A good question: Beginning Oct. 1, the Seattle Police Department will only dispatch officers to alarm calls that come with “supporting evidence, such as audio, video, panic alarms or eyewitness evidence” that someone is breaking into a home or business, according to a letter interim police chief Sue Rahr sent to alarm companies. …
Category: law and order
Sep 15 2024
A Future To Be Avoided, Or a Present To Be Regretted?
I’ve been reading a writer new to me: Henry Brown. And I’m impressed. He has a felicity of style buried within what looks at first like the flattest kind of narrative writing. And every so often, he looses an observation – within his fictional milieu, to be sure – that resonates with me. Here’s …
Sep 08 2024
Legitimacy, Its Departure, And What Follows
You’ve heard the term failed state, haven’t you? It’s been used a few times in recent years, notably with reference to Libya after the death of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi. We don’t often hear the term elucidated, but a working definition would be a state that cannot maintain order within its zone of asserted …
Jul 18 2024
Was It Really Simple Negligence?
The evidence is accumulating that the Secret Service has secrets of its own and means to keep them: The agency run by impeached migration czar Alejandro Mayorkas is interfering with the House’s investigation into the attempted murder of President Donald Trump, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), told Breitbart News. […] Cloud is …
Jun 19 2024
Gradually, Then Suddenly
When Ernest Hemingway was asked “how does a country go bankrupt?” he famously replied, “Gradually, then suddenly.” Hemingway had glimpsed an important truth about the onset of financial calamities. Yet that insight actually applies to a wide range of disasters. There will be some who can see the clouds of crisis forming when …
Apr 24 2024
Repeating The Old Mistakes
Back in the Sixties, when students on American university campuses first began to exhibit unruly and uncivilized behavior in large numbers, the administrators of those institutions made a fatal mistake: they tried to placate the disruptors. From that moment on, there was no quelling the mobs. Their principal agitators, most of them openly aligned …
Apr 10 2024
Avert Your Eyes, Citizen!
In this Year of Our Lord 2024, there are a multitude of things of which We the People are not supposed to take notice. The graphic just below lists a hefty few of them, whose effacement is assisted by “our” “news media.” There are others of note, some of them pertaining to the behavioral …
Apr 02 2024
Even a flatworm turns away from pain
And even Oregon can regain a modicum of sanity. On Monday, Oregon’s Democratic Governor Tina Kotek signed into law House Bill 4002, reverting the possession of small amounts of drugs back into a criminal offense and marking the end of a pioneering decriminalization experiment plagued by implementation challenges. To the surprise of absolutely nobody with two functioning …
Apr 02 2024
“…But I know it when I see it.”
Does anyone remember that little phrase? It became notorious in the early Seventies, after the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a pornography case. The original speaker was Associate Justice Potter Stewart. The stimulus, of course, was the question “What is pornography?” The Court did not issue a definition. Instead, the ruling centered …
Mar 01 2024
Mask Droppings
The forces of chaos must feel that they can no longer be stopped: The most insane thing you have ever heard from@MSNBC Celebrity Black activist lawyer @BenCrumpLaw says that criminal behavior in America is just Black culture. Demands the legalization of crime.@TheRevAl and other Black racial activists all express agreement. pic.twitter.com/bfEQr0b7AU — National Conservative …
Feb 20 2024
How to lose the support of the average Joe Sixpack.
So, when an Amazon driver has to defend himself from one of Joe Biden’s illegal aliens who was also masturbating in public, you would expect the cops to grab the guy who was pulling his pud on the sidewalk. Yeah, not so much. Police arrested Abu and charged him with third-degree assault after Sanchez claimed that Abu …
Dec 08 2023
Delusions And Stability
Delusions are often functional. A mother’s opinions about her children’s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. — Robert A. Heinlein I’m still on the mend, but a little better, thanks for asking. Maybe I’ll be able to speak audibly by New Year’s Day. It’s ambitious, …
Dec 07 2023
The Unreasonable
Clever title, eh? Gets the brain churning, doesn’t it? “The unreasonable who?” “The unreasonable what?” “Porretto’s playing games again, isn’t he?” (“Again,” you say? When did I stop?) Well, it’s all in a day’s work here at the Fortress of Crankitude, Long Island’s premier shrine to self-indulgent snark over too many glasses …
Dec 07 2023
Must It Be Said Yet Again?
Get out of the cities! The Fish spot in Washington Hights NYC. The location was being robbed when the robber turned his on a customer and shot him. ( sent in by a source) #NYC #CRIME #Wednesday pic.twitter.com/2PqF22uvnJ — Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) December 6, 2023 Predators converge on concentrations of prey. …
Oct 24 2023
Once again, we all knew the narrative was garbage
Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl wasn’t killed by the cops, and the four police officers that are currently in jail for his death were wrongly convicted for political reasons. A former Hennepin County, Minnesota, prosecutor is suing her employer, alleging that she was a victim of sex discrimination and retaliation. That’s par for the course. …
Sep 02 2023
Percentages And Concentrations
There have been several posts by other bloggers that address what happens to a society when Muslims reach various percentages of the population. History confirms the dangers such accumulations of Muslims present to a previously free and peaceful society. Moreover, Muslims’ reproduction rate far exceeds that of Western non-Muslim whites, which puts time on …
Aug 25 2023
Crime And The Individual Perspective
John Hinderaker asks in a plaintive tone: Is Crime Still Illegal? All of these descriptions are somewhat sanitized. We have seen the videos: gangs of twenty or more criminals will descend on a store, often blocking the street in front of the store with their vehicles, and rampage through the establishment stealing whatever …
Aug 07 2023
The Subjugated City
Time was, New York City was the nation’s commercial Mecca. Businesses fought to establish themselves there. Real estate there was considered the most prestigious on Earth. The city’s harbors, its status as the Eastern Seaboard’s transportation and communications hub, and its extraordinary cultural vitality were lures that few firms could resist. Time was. …
Aug 03 2023
This Warmed The Cockles Of My Spiny Little Heart
I’ve said it’s coming. I’ve told you to watch for it. Well, it’s here – and I say it’s about BLEEP!ing time! Sikh grocery store owner was told that “there ain’t nothing you can do” repeatedly and that “ayy, just let him go” as they were being robbed. The Sikhs disagreed. pic.twitter.com/ZIb5CVLMNl — Ian …
Jun 20 2023
The Explosion Of Criminality
I know of two ways to create a crime wave: Outlaw many ordinary actions and undertakings; Refrain from prosecuting and punishing crimes already on the books. Can anyone suggest a third? Today, John Hinderaker comments on the crime explosion in Minnesota, with emphasis on a specific recent event: Derrick Thompson was …