Category: Crime
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New Chicago mayor blames ‘No opportunities’ for youth riots
Have they tried socialism? From National Review: After hundreds of teenagers and young adults descended on the Loop in downtown Chicago over the weekend, destroying cars and brawling in the streets, mayor-elect Brandon Johnson cautioned against “demonizing” the vandals. It “is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their…
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Would this cop be criminally charged
If this weren’t Madison WI? Contrary to Nancy Pelosi’s dictum that criminal defendants must prove their innocence, our legal system requires the state to prove guilt. But the might of the state is arrayed against defendants who either pay for their own defense or trust their fate to a court-appointed attorney. As a practical matter, there…
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Crime and schools are on the city ballot
More so in Chicago than in Madison, unfortunately. Election central is up and running here at the Policy Werkes. A bottomless pot of Maxwell House percolates on the Monarch kitchen range, rabbit ears on the b&w Philco are perked up for the latest update, the wall-sized blackboard is charted into rows and columns like a…
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Referenda to rear-end ya
On our Spring 2023 ballot Voted early this time (and only once, so far). They call it absentee in person, which makes a kind of only-in-Madison sense. Bottom of the ballot listed what looked like college essay questions. Either that or the disclaimers you click through without reading, alerting that the software you just downloaded…
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Are Democrats getting smart about crime?
Have they learned from Lori Lightfoot? How else to explain Joe Biden turning his back on the progressive movement to decriminalize crime? The President is siding with Republicans who want to nullify the City of Washington’s attempt to dumb down criminal prosecution. Congress can do that because, ultimately, it controls the District of Columbia. The…
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Lori Lightfoot is the ultimate victim
of voters unaccustomed to feeling the touch of violence! The entire liberal, progressive, Woke enterprise can be understood as an oceans-deep trawl for victims. To the original victim class, black folk, the Linnaeus classification has been enlarged to include every woman — no longer do we hear them roar! Taxpayer-subsidized college students also wear the…