Breakdown In Civil Order

[TSwizzle]

The voters had a chance to recall Gascon and elect somebody saner than Bass (i.e. Rick Caruso). I am yet again reminded of what H.L. Mencken said about democracy ...

Rick Caruso owns the Americana Mall in Glendale, CA. This mall was hit by a group of 30+ individuals that ransacked one of the high end stores. Gascon gave a press conference about the recent spate of looting of shops. He took no responsibility, blamed the local community and got bent out of shape when asked by the press about his policies, telling them to check a mysterious "mid-term report". The guy is a clown but somehow still managed to dodge the recall.

Anyhoo, the latest "harm reduction" scheme is going ahead;

Needle delivery services for drug users will be available in Santa Ana after the state approved a syringe exchange program on Tuesday. The program was approved by the California Department of Public Health from an application by the Harm Reduction Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on reducing and preventing drug use in Orange County. The nonprofit will be authorized to provide delivery of syringes and pickup of used syringes to private homes, tents, RVs and other non-traditional forms of housing.

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Seems to me this non profit wants to kill off the junkies by making sure they have the equipment to administer hard drugs.

Harm reduction indeed.

 

[lostone]

Video shows ‘mob’ steal up to $100,000 worth of items at Nordstrom in Los Angeles: Police

The video:


No surprise this took place in the city run by Karen Bass (who is a sympathizer of Fidel Castro as well as of the Nation of Islam) and the county where George Gascon is DA.

The voters had a chance to recall Gascon and elect somebody saner than Bass (i.e. Rick Caruso). I am yet again reminded of what H.L. Mencken said about democracy ...

They have similar issues in England -

EXCLUSIVE: What's behind the demise of Oxford Street?

EXCLUSIVE: Retail experts told MailOnline that a rise in anti-social behaviour has no doubt had a devastating impact on businesses at day and night.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[TSwizzle]

A serial creep from Los Angeles County is back on the streets after dozens of arrests for a slew of sex offenses and other crimes stretching back to 2005, despite being caught on video accosting women just days ago. Calese Carron Crowder, 37, was identified as the man seen on viral TikTok videos who appears to follow women around a Burbank Barnes & Noble bookstore "sniffing" their backsides. Glendale police arrested him for allegedly peeping on a Glendale home with children inside last week, according to authorities. Crowder has felony convictions of robbery and burglary, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital, and despite having been ordered to register as a sex offender, his name did not appear on the state's registry when checked Wednesday morning. Crowder previously served time in state prison on burglary and robbery charges and had been sentenced in February to a year in jail for indecent exposure in Santa Clarita, court records show. However, Crowder was released early anyway, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.

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This guy is a real threat to women and yet he managed to dodge going on the sex offender register.

 

[TomC]

This guy is a real threat to women and yet he managed to dodge going on the sex offender register.

Does he like to buy teenage beauty contests and "grab em by the pussy"?
Does he know anyone with a private island?

How does anyone get away with such behavior?!?

Tom

 

[Emily Lake]

Here's a sex offender who is back on the streets.

Yeah, but is he as bad as Trump?

 

[thebeave]

A serial creep from Los Angeles County is back on the streets after dozens of arrests for a slew of sex offenses and other crimes stretching back to 2005, despite being caught on video accosting women just days ago. Calese Carron Crowder, 37, was identified as the man seen on viral TikTok videos who appears to follow women around a Burbank Barnes & Noble bookstore "sniffing" their backsides. Glendale police arrested him for allegedly peeping on a Glendale home with children inside last week, according to authorities. Crowder has felony convictions of robbery and burglary, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital, and despite having been ordered to register as a sex offender, his name did not appear on the state's registry when checked Wednesday morning. Crowder previously served time in state prison on burglary and robbery charges and had been sentenced in February to a year in jail for indecent exposure in Santa Clarita, court records show. However, Crowder was released early anyway, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.

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This guy is a real threat to women and yet he managed to dodge going on the sex offender register.

This guy is doing things the old fashioned hard way. All he has to do is say he identifies as a woman then walk into a woman's gym, health club, etc and proceed to start "checkin' em out" and getting his jollies. And there are people will fight for his right to do just that.

P.S. What's up with the dude's ears? Reminds me of the hippy guy from Star Trek: TOS.

 

[thebeave]

Here's a sex offender who is back on the streets.

Yeah, but is he as bad as Trump?

Heh. TDS is a plague in this forum. I made a comment about Pee Wee Herman's death a while back, and somehow it managed to inspire a comment about Trump. Go figger...

 

[TomC]

Here's a sex offender who is back on the streets.

Yeah, but is he as bad as Trump?

I have no way of knowing.

How much has he spent on lawyers?
Tom

 

[lpetrich]

John Hamasaki on X: "Great that DA Brooke Jenkins crime wave has become a national story. Bad policies, mismanagement, and corruption are not a good mix. (link)" / X
noting
San Francisco kicked out its progressive DA…and violent crime went up at MSNBC
and
San Francisco kicked out its progressive DA…and violent crime went up at Yahoo

It’s been over a year since San Francisco ousted progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin over crime concerns. So what has happened since? Spoiler Alert: Violent crime is rising. Mehdi breaks down what the backlash against progressive DA’s, including Boudin, is really about.

Robert Greenwald on X: "Under new "tough on crime" DA Brooke Jenkins, overdose deaths have hit a new record, murders are up 20% and drug sales in SF have doubled.
Yet, SF billionaires like @DavidSacks who spent thousands recalling Chesa Boudin over "public safety concerns" are silent." / X

SF Progressives on X: "Interesting how the prominent media & tech voices who crowed constantly about violent crime *feeling* like it was up with Chesa Boudin as DA even though the stats didn't bear that out have no concerns about violent crime *actually being up* with Brooke Jenkins as DA." / X

The Mehdi Hasan Show on X: ".@elonmusk's characterization of San Francisco as ‘post-apocalyptic’ is “woefully disconnected” from reality, @chesaboudin says. “It’s always a little disappointing to see people who really have no expertise, no background in [public policy] weigh in as though they’re experts.” (vid link)" / X

 

[lpetrich]

Recall Alameda DA Pamela Price movement files official notice

DA Price has addressed the recall effort and likened its organizers to those that stormed the U.S. Capitol to try and prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election.

“In what appears to be a page out of the January 6th playbook, outside special interest groups, supported by the Republican Party, are trying to seize control from local voters because they refuse to accept the results of a legitimate, democratic election to remove the status quo,” said Price’s campaign in a statement.

 

[lpetrich]

Progressive prosecutors contend with backlash politics - POLITICO

After decades of increasingly harsh sentencing laws swelled state prison populations, the last few years saw bipartisan support for moving in the opposite direction — a reversal embodied by former President Donald Trump signing the First Step Act. Blue states like California passed laws seeking to reduce incarceration and eliminate cash bail.

IMO, ending cash bail alone is a bad idea. It ought to be coupled with ankle monitoring. These can also be used as a punishment for shoplifting, combined with alerting store owners to their presence.

They have risen to power in recent years, buoyed by a racial justice reckoning and deep-pocketed donors that can counter the spending of the law enforcement interests that have sought to defeat them. Supporters hail it as a new era in criminal justice, but a backlash has many of those prosecutors fighting for their political lives as Republicans hammer them for being soft on crime, seeing an obvious vulnerability as violent offenses leaped in many cities after having plummeted to historic lows.

Conservatives have relentlessly attacked “Soros prosecutors,” ...

It must hurt for an oligarch to not be on their side.

 

[lpetrich]

Video shows ‘mob’ steal up to $100,000 worth of items at Nordstrom in Los Angeles: Police

The video:


No surprise this took place in the city run by Karen Bass ...

What actions or policies of Karen Bass caused this crime to occur, and what - specifically, please - should she do about it?

There is another aspect of crime and policing that is not discussed very much. Cops can't simply teleport in -- they have to get in their cars and drive in, and that will take several minutes. Also, since it was a big gang, it would likely overpower whatever guards the store had.

Also, if a gang of thieves descended on some store at a mall, then it should be an easy matter to lock the mall's doors and to lock the doors of most of the stores in the mall. That's likely to be very disruptive, however, and I don't know how practical that would be.

 

[Politesse]

Video shows ‘mob’ steal up to $100,000 worth of items at Nordstrom in Los Angeles: Police

The video:


No surprise this took place in the city run by Karen Bass ...

What actions or policies of Karen Bass caused this crime to occur, and what - specifically, please - should she do about it?

There is another aspect of crime and policing that is not discussed very much. Cops can't simply teleport in -- they have to get in their cars and drive in, and that will take several minutes. Also, since it was a big gang, it would likely overpower whatever guards the store had.

Also, if a gang of thieves descended on some store at a mall, then it should be an easy matter to lock the mall's doors and to lock the doors of most of the stores in the mall. That's likely to be very disruptive, however, and I don't know how practical that would be.

You mean locking the thieves in with the employees and panicking customers? That sounds extremely dangerous to me. Lives are more important than stuff.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Recall Alameda DA Pamela Price movement files official notice

DA Price has addressed the recall effort and likened its organizers to those that stormed the U.S. Capitol to try and prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election.

“In what appears to be a page out of the January 6th playbook, outside special interest groups, supported by the Republican Party, are trying to seize control from local voters because they refuse to accept the results of a legitimate, democratic election to remove the status quo,” said Price’s campaign in a statement.

Is the recall effort an illegal activity? Likening it to Jan 6 is ridiculous. Do you think if there were a legal Presidential recall process that it wouldn’t be happening?

 

[steve_bank]

I walked over to nearby Harbor View hospita t 6:00 this morning to get stiches removed.

There were 5 pilce cars out frint and awomn falling down wiling.

About 2 hours earler a man got a gun from a car. Then a womn began shooting in the air.

There were a crowd of people around trying to get info on the injured. Well dressed immigrants, not a gang issue.


Two weeks earlier I heard loud explosions. When I went outside across I5 I could see a homeless camp and trees burning next to Harbor View. The report is that the guy in the camp who ran it and the drug trafficking was forced out. He had been shot by a rival.He made imprvised expolives around the camp and around a tent where you could pay to use drugs. When the bombs went off he stred shooting at peole running around.

Teens shooting teens, tees stealing cars and committing armed robbery.

This is the new normal around here.


Anyone who thinks culture has not taken a wrong turn needs to take the blinders off.

 

[thebeave]

Recall Alameda DA Pamela Price movement files official notice

DA Price has addressed the recall effort and likened its organizers to those that stormed the U.S. Capitol to try and prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election.

“In what appears to be a page out of the January 6th playbook, outside special interest groups, supported by the Republican Party, are trying to seize control from local voters because they refuse to accept the results of a legitimate, democratic election to remove the status quo,” said Price’s campaign in a statement.

Is the recall effort an illegal activity? Likening it to Jan 6 is ridiculous. Do you think if there were a legal Presidential recall process that it wouldn’t be happening?

She needs to go. To blame her troubles on Republican malcontents is very disingenous. Its everyday citizens (R & D) of Oakland who are speaking out. Even the NAACP (hardly a bastion of Republicans) has turned against her in a letter to her and city leaders:

Oakland NAACP bashes 'Defund the Police' movement, calls for state of emergency amid crime wave

Penning a letter to city leaders last week, the Oakland branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said the movement to defund police has led to a “heyday” for criminals.

“Failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, our District Attorney’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life threatening serious crimes, and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals. If there are no consequences for committing crime in Oakland, crime will continue to soar,” the NAACP wrote.

 

[TomC]

She needs to go. To blame her troubles on Republican malcontents is very disingenous. Its everyday citizens (R & D) of Oakland who are speaking out. Even the NAACP (hardly a bastion of Republicans) has turned against her in a letter to her and city leaders:

I know near nothing about Oakland, and less about their DA. But that's pretty damning.
Tom

 

[lpetrich]

The NAACP? That reminds me of this:

Prop. 22 Explained: Why Gig Companies Are Spending Huge Money on an Unprecedented Measure | KQED - for classifying gig workers as independent contractors rather than as employees.

Marketing Prop. 22 as a Social Justice Measure

...
Getting the California NAACP to endorse Proposition 22 was a big win for gig companies. The organization has authored voter guides telling people to vote yes, and Alice Huffman, head of the California NAACP, has been writing editorials in support of the proposition. Huffman also happens to run a consulting firm called AC Public Affairs. That firm has so far received $85,000 from the Yes on Prop. 22 Campaign. Huffman has a history of receiving contributions from corporations to support their ballot initiatives. The Yes on Prop. 22 money is part of $1.2 million her firm has already received this year.

If the Oakland NAACP wants more cops, sure, but making a scapegoat out of Pamela Price is dumb. It's like making a scapegoat out of Chesa Boudin. Recalling him didn't lead to the SF crime rate dropping by a factor of 2 or 3 -- instead, it increased.

I think that the Oakland NAACP ought to organize a vigilante force with members recruited from the communities that it will protect -- unlike cops who commute from suburbs.

 

[Politesse]

Yeah. As an Alameda County resident, I'm pretty upset about the recall effort going forward. It's going to waste huge amounts of money and will inevitably lead to a huge spike in crime whether it succeeds or fails. Exactly as happened in SF, and that's by design. The cousin-fucking Republicans don't actually care whether crime goes up and down, they'll describe the Bay Area as an unliveable cesspit either way. This is all jsut grandstanding for the cameras, and they'll be pleased as punch if Oakland and Hayward continue to be scary places to live in perpetuity, because they milk the hell out of those cities for political and literal capital. They have for decades and they still do and and still will forever, no matter what happens in reality.

 

[lpetrich]

Reflections On The Black Panther Party 50 Years Later : NPR

Fifty years ago this month, a small group of African-American activists in Oakland got together and decided to take a different kind of strategy in the fight for civil rights. They formed what was initially called the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense (ph), and it did look like an army of sorts. Members wore berets and black leather jackets. They carried rifles. To the communities they served, the Black Panthers were seen as vigilantes. But to law enforcement, they were a threat.

So the Oakland NAACP ought to consider doing what the Black Panthers did half a century ago.