[FoxNews] Amid mounting pressure, New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson will retire from his position at the end of this year, according to a statement from Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
"The City of New Orleans will soon bid farewell to a great leader, a great partner and a great friend. After 24 years of dedicated public service to the City of New Orleans, Superintendent Shaun Ferguson will retire at the end of this year. He gave this city his very best – the safety and wellbeing of each and every resident and visitor was always his top priority," Cantrell said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ferguson was named chief by Cantrell in January 2019 to replace outgoing Chief Michael Harrison, who had accepted the job as police chief in Baltimore.
City Council Vice President J.P. Morrell called for Ferguson’s resignation last week as the council worked to approve the city’s $1.5 billion budget, where $25 million would go toward a police recruitment and retention incentive package.
"You can repair the hull of the Titanic over and over, but if the captain keeps driving it into an iceberg, nothing will change," Morrell said.
Morrell is one of many in New Orleans who are upset with the direction the "Big Easy" is taking under Cantrell's leadership in light of a recent spike in crime and criticism of Cantrell's travel spending.
"The resignation of Chief Ferguson marks another loss to the New Orleans Police Department, a department that continues to hemorrhage amidst record-breaking crime in the city," Bayou Mama Bears founder Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue told Fox News Digital. "Chief Ferguson accepted this position while the NOPD was under a federal consent decree, a decree that remains in place, continues to cripple the department, and will be remembered as one of the greatest failures to our city. The Mayor will now appoint a new police chief, but until the federal consent decree is removed, we are merely rearranging furniture on the Titanic."
In September 2022, New Orleans overtook St. Louis as the murder capital of America as the city sees a 141% increase in homicides when compared to recent years.
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Police can't stop a murder that happens w/o warning, but they can arrest the murderers. So why blame the police, whose job it is to ENFORCE the law, and not act as Thought / Emotional control enforcers.
We have not reached the ability of the "Minority Report", where real Precrime intervention can be used.
Currently, we only see politically abused PRE-COG applications.
BTW: The New Orleans LSD's jumped on the DEFUND POLICE bandwagon back in 2021.
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What could possibly be considered controversial in Nawlins?
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He is going out on top. We will see if he signs on to shepherd an up and coming city for a big paycheck down the road. In the meantime, his insight will be in high demand as a color commentator.
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[Breitbart] George Gascón, the George Soros-funded district attorney of Los Angeles, has issued a policy directive that helps criminal illegal aliens avoid deportation, Fox News reported.
Gascón was elected in 2020 on a criminal justice “reform” platform with the help of millions of dollars in spending by Democrat mega-donor Soros.
As Fox News reported:
According to the policy, which was obtained by Fox News, alternatives to criminal convictions should be considered, such as avoiding charging for criminal enhancements, which can significantly increase one’s prison sentence, “that would turn an otherwise immigration neutral offense into an immigration damaging one.”
“All charging determinations shall be undertaken with the goal of avoiding or mitigating the adverse immigration consequences of a decision when known, possible pr permitting,” Gascón’s policy states. “Under these circumstances and when, consistent with public safety alternatives to filing charges exist, those alternatives shall be pursued.”
The policy also recommends pre-trial diversion programs to deter deportation and other immigration consequences for criminal illegal aliens.
However, Gascón’s office backed up the policy, claiming it “protects vulnerable victims” and “prioritizes safety while attempting to avoid overly punitive consequences” for criminal illegal aliens.
Los Angeles District Attorney’s office communications director Tiffany Blackwell told Fox News:
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office consulted with our staff, community stakeholders and immigration experts to craft a comprehensive Immigration policy that protects vulnerable victims and prioritizes safety while attempting to avoid overly punitive consequences for the accused. We believe that we have achieved that result. We will continue to rely upon our staff to provide us with relevant information that will assist in making the determination if alternative sentencing is warranted.
Still, not everyone is pleased with Gascón’s new policy directive.
Association for Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles County vice president Eric Siddall criticized the policy and argued it might discriminate against native-born criminal suspects who would not be given the same consideration because they are not facing deportation.
“That’s saying we’re going to give better deals to someone because of their immigration status,” Siddall told Fox News.
Gascón’s move is aligned with other Soros-funded district attorneys, such as Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner, Cook County, Illinois’s Kimberly Foxx, and Contra Costa County’s Diana Becton.
As Breitbart News’s John Binder detailed:
After being elected in 2017, Krasner created the Immigration Counsel in his District Attorney’s office, hiring former immigration attorney Caleb Arnold to lead the initiative. The goal of the initiative is to reduce “immigration consequences” for defendants.
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After taking office, Foxx hired Michael Kasprzynski to be the office’s first immigration adviser. Kasprzynski’s role is described as working “to ensure that noncitizen defendants do not face unnecessary immigration consequences, particularly for misdemeanor and low-level offenses.” The role effectively seeks to help criminally charged illegal aliens escape arrest by ICE and deportation.
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After taking office, Becton issued an immigration policy memo where she states that “prosecutors in the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office shall consider the avoidance of adverse immigration consequences in the plea negotiation process.”
Gascón has been a prominent target of Los Angeles County residents who are concerned with rising crime rates. However, since his election in 2020, Gascón has survived two recall attempts.
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Their math sux.
Off at least one order of magnitude.
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They are probably just moving it to one of the looted Target locations that is now vacant. It rains too much in the Bay Area for open air drug vending to be truly viable.
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and over 200 people wanted referrals but didn't get them
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I, at one time, negotiated a company car as part of my employment, and it damn sure wasn't a Yugo. Also was entitled to education benefits including, I presume, "private" schools. School fees are school fees, right (Randi Weingarten throne sniffers need not answer.)?
This case was more capitalism -v- socialism and, big surprise, a jury in New York found in favor of the latter.
Was it supposed to go to vote counters?
[FoxBusinessNews] Millions of student loan borrowers who applied for student-debt relief under a program from the Biden Administration were wrongfully informed last month that their applications were approved, according to reports.
U.S. Department of Education contractor Accenture, which sent the letters out, told Fox Television Stations that applicants were erroneously emailed about the approvals on Nov. 22 and 23.
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Won’t that spike the demand for totally worthless courses? Colleges and Universities are Ill-prepared for a significant uptick in people requesting to progress to higher levels of gender studies dementia. The entire Biden Administration might have to resign and teach on an emergency basis.
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The oil companies should then stop send not just oil but all petroleum products. Then stop sending plastics. See how quickly California collapses when it has no lubricants or plastic syringes
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...The worst part is that this is Political Theater of the worst kind - this law will survive exactly five minutes in front of a court, but it's not supposed to do anything more than make it appear that the pols are Doing Something.
See also student loan forgiveness - there was never any chance that it would go through because of that pesky 'separation of powers' thing in the Constitution, but all it had to do was stand up long enough to drag votes, and then the Administration can just blame it on those mean courts.
[JustTheNews] Incoming House Judiciary chair renews requests to Obama-era spy chiefs James Clapper, John Brennan for documents related to their claim that Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
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Withhold funding until they come clean, until heads roll. Stop funding the Deep State. Shut down the whole government if necessary. It would be worth it to forgo my Social Security check just to see some of these people in the unemployment line.
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"Turns up the heat..." LMAO...whoa, that's a good one.
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[JustTheNews] Former NIH Director Francis Collins told former Senate investigator years earlier that NIH can sanction grantees for ghostwriting. Collins and Fauci used "proximal origins" paper to delegitimize lab-leak theory.
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The natural origin theory was never credible. As things roll out, they will first make the claim that it was natural before they altered in the lab, so technically, they weren’t lying. That claim will be useful only in convincing people that regularly, watch The View. The final gambit will be to claim that national security required them to purvey the natural origins theory to ensure that China contained to cooperate with the international effort. That is the hill that they will choose to die on. Let it be their Ripcord.
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[Twitter] On Friday, the first installment of the Twitter files was published here. We expected to publish more over the weekend. Many wondered why there was a delay.
We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of "Twitter Files" — without knowledge of new management.
The process for producing the "Twitter Files" involved delivery to two journalists (Bari Weiss and me) via a lawyer close to new management. However, after the initial batch, things became complicated.
Over the weekend, while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches, it was @BariWeiss
who discovered that the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named Jim. When she called to ask "Jim’s" last name, the answer came back: "Jim Baker."
Matt Taibbi
Frank G gives us the Rantingly post on the subject, which includes links to the following headlines:
New Matt Taibbi Thread: Twitter Files Supplemental…’Stay Tuned’…
“My Jaw Hit The Floor” – Musk Fires Twitter’s ‘FBI-Russiagate’ Lawyer Over Vetting Debacle…
Jonathan Turley: “Fool Me Once . . . ” Why The Public Is Not Buying The Latest Media Campaign Against Twitter…
Elon Musk Slams Wikipedia Over ‘Left-Wing Bias’…
Julie Kelly: Obama-Biden Government In Exile Ran Hunter Laptop Suppression Operation…
Calls For Investigations Grow Over Katie Hobbs’ Alleged Use Of Twitter Censorship, 1A Issues…
Comedy Hosts Think Twitter Censoring Hunter Story Is About Nude Photos…
Deposition Reveals Fauci’s Interesting Connection To Twitter…
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Baker certainly seems to be the aborigine in everybody's fuel supply. The more interesting question is who exactly issues his orders and the rest of the very red chain of command.
[Politico] ATLANTA — Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff, giving Democrats a 51-seat majority next year and capping off an extraordinary defense of the chamber that saw every endangered incumbent win reelection.
Warnock, who won a special election runoff in early 2021 and has now earned a full six-year term, finished narrowly ahead of Walker in the November general election. But because neither reached the majority mark, they advanced to this week’s one-on-one runoff, extending one of the most expensive and hard-fought campaigns in the country.
Warnock’s win means that Senate Democrats protected every seat they had on the ballot this year, while also flipping the open seat in Pennsylvania to expand their Senate majority by one despite a tough political environment and sagging approval ratings from President Joe Biden.
The results also mark another big defeat for former President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates — a sore spot for local Republicans around the country who say he saddled the party with unelectable candidates. Trump intervened in GOP primaries this year to boost three hopefuls in tossup Senate races: Walker, a former football star, as well as celebrity physician Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and investor Blake Masters in Arizona. All three lost, as did other Trump picks in swing House seats and gubernatorial battles.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, meanwhile, easily won reelection in November after seeing off a Trump-backed primary challenger earlier this year, after Kemp refused to aid Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
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It's overtaken by corrupt election officials manufacturing however many votes they need. We no longer have actual elections, just wait, this will be the standard very soon.
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Dunno about Georgia but San Diego County voter turnout for the midterms was 54.2 percent. It would be harder for Democrats to cheat if turnout was better. Perhaps still not impossible but at least more difficult.
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GOP lost a seat in an election where most of the candidates were GOP to hold. The Dems have many more seats on the line in 2024. The best plan remains to replace Ronna and contest every seat with candidates that hate McConnell.
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The things that go on in our smoke-filled back rooms.
[Breitbart] Democrats are trying to attach marijuana reform, among other things unrelated to the nation’s defense, to the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), delaying the bill’s vote.
The House Rules Committee was scheduled to take up the NDAA on Monday. However, chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) announced the “package is not ready yet,” and noted the “committee remains ready to take it up as soon as the text is finalized.”
The NDAA has been must-pass legislation for the past 62 years, as it authorizes Pentagon activities and spending.
While a huge point of contention in the NDAA among Republicans and Democrats is the military’s vaccine mandate, there is an emerging debate in the halls of Congress regarding marijuana reform’s inclusion into the defense spending bill.
Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is pushing to include the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act in the NDAA. The SAFE Banking Act would make it easier for state-licensed marijuana business owners to access financing from national banks. The bill would also create grants for state expungement of past marijuana convictions.
However, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) memo issued this year claimed the SAFE Banking Act could “significantly complicate law enforcement investigations and prosecutions” of money laundering stemming from state-legal cannabis businesses.
On Monday, Republican Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) met with the DOJ to discuss concerns about the SAFE Banking Act, Politico reported.
Although the SAFE Banking Act has little to do with the nation’s defense, Democrats are scrambling to include as much unrelated legislation into the NDAA in the last remaining weeks of the year before the GOP takes majority control of the House at the start of the next Congress on January 3.
Congressional Democrats are prepared to include language in the NDAA that would strip the U.S. Military of its vaccine mandate for all service members
The move would be a major defeat for President Joe Biden, who has insisted the Military should still require all service members to be vaccinated against COVID
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is taking credit for spearheading the effort
Said during a White House meeting last month, the top four congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal to nix the vaccination requirement
Thousands of troops were involuntarily separated from the Military for refusing the vaccinate and thousands of others lost pay or benefits for the same reason
The defense bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), authorizes Pentagon activities and spending, making it must-pass legislation for the past 62 years. The bill is usually hundreds of pages long and authorizes hundreds of billions in spending, and is often a vehicle for lawmakers to get non-defense related policies through.
But this year, Democrats are especially relying on it as a vehicle to get major unrelated policies through, in the expected absence of a major omnibus spending bill before the end of the year, and before Republicans take over the House in January — infuriating Republicans and jeopardizing the passage of the bill and necessary authorizations for military spending and activities.
For example, Democrats are trying to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which would allow mainstream media outlets to form a cartel to negotiate with Big Tech, to the detriment of independent and conservative media outlets.
Another item is the SAFE Banking Act, pushed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), backed by some Republicans. The bill would let cannabis companies access banking institutions and create grants for state expungement of past marijuana convictions, according to Axios.
Another is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, sponsored by Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), which seeks to “eliminate discrimination and promote women’s health and economic security” for workers limited by “pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition; and for other purposes.”
Democrats are also trying to attach a permitting bill sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) that would change the permitting process for energy infrastructure, and transport natural gas from his home state to Virginia.
Congress has just weeks before recess begins and before the new Congress is slated to be sworn in on January 3, 2023, which would upend Democrats’ plans.
Senate Republicans raised alarm bells as early as October that Democrats were trying to stuff unrelated policies into the defense bill.
A Senate aide told Breitbart News in October that the use of the NDAA to pass unrelated policies “happens every year and it’s getting worse.”
“The NDAA should be about purchasing the right weapons systems and protecting troops,” the aide said. “No Republican should let the bill get hijacked.”
Update from DooDah Man at 5:03 a.m. ET, who headlined his post:
The military COVID vaccine mandate will end! (Next steps: end all COVID vax mandates (healthcare workers and foreign visitors), and reinstate all members of military wrongfully terminated due to vax.)
The military COVID vaccine mandate will end!
Page 407 & 408 of NDAA text just released.
Next steps: end all COVID vax mandates (healthcare workers and foreign visitors), and reinstate all members of military wrongfully terminated due to vax.https://t.co/hRVftUh6ylpic.twitter.com/o8noBxngGe
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
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