If you need an example of bad drug policy vs. human nature, then Oregon is your gal. She decriminalized hard drugs in 2020 and was rewarded with a 200% spike in overdose deaths. People were not more likely to seek treatment, but they were more likely to become unproductive criminals if they didn’t kill themselves.
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“Defund the Police” Chickens … Come Home to Roost in Pittsburgh
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright was more or less unknown before Barry Obama ran for President. One of Wright’s more famous idioms, perhaps due to the frequently shared recording of him saying it, was that after 9/11, America’s chickens were coming home to roost. Much like Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, it still has legs.
Shoplifters Are Stealing More Than Merchandise
A WaPo media machine stenographer has decided to float this trial balloon. All that shoplifting that’s been going on shouldn’t be upsetting middle-class, white-bread supremacists. After all, their descendants stole all this land from someone else.
Of Course Crime Rates Are Down When You Don’t Track The Crimes
Do they really think we are that ignorant? Do they really think that they can gaslight us that we are safer under Biden’s policies? Do they really think that we are deaf and blind to the horrid scenes that we watch with our morning coffee and again with our evening cocktail? Since Joe Biden has been our President, one cocktail is insufficient to get through the evening news.
Too Much Crime: Change the Definition of “Crime”
I saw a clip of a new MSNBC special, which aired on February 11th, called Black Men in America: Road to 2024, with Trymaine Lee, Charles Coleman Martin Jr., and Al Sharpton, to name a few. In this clip, these men stood around a pool table and discussed crime and how the black man is made into a criminal by the establishment’s (the implication being white folks’) deliberate defining of crime to include behaviors that are part of the “black culture.”
Minorities Blame Walgreens for Store Closing When They Should be Blaming Democrats, Or Perhaps, Themselves
Locals in a Roxbury neighborhood outside of Boston are protesting. Walgreens is closing a store there, and perhaps without knowing it, a customer interviewed by the Boston Globe explained why. It’s unsafe to walk to the next closest Walgreens, about a mile away.
Vermont Surpasses 2022, With 27 Homicides in 2023
With all this talk about common sense manifesting as legislation and law, you’d think Vermont would have gotten a handle on its rising homicide rate. Last year, they had 25, unprecedented for that tiny state in our big modern era, but a few more progressive laws later, and it’s up to 27 in 2023.
State Prosecutor Says System Not Designed To Investigate and Prosecute Shoplifters …
The State Chittenden County Prosecutor Sarah George stated at Burlington’s Community Forum on public safety that the overall justice system is not set up for timely investigation and prosecution of repeat-shoplifters.
Vermont Will Have Fewer Gun Deaths in 2023 But The State Did Not Get Safer
We won’t have exact numbers until next year, but Vermont had a significant number of homicides in 2023, many of them gun-related. Unless there is a late December holiday shoot-out, however, there will be fewer gun deaths in 2023 than in 2022. But Vermont didn’t get ‘safer.’
Crime Rise in Drug-Legal Oregon Forewarns Vermonters After Recent Hard Drug Legalization Attempts
Rising overdoses and homelessness in Oregon, where hard drugs have been legalized, may be a red flag to Vermont lawmakers considering repealing legal penalties for the personal use of opioids.
More Murder and Mayhem in Vermont
Burlington has once again found itself the victim of its own politics as progressive rules claim another two lives in the city of Burlington. Police report that two young men were shot and killed, one dead at the scene and the other after being transported to a local hospital.
The Blight of Democrat Rule Continues to Take It’s Toll on Burlington, Vermont
If Vermont is the poster child for Democrat decline, Burlington is the picture at its center. It is by far Vermont’s largest municipality and, again -and perhaps then some – its greatest cistern of liberal policy, making its decline, while sad, easy to predict.
Night Cap: Is Vermont Becoming The Land of Suspicious Deaths?
Troublesome Creek has blue-skinned people. Kentucky has Blue Grass. There are Blue mountains in Oregon, but no one is turning blue faster than Vermont. In a few short years, the political Left has taken the state on a ride to hell.
Something About Chickens Coming Home … Soros Funded DA Carjacked at Gun Point
Jason Williams was elected District Attorney of Loisisana in 2020 with 220,000 little “helpers” from George Soros, and Williams knows who owns him. “Williams declined to prosecute 65% of all criminal cases in New Orleans in 2021.”
He May Have Brought This Upon Himself but Did He Lead Others To Believe as He Did?
I’m sorry to hear that Josh Kruger died, but when he chose to ignore reality, and that reality then bit his backside (and bit it hard), a comment on the relationship between these two things is perfectly allowable.
If You Want To Be Anti-Crime, You Have To Be Anti-Democrat
In the first 260 days of 2023, the Oakland Police received 10,547 stolen vehicle reports. That’s 40.56 reports every day (Jan 1-Sep 17). If that trend continues, assuming it does not trend up, that would be 14,806 motor vehicle thefts in one year. Go Democrats!
The Left’s Culture of Crime Continues to “Target” Retailers
Over the summer, Target made a show of pulling back its controversial Transgender collection. They claimed it was to protect worker and customer safety. That was a cover story to hide a marketing stumble, but Target still has safety concerns, forcing it to close nine stores.
Is the Solution to Ban ‘Migrants’ or Public Transit?
France is very different from here. But in some ways, we should expect things to be the same. Take crime, for example. A new report focused on crimes that occur on public transportation delivered some alarming and unpleasant truths.
You’ll Need to Do More Than Just Say “I’m a Republican”
Black Democrat Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced he was switching to the Republican Party. It is a bold move in a city like Dallas, and if nothing else, the Democrat party is pissed, so at least one good thing came out of it.
How About a New Tax to Pay for All These New Illegals Alienating Urban City Dwellers
New York City is full of Demcorats. Millions of them. The city is also swelling from the influx of illegal border crossers doing business as ‘migrants,’ their word, not mine. The cost of that preferred policy has come home to roost with the progressive chickens, and the stress fractures are evident everywhere.