What’s Wrong with Chicago?
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy] I have a new piece up over at Pajamas Media in which I look at the sorry state of affairs in Chicago, home to some of the country’s best people but worst politicians. The...
View ArticleRacism Made Him Steal, and Kill
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy] Only the naïve among us failed to expect this. From MSNBC: MANCHESTER, Connecticut — Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as...
View ArticleL.A. Times Misrepresents Holding of Federal Decision in California Murder Case
A front-page story in the L.A. Times this morning is titled She killed her husband — or did she? Police got a confession from Kristi Lyn Bateson nine years after her husband was found shot to death...
View ArticleCome at a Cop With a Knife, Expect to Be Shot
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy] I have a new column up today at Pajamas Media dealing with the recent police shooting of a knife-wielding man near downtown Los Angeles. It begins as follows: Everyone knows...
View ArticleInjustice in Dallas
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy] The police department in Dallas is being turned upside down over an alleged case of police brutality. On Sept. 5, two police officers chased a man on a motorcycle and had an...
View ArticleNeeded: An Initiative to Get the Death Penalty Working Again
As I noted last night, a Clinton-appointed judge named Jeremy Fogel has granted a stay of execution in the case of a man convicted of raping and killing a 15-year-old child in 1980. There is no...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times (Possibly) Errs in Describing Third Striker’s Record;...
I am going to refrain from commenting on the following case except for noting evidence of a possible error by the Los Angeles Times. Here is the Times report: To hear him tell his story, John Wesley...
View ArticleAhhnold Reduces Sentence of Fabian Nunez’s Son
Without even consulting the D.A.: San Diego County District Atty. Bonnie Dumanis said Monday she was shocked to learn that then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had reduced the prison sentence of the son of...
View ArticleSome LAPD Gang Units Disbanded; Will Higher Crime Follow?
[Guest post by Jack Dunphy] The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday on the impact felt in the LAPD from one of the last vestiges of the federal consent decree that resulted from the Rampart scandal....
View ArticleObama Administration Deliberately Allows Guns Into Mexico; How Many Have Died...
You know what seems like a good idea? Flooding Mexico with guns! Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico? “Yes ma’am,”...
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How the L.A. Times Slants Crime News
Another reminder of how the L.A. Times distorts the news. The story is simple. Woman babysits a newborn baby and physically abuses the child. She fractures the child’s skull, and breaks his ribs and...
View ArticleJerry Brown Slowly Dismantling Death Penalty Apparatus in California
In the excitement over bin Laden, Californians may have overlooked Jerry Brown’s stealth moves to do away with the death penalty in California. Last week he announced that he is cancelling the...
View Article“Realignment”: California Passes the Buck on Prisoners
Californians, you thought that the Ninth Circuit order to release state prisoners was going to create danger? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. “Realignment” is a Jerry Brown brainchild that basically...
View ArticleAnother Example of How Lawyers Ignoring the Plain Meaning of Language Go Astray
Here’s an interesting little legal issue — one that is apparently easier to resolve properly if you have not had legal training. California Penal Code section 288.7(a) reads as follows: Any person 18...
View Article“Racial Justice” Law Could Mean Reduced Sentence for Killer Who Killed...
Welcome to a country where a law called the “Racial Justice Act” is employed to potentially reduce the punishment of someone who killed a man because of his color: For nearly three weeks, convicted...
View ArticleDeport the Criminals First: Two Stories
A triple murderer should have been deported after his previous robbery and assault conviction leading to a prison sentence. Gee, maybe we should Deport the Criminals First: A day after authorities...
View ArticleL.A. Times Uses Classic Liberal Bias Techniques in Article on Death Penalty...
In reporting on an initiative to abolish the death penalty, the L.A. Times tells us about the “[g]rowing numbers” of people — conservatives, even! — who oppose capital punishment: Growing numbers of...
View ArticleConvicted Murderer: I’m Too Fat to Be Executed
Just when you thought you’d heard every argument against executing someone comes this: Lawyers for a 480-pound death row inmate in Ohio say their client is too overweight to be put to death. “Indeed,...
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The Power of the Jump™: The Overaggressive Cops Who Shot the Handcuffed Guy...
(Note: “The Power of the Jump” is a semi-regular feature of this site, documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s use of its back pages to hide information that its editors don’t want you to see.)...
View ArticleUSA Today: Georgetown to expel student after he sues over its handling of...
[Headline from DRJ] Georgetown to expel student after he sues over its handling of college admissions probe: A Georgetown University undergraduate student whose dad has already pleaded guilty to paying...
View ArticleHOUSTON CHRONICLE: Intruder found outside of 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom …
[Headline from DRJ] Chron.com has a complex story that no headline could fully capture, but this one tries: Intruder found outside of 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom dies after gunshots, self-inflicted...
View ArticleHEADLINE: Former employee arrested for stealing $14K in Disney costumes
[Headline from DRJ] ORLANDO SENTINEL — Former employee arrested for stealing $14K in Disney costumes from Magic Kingdom, Epcot, deputies say: A former Disney employee was arrested Friday after he stole...
View ArticleHPD: Teen killed after group reportedly targets east Houston home with...
[Headline from DRJ] Houston Chronicle – HPD: Teen killed after group reportedly targets east Houston home with paintball guns: Police said a group of teens with paintball guns were outside the home in...
View ArticleLAW & CRIME: The Julian Assange Superseding Indictment
[Headline from DRJ] Law & Crime: Top Legal Takeaways on the Implications of the Julian Assange Superseding Indictment Conversation and commentary immediately centered on the First Amendment...
View ArticleLA TIMES: Weinstein reaches $44 million settlement
[Headline from DRJ] LA Times: Harvey Weinstein reaches $44 million settlement with accusers and … Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a tentative $44 million settlement … — DRJ
View ArticleJussie Smollett Headlines
[Headlines from DRJ] Chicago Sun Times – Judge unseals records in Jussie Smollett case The “Empire” actor’s public comments about the case showed he was not concerned about his privacy after...
View ArticleDeputy in Parkland School Shooting Arrested, Charged
[Headline from DRJ] Orlando Sentinel – Ex-school deputy Scot Peterson arrested on charges of neglect of duty in Parkland massacre: When every second counted, school resource officer Scot Peterson, who...
View ArticleNebraska AG Stands Alone
[Headline from DRJ] AP News – Nebraska’s AG is lone holdout in pursuing opioid cases: Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has fought prescription opioid abuse through public education campaigns,...
View ArticlePhoenix Family Sues Police
[Headlines from DRJ] Heavy.com — Shocking Video of Phoenix Cops Holding Black Family at Gunpoint Over $1 Doll: The term shocking is oft used to describe surprising or eye-popping viral videos. There...
View ArticleMassive Drug Bust in …
[Headline from DRJ] Reuters – U.S. seizes $1 billion worth of cocaine from ship in Philadelphia. 16.5 tons, one of the biggest seizures in decades. — DRJ
View ArticleLicker in Lufkin (UPDATED)
[Headline from DRJ] First the sale of Whataburger and now this: Lufkin police are investigating a video of a serial Blue Bell ice cream licker and working to verify the identity of the female suspect...
View ArticlePhilly Carjacker beaten to Death
[Headline from DRJ] Man beaten to death after stealing car with 3 kids inside: Police say a 25-year-old woman left her car running in front of New Star Pizza at 28th and Dauphin streets to visit her...
View ArticleThis Week’s Crime Survey
[Headlines from DRJ] This won’t be an exhaustive survey but let’s look at some of this week’s crime headlines: Machetes And Mayhem: DoJ Unveils MS-13 Racketeering And Murder Indictment: Bet on this...
View ArticleEl Chapo Sentenced Today
[Headlines from DRJ] Earlier today — Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case: NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo” go quietly? For Joaquin Guzman,...
View ArticleTeenage Trend in Texas?
[Headline from DRJ] I recently posted on a story about a teenager opening, licking and returning a Blue Bell ice cream container to a Lufkin, Texas, grocery store shelf. If two is a trend, this is a...
View ArticleFederal Government to resume Executions
[Headline from DRJ] Trump Justice Department to resume federal executions: Attorney General William Barr has directed that executions for five death-row inmates be scheduled. If carried out, they will...
View ArticleActive Shooter in Gilroy CA; Multiple Victims reported (Updated)
[Headline from DRJ] Multiple Injuries Reported in Shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival: Police and emergency personnel late Sunday responded to reports of a shooting involving multiple victims at the...
View ArticleHackers
[Headlines from DRJ] Let’s talk about hacking and hackers … like the news that Capital One target of massive data breach: A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation’s largest issuers...
View ArticleNY Post: NYPD judge recommends Daniel Pantaleo be fired over Eric Garner’s...
[Headline from DRJ] NY POST: Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for the chokehold incident involving Eric Garner, an NYPD judge ruled. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado...
View ArticleMultiple Shooting Victims in El Paso (UPDATE: Dayton Mass Shooting)
[Headline from DRJ] El Paso Times: A shooting at the Walmart in the Cielo Vista Mall area has left multiple people dead, an El Paso police officer said Saturday. An El Paso police spokesman said a...
View ArticleExtreme Patriotism
[Headline from DRJ] Superior man charged with assaulting boy who was ‘disrespecting the national anthem’: A 39-year-old Superior man was jailed this weekend for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old boy...
View ArticleViolence Continues: 4 Dead in Stabbing Spree
[Headline from DRJ] 4 dead after series of stabbings in Garden Grove, Santa Ana: Four people were killed and two others injured in a series of robberies and stabbings that started in Garden Grove and...
View ArticleNM Homeowner faces Murder Charge
[Headline from DRJ] If this report is true, this does not sound like the best way to legally defend yourself and your property: Homeowner faces murder charge in shooting of auto burglar ALBUQUERQUE,...
View ArticleMissouri Walmart Incident (5 days after El Paso Walmart shooting) — UPDATED
[Headline from DRJ] Yesterday afternoon: Police: Man with rifle, bulletproof vest arrested at Walmart store: [Springfield Police Lt.] Lucas said the man showed up to the business with body armor and...
View ArticleMore Gun Stories (Update: Plus a Bomb-making Story)
[Headlines from DRJ] I fear we may see more of these stories for awhile: After a six-hour search, authorities found a Paradise man, who was reportedly seen earlier in the afternoon carrying a rifle...
View ArticleUpdate: Missouri Walmart Incident
[Headline from DRJ] I updated a recent post on a Missouri Walmart incident but I am also starting a new post because of a new development that involves a favorite topic around here — the law: Armed man...
View ArticleArrests made for Threats targeting South Texas Walmarts
[Headline from DRJ] The Rio Grande Valley in South Texas is having problems with online threats targeting Walmart stores: Just one week after a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, authorities have...
View ArticleQuestions continue about Epstein’s Prison, Guards, Death
[Headline from DRJ] Daily Mail — The two prison guards who failed to check on Jeffrey Epstein every 30 minutes were both ‘working long overtime shifts at the understaffed jail’ on the night he killed...
View ArticleFederal Gun Charges in connection with Dayton Shooting
[Headline from DRJ] Friend of gunman in Ohio mass shooting to face federal gun charges: prosecutors: (Reuters) – A friend of the Ohio man who killed nine people, including his own sister, in Dayton...
View ArticleColorado deals with Two Police Shootings
[Headlines from DRJ] There have been two recent police shootings in Colorado: Colorado Springs, CO: Video shows Colorado Springs police shoot De’Von Bailey in the back as he runs away Police yelled...
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