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Category Archives: Crime
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Caught By The Gang Injunction Model That Developed In La Cienega Heights
DHS said April 18: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a MS-13 gang member, illegal alien from El Salvador, and suspected human trafficker. The facts reveal he was pulled over with eight individuals in a car on an admitted three-day journey from … Continue reading
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Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)
I ask Grok to critique this 2024 book by Steve Sailer: Steve Sailer’s Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) (published in 2024 by Passage Publishing) is a sprawling anthology of essays spanning five decades of the author’s career as a journalist, … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘Los Angeles Pedestrians Look Forward to Relaxed Jaywalking Law’
The New York Times published Nov. 3, 2022: “I’m smart enough to know if cars are coming,” said one walker who is glad the old law will come off the books on Jan. 1. Starting Jan. 1, thanks to the … Continue reading
Crime and the Democrats
William Voegeli writes: Take the contention that no other advanced democracy has an incarceration rate approaching America’s. It is rhetorically powerful but intellectually shoddy to make international comparisons of incarceration practices without also comparing countries’ crime situations. Doing so implies … Continue reading
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Breaking News: Second Jewish Man Shot In Pico-Robertson (2-16-23)
01:30 Two Jewish men shot in L.A.’s Pico-Robertson in two days, prompting more security for synagogues, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-16/extra-security-added-for-synagogues-after-two-jewish-men-shot-in-pico-robertson-in-two-days 03:00 Second Jewish man shot by a white guy, https://jewishjournal.com/news/356181/second-jewish-man-shot-in-pico/ 06:00 Twitter thread on shootings, https://twitter.com/thislouis/status/1626287969870184448 08:00 Chinese balloon freakout, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/opinion/spy-balloon-china-fear.html 38:00 Salman … Continue reading
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Nepos With Attitude (12-23-22)
Virtual Pilgrim comments: Luke said he talks about what is, rather than what should be. I totally agree. Dennis Prager is fond of saying “race doesn’t matter.” It’s literally his number one point when talking about conservatism. What he is … Continue reading
The Atlantic: WHY IS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE LIKE THIS?
Elaina Plott writes: * Forsyth County was a calm, quiet, ordered place. But it had a history. In September 1912, an 18-year-old white girl was found bloodied and barely breathing in the woods lining the Chattahoochee River; she died two … Continue reading
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Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries in La Cienega Heights
Criminology professor Ana Munoz produced this 2015 ethno-graphic history of La Cienega Heights. From Amazon: “Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries…explores the history of the area to explain how Cadillac-Corning became viewed by outsiders as a “violent neighborhood” … Continue reading
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How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Catching Killers
Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by college professor Michael Arntfield: * People may demand diversity in their soft drink ads and sitcoms, but true crime stories still overwhelmingly cover white criminals and their white victims. * There … Continue reading
Violent Video Games and Automatic Pilot
From Dave Grossman’s book On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace: Violent video games have been in existence for several decades now, and many kids who played them years ago are now in … Continue reading