmer said.
She explained that the details of the program will be made available in the future.
"Ultimately, all the terms will be aired as decisions are made at the Strategic Fund, but in the initial stages that confidentiality is important," Whitmer added. "They're never going to engage with us if we don't participate on those terms."
Shirkey and Wentworth signed nondisclosure agreements as the business incentive package was being developed, according to their spokespeople, the news outlet reported.
Gideon D'Assandro, a spokesman for Wentworth, said, "The administration's team required that to be in the room for the negotiations."
Tudor Dixon, a leading GOP candidate for Michigan governor, told Just the News that Whitmer had campaigned "on being the most transparent governor in Michigan."
"She's going against what she campaigned on," Dixon said.
She also noted that the governor is exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests, and Whitmer has previously said she would end the exemption. Despite being in office for nearly three years, Whitmer has yet to do so.
Dixon added that Whitmer is "buying business" instead of fixing the foundational issues of the state, namely education and the workforce.
Without having educated workers or a workforce, there's no point in buying business, Dixon said.
Michigan residents "deserve to know what their money is going towards," she added.
Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, told Just the News that the signing of the NDAs "highlights how improper government secrecy is nonpartisan — both parties support it too often.
"They don't want the machinations of countless numbers of dollars spent being exposed to the public eye," he said. "That type of secrecy presents almost irresistible opportunities for corruption."
The offices of Whitmer, Shirkey, and Wentworth didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The business incentive bill that Whitmer signed into law last week included $1 billion for economic development incentives and $409 million for business COVID assistance, The Detroit News reported.
A potential new battery plant in Michigan for General Motors Co. was a target of the incentive bill.
The Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund was created for the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity in a package of bills enacted along with the $1 billion appropriation.
The money will eventually be put into the SOAR Fund, which will then only be able to move to the Michigan Strategic Site Readiness Fund and the Critical Industry Fund with lawmaker approval.
The Michigan Strategic Site Readiness Fund is for activities that relate to "strategic sites" and "mega-strategic sites," according to the news outlet.
The purpose of the Critical Industry Fund is to provide investments to "qualified businesses for deal-closing, gap financing or other economic assistance to create new qualified jobs or make capital investments."
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Ah. Selling Michigan to China, are we?
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Selling Michigan to China, are we?
Trying to get a bidding war going with the Caliphate - now up to $1.25.
[NY Post] Congress is in recess for the holidays — but Nancy Pelosi has kept busy playing the market.
The Democratic majority leader and her husband, Paul Pelosi, recently bought millions of dollars worth of call options for stocks including Google, Salesforce, Roblox and Disney, financial disclosures published Thursday show.
The purchases occurred from Dec. 17 to Dec. 21 — just days after Pelosi insisted in a press conference that members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks despite often being privy to insider information that can move markets.
"We’re a free-market economy," Pelosi told reporters, adding that members of Congress "should be able to participate in that."
The Pelosi family’s trades this month include Google and Salesforce call options worth between $500,000 and $1 million each, as well as Roblox call options valued at between $100,000 and $250,000. The duo also bought up between $250,000 and $500,000 in calls for chipmaker Micron Technology and between $100,000 and $250,000 of Disney call options in disclosures that were earlier reported by Congresstrading.com.
Paul Pelosi runs Financial Leasing Services, a real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm. In recent years he’s made big-money bets on companies his wife is supposed to regulate, including Amazon, Apple and Google.
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Yep December’scalls — which are set to expire in late 2022 and early 2023 — show that the Pelosis believe tech stocks are going to continue their current bull run in the new year, according to Thomas Hayes of Great Hill Capital.
“They’re trying to ride the momentum,” Hayes told The Post. “The Pelosis live in San Francisco — they’re around a lot of hype so I’d see how they’re caught up in the euphoria.”
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended lawmakers saying that the US is a "Free-market economy" and lawmakers should be allowed to buy stocks even though there has been a surge in STOCK Act violations.
Nancy Pelosi defends lawmakers owning individual stocks
Some DC insiders have speculated that Pelosi is slow-walking bipartisan legislation that would hurt big tech firms.
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Or, walking the rubes into a trap. Like all other laughable investment rules for congresscreatures, who says she will be bound by the "investment" moves she makes?
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Not tech market overall -- most of the high fliers like Teladoc have been crushed this year -- just a select few big-donor California-based companies that Nancy and Hubby Paul know well through their SF/Hollywood social circle. Salesforce (Benioff) and Disney (Iger) are the tells.
Also, most of these companies have pending business in Washington (Google's cloud business for ex) or are influenced by decisions made by the Pelosis' pal in Sacramento -- Disney's parks business for ex.
Nancy will probably retire in 2023. Look at the structure of the bets she and hubby made: nearly all of these are call options that expire on 9-16-2022. A couple of them expire in January 2023.
Nicely timed for Nancy & friends to influence DoD or other federal agencies to award billion-dollar contracts to Google Cloud. Or for Brandon to issue an executive order to alleviate the chip shortage by shoveling money to Micron.
Disney seems like a wise investment on the merits though. Maybe Roblox too. Perhaps she and Brandon sniffed out an opportunity to piggyback on the kiddies' fave.
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They're very selective and savvy investors who are almost certainly trading on inside information -- which as Nancy notes is entirely legal for her and the rest of our kakocrats.
Notice that they're NOT buying call options on Microsoft or Amazon. Just those companies' rivals Google (for Cloud) and Salesforce (for collaboration) plus Disney and the obvious acquisition play, Roblox, also Paul's domain of real estate.
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The tech regulation angle isn't the play here. Facebook is tthe biggest beneficiary of any "slow walk" on that front, yet Nancy and hubby Paul are not buying call options on Facebook.
The drivers here are very likely their access to inside info from their pals on the Pacific Heights / Napa Valley social circuit + access to inside info about federal contracts and executive orders.
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Risky play then (which I don't see them making.) After Nov. 2022, Bidet misadministration will be totally handcuffed. EOs will be limited to how much sugar people are allowed to put in their coffee in the press pool bullpen.
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The Micron pick is fascinating. Semiconductors is not an industry that outsiders or amateurs can play successfully.
Wonder what's in the works in Washington.... have to think there's some kind of "shortage"-based emergency legislation or executive action coming down the pike in 2022
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The point is, they're NOT risky. She's just trading on inside information. These are all companies based in her backyard. She and her husband mingle with the executives of these companies.
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Like insiders know when the crash is coming. Comon, man.
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"Yes, yes, madame speaker, you should buy our stock!" Right about the same time I (insider) am selling mine.
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What, exactly would PeeLousey do? Screech that insiders had lied to her?
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Suppose you just found out these people you spent years sucking up to were "retiring" and actually going to be out of power due to an electoral shift. What would you do?
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Her husband made $5 million in June when he exercised 4,000 call options on Google.
Do you seriously believe that Paul Pelosi was not privy to material inside information from the people who send millions of dollars each other to his wife and her DNC?
Two weeks ago she actually publicly defended the insider trading exemption for herself and the rest of Congress. It's blatant, obvious. She and her husband clearly have access to inside information and they trade on it for millions in profit.
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Nancy and Paul may not know anything at all about tech. But I think they have a very good idea what the federal budget and regulatory regime will look like,.
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A simpler explanation is that they schmooze with these people, who give them material inside information about future events that will move the stock.
This is consistent with Pelosi's trading strategy: he favors in the money long-dated call options on companies located in his & Namcy's backyard.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] Dr. Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... is the highest paid bureaucrat in the entire federal government, and bags a bigger salary than the president of the United States. As head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Fauci commands a budget of more than $6 billion. Beside all that money, power and prestige, Dr. Fauci holds a strategic advantage.Christine Grady, Dr. Fauci’s wife, is director of the NIH’s Department of Bioethics and heads the section on human subjects research. The relationship has only become known in recent years, and last February, Michelle Ruiz authored a Vogue feature headlined "For Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Christine Grady, Love Conquers All."
Back in 1983, Grady was a clinical nurse at NIH when Fauci asked her out to dinner. For the NIAID boss, it was "love at first sight . . . she was intelligent, beautiful, spoke multiple languages, and she had a very wonderful bedside manner." Fauci and Grady married in 1985 Grady and the pair now form a "a medical power couple leading the fight against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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[DailyCaller] Ohio Rep. Mike Turner will replace retiring California Rep. Devin Nunes as the lead Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday.
[BREITBART] Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the nation’s war on crime must begin with recalling, removing, and replacing "every last" District Attorney with ties to left-wing billionaire George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... In an op-ed for Real Clear Politics, Cotton wrote that it is no coincidence that the "largest increase in murder in American history and the largest number of drug overdose deaths ever recorded" has coincided with cities electing "radical, left-wing, George Soros progressives" to District Attorney offices.
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, who has refused to prosecute a number of crimes, won his race with money from Soros as did incoming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg who has vowed not to prosecute trespassing, prostitution, and resisting arrest. Cotton wrote:
These legal arsonists condemn our rule of law as ’systemically racist’ and have not simply abused prosecutorial discretion, they have embraced prosecutorial nullification. As a result, a contagion of crime has infected virtually every neighborhood under their charge.
Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors. In reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx allows theft under $1,000 to go unpunished. In Manhattan, District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. refuses to enforce laws against prostitution. In Baltimore, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has unilaterally declared the war on drugs "over" and is refusing to criminally charge drug pushers in the middle of the worst drug crisis in American history. For a time, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon even stopped enforcing laws against disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, and making criminal threats. [Emphasis added]
All of these cities have paid a terrible price for these insane policies. Last year, the number of homicides in Chicago rose by 56%, and more than 1,000 Cook County residents have been murdered in 2021. In New York City, murder increased 47% and shootings soared 97%. In 2020, the murder rate in Baltimore was higher than El Salvador’s or Guatemala’s — nations from which citizens often attempt to claim asylum purely based on gang violence and murder—and this year murder in Baltimore is on track to be even higher. Murder in Los Angeles rose 36% last year and is on track to rise another 17% this year.
[BREITBART] Senator Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... (R-SC) says the 2024 presidential election is former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s "to lose" should he seek the White House again.During an appearance on FNC’s "Hannity," the South Carolina Republican explained how the GOP remembered Trump’s presidency fondly, declaring him the most successful president from a policy point of view since former President Ronald Reagan.
"Yes, if he wants it — unless there is something coming out of left field," Graham said. "It’s his nomination if he wants it. The Republican base appreciated him. We don’t appreciate all of the things he does sometimes. But from a policy point of view, he was the most successful president since Reagan. It’s his nomination if he wants it. And he will be in the White House in 2024 if he runs a disciplined campaign."
"What he should do, in my humble opinion, is remind people how he secured the border, how he took the fight to ISIS and destroyed the caliphate, how we were so much better off internationally, the Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... deal is a nightmare in the making for Israel, regain energy independence," he continued. "I think 2024 is President Trump’s election to lose. 2022 is a blowout year for the Republicans in the House and the Senate if we talk about policy."
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But if he is used as a distraction until the actual nominee emerges, the dems and the media (I know) will have to pivot after shooting their wad freaking out over Trump.
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The more they censor and vilify Trump, the more I want to vote for him. The more they suppress it, the more truth I want.
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I really like Trump and did vote for him twice.
But I am afraid of the apparently numerous hordes who harbor just a visceral, irrational, but powerful and absolute hatred for him.
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Not if you, Lindsey Graham, have anything to do with it. Retire now!
[BIZPACREVIEW] The latest wave of mass hysteria provides an opportunity to go on the offensive against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... , a man whose handling of COVID has set the gold standard for the nation by prioritizing protecting the most vulnerable while preserving the state economy and protecting civil liberties.
One of those who went on the offensive against DeSantis was Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... who ran the DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points we hear as news stories originate... as a de facto arm of the Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... campaign before being forced out over alleged bias against Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... that may have cost him the 2016 nomination.
On Friday, DWS appeared on CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... where she blamed DeSantis for a shortage of tests as a terrified populace desperately seeks to determine whether they have been infected, a statement that completely ignored Biden’s reported rejection of recommendations for making over 700 million test kits available in anticipation of a holiday surge.
"Ultimately, who do you think should be held accountable for the apparent shortage of tests in this country?" asked CNN host Boris Sanchez, opening the door for the attack on DeSantis.
"Well, I’ll tell you, in my state, the person that should be held accountable is Ron DeSantis, our governor because there’s no one else in the entire United States that I think that has done more to make it harder to keep people healthy than Ron DeSantis," Wasserman Schultz responded.
"He has led the effort to pass laws in our state capitol to prevent people from being required to wear masks, to prevent businesses from requiring vaccines for employees, he’s withheld funds from school districts because they wanted to make that they could require students to wear masks so that they could keep children safe who at the time couldn’t get vaccinated themselves," Wasserman Schultz said, bemoaning the governor’s resistance to the forced masking and vaccine mandates sought by the White House.
The nine-term Democrat added, "So, when it comes to the effort to make sure that we can really prevent the spread, we have to make sure that we are maximizing our local government’s ability to be able to establish public health practices and so that’s where I think the effort begins and, of course, we need to make sure that we ramp up testing as quickly as possible."
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DWS = Mayo-haired hatchet-faced shark-teethed scrunt with a speech impediment.
I bet she smells bad too
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] It didn’t take long after New York’s bail-reform laws took effect in January 2020 for crime to surge, yet at the time, Assembly Speaker 
[Just The News] Often at the center of controversy, Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing transparency questions, along with leading state Republican lawmakers, after they signed nondisclosure agreements preventing them from informing taxpayers about a pricey new economic development initiative.
...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place...
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
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...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president...
