[NYPOST] New Orleans has overtaken St. Louis as the murder capital of America as the city sees a 141% increase in homicides when compared to recent years.
According to data from the Metropolitan Crime Commission, an organization that tracks crime and also tries to bring it down, there have been 52 homicides per 100,000 residents as of Sept. 11.
In St. Louis, there have been almost 45 homicides per 100,000 residents as of Sept. 17, according to data from the St. Louis Police Department.
By comparison, there have been almost 18 homicides 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... per 100,000 residents and 3.5 in New York City.
Homicides in New Orleans are up 141% when compared to 2019 and up 78% when compared to 2021, according to the data, which states that there have been 205 homicides in the city from the beginning of 2022 until Sept. 11.
New Orleans has also seen a 100% increase in shootings in 2022 when compared to 2019.
On Sept. 8, officials in New Orleans announced an $80 million plan to increase pay for coppers, offer free health care, and $30,000 in increased hiring incentives for new hires within the department.
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At least Mayoress LaToya flies First Class. Quitchyer bitching!
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09/19/2022 7:21 Comments ||
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moving up fast is Memphis, TN
currently about 44 homicides per 100k in 2021 probably rising in 2022
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
09/19/2022 8:56 Comments ||
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Soros backed DAs and corrupt mayors can only do so much. I would like to acknowledge the contributions made by the petty thugs who do that thankless chore of committing the actual murders. The big wigs get recognition, but this dramatic increase in homicides could never been achieved without the little guys and their commitment to senseless evil on a daily basis or, in some cases, just on the weekends.
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09/19/2022 9:18 Comments ||
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^ Well said
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09/19/2022 12:37 Comments ||
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I'd still like to know what Soros gets out of this.
Is he that committed to turning the USA into a 3rd world hell hole? Gates too for that matter.
[EpochTimes] The massive wave of retail thefts in the United States over the past two years have become a major challenge for both the retail industry and law enforcement.
Weakened law enforcement policies and lesser penalties for these criminal bandit gangs have hit a critical juncture, as crime in the United States has hit proportions not seen in three decades.
The number of increasingly professional organized retail crime (ORC) rings and their frequent attacks have reached crisis scale, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) in a Sept. 14 report.
These crimes have hurt thousands of businesses and have contributed to higher prices for consumers and loss of key retailers in many communities, as countless stores have closed to due to lack of security.
“The factors contributing to retail shrink have multiplied in recent years, and organized retail crime is a burgeoning threat within the retail industry,” said Mark Meadows, NRF vice president for research development and industry analysis.
“These highly sophisticated criminal rings jeopardize employee and customer safety and disrupt store operations. Retailers are bolstering security efforts to counteract these increasingly dangerous and aggressive criminal activities.”
A SPIKE IN ORGANIZED THIEVERY
According to the 2022 National Retail Security Survey, issued by NRF, the total loss of stolen goods hit $94.5 billion by the end of 2021, up from losses of $90.8 billion in 2020.
The NRF found that the average shrink rate in losses for 2021 was 1.44 percent, a slight decline from the previous two years, but comparable to the five-year average of 1.5 percent.
Acts of fraud are being reported across all venues, ranging from brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce, and omni-channel platforms since 2020.
A sudden increase store violence is another growing area of concern, such as random attacks on store personnel, robberies, and ORC gangs.
The majority of surveyed retailers reported a 89.3 percent increase in violence and a 73.2 percent uptick in shoplifting.
The reported incidents of both ORC and employee theft rose 71.4 percent, much of it involving organized crime or for the gangs’ own benefit.
The NRF said that respondents reported that ORC robberies have risen 26.5 percent since the onset of the pandemic.
The most targeted store items fall under the acronym CRAVED: concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable.
Items under CRAVED include apparel, health and beauty, electronics/appliances, accessories, food and beverage, footwear, home furnishings and housewares, home improvement, eyewear, office supplies, infant care, and toys.
In search of solutions, retailers are boosting spending on theft-prevention measures.
The NRF survey showed that 60.3 percent of retailers are increasing their security budgets.
At least 52.4 percent are increasing their investments in technology, such as radio frequency identification tags and readers, computerized security scanners, and license plate-recognition devices.
“We are seeing more and more, particularly, organized retail crime,” said Corrie Barry, Best Buy’s CEO, in late 2021 to the NY Post.
“You can see that pressure in our financials. And more importantly, frankly, you can see that pressure with our associates. It’s traumatizing,” she said.
RADICAL CRIME POLICIES AND RECIDIVISM
Wealthy liberal enclaves throughout the country with district attorneys thought of as “soft on crime” appear to be the regions most affected by the crime wave and which has only grown worse since the pandemic.
The top five metropolitan areas affected by store bandit gangs in the past year were the Californian cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland; New York; Houston, Texas; and Miami, Florida.
Retailers across the country are calling for stronger legislation, especially at the federal and state level, along with better enforcement of existing laws to quell increasing acts of violence and theft, which are hurting their survival.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce demanded earlier this year that Congress take action to address the rise of ORC crimes, calling them a “national emergency.”
“Retail theft is becoming a national crisis, hurting businesses in every state and the communities they serve,” said Neil Bradley, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s chief policy officer, in a letter to Congress in March.
“We call on policymakers to tackle this problem head-on before it gets further out of control. No store should have to close because of theft.”
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva blamed radical Democrats and prosecutors, saying that they “live in this ‘woke palace’ where they’re not affected by the policies, but the average person IS impacted by them.”
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One can blame an emasculated law enforcement, the racial appeasement policy, the state of retail prices themselves, the socialist leech psychology... but you can't write a word about all the black criminals and their newfound racially entitled attitude. Essentially blaming yourself again, while denying the real problem.
And that's the primary reason you can't do jack shit about it. The most the useless State can do is bill the stupid taxpayer for it all indirectly, to keep industry running. 'We are sorry even if the economy is bleeding, we need you to pay more for stuff, because it's being stolen.'
Speaking with a buddy who is a "Loss Preventive" Mgr. for a big box. He said they are seeing increased losses in the fresh meat areas, where RFID tagging is not "currently" used in many cases.
He also warned me to double-check scanned prices vs. tag/posted prices, as their computerized registers have a number of higher price coding errors.
So it seems Big Box stores chains are both victim and predator.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce demanded earlier this year that Congress take action
They, the Bidness Rountable and other such groups are big backers of open borders. Now, suddenly, they want the law certain laws enforced. A nice package would be increased penalties for retail theft, not circumventable by Soros DAs, coupled with nationwide mandated use of eVerify for any job whatsoever.
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I conducted a mission analysis on the scope of retail crime a couple of years ago in regards to narcotics financing. A "shrinkage rate" of near 2% was common. Note the play on words...shrink...shinkage...minimization is intentional. The real numbers tat should be used is millions of dollars per each individual WalMart and Lowes location...
Our intent was to use this as an opportunity to target the criminals returning to this unprotected honey pot time and time again. Most are criminals with outstanding arrest warrants...that can be identified using facial recognition at the entry points to these big box stores. The stores will not give us the video feeds to identify the fugitives stealing. They are content with allowing their customers to mingle with criminals and happy to pass that 2% loss rate on to the customer...and giving the thief a in store credit card for full purchase price of the stolen item when they return the stolen item to the store without a receipt. The thief is rewarded with a full price card which they then trade for the narcotics of their choice. Kinda curious if the stores aren't unwitting accomplices in this criminal enterprise...that whole deliberate indifference thing.
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Note the play on words...shrink...shinkage...minimization is intentional.
Which means what?
"Shrink" includes losses to shoplifting, spoilage, damage, and just accounting errors. It basically means "we bought this, but in the end couldn't sell it for some reason".
Years ago I heard the chief of security for one of the biggest grocery retailers in the US speak, specifically about organized retail crime. The rings are organized along two axes -- street gangs and overseas reselling. Some of the overseas reselling, well, the goods and cash made it all the way to Pakistan.
The stores are balancing the safety of staff and customers against the losses -- and err on the side of safety. When the margins are $0.001 on the dollar of sales, that 2% loss hurts -- but it's cheaper than lives and injuries.
The idea the stores are somehow complicit is ludicrous -- excessive shrink is held against store management, items that are most likely to be targeted have all manner of deterrents, and corporate loss prevention works with law enforcement to take down the organized rings.
Blame the "prosecutors" who let repeat offenders walk, the legislators who have essentially legalized theft, and the criminals.
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Like corporate taxes, businesses pass this on to the customer.
That would be you.
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09/19/2022 9:51 Comments ||
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Blame the "prosecutors" who let repeat offenders walk, the legislators who have essentially legalized theft, and the criminals. Posted by Rob Crawford
Prosecutors? The stores rarely if ever report the loss - how is the prosecutor supposed to prosecute what isn't reported.
Which means what? The real question is WHY? Why don't the stores share a simple public video feed that would enable LE to screen out fugitives from darkening their doorways? WHY don't the stores cooperate? Liability? It appears that if the public is willing to pay the 2% theft tax...all is swept under the rug...and the consumer makes up the stores profit "shrinkage" in higher prices and the cartels suck on the teat via another source of funding for the narcotics trade.
Shrink? Why not say THEFT - STEALING you know real words. Shrink is focused on the stores profit margin, not loss they pass on to the customer.
It is time for the national leadership of big box stores to take on some responsibility and cooperate with LE when given a chance. The local managers are likely willing but not given the chance by corporate lawyers...been there and heard that story.
Further, because so many county detention facilities are already overcrowded, those who commit misdemeanors are often released shortly after booking. Knowing this, police are often reluctant to bother making an arrest because the paperwork is a waste of their time.
Shoplifting and possession of dangerous narcotics like fentanyl were in effect legalized in California.
It was perhaps the biggest mistake voters in this state ever made. We are getting what we deserve for this mistake. As they say, we are getting it good and hard.
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IIRC, one of the justifications for Prop 47 was the three strikes law which California voters passed in a previous election some years ago. Three strikes said that a third conviction for a felony would result in a mandatory life sentence. Bleeding hearts could simply not abide the thought of all those criminals being put away for good.
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I remember the day I was standing at the local Home Depot checkout counter when two big burly guys ran behind me and grabbed a guy who forgot to stop at the checkout counter before he walked out the door. The clerk told me the big burly guys were part of their "inventory control team". Funny how they looked like your average Home Depot shoppers until somebody tried to leave the store without paying for the merchandise. I believe that crime was reported but I can't remember if it was before or after Proposition 47.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/19/2022 11:56 Comments ||
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Not all shrink is theft, and there's no point in putting money and time into categorizing it.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
09/19/2022 12:33 Comments ||
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Well, there is the Al Capone approach: We're hiring 87,000 new IRS employees, and each of these thefts is (I suspect) a taxable transaction. Biden and Warren want to enforce the tax laws, don't they?
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09/19/2022 13:52 Comments ||
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The dance around the reason for so many stores turning a blind eye is racial. Everyone knows it is disproportionately POCs and that stopping them can be hazardous to your staff. The same racial composition of suspects if the police make arrests makes DA's leery of prosecution since conviction numbers are tracked by race baiters for future bias lawsuits and propaganda for political allies. Further, what follows any interdiction is an instant civil lawsuit against the deep-pocket store for some cooked up bullshit reason that will go before a local jury primed to award serious money for something akin to disrespect or bias, let alone actual criminality.
So much easier to just tax the honest consumer through invisible price increases. Eventually, someone will decide that the location isn't worth.
I can't resist wondering if the ORCs and making Mordor our of blue cities.....Tolkienesque imagery at its most poignant.
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A 24% pay raise across 5 years is less than 5% a year. Official inflation is currently 5%. So that’s a guaranteed pay cut of 3% this year and how much in the next 4 years. Union members can do math if their management can’t
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Google theBNSF attendance policy to see a prime example of ‘management by stupidity;’ they (managers) cannot find enough labor (after covid firings), so now they want to punish those remaining.
Not a fan of unions, but this policy is beyond anything even Bidet could come up with.
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as I understand it the pay raise is not the issue
the work scheduling is the issue
the tentative agreement gave workers one (yes, one) day a year of paid sick leave and up to 5 (not sure about that) days per year of unpaid sick leave
RRs argue, with some validity, that with millions of dollars of cargo on the line they have to have workers on the job reliably-- workers argue, with some validity, that the sick leave policy is much less than, say autoworkers or steelworkers or dockworkers.
Posted by: lord garth ||
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Pretty much every single Comp Sci 101 class has a scheduling problem as a programming exercise. I do get it's more complex for a big real-world enterprise, but the abuses I've been reading about in the comments here sound more like malicious intent than simple incompetence.
Yes, yes, I know the saying to never attribute the second to what can be explained by the first. I just don't see that in the examples presented so far.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/19/2022 14:48 Comments ||
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^ Well, I botched the second half of that comment, but ITYKWIM.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/19/2022 14:50 Comments ||
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/\ I had it explained to me that 'bean counters' consider all Preventive Maintenance the same as 'unnecessary waste' on the profit/loss sheets ...until something breaks. Same sort of short term idiocy.
[Just The News] Dozens of Republican senators are requesting that Attorney General Merrick Garland give special counsel authority to the U.S. attorney investigating President Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
The senators are reportedly making the demand in letter Monday to Garland.
The 33 senators wrote to Garland that "given the politicization" of the Justice Department under his watch, they are requesting him to grant special counsel protections and authorities to U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, a Trump appointee.
"There is no way of knowing the entire scope of the investigation, but evidence seems to be mounting that Hunter Biden committed numerous federal crimes, including, but not limited to, tax fraud, money laundering, and foreign-lobbying violations," the senators wrote in the letter, obtained by Fox News.
High-ranking GOP lawmakers — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Chuck Grassley — have signed the letter, on which Texas Sen. John Cornyn is the lead writer.
"It is clear that Hunter Biden thrived off of a 'pay to play' culture of access to his father, then Vice President Joe Biden in exchange for financial compensation," the letter states.
[NYPOST] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... hemmed and hawed again last week about the House plan to rein in sketchy trades by members of Congress and their families, making empty noises about getting it done in the wake of a brutal New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report ID’ing almost 100 members — nearly 20%! — who reported trades in apparent conflict with their duties as overseers of laws and regulations around American industry in 2019-’21.
She’s plainly stalling, and for obvious reasons: Pelosi’s a byword for such trades with her husband — financier Paul Pelosi — making moves that regularly beat the market, often in sectors highly vulnerable to legislation the speaker can advance or kill.
Indeed, she’s long blocked real action on this problem, saying she’s open to considering the various bills now proposed in the House but doing nothing.
Yet the Times report shows she’s far from the only politician with a vested interested in stifling such bills.
Consider Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s shouty progressive Rep. Ro Khanna. He loves to chastise Wall Street on Twitter. But that sure didn’t stop him from reporting an eye-popping 10,500 stock trades involving nearly 900 companies via trusts under his wife and kids’ names — of which a staggering 149 may be conflicted, including moves in companies under investigation by committees he sat on. Typical hypocrisy from Khanna, who also enjoyed massive donations from the financial industry during his 2016 campaign.
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I'd be happy if Paul Pelosi and others were just required to announce their planned trades one week in advance so that I could get in and out ahead of them.
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Just by-pass Nancy.
Any state can REQUIRE their congressionally election persons to publish their income sources under Ethics Rules.
[NYPOST] Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is reversing course on how the state deals with transgender students — issuing a requirement that they use bathrooms and locker rooms based on their biological sex.
The Republican rolled back changes made by his predecessor, which affected everything from bathroom usage to pronouns.
The rewritten rules, which will go into effect after a 30-day public comment period, also say that minors must be called by the names and pronouns listed on their official records — unless a parent give the OK for something else.
The "2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for all Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools" was posted online Friday by the Virginia Department of Education.
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I think the headline should read, "Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin restores protections for normal students who don't want to be exposed to opposite-sex genitalia all the time."
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As we get closer to the Nov. Elections.
The Far Left & Democrats, as usual, are trying to play both sides of their agenda issues for votes, by playing vague word games.
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] 
Homicides in New Orleans are up 141% when compared to 2019 and up 78% when compared to 2021, according to the data, which states that there have been 205 homicides in the city from the beginning of 2022 until Sept. 11.
[EpochTimes] The massive wave of retail thefts in the United States over the past two years have become a major challenge for both the retail industry and law enforcement.
[Just The News] Dozens of Republican senators are requesting that Attorney General Merrick Garland give special counsel authority to the U.S. attorney investigating President Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
