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Category Archives: Crime
CA’s Prop 47 Boosts Crime
From the Washington Post: In the 11 months since the passage of Prop 47, more than 4,300 state prisoners have been resentenced and then released. Drug arrests in Los Angeles County have dropped by a third. Jail bookings are down … Continue reading
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Large Numbers Of WWII Black American Soldiers Were Executed In France For Bad Behavior
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Of the 96 American soldiers from WW2 buried in the dishonorable Plot E of the Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France – a cemetery otherwise for WW1 soldiers – eighty are black. All of them were … Continue reading
What’s the Average Credit Score of a Mass Shooter?
Steve Sailer writes: In a country that has hundreds of millions of guns lying around, it’s hard to stop a dedicated, competent individual with a long time horizon and no fear of death or prison from acquiring guns. But a … Continue reading
The War On Noticing
I assume that people of great holiness don’t pay much attention to sports and to the news. TV and the practice of religion, for example, are antithetical. The more you do of one, the less you’ll do of the other. … Continue reading
WP: Why you shouldn’t be surprised that prisoners crushed Harvard’s debate team
From the Washington Post: Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates. It sounds like an underdog story plucked from the pages of a yet unwritten Walt Disney … Continue reading
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LAT: Woman punched by CHP officer arrested again on same freeway
I get tired of this black dysfunction. I get tired of cops getting blamed for dealing with this ugly reality the best they can. LATIMES.com: A woman captured on video last year being punched repeatedly by a California Highway Patrol … Continue reading
The Oregon Shooter Was A 26yo Mulatto Who Hated White Christians
BLOG: The immediate on-line web history of Chris Harper-Mercer showed him to be a mixed-race, angry young man in general alignment with various radical racially aligned groups such as Black Lives Matter, Fuck The Police and Fuck Yo Flag – … Continue reading
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Rabbi’s White Privilege Rosh Hashanah Sermon
By Rabbi Jocee Hudson, Temple Israel of Hollywood: When I first saw the video of Sandra Bland’s arrest I started to cry. What if that were me? I was breathless, shaking, imagining the fear she must have felt, face slammed … Continue reading
Americans Are Right to Worry about Illegal Aliens and Crime
Peter Kirsanow writes: Last week I mentioned the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ flawed report to the president and Congress on detention facilities for illegal aliens. Among other things, the report claims that Americans who are concerned about illegal aliens’ … Continue reading
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Socially And Sexually Atomized Atheist Killers and Absent Fathers
From the Chateau: The developing story of Oregon UCC mass murderer Chris Harper-Mercer (mystery meat, half black-half white) has me thinking about the psychologies of mixed race young men and the invisible influence of their absent fathers. In Mercer’s case, … Continue reading
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