[FoxNews] A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) argues that the FBI's data contains "massive errors" when tracking active shooting incidents, undercounting how often armed citizens have thwarted active-shooting situations over the last eight years.
"Although collecting such data is fraught with challenges, some see a pattern of distortion in the FBI numbers because the errors almost exclusively go one way, minimizing the life-saving actions of armed citizens," the report, which was provided to Fox News Digital this week by Crime Prevention Research Center founder and president John Lott, states.
Data released by the nonprofit shows that 34.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens between 2014 and 2021. However, FBI data show only 4.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens during that time period.
All in, 360 active shooter incidents were identified by CPRC between 2014 and 2021, with 124 stopped by armed citizens. The FBI identified 252 active shooter incidents during the same time period, with only 11 thwarted by armed citizens.
A new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) argues that the FBI's data contains "massive errors" when tracking active shooting incidents, undercounting how often armed citizens have thwarted active-shooting situations over the last eight years.
"Although collecting such data is fraught with challenges, some see a pattern of distortion in the FBI numbers because the errors almost exclusively go one way, minimizing the life-saving actions of armed citizens," the report, which was provided to Fox News Digital this week by Crime Prevention Research Center founder and president John Lott, states.
Data released by the nonprofit shows that 34.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens between 2014 and 2021. However, FBI data show only 4.4% of active shootings were thwarted by armed citizens during that time period.
All in, 360 active shooter incidents were identified by CPRC between 2014 and 2021, with 124 stopped by armed citizens. The FBI identified 252 active shooter incidents during the same time period, with only 11 thwarted by armed citizens.
"Whether deliberately through bias or just incompetence, the FBI database of active shooters cannot be trusted," Gary Mauser, an emeritus professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada, argues in the report.
The FBI defines an active shooter as "one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area." The definition does not include crimes related to criminal activities such as robberies or gang wars.
The report points to two variables that have caused the discrepancies between the FBI data and the group’s research: misclassified shootings and overlooked incidents.
The research argues that the FBI misclassified at least five cases, including two cases where citizens with valid firearm licenses thwarted a shooting, but the citizens were not listed in the report because police ultimately apprehended the suspects. The other three misidentified cases include one where "the FBI simply failed to mention citizen engagement at all," and two others that categorized armed civilians as armed security members.
The discrepancies also are reflected in the FBI apparent oversight in not including 25 cases that likely would have been mass shootings and thwarted by armed citizens, according to the report. That is in addition to another 83 active shooting incidents that were not detailed in FBI data.
Between 2014 and 2021, there were 204 active shooting incidents carried out in areas that allowed people to carry firearms, according to the data. Out of the 204 cases, 104 of them were thwarted by an armed citizen, meaning 51% of attacks were thwarted by people legally carrying concealed handguns, according to the report.
"When I was at the Department of Justice, they just refused to go and look at this. And that is whether the active shooting event occurred in a place where guns are banned. And the reason why that's important is that if you have a place where guns are banned, it's very likely that the law-abiding civilian is going to obey the rules that are there, and you can’t expect them to stop these types of attacks," Lott told Fox News Digital.
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Non-Federal employee 'citizens' are inherently racist and stupid. They are reluctant to accept government solutions and frequently follow MAGA and pro-life themes. They cannot be trusted with firearms or petroleum powered combustion engines.
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That's not sarc, B. Also, I'm sure FBI has very accurate records. They just cook the books for us rubes just for the reasons you list.
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The 8 years of community organizing by the Magic Kenyan included extensive salting of the mid-level and even entry level civil service. Accerlerated selection and promotion have produced massive and widespread power centers of career, vested minions. Despite the efforts during the besieged Trump Presidency, that infestation continued, and now flourishes under the Puppet Show. Every major aspect of the key federal agencies in DC has become suspect of political manipulation with partial truth, misinterpretation of regulatory structures and authorities and increasingly, outright falsehoods.
These Augean Stables will take a decade to flush, even with Herculean efforts, because at every turn they will scream bias in every "...ism" form known to man and even some mammals!
[revolver] Orwell would be proud. Deliberately buried in the Friday evening news cycle, Biden released an Executive Order with dramatic implications for how signals intelligence is collected on individuals throughout the world. Very SMERSH-ish
Specifically, Biden’s directive repeals restrictions on the use of signals intelligence collection (read: spying on you) implemented since the Obama Administration
The Executive Order of October 7, 2022 (Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities), establishes enhanced safeguards for United States signals intelligence activities that supersede the safeguards for personal information collected through signals intelligence established by Presidential Policy Directive 28 of January 17, 2014 (Signals Intelligence Activities) (PPD-28). [White House]
So what was so problematic about the Presidential Policy Directive 28 that Biden Admin had to repeal? We encourage you to read the entire directive, but the following passage strikes us as interesting in light of the fact that Biden just repealed it:
The collection of signals intelligence shall be authorized by statute or Executive Order, proclamation, or other Presidential directive, and undertaken in accordance with the Constitution and applicable statutes, Executive Orders, proclamations, and Presidential directives.
(b) Privacy and civil liberties shall be integral considerations in the planning of U.S. signals intelligence activities. The United States shall not collect signals intelligence for the purpose of suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent, or for disadvantaging persons based on their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. Signals intelligence shall be collected exclusively where there is a foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose to support national and departmental missions and not for any other purposes.
(c) The collection of foreign private commercial information or trade secrets is authorized only to protect the national security of the United States or its partners and allies. It is not an authorized foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose to collect such information to afford a competitive advantage[4] to U.S. companies and U.S. business sectors commercially.
(d) Signals intelligence activities shall be as tailored as feasible. In determining whether to collect signals intelligence, the United States shall consider the availability of other information, including from diplomatic and public sources. Such appropriate and feasible alternatives to signals intelligence should be prioritized.[Obama White House Archives]
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They aren’t making it legal. They merely formalized the illegal thing they’ve been doing for years, but that doesn’t make it legal. Executive orders are overruled by both new laws passed by Congress and by Supreme Court rulings, so I know what I’m going to do next month to get those processes started.
[Dawn] ALL may not be well in relations between Pakistain and Afghanistan. Consider the recent verbal sparring between officials of the two countries. Last week, the Afghan deputy foreign minister accused Islamabad of "receiving millions of dollars" from the US to permit American drones to fly over Pakistain’s airspace for operations in Afghanistan. This remark by Sher Abbas Stanekzai was evidently in response to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s UN General Assembly address, in which he said Pakistain shared the concern of the international community about terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan’s soil. The Afghan minister’s allegation prompted a predictable retort from the Foreign Office front man who called it "unacceptable" and against the spirit of friendly relations between two neighbours.
But it wasn’t just this verbal clash between them that suggested uneasiness in relations. The violent mostly peaceful activities of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain continue to be a source of concern and frustration for Islamabad. There has been a spike in cross-border terror attacks by TTP since the Taliban’s assumption of power. Official expectations that a Taliban government would help Pakistain secure and stabilise its western border have not been met. The TTP continues to be based in Afghanistan and conducts attacks from there. Over 155 Pak security personnel have bit the dust in these attacks in the past year.
The latest quarterly report of the UN Secretary General on Afghanistan, submitted to the Security Council in September, referred to"the continuing presence and activities of foreign groups in Afghanistan and its border areas". It also said "border tensions and security incidents" have continued along the country’s border with Pakistain. An earlier report by the UNSC’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team found that "TTP has arguably benefited the most of all the foreign krazed killer groups in Afghanistan from the Taliban takeover" and "conducted numerous attacks and operations in Pakistain." The May report also said that as a stand-alone force, TTP "is estimated to consist of 3,000 to 4,000 armed fighters located along the east and southeast Afghanistan-Pakistain border areas".
Stable ties with Afghanistan are a strategic compulsion but many problems stand in the way.
Pak officials have engaged in talks with the TTP in the hope that this would yield an agreement to end the gang’s 14-year war on Pakistain. But talks broke down months ago when it became clear that an intransigent TTP’s demands were non-negotiable. They have not resumed since. Instead, Pakistain has had to undertake undeclared kinetic actions against TTP targets and figures in Afghanistan. This has involved the elimination of three top leaders of the turban group, according to informed sources. While this has provoked protests from Kabul, Pakistain is unlikely to cease such unannounced actions.
The country’s growing security concern is also focused on the re-emergence and concentration of the TTP in Swat. This seems to be an unintended consequence of permitting some members of the group to cross the border and resettle in the country under a misguided concession made to the TTP when talks were in progress. But the security situation in Swat, which has seen widespread anti-TTP protests by residents, has now obliged Pak law-enforcement agencies to take action against the turban organization.
Beyond security concerns, Pak officials are disappointed by the Taliban’s inability to live up to its other promises, especially girls’ education and respect for basic human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... . For the first time, brass hats have been speaking out publicly on the denial of education to girls and continued closure of secondary girls’ schools by Taliban authorities. In an interview last month to La Belle France24, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said the Taliban had not fulfilled their commitment on girls’ education. Significantly, Prime Minister Sharif said in his UN address that Pakistain was working to encourage Kabul to show respect for the rights of Afghan girls and women to education and work. In July, a resolution was adopted unanimously by the UN Human Rights Council that expressed unwavering commitment to the full and equal human rights for women and girls in Afghanistan, including the right to education and freedom of movement. Such calls by the international community and Pakistain have not elicited a positive response from the Taliban government. Explanations by Taliban leaders that they need time to move on this and on other ’social concessions’ appear to be little more than excuses.
The international community’s patience is also wearing thin on this and other issues. The UN’s deputy head in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, told the Security Council on Sept 27, that the international community is running out of patience on engagement with the Taliban. He acknowledged some "positive developments in the past few months", but stressed "they have been too few and too slow and they are outweighed by negatives". He portrayed the "ban on secondary education for girls — unique in the world — and growing restrictions on women’s rights" as "signals that the Taliban are indifferent to more than 50 per cent of the population and are willing to risk international isolation". He said the Taliban’s claim of establishing peace and stability was also eroding given the rise in security incidents — armed festivities, crime and terrorist attacks. He added that "the reported presence of Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... in the heart of Kabul and the strike against him, as well as continued presence of other terrorist groups, have forced a questioning of the Taliban’s counterterrorism commitments, further deepening the trust gap with the international community".
Apart from these growing doubts over the utility of engagement, international interest in Afghanistan has also been waning. By relapsing into its regressive past and not responding to the concerns of the global community the Taliban have themselves contributed to diminishing interest in engagement. Infighting and power struggles among the Taliban is a key factor behind Kabul’s inability to embark on a course correction and is complicating and retarding decision-making.
Pak officials play down differences with Kabul and point to the many areas of ongoing cooperation to indicate that relations remain "smooth" and "good". But it is also a fact that for months there have been no ministerial visits by either side. Cooperative relations with Afghanistan are a strategic compulsion for Pakistain but that does not minimise the many problems that stand in the way of achieving this.
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[AlAhram] The UK authorities have failed in their duty to protect Shamima Begum,
...along with her two best friends from school (Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana) she fell in love with the romantic idea of being a jihadi wife and brood mare for the new Muslim nation, seduced by messages from early adopter Pak-Scot Aqsa Mahmood. Before running off to Syria they recruited among their English schoolmates for the ISIS cause. Umm Three-Dead-Babies thrived in her chosen environment, marrying a Dutch convert and being promoted to enforcer in the women’s branch of the ISIS morality police before it all fell apart. Now stuck in an SDF camp in Syria, she’s doing her taqiyya best to seduce the Brits into bringing her back home for round two....
stripped of her UK nationality for travelling to Syria in 2015 when she was just 15 years old.
On an ill-fated day in February 2015, three girls from Bethnal Green in east London fled their homes and flew to Istanbul where they were driven into tumultuous Syria to join the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS). Two of them were killed in drone attacks, which means only one of them is still alive today. They were 15 and 16 years old.
The past seven years have been calamitous for Shamima Begum, the sole survivor. She has been impregnated three times and lost each of her three babies within weeks of giving birth. She was brainwashed, de-brainwashed, casually told by a British journalist that she had been stripped of her British nationality and ultimately abandoned by the UK to waste away in the al-Hawl refugee camp in north-eastern Syria.
In March 2015, game-changing information appeared that was instantly swept under the carpet by the British media, ensuring that almost none of us heard of it until a few weeks ago when the same information reappeared, with more details, in a book titled The History of the Five Eyes.
Essentially, a Canadian intelligence asset was awaiting the three girls in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... in early 2015 and facilitated their entry into Syria — a classic case of the trafficking of minors. They were smuggled across the border. By an affiliate of a Western intelligence service. Take a minute to process this.
Incredibly, Turkey announced all this in March 2015. The book states that Canadian intelligence informed the British authorities of the role of one of their assets in trafficking Shamima and the others.
So, the British side knew. Take another minute if you need it.
The British police sat on this information for years during which Shamima’s citizenship was taken away and, more importantly, she was vilified, condemned, and sentenced in the court of public opinion.
The British media collaborated with the government in depicting Shamima as a monster in an outstanding example of the collusion between components of "The Establishment" in the UK as British journalist Owen Jones’s book of the same name outlines it.
15-year-old Shamima did not know any better. She was not a scheming terrorist as the right-wing British media portray her. She is in fact a victim.
As the mother of a 15-year-old myself, I find it unthinkable that a child of that age is treated as a fully accountable adult when they are minors in the eyes of the law.
She has given some ill-advised interviews where she didn’t show enough remorse to win the public over. But as a traumatised young mother of dying babies who hasn’t seen her parents in years and is not allowed access to lawyers, is it really surprising that she doesn’t know how to handle a media interview?
The British intelligence service MI5 says that Shamima’s crime is staying on in Syria after she had turned 18. Who is to know if she didn’t try to escape but failed? Let her come back to the UK, the only place she has ever called home, and stand trial. Send her to prison. Allow her due process. Let justice have its way for once.
MI5 has gone on to say, as revealed in a UK supreme court hearing two years ago, that "public sentiment is overwhelmingly hostile" to her. What that tells us is that the argument against Shamima is not legal but, in fact, is political. And although Sajid Javid, the former UK home secretary who cancelled Shamima’s citizenship, is no longer in the cabinet, it is hardly expected that new Prime Minister Liz Truss will treat the matter differently. The ruling Conservatives will prioritise public opinion even over following the rule of law.
The UK authorities, the school, the police, the security forces all already failed Shamima once when they failed to stop a child from going to the most dangerous war zone on the planet. They failed her a second time when the government stripped her of her nationality. Now her case is due for an appeal in November. Don’t fail her again.
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This is very sad. That one of these sick jihad bitches have been allowed to get away and her cousins are lawfaring and guilt scamming everyone into letting her back in.
Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
The battle for borscht began long before February 24th. However, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, UNESCO considered that this cultural heritage site was in danger. Therefore, on July 1, borscht officially became a Ukrainian dish and was included in the UNESCO cultural heritage list. However, Ukrainians already knew that borsch is our cultural heritage. Peace Through Superior Cooking
There are an infinite number of borscht recipes, and almost every housewife has her own. Someone likes borscht with beans, someone cooks it without cabbage or meat, and someone cooks it with mushrooms. Often borscht recipes are carefully passed down from generation to generation, and some are even kept strictly secret. For the Independence Day, Vesti.ua collected recipes from different parts of our country, from members of the editorial board, from Ukrainian chefs, artists, athletes and politicians.
[AlAhram] The back-to-back shipwrecks of migrant smuggling boats off Greece have once again put the spotlight on the dangers of the Mediterranean migration route, the risks migrants and refugees are willing to take and the political infighting that has thwarted a safe European response to people fleeing war, poverty and climate change.
Here's a look at the migration situation across the Mediterranean Sea:
WHAT HAPPENED TO TWO SMUGGLERS' BOATS OFF GREECE?
Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage off a Greek island on Thursday as the death toll from separate sinkings of two migrant boats rose to 22, with about a dozen still missing. The vessels went down hundreds of miles apart, in one case prompting a dramatic overnight rescue effort as island residents and firefighters pulled shipwrecked migrants to safety up steep cliffs.
The Greek shipwrecks came just days after Italy commemorated the ninth anniversary of one of the deadliest Mediterranean shipwrecks in recent memory, the Oct. 3, 2013 capsizing of a migrant ship off Lampedusa, Sicily, in which 368 people died.
WHAT ARE THE TRENDS IN MEDITERRANEAN MIGRANT ARRIVALS?
So far this year, the International Organization of Migration has recorded around 109,000 ``irregular'' arrivals to the Mediterranean countries of Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta by land or sea. This has made immigration a hot political topic in those European Union nations.
U.N. refugee officials note that the overall number of migrants seeking to come to Europe this way has decreased over the years, to an average of around 120,000 annually.
They call that a relatively ``manageable'' number, especially compared to the 7.4 million Ukrainians who have fled their homeland this year to escape Russia's invasion, and were welcomed by European countries.
``We've seen how quickly and how rapidly a response was mounted to deal with that situation in a very humane and commendable way,'' said Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency in Geneva. ``If we can see that happen very concretely in this situation, why can't it be applied for 120,000 people that are coming across to Europe on a yearly basis?''
Others see Europe's harsh response to Mediterranean migrants, who often come from Africa, and its welcoming of Slavic Ukrainian migrants as racist.
HOW DANGEROUS IS THE MEDITERRANEAN?
So far this year the IOM has reported 1,522 dead or missing migrants in the Mediterranean. Overall, the IOM says 24,871 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean since 2014, with the real number believed to be even higher given the number of shipwrecks that never get reported.
``The voyage toward Italy has been confirmed to be the most dangerous,'' said the ISMU foundation in Italy, which conducts research on migration trends.
The Central Mediterranean migration route that takes migrants from Libya or Tunisia north to Europe is the deadliest known migration route in the world, accounting for more than half of the reported deaths in the Mediterranean that IOM has tracked since 2014. The route has Italy as its prime destination.
WHAT ARE THE DEADLIEST KNOWN SMUGGLING SHIPWRECKS?
On April 18, 2015, the Mediterranean's deadliest known shipwreck in living memory occurred when an overcrowded fishing boat collided 77 nautical miles off Libya with a freighter that was trying to come to its rescue.
Only 28 people survived. At first it was feared the hull held the remains of 700 people. Forensic experts who set out to try to identify all the dead concluded in 2018 that there were originally 1,100 people on board.
On Oct. 3, 2013, a trawler packed with more than 500 people, many from Eritrea and Ethiopia, caught fire and capsized within sight of an uninhabited islet off Italy's southern island of Lampedusa. Local fishermen rushed to try to help save lives. In the end, 155 survived and 368 people died.
One week later, a shipwreck occurred on Oct 11, 2013, further out at sea, 60 miles south of Lampedusa in what has become known in Italy as the ``slaughter of children.'' In all, more than 260 people died, among them 60 children.
The Italian newsweekly L'Espresso in 2017 published the audio recordings of the migrants' desperate calls for help and Italian and Maltese authorities seemingly delaying the rescue.
WHAT ARE OTHER MEDITERRANEAN MIGRATION ROUTES TO EUROPE?
The Western Mediterranean route is used by migrants seeking to reach Spain from Morocco or Algeria. The Eastern Mediterranean route, where the shipwrecks occurred this week off Greece, has traditionally been used by Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and other non-African migrants who flee first to Turkey and then try to reach Greece or other European destinations.
Greece was a key transit point for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees entering the EU in 2015-16, many fleeing wars in Iraq and Syria, though the numbers dropped sharply after the EU and Turkey reached a deal in 2016 to limit smugglers.
Greece has since toughened its borders and built a steel wall along its land border with Turkey. Greece has also been accused by Turkey and some migration experts of pushing back migrants, a charge it denies.
For its part, Greece says Turkey has failed to stop smugglers active on its shoreline and has been using migrants to apply political pressure to the whole European Union.
HOW HAS MIGRATION DIVIDED THE EU'S 27 NATIONS?
Mediterranean countries have for years complained that they have been left to bear the brunt of welcoming and processing migrants, and have long demanded other European countries step up and take them in.
Poland, Hungary and other Eastern European nations refused an EU plan to share the burdens of carrying for the migrants.
Human rights groups have condemned how the EU in recent years has outsourced migrant rescues to the Libyan coast guard, which brings the migrants back to horrific camps on land where many are beaten, raped and abused.
``Over the years, the routes have changed but not the tragedies,'' said the Sant'Egidio Community as it commemorated the 2013 Lampedusa anniversary this week. Working with other Christian groups, the Catholic charity has brought more than 5,000 refugees to Italy via ``humanitarian corridors'' and has called for more safe passages to be organized so migrants don't have to risk dangerous Mediterranean crossings with smugglers.
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.
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as 
[Khaama]
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
