[WASHINGTONTIMES] The U.S. Marshals Service tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... more than 13,000 individuals with open warrants as part of a national operation aimed at targeting the "worst of the worst" violent, repeat offenders.
Any of them illegals with felony records?
The Justice Department announced the results of the six-week runaway sweep Wednesday, which targeted individuals wanted for crimes like homicides, sex assaults and aggravated assaults.
Dubbed Operation Violence Reduction, the sweep focused on 12 cities currently combatting upticks in violent crime, including Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and New Orleans.
"This was not a dragnet-type operation designed to arrest anyone with an outstanding warrant," said Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. "It was focused and targeted. That’s because we know that the majority of violence in our communities can usually be traced to a relatively small number of bad actors."
Officials said the operation, which was up and running from Feb. 1 to March 11, brought in 8,045 runaways who were targeted because of open warrants for violent crimes and another 5,446 runaways who were arrested in the course of the operations.
Among those arrested, 559 were wanted for homicides and 946 for sex offenses, and 648 were known gang members.
In Baltimore alone, 148 runaways -- including 23 people wanted for murder -- were arrested as part of the sweep.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the effort was important in the ongoing drive to restore confidence in the police force. He noted that the department is seeing "encouraging results in the homicide closure rate" so far this year and that witnesses are coming forward more often to provide tips about crimes.
"That is thanks in no small part to the rehabilitation that is in progress with the relationship between police and the community," Commissioner Davis said. "We told folks in Baltimore that 2016 was going to be a different year."
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"We told folks in Baltimore that 2016 was going to be a different year."
I'm sure the folks at Black Lives Matter will be rioting in response any day now.
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Pretty good collection.
We'll see how it sorts out.
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Yes, good collection, but why is this news? Why aren't the worst offenders swept up every week? If you know much crime comes from a few bad actors, why are they still on the street - bad judges? Poor prosecutors? So they'll be sprung in a week in the ol' catch and release game?
The Moderator with the pink salmon highlight poses a good question - how many are illegals? How many of those cities 'with an uptick in violent crime' are sanctuary cities? I wonder if the sanctuary cities have a higher rate of these bad boy arrests, and violent crime. Why doesn't the media wonder, I wonder? Why didn't they arrest these jerks last year?
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Under current Federal guidelines, any illegals in the group will be released immediately. The rest will have to post bail or stay in the slammer.
/sarcasm
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I hope this 'sweep' is an attempt to find and/or collect intelligence on certain key entities, but I suppose such an effort would make too much sense.
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Bobby, note these were regional arrests by FEDERAL agents. Another action by 'tough on crime' Ozbama to diminish authority of local police, who may be corrupt and paid-off anyway.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, US Marshals do not have holding facilities of their own so they can use any authorized local facility.
Joe Garagiola's nine-year baseball career was a modest one. His 57 years in broadcasting that followed made him one of the most popular figures in the sports world and beyond.
The man Arizona Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall called 'one of the biggest personalities this game has ever seen' died Wednesday. He was 90.
The Diamondbacks announced Garagiola's death before their exhibition game against San Francisco, and there were murmurs of shock and sadness at the ballpark. He had been in ill health in recent years.
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Russian backed rebels and Ukrainian ground forces continued to exchange artillery in Yasinovataya Wednesday night and into Thursday night according to Russian language news accounts.
According to an official new release by the rebel Donetsk ministry of defense, Ukrainian forces have been hitting rebel troops dug in near a road junction southwest of Gorlovka in night and daytime attacks.
Ukrainian heavy mortars firing from nearby Avdievka hit rebel positions for about five minutes Thursday afternoon.
That night Ukrainian mortar fire hit rebel positions in Spartak, Zhabichevo, which is on the northern outskirts of Donetsk, western districts of Donetsk city and the village Mikhailovka, south of Gorlovka.
On Thursday, Ukrainian artillery fire continued in locations near Donetsk city, including at Yasinovataya. Additional rebel positions were hit in Staromykhailivka, Spartak, Zhabunki, near the Donetsk airport, the western outskirts of Donetsk and Makeyevka.
In the south rebel media reported Ukrainian artillery hitting positions at Dokuchaevsk, Sahanka and Kominternovo.
Ukrainian media say that rebel artillery are hitting their positions near Donetsk city, specifically in Avdievka, Opytnoye, and near Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka.
According to a news account which appeared in tsensor.net.ua, rebel forces attempted to oust Ukrainian forces from positions at Novotroitskoye by direct assault, but were repelled. According to the report, rebel forces identified as the Donetsk 5 Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion were involved.
A separate attack by rebel forces was recorded around Yasinovataya on Thursday. According to a separate article, rebels hit Ukrainian positions near Yasinovataya as they carried out force rotation in the area.
Ukrainian media charges that rebel forces have moved and are using heavy 152mm artillery in the area.
A report on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Come Back Alive Project said that a rebel artillery observer panicked and managed to call in an artillery mission on his own position Wednesday night.
A Ukrainian journalist said that despite their repeated attempts to dislodge Ukrainian forces from the area near the crossroads, Ukrainian forces have the road that connects Donetsk to Gorlovka cut off.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
Barack Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that the differences between socialism and capitalism make interesting conversation but just pick whatever works. The ideological-left US president suddenly doesn’t have an affinity for ideology.
He said in the past there was a sharp division between communists, socialists and capitalists but that is merely an intellectual argument and it’s not so today.
The Marxist in the White House is erasing the lines between two dangerous ideologies and the one that made the US great, just as he erased our borders. This is a man who would be at home in communist China.
"So often in the past there has been a division between left and right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate," Obama said at the Buenos Aires town hall.
"Those are interesting intellectual arguments, but I think for your generation, you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works."
For Obama, high taxation, wild spending, government agency domination over the people and heavy regulations work which tells you what he is.
Obama made his comments in response to a question about establishing nonprofit community organizations and said it’s important to get government and private sector investment, which for him is a sketchy relationship between Wall Street and DC.
"To president Castro, I said you’ve made great progress in educating young people [Cuban dictators indoctrinate its youth]. Every child in Cuba gets a basic education. Medical care, the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States despite it being a very poor country because they have access to health care. That’s a huge achievement," he said about the repressive regime. "They should be congratulated. But you drive around Havana and you see the economy is not working. It looks like it did in the 1950s."
The US president likes socialism but also likes the capitalism, both of which he has subscribed to for the last seven years.
Then he told them not to rigidly adhere to labels as if the systems of socialism and capitalism are mere labels.
"You have to be practical in asking yourself, How do you achieve the goals of equality and inclusion, but also recognize the market system produces a lot of wealth and goods and services and innovation and it also gives individuals freedom because they have initiative, depending on the social issues you are trying to address, what works? What you’ll find is the most successful societies and economies are the ones that are rooted in a market-based system but also realize a market does not work by itself. It has to have a social and moral and ethical and community basis."
His love of wealth redistribution and social [unfair] justice trumps all.
During his trip, he told the Cuban dictator that his revolution was like ours -- it was a liberation movement -- and he told Argentinians earlier in the week that he is frustrated with the separation of powers.
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When your only propaganda history is Howard Zinn based you might actually believe that. And if you do, I have bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you (as so many Green frauds have done).
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I suppose that from the top they do look the same.
From the lower altitude perspective, there is quite a difference.
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There's just so many reasons
Mathematic
Moral
Game Theory
Economic
That socialism does not work, and capitalism does. It's just a pity the economies that call themselves capitalist are not! They are more "establishmentist" (progressivism seems to be a way to steathily fund the establishment) than capitalist (compact government charges market rates for title-monopolies (land, copyright patent)).
[DAWN] The trial of Shahrukh Jatoi’s escape, the main convict in the Shahzeb murder case, has yet to commence as a judicial magistrate has sent a reference to a district court expressing his inability to conduct the trial, it emerged on Wednesday.
While the district court has transferred the case to another judicial magistrate for trial, the case has been fixed for March 31 for indictment.
Shahrukh Jatoi, who was sentenced to death in June 2013 by an antiterrorism court for killing 20-year-old Shahzeb in Defence Housing Authority, has been booked for allegedly escaping to Dubai on forged documents following the murder in December 2012.
Nawab Ali Jatoi, brother of Shahrukh, Mohammad Khurram, one of the directors of Sikandar Ali Jatoi’s group of companies, PIA officials Mahmood Sultan and Wasi Akhtar, known as protocol officials of Bilawal House, Sohail Ahmed, Muhammad Omer Dochki and Abu Bakar Dochki of a travel agency and others have also been charge-sheeted for allegedly helping Shahrukh escape from Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport a couple of days after he had been booked in the Shahzeb murder case.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the suspects have not yet been indicted despite the passage of over three years.
The Federal Investigation Agency had submitted a final charge sheet in the case in March 2013 in the court of a judicial magistrate (Malir). The jail authorities had not produced Shahrukh in the court in the case pertaining to his escape till 2014. Thereafter, the provincial authorities notified that the case was to be tired inside the jail. Thus, the copies of the prosecution papers were provided to suspects as required under Section 265-C of the criminal procedure code, an obligatory procedure before the indictment last year. But the trial could not commence since the court remained vacant for around six months.
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[DAWN] Myanmar’s incoming finance minister said on Wednesday he was shocked to discover his PhD was fake after netizens pointed out he had been a victim of an alleged scam run out of Pakistain that ensnared thousands of others.
Kyaw Win was one of 18 people named on Tuesday to the incoming cabinet of democracy veteran Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy (NLD) will take office at the end of the month, ending decades of military-led rule.
The 68-year-old was one of six NLD members in Suu Kyi’s big-tent cabinet -- which includes three army officers as well as opposition party figures.
Suu Kyi, who is banned from becoming president, was confirmed as foreign minister while the other roles are expected to be formally announced later in the week.
However local media widely published a leaked list of earmarked roles, with Kyaw Win, a career bureaucrat and adviser to the NLD’s economics committee, taking the influential finance and planning portfolio.
An official CV issued by the NLD shortly after the cabinet announcement stated he held a PhD from a college in the United States called Brooklyn Park University.
But social media users quickly pointed out that Brooklyn Park was one of a number of "fake online organizations" allegedly created by a Pak group that ran a "fraudulent degree empire" out of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... until its exposure last year.
"I openly admit it that I studied at this fake online university in my older age," Kyaw Win, who confirmed he would take on the finance portfolio, said.
He explained how, like many others in junta-run Myanmar, he had a thirst for education but little opportunity to study abroad.
"Education has been my dream since I was young. I never stopped studying my whole life. But I could not study abroad because I did not have enough money," he said.
Kyaw Win said he did not discover the degree was fake until the news spread on Facebook after his cabinet nomination on Tuesday, an experience he described as "really painful".
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Almost sounds like one of my buddies claiming a bachelor's degree at the old Boston State College, except that he knew the transcript records were lost when they folded BSC into UMass-Boston back in the late '70's / early '80's.
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.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The U.S. Marshals Service 
Barack Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that the differences between socialism and capitalism make interesting conversation but just pick whatever works. The ideological-left US president suddenly doesn’t have an affinity for ideology.
[DAWN] The trial of Shahrukh Jatoi’s escape, the main convict in the Shahzeb murder case, has yet to commence as a judicial magistrate has sent a reference to a district court expressing his inability to conduct the trial, it emerged on Wednesday.
[DAWN] Myanmar’s incoming finance minister said on Wednesday he was shocked to discover his PhD was fake after netizens pointed out he had been a victim of an alleged scam run out of Pakistain that ensnared thousands of others.
