Three gas stations within a single square mile near Oakland Airport are struck a dozen times or more every day by brazen vehicle thieves, according to police
But cops told DailyMail.com they are powerless to halt the crimes because they are classed as ‘nonviolent’ and added that the situation is worse than ever
Vehicle thefts have risen 50 percent in Oakland, with 12,956 incidents reported in 2023, leading some officers to criticize the city’s ‘progressive’ crime policies
Thao, 38, who took office in January last year, said crime in Oakland ‘has been on a steady rise since 2019’ and it’s ‘dishonest for anyone to say that crime started rising under my watch only’.
The solution, according to officers on the ground, is to abandon the progressive legislation which has curved their powers.
‘It’s a social experiment and it’s not working,’ one said. ‘Why don’t we stick with things that work?’
Edit. Oakland has been without a chief of police since Thao fired the previous chief shortly after she took office. There are recall drives out for Thao and the Soros district attorney, Pamela Price.
CNN law enforcement analyst John Miller said Friday that he learned from police detectives that migrant gang crews operate in New York City and then go to Florida to spend the money.
“But I’m like, ‘why don’t they just stay and steal in Florida?’” Miller said in a conversation about a group of migrants who attacked an NYPD officer and lieutenant in front of a shelter on West 42nd Street in Manhattan.
“They said, ‘because there you go to jail,’” Miller added, recounting a conversation with detectives.
The case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has grown stronger after today’s evidentiary hearing.
Today was unquestionably dramatic: a witness testified to Willis and Nathan Wade’s relationship before he was appointed Special Prosecutor; the State and Wade fought to prevent the testimony of Wade’s law partner and divorce attorney; and Fani Willis demanded to testify, causing attorneys from her office to withdraw their motion to quash. Willis did not fail to disappoint – her performance was caustic, adversarial, undignified, and sometimes unhinged.
On direct examination from Ms. Merchant, Yeartie explained there was “no doubt” that Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade were in a romantic relationship as far back as 2019. In fact, Yeartie was “certain” that Willis told her on more than one occasion that she was romantic with Wade – long before Wade was appointed Special Prosecutor in late 2021… Yeartie was clear that this all took place before Wade was appointed in November 2021.
Willis’s bitterness and rage were evident throughout her long testimony. Again and again, she refused to answer simple and straight-forward questions, choosing instead to go on rambling and accusatory speeches. At one point, Willis shook various motions with her hands and accused Ms. Merchant of lying, causing numerous objections until Judge McAfee finally decided to take a break to let everyone cool down. it’s entirely possible that McAfee wanted the public to see Willis for who she really is…. could have objected on the grounds that Willis’s long-winded answers were non-responsive to the questions. Instead, they chose to let Willis speak - which turned out to be a decent strategy, considering the lengths Willis went to create a spectacle and embarrass herself.
The left has been willing to aggressively change or subvert the laws to punish their opponents, while the right has failed to respond in kind. Seems like a losing approach.
Ideology and party affiliations increasingly determine guilt and punishment. Opponents are first targeted, and then laws are twisted and redefined to convict them.
The errors “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error,” Olsen added.
Doesnt acknowledging that human error is a factor in tally results completely undermine the party line from the past 4 years that the election was “secure and accurate”? Who cares that, in this case, it didnt affect the outcome of the election, it still only highlights that the results in fact were not accurate. And if it can happen unintentionally, it can happen intentionally. Plus it took over 3 years to “find” this mistake and that was with (apparently) no attempt to hide it, imagine if someone was trying to make it hard to find…
NYC mayor says their 200k illegals will destroy the city, calls for end to its “sanctuary city” status.
If only 200k is enough to destroy the city, what will the 8M admitted under Biden do to the country? That’s a bigger fraction nationally of the US population than it is for NYC. Is it any wonder citizens want a wall?
Concern about illegal immigration is so high, in fact, that for the first time since Monmouth began asking Americans for their views on the matter in 2015, a majority (58 percent) of the public supports building a border wall.
Another notable finding is that a strong majority (61 percent) of Americans say that immigrants seeking asylum at the border should be made to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed.
Maybe what they really want is not a wall per se, but a president who will enforce the border, unlike our current one.
Whoops I posted a similar story on the 2024 thread. My question is whether this will actually change their voting pattern. There is no way New York Democrats are going to vote for Trump. See the last special election that flipped a House district to the Democrats. But it might change Democrat turnout in the swing states.
Biden gaslighting everyone on how he’s now against crime and it’s falling under his regime. Well, kinda like how he claimed his budget was cut… from the Covid year trillions blowout, but still way way higher than before. And of course he blamed Trump for being in office when Saint Floyd’s canonization meant crime went through the roof and left leaning cities encouraged or at least stop[ed prosecuting anything. Here’s the BLM murder rate
During the previous Administration, America saw the largest increase in murders ever recorded in 2020; Under the Biden-Harris Administration, there has been a significant decrease in crime – including one of the largest yearly declines in homicides ever.
Easy to have the biggest drop when you had an even bigger rise before that, just like the budget. An appropriately critical take on this -
Supreme Court Justices comment on the law and prosecution of Jan 6th defendants in a case challenging the prosecution’s novel use of “obstructing congress” as a crime to qualify for those charged with decades in jail.
Of course other left wing protests have obstructed the Court and other parts of government less dramatically in years past and weren’t prosecuted at all.
Granting undocumented spouses parole in place would make many of them immediately eligible for work permits. Perhaps more significantly, it would clear the administrative cobwebs preventing spouses from being granted green cards, meaning the move could ultimately offer them a path to citizenship.
the move could prove especially controversial as Republicans are likely to brand it a grant of mass amnesty. And because of a quirk in immigration law, only those spouses who entered the country illegally, rather than on a visa they overstayed, would be eligible for green cards, creating a new divide among the population.
Meanwhile the Republicans who had been holding up Ukraine aid for a secure border agreement folded like a cheap suit under their new speaker and lost all their leverage. Another political failure for their House majority.
Recap of the current ridiculous legal case against trump.
The media frequently refers to the case as a “hush money” trial, because it involves $130,000 in payments that Michael Cohen, a one-time lawyer for Trump, made to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 after Daniels threatened to expose an affair she had with Trump.
In reality, though, the payments are not at issue. [trump] is being charged with violating New York state’s “business records” law by misclassifying $420,000 in payments to Cohen in 2017 as legal services, when in fact they were reimbursement for Cohen’s payment to Daniels and another $50,000 payment Cohen had made.
So Trump is being charged with 34 felonies for referring to a payment a lawyer made on his behalf - IN HIS OWN RECORDS - as legal services. That’s it.
But falsifying business records is a misdemeanor, not a felony, in New York state, except in cases where the defendant falsified the records to commit or conceal another crime. Bragg didn’t charge Trump with a second crime, or even specify in the indictment what it was.
In their opening statements Monday morning, prosecutors finally settled - sort of - on an underlying crime, accusing Trump of a “criminal conspiracy” to “promote” his election by hiding . In other words, he was running for President and trying to win.
BUT TRUMP IS NOT BEING CHARGED FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN 2016. He’s charged for misclassifying the repayments he made to Cohen in 2017.
And in 2017, at the time of the payments to Cohen, Donald Trump had already beaten Hillary Clinton. He was president of the United States. He didn’t need to engage in a conspiracy to win the 2016 election. He COULD NOT engage in a conspiracy to win the 2016 election
And apparently the big foreign aid bill (Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan) also gave several $B to Biden to import more refugees from abroad.
Open borders? No problem. The Biden administration is setting up two new international field offices in Qatar and Turkey to facilitate the mass migration of refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East and the near-Middle East to resettle them throughout American cities.
“If the potential for criminal liability is taken off the table, wouldn’t there be a significant risk that future presidents would be emboldened to commit crimes with abandon while they’re in office?” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked.
Yes, impeachment schmeachment, we’re obviously just going to give the president free reign to do whatever he pleases without consequence.
Ignore the fact that this current prosecution of Trump is arguably a violation of double jeopardy, having already been charged and tried for the same alleged “crimes” using the proper legal remedies against a President. But of course, when you’ve already decided what the result should be, any other result must be dismissed as an alarming threat - an alarming threat to your idealistic self-righteous vision of what the world should be.
Investigation into the various nonprofits that are funneling illegals into the country. As expected, the staff are highly paid, billions of tax dollars are wasted, and any measure of security or identification is eschewed for faster intake processing.
Some of the services NGOs provide are eyebrow-raising. For example, Endeavors uses taxpayer funds to offer migrant children “pet therapy,” “horticulture therapy,” and music therapy. In 2021 alone, Endeavors paid Christy Merrell, a music therapist, $533,000. An internal Endeavors PowerPoint obtained by America First Legal, an outfit founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, showed that the nonprofit conducted 1,656 “people-plant interactions” and 287 pet therapy sessions between April 2021 and March 2023.
Endeavors’ 2022 federal disclosure form also shows that it paid $5 million to a company to provide fill-in doctors and nurses, $4.6 million for “consulting services,” $1.4 million to attend conferences, and $700,000 on lobbyists. In 2021, the NGO shelled out $8 million to hotel management company Esperanto Developments to house migrants in their hotels. Endeavors gets 99.6 percent of its revenue from the government
Hunter Biden maybe shouldn’t have blown all his foreign influence peddling millions on hookers and blow (although that was definitively one of his specialties). Now he’s $10M deep into legal bills over his tax and gun criminal case defenses. Worse, his Hollywood benefactor decided to stop paying the legal bills, efforts to set up an anonymized donation fund to raise funds seem stalled, and Democratic operatives are referring to his troubles as “not a priority”.
I think the point is that the charges are not directly related to foreign influence peddling and are so far insulated from the big guy. Biden will probably play any conviction for sympathy.
Biden thinks about using an executive order to limit asylum claims to a mere 2500/day or ~1M immigrants per year, down from the 3-4M he’s been letting in per year previously.
Oddly, he didnt need the Republicans in Congress to do this after all, despite those claims when his border insecurity bill with big slush funds for NGO and immigrant processing (but not so much on security) got voted down.
The election is coming up so he has to try to look like he’s doing something on the major issues, like this illegal immigration issue and trying to force Israel to accept some sort of peace plan since the Gaza war is a big divisive issue within the Democratic Party.
This measure will likely backfire on Biden since the administration has previously blamed the other side for the huge numbers of immigrants coming in. So, the executive did have the ability to limit those numbers after all.
