(Reclaim The Net)—Lexipol, a private consultancy geared towards providing services to law enforcement in the US, has come up with a recommendation to law enforcement to set up a “Misinformation/Disinformation Unit.”
A piece published on the company’s platform, Police1.com, asks its client police departments whether they are “prepared (for) the battle against mis/disinformation.”
Coming from Lexipol, this is no ordinary question, as the firm is said to have contracts with more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies, and is consequently considered to be a key player in what is known as “privatized police policymaking.”
According to Lexipol’s own statements, its reach in March 2020 extended to 8,100 agencies that used the company’s services and manuals (a year earlier, reports said that these agencies were located across 35 US states).
From that position, Lexipol is now making recommendations to its “subscribers” in the law enforcement community to establish a unit that would not only tackle supposed misinformation and disinformation, but also “collaborate with tech companies and civil society organizations to develop early-warning systems and identify harmful content in real time.”
This can be read as brazen defiance of the ongoing efforts, including in the US Congress, to put an end to just such “collaboration” between private and government (here, law enforcement) entities – investigated in one instance as government-Big Tech collusion.
But Lexipol’s write-up plays on fears that it is “disinformation” that might increase public hostility toward police officers and put them at greater risk.
The kind of disinformation breeding hostility Lexipol has in mind may not be exactly the same as that of many police officers, however. The company mentions what are at this point “soft targets,” at least to a certain brand of political and media thinking in the US – Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea – as somehow an example of that domestic law enforcement, too, might be harmed by disinformation, and what to do about it.
With the scaremongering in place, Police1 promotes the well-established narratives: online speech needs to be “protected” from the dangers of AI, and this should be done by the police employing “proactive strategies.”
What is recommended to these state entities is not really different from what the current US authorities ask of social media, and media in general: in this case, it would be a unit, one “charged with identifying false information, fact-checking claims, and creating counter-narratives.”
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(DCNF)—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign bragged on Monday that a “leading” law enforcement group had endorsed Harris, however, the organization is only a few months old and is run by a veteran Democratic political operative.
Police Leaders for Community Safety, which endorsed Harris on Sept. 23, only launched publicly on June 11, according to a press release from the group. A registration document filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) indicates that the organization is led by Gail Hoffman, a long-time Democratic staffer who worked on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as director of surrogates and in the Clinton administration in various high-level roles, according to a biography on her website.
Hoffman has never worked for a police agency, per her biography.
Despite the organization’s recent founding and ties to the Democratic Party, Fox News Digital, which was given an advance copy of the endorsement, initially described the organization as a “leading law enforcement group,” language that the Harris campaign later used to tout the group’s backing. Days after publication, Fox changed its headline and removed the word “leading,” noting that “Police Leaders for Community Safety is comprised of former law enforcement leaders and not a leading group.”
The Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest law enforcement interest group, took issue with framing Police Leaders for Community Safety as a “leading” organization in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Prior to Police Leaders for Community Safety announcing their endorsement earlier this week, we were totally unfamiliar with the group,” a Fraternal Order of Police spokesperson told the DCNF. “We are very active, and aggressive in fact, in our interactions here in Washington [D.C.] and we’re present at basically every law enforcement-oriented meeting that happens here and we have never crossed paths with this organization nor are we familiar with its goals and objectives.”
The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed former President Donald Trump on Sept. 6, according to a press release. Police Leaders for Community Safety claimed to be “the only national police leadership organization that endorses candidates for political office” when announcing its support of Harris.
Police Leaders for Community Safety defended its status as a leading law enforcement organization, with a spokesperson telling the DCNF that it had been informally organizing since 2022 and filed registration paperwork with the IRS in 2023, with June 2024 representing the group’s public launch. The organization lists a few dozen law enforcement members, virtually all of whom are retired, on its “national advisory board.”
The Fraternal Order of Police, by contrast, had approximately 377,000 members as of this month, per a press release.
A spokesperson for the Harris campaign would not say whether or not it was accurate to call the Police Leaders for Community Safety a “leading” organization, instead pointing out that they had used the same language as Fox. The campaign did not respond to a follow-up inquiry after Fox changed its headline.
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 23, 2024
Police Leaders for Community Safety justified its nonpartisan bona fides in its statement to the DCNF, claiming that it is “comprised of Democrats, Republicans and independents” and that its endorsements are “based on issues of concern to law enforcement leaders, not on parties.”
All five of the people sitting on the organization’s board of directors, which includes Hoffman, are either Democrats or have a history of making liberal statements. Despite this, Police Leaders for Community Safety describes itself as a “nonpartisan national advocacy organization.”
David Mahoney, the organization’s treasurer, ran as a Democrat to serve as sheriff of Dane County, Wisconsin in 2018, ultimately winning the office. Susan Riseling, the chair of the organization’s board, meanwhile, uses social media almost exclusively to support Democrats and oppose Republicans, sharing posts from left-wing fake news operations like the Palmer Report as well as other large Democratic-aligned accounts like Occupy Democrats and MeidasTouch.
“Now I am a Democrat [because] the Republicans have no ideas beyond hate,” Riseling wrote on Twitter in 2021. “I can not understand any veterans voting Republican,” she said a year later.
Police Leaders for Community Safety vice chair Rick Myers, meanwhile, has used his LinkedIn account to advocate for expanded gun control, calling AR-15s “weapons of mass destruction,” and describing the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot as an “insurrection.”
“Despite the fact that our Founding Fathers had black powder muskets that could only shoot one round without reloading, and fashioned our unique Constitution and its Amendments to ensure our freedoms such that freedom to bear arms was designed for ‘a well regulated militia,’ we continue to allow unfettered weapons of mass destruction among our own citizens,” Myers wrote in 2021, reacting to a mass shooting in his area. “AR-15[s] are killing machines.”
Cynthia Herriott, the organization’s fifth board member, was a registered Democrat as of at least 2021, according to public records.
Herriott, Riseling and Myers are all retired police chiefs.
“Police Leaders for Community Safety is the only national police leadership organization that endorses candidates for political office, and this is the group’s first endorsement,” the group’s endorsement of Harris reads. “This and future endorsements will be based on candidates’ alignment on issues vital to law enforcement.”
Harris praised the defund the police movement multiple times in 2020.
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]]>JT Lewis, whose brother Jesse was tragically killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, expressed his outrage on X, stating, “My brother was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting because of liberal policies like the one Kamala is pushing here… I wish there had been a police officer there to protect him. Students need more protection, not less!”
My brother was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting because of liberal policies like the one Kamala is pushing here…
I wish there had been a police officer there to protect him.
Students need more protection, not less! https://t.co/p9VvO9iixx
— JT Lewis (@thejtlewis) August 28, 2024
The comments in question were made by Harris during her 2020 presidential campaign at Benedict College in South Carolina. She spoke of “demilitarizing” schools, a euphemism for stripping away the very security measures that could prevent another tragedy. Harris’s focus was on what she perceives as “inequities” in school discipline, particularly affecting Black and Brown boys, rather than on the safety of all students.
Her stance was not just about removing police but also about reducing juvenile incarceration, arguing for less incarceration and an end to solitary confinement for juveniles. While these might sound compassionate, they ignore the reality that without proper security and consequences for actions, school environments can become chaotic and dangerous.
Fox News Digital attempted to get clarification from Harris’s campaign on whether she still supports these policies, but received no response. This silence is deafening, especially when parents like Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack, who lost their daughters in the Parkland shooting, have publicly condemned her views.
Petty tweeted, “Wreckless. Radical. Kamala wants to make schools less safe. Your kids aren’t safe with Kamala Harris in office,” while Pollack added, “This is sickening. My daughter was killed because Parkland didn’t have enough security. We need more school resource officers — not fewer!”
Wreckless. Radical. Kamala wants to make schools less safe.
Your kids aren’t safe with Kamala Harris in office. https://t.co/bA3VTkytiS
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) August 28, 2024
This is sickening.
My daughter was killed because Parkland didn’t have enough security.
We need more school resource officers — not fewer! https://t.co/9mDww7FjU8
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) August 28, 2024
The timing of Harris’s comments was particularly irresponsible, coming just before the 2020 riots following George Floyd’s death, which saw calls to “defund the police.” This movement led to many school districts across the country cutting ties with law enforcement, only to see a rise in school violence, forcing many to reverse these decisions.
Education Week reported in 2022 that at least 50 school districts had either removed officers or slashed their budgets, only to regret it as school violence spiked. This backtracking on security measures underscores the folly of Harris’s original stance.
Now, as Harris steps into the presidential race following Biden’s withdrawal, her past comments on school safety come under renewed scrutiny. They reveal a pattern of prioritizing ideological purity over the practical safety needs of American students. This is not just a policy misstep; it’s a failure of leadership that could have dire consequences for our nation’s youth.
It’s clear that if we want our schools to be safe havens for learning, not battlegrounds for political ideologies, we must reject the dangerous policies Harris once championed. Our children deserve better than to be pawns in a political game where their safety is the stake.
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Kamala Harris bizarrely compares lynching to policing in resurfaced video
"We mean that from slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynching, and policing, our institutions have done violence to black Americans." pic.twitter.com/joNI91EyjD
— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) August 27, 2024
Ironically, Harris is the descendant of the notorious slaver Hamilton Brown on her father’s side. Her father is Afro-Caribbean, and her mother is Indian.
The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) called on Vice President Kamala Harris to apologize for these remarks.
The NAPO’s Tuesday letter was featured in a press release by the Trump campaign on Wednesday.
“Kamala Harris has shown once again that she simply has no actual knowledge of what modern American police officers do, and worse, doesn’t seem to even care for the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect American communities. We call on her to retract and apologize for her comments equating policing to lynching and slavery,” Michael McHale, the president of the NAPO, said.
“She has yet to explain her support for defunding the police and, even worse, her support for the so-called ‘Minnesota Freedom Fund’ that put persons arrested for violent crimes back on the streets as Minneapolis burned during the George Floyd riots,” he added.
]]>“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured by his body-worn camera and obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
“I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here,’” the officer continues.
The footage paints a more complete picture of the anger and frustration moments after Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire eight shots at the former president from an AR-style assault rifle. A spectator was killed, two others were injured, and Trump suffered a bullet wound to the ear. The Journal obtained the videos under a public-records request Thursday.
A police officer in one of the videos at one point refers to a suspicious individual who had been lost by authorities. The unidentified officer referred to “a gentleman with a flat face that we were looking for earlier. He was creeping people out.”
The officer’s account, which was broadcast over radio channels, was captured by one of the body cameras. “He was watching people out in the woods by the water tower. I’m not sure he is the gentleman down or not,” the officer says.
Around 10 minutes after the shooting, another officer says to a fellow officer “I thought you guys were on the roof. I thought it was you. I thought it was you.”
To which “No” can be heard in response.
“What the fuck! Why were we not on the roof? Why weren’t we?” the officer replies.
NEW: Butler PA officers at Trump rally after the shooting, discussing that they had warned USSS about vulnerabilities far in advance.
“I f**ing told them to post guys over here. I told the Secret Service Tuesday!” pic.twitter.com/A367aXZKRR
— Still Boneless (@still_boneless) August 8, 2024
As the Epoch Times notes further, the footage also shows the moment an officer with the Butler Township Police Department tried to get on the roof of a building where suspected gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was perched. Another officer helped lift the responding officer to the roof after rally attendees alerted police that there was an individual on the roof near the rally where Trump was set to speak.
BREAKING: Bodycam video just released shows a police officer being lifted up to the roof of the AGR building, interrupting Thomas Crooks just seconds before he started shooting to assassinate President Trump at the Butler rally. pic.twitter.com/NVU0yR515w
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) August 8, 2024
In the clip, an officer is seen moving toward a building before another officer tries to hoist him onto the roof. The officer is then seen trying to climb onto the building before he drops down.
Only officers’ hands are seen as he tries to get onto the roof in the video, which does not show Crooks.
Butler Township Police Department Lt. Matthew Pearson last month told a local Pennsylvania news outlet that the officer was not able to draw his firearm because he was holding onto the building. And Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe told the New York Post last month that the officers who interrupted Crooks may have distracted the shooter before he shot at the former president, hitting him in the ear.
“If I’m interrupted, and I move my gun, you are going to have to reassess that whole situation at this point, so yes, you can make a case that those two officers saved the president’s life,” Slupe told the paper.
He then asked, “Can you imagine 10 seconds before that? That the president was looking straight ahead and where that bullet could have potentially landed.”
More than three weeks after the assassination attempt, federal officials have not disclosed the Crooks’s motive. So far, few details have emerged about the suspect, and his family has not issued a public statement responding to the incident.
The Epoch Times has contacted the Butler Township Police Department for comment.
Previous Footage Released
Separate bodycam footage from a responding official was released in connection to the July 13 shooting, which killed a rally attendee and injured two others. In late July, Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) office released rooftop bodycam footage of an officer who responded to the shooting—after Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
It shows an officer with the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit standing next to a dark-suited man, who appears to be a Secret Service agent, according to a press release from Grassley’s office.
In the clip, at least three other law enforcement officials can be seen, although it is not clear exactly how many were present on the roof when the footage was filmed.
On the ground next to them appears to be the body of Crooks. Although the shooter’s body has been partially blurred in the video, a long trail of blood on the roof can be seen.
The Beaver County officer and the purported Secret Service agent can be heard discussing the timeline of events they believe led up to the assassination attempt, including whether the man lying on the ground next to them is the same man seen in a photo sent out by a member of Beaver County’s sniper team.
“So, this is the guy … that the sniper saw,” the agent says.
“Yes, a Beaver County sniper seen [sic] and sent the pictures out, this is him,” the officer replies.
The Secret Service agent then asks whether or not an abandoned bike that was found in the area belonged to the shooter.
“We don’t know,” the officer responds.
The Beaver County officer then shows the agent photos on his phone.
“I don’t know if you got the same ones I did?” the officer asks the agent, referring to the photos.
“I think I did, yeah, he’s [the shooter] got his glasses on,” the agent replies.
Two days later, Grassley released additional bodycam footage “filmed in the hour following the attempted assassination,” also obtained from the Beaver County emergency department.
That footage shows law enforcement talking about a need to use a drone to secure and inspect a water tower that was onsite, according to his office.
Katabella Reporters contributed to this report.
]]>Manhattan prosecutors reportedly agreed to set them loose back on the streets without bail after both were arrested on Sunday for fighting with traffic cops on Eighth Avenue.
Police confronted suspects outside the Row NYC Hotel at 700 Eighth Ave. after allegedly spotting one of them recklessly riding a moped without ID.
One migrant allegedly bit an officer while another “hurled a moped” at another officer, the report says.
The Post report says that when they were brought into court on Monday morning, prosecutors let them walk without bail.
The DA’s office said it “would be consenting to the defendant’s release on his own recognizance.”
One NYPD cop furiously told The Post: “What kind of message is this sending to the public? They are basically saying anyone in a blue uniform is a human piñata.”
Another officer called it “open war” on police, stating: “Today they bite and kick a cop and tomorrow they take a shot at cops. If there are no consequences they are only encouraging people to attack cops.”
A spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration said: “We don’t comment on bail decisions except to say that in cases like these in New York, Judges have discretion in making bail decisions in accordance with the law and based solely on an individualized assessment of a defendant’s risk of flight.”
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry responded: “We’ve seen dozens of significant assaults on police officers in Manhattan this year, and there’s a clear pattern in those cases — prosecutors and judges are only doing their job when they’re in the spotlight. We will keep turning out in court to show the entire justice system that their actions are getting cops hurt and putting all New Yorkers at risk.”
]]>National Students For Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and allied organizations used an encrypted messaging app to distribute a document instructing protesters on how to use physical force to stop police officers from making arrests, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.
“Popular University 4 Gaza” is a Telegram channel with over 8,000 subscribers and is run by members of NSJP, Palestinian Youth Movement and Writers Against the War on Gaza, according to a post on X, formerly Twitter. The channel’s admins distributed a document called the “De-Arrest Primer” on April 26 that provides tactics for resisting arrest, sometimes through violent means.
One tactic for obstructing arrests laid out in the document requires “pulling/pushing an officer off an arrestee and/or breaking their grip.” The document warns readers that the tactic can be “risky as it requires physical contact with an officer which could lead to assault on an officer charges.”
Freeing protesters from arrest can often be “well worth the risks,” as being arrested “can have drastic negative life altering affects [sic.], especially for targeted populations like people who aren’t white, Muslims, LGBTQ people and certain radicals,” the document argues.
Protesters are also taught to “hug” an arrestee from behind to pull them away from law enforcement, wrestle with police officers, open patrol car doors to free detained suspects and surround officers to demand they let arrested protesters go free.
“There’s plenty of excellent reasons to break the spell of self-policing and risk charges in order to fight back, especially when that antagonism can spread and shape the general disposition of a given movement for the better or even explode a situation into a deeper more affective rupture,” the document reads.
The post received more than 3,500 views and over 100 reactions on the Telegram channel.
“Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe! Learn these tactics to protect your comrades,” the text accompanying a link to the guide reads. It is unclear who authored the document.
NSJP is a pro-Palestinian organization that seeks “to elevate the student movement for Palestinian liberation to a higher level of political engagement,” according to its website. American and Israeli victims of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel are currently suing NSJP, alleging that the group has been working on behalf of Hamas by organizing protests in the wake of the attacks.
“Popular University for Gaza” is the name of a nationwide “coordinated pressure campaign” run by NSJP intended to force universities to divest from Israel, according to the organization’s website. NSJP student groups at dozens of universities have signed on to NSJP’s “popular university” campaign, and protesters at campuses across the United Stateshave dubbed their encampments the “Popular University for Gaza.”
NSJP supports over 350 pro-Palestinian student groups in North America and has provided consulting services to student organizers ahead of protests. The group also encouraged members of its sizable social media following to attend pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
A Telegram channel purportedly serving students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, called “UIUC Encampment” also posted a link to the de-arrest guide, encouraging its audience to read it. The protesters held lessons on April 28 regarding “de-arrest” tactics, according to the channel.
The UIUC channel’s administrators shared day-to-day schedules for the university’s encampment, which included things like Islamic prayers, a “Covid safe” teach-in and film screenings. The protesters named their encampment the Popular University for Gaza, matching the name of NSJP’s Telegram channel and advocacy campaign.
More documents encouraging violence were shared by admins of the Popular University 4 Gaza Telegram channel.
“Flood the Gates: Escalate,” one of the documents, encourages protesters to “learn tactics to protect yourself and your comrades,” recommending “barricades, de-arrest, strategic formations and community defense” in order to resist police.
“We recognize that building an infrastructure of militancy for the larger struggle against imperialism and the establishment of a new world is the only effective route we can take,” it reads. The document explicitly rejects non-violent protesting, stating that “we are not naïve enough to think the revolution will come through ‘peaceful’ means or spontaneous uprisings without organized militancy.”
“We will not disavow any actions taken to escalate the struggle, including militant direct actions,” it says.
The document was published by Palestine Action US, the American branch of a United Kingdom-based anti-Israel group.
Another document, titled a “Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide,” provides protesters with practical information on how to establish and defend on-campus occupations.
“We can no longer simply protest to demonstrate our rage; decades of activism have come to the point of an impasse,” the guide reads. “Instead, we must insist on the struggle for the satisfaction of immediate needs and desires.”
The guide recommends using bolt cutters, crowbars or angle grinders to break into buildings, providing specific techniques on using those tools to enter locked areas. The guide also provides readers with methods to barricade building entrances by jamming push bar doors, using cable locks, nailing doors shut and boarding up windows.
The document provides instructions on how to build corrugated metal banners, which function as six-foot-wide shields protesters can use to ward off police officers or others attempting to dislodge them from the building they are occupying.
The guide also condones vandalism, stating that “a group may decide it is better to destroy or vandalize a space than to return it to its usual role in good condition” and “the role of vandalism may be different in each situation, but it should not be disowned outright.”
The guide recommends that prospective occupiers lock down legal support, medics and a “propaganda team.” The propaganda team should prepare an initial press release before the occupation begins and handle media relations as it goes on, according to the document.
It is unclear who authored the document.
Pro-Palestinian encampments have cropped up at colleges and universities across the United States, with notable demonstrations occurring at Columbia University, Emory University and George Washington University
On May 1, the University of California, Los Angeles’ Students for Justice in Palestine chapter made a post to social media saying “we need bodies” to prepare for a confrontation with police, noting that activity was “high risk.” Protesters clashedwith police at UCLA during the early hours on May 2 as law enforcement made their way through dismantling the campus’ sprawling pro-Palestinian encampment, and 200 people were arrested, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Police arrested 42 masked individuals in a UCLA parking garage on May 6 for conspiring to commit a crime, and two were charged with obstructing a peace officer, according to a Los Angeles Police Department press release. The group had metal pipes, padlocks, super glue, bolt cutters and copies of the “De-Arrest Primer” and “The Do-It-Yourself Occupation Guide.”
Demonstrators at the University of Wisconsin- Madison were reportedly handing out printed copies of the de-arrest document before police dismantled their encampment on May 1, according to the MacIver Institute. Police arrested 34 people and eight officers were injured, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The campus SJP chapter encouraged people through social media to defend the encampment as police moved in to clear it.
NSJP is a fiscally sponsored project of WESPAC, a liberal charitable foundation that has provided considerable support to pro-Palestinian activists since Oct. 7.
Fiscal sponsorship is an arrangement that allows an established nonprofit like WESPAC to process tax-deductible donations for allied groups without those groups themselves needing to register with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), according to the American Bar Association. NSJP, being a fiscally sponsored project of WESPAC, is not a distinct legal entity but rather part of WESPAC.
WESPAC, NSJP, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Writers Against the War in Gaza and Palestine Action did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
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]]>A number of years ago I wrote about the gang problem in Chicago, and at that time gang members outnumbered police by 10 to 1.
Unfortunately, things have gotten so much worse since then.
Today, the CPD has identified more than 280,000 gang members in the city of Chicago…
The Chicago Police Department maintains two massive gang databases, collectively labeling more than 280,000 people as “gang members.” 95% of those people listed are people of color, most being young men in their late teens and 20s, but also thousands being Black and Latinx youth and elders.
That is the size of a small army!
And it is important to note that these are just the individuals that the CPD has been able to identify and put into their databases.
There are undoubtedly more that they don’t know about or have not been able to identify.
Meanwhile, the size of the CPD has been hovering just above 12,000…
However, the size of the Chicago Police Department was essentially unchanged on Johnson’s 100th day in office as compared with his first day in office. CPD had 12,360 employees on Johnson’s first full day in office and 12,363 employees on Monday, according to a city database. The number of sworn officers has also remained steady, with 11,720 officers on duty as of May 1, and 11,722 on the force as of Aug. 1, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Police Department.
Once I had the numbers, I did the math, and I discovered that gang members now outnumber police in the city of Chicago by a ratio of 22 to 1.
So it should come as no surprise that major crime in the Windy City was way up in 2023…
Overall major crime was up in 2023 by 16%, with robberies up 23%. There is likely significant underreporting of crimes given police shortages. Over half of “high priority” 911 calls did not have an officer available to respond when the call came in. This is a huge increase compared to 2019, when 19% of all calls didn’t have an officer available.
Memphis is another city that has an absolutely massive gang problem.
It is being reported that the mayor recently met with gang leaders and “asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire”…
The mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, met with local gang leaders and asked them to agree to a seven-day ceasefire, as crime has seemingly spiraled out of control in the city.
The mayor said that he had talks, not “negotiations,” with Memphis gang leaders, with community representatives adding that the number of gangs in the city has also become a problem in itself.
A seven day ceasefire?
That sounds like something that would happen in the Middle East.
But of course the truth is that Memphis really has become a war zone.
If you can believe it, over 3,500 property crimes were reported in Memphis during the month of January alone…
The gang members told the mayor a recent “epidemic of car break-ins” was simply due to their younger gang members being bored and having nothing to do.
Including the break-ins, more than 3,500 property crimes were reported in January 2024 alone, according to police statistics.
Yesterday, I wrote an article about how wonderful the state of Tennessee is, but I also warned my readers to avoid the Memphis area entirely.
It really is that bad.
The Atlanta metropolitan area is also caught in a downward spiral. Crime is completely out of control, and over the weekend a massive riot that involved hundreds of young people made headlines all over the nation…
One person was shot when suspects opened fire on police during a riot involving hundreds of ‘youths’ at a Six Flags amusement park in Georgia over the weekend, according to reports.
The shocking string of events unfolded on Saturday evening in Austell, a city in the Atlanta metro region.
Thousands of people turned out for opening day at Six Flags Over Georgia before the event devolved into extreme mob violence.
Hundreds of mostly-younger guests began fighting and sowing chaos throughout the park, forcing evacuations as security lost control of the crowd.
We wanted to push every shred of traditional morality out of our schools.
So the truth is that we have brought this on ourselves.
Our young people didn’t have to turn out this way. If we had raised them differently we would have gotten different results.
Right now, the state of California is experiencing an absolutely relentless crime wave, and authorities are telling us that approximately 300,000 gang members currently reside there…
The California Department of Justice estimates that there could be as many as 300,000 gang members in this state.
California has had a problem with crime for decades, but never anything like this.
According to one recent survey, a whopping 86 percent of business owners in the state believe “that crime has increased in their area”…
More than 86% of business owners in California say that crime has increased in their area, while 67% from the same survey claimed to be considering moving their headquarters out of the Golden State, according to the latest numbers from RedBalloon and PublicSq.’s Freedom Economy Index.
At this point, I don’t know why anyone would still want to live there.
Two California business owners that were interviewed by Fox News explained why they are thinking of leaving…
“The building where I have my office has just installed floodlights throughout the parking lot, installed new doors and upgraded the security system to improve safety,” Carvalho detailed. “Throughout the neighborhood, there are signs reminding people not to leave valuables in their cars.”
“It used to be this very nice town, now it is just horrible,” Falwell said. “We have been in our home for 17 years, we have had mail theft. The crime has impacted my desire to even leave my house or business.”
When crime is so bad that you don’t even want to leave your own home, it is definitely time to look for greener pastures.
Of course the truth is that crime is getting worse virtually everywhere, and the open border policies of the Biden administration are certainly not helping matters.
This week, we learned that the Biden administration has actually been flying hundreds of thousands of “asylum seekers” directly into the United States…
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
“The program at the center of the FOIA litigation is perhaps the most enigmatic and least-known of the Biden administration’s uses of the CBP One cellphone scheduling app, even though it is responsible for almost invisibly importing by air 320,000 aliens with no legal right to enter the United States since it got underway in late 2022,” wrote Bensman.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had initially refused to disclose information about the flights, which use a cell phone app, CBP One, to arrange.
“Under these legally dubious parole programs, aliens who cannot legally enter the country use the CBP One app to apply for travel authorization and temporary humanitarian release from those airports. The parole program allows for two-year periods of legal status during which adults are eligible for work authorization,” Bensman continues.
Overall, it is being estimated that there will be over 8 million “asylum seekers” living in the U.S. “by the end of September”…
More than 8 million asylum seekers and other migrants will be living inside the U.S in legal limbo by the end of September — a roughly 167% increase in five years, according to internal government projections obtained by Axios.
We are witnessing a spike in migration that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.
And this is one of the primary reasons why gangs are experiencing such explosive growth.
The stage is being set for societal chaos on an epic scale.
Unfortunately, there is no turning back now. Our leaders have been making disastrous decisions for a long time, and those disastrous decisions are going to have extremely bitter consequences.
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]]>This isn’t just about the law being broken or law enforcement being compromised. It isn’t just about our sovereignty being stolen through the border invasion or the human toll being ignored as women and children are raped incessantly on their way to grab what Joe Biden promised them. All of that is important but there’s a subtext here that must be understood.
Some Americans are waking up. I don’t know if it’s 0.1%, 1%, or 10%, but it’s not nearly enough. The biggest obstacle to getting “normies” to appreciate that the powers-that-be are working against us is making them suspend disbelief in the scope of the conspiracy. Sadly, Americans have been trained to think “crazy” when they hear the word “conspiracy” but the reality is this: There ARE those conspiring against us.
Understanding that the scope is tremendous is a prerequisite for people to wake up to the reality of our situation. If they believe that most in power are simply greedy, then they’ll miss the heart-wrenching truth that the people with the real power want us either completely under their control or dead. The depopulation and control agenda is happening around us and the biggest reason people fail to see it is because they cannot accept a scenario in which the Powers and Principalities really do have everything they need to make it happen.
Far too many assume that if really bad things are being done then someone will stop it. They cannot grasp a world in which corporate media is completely compromised. They cannot fathom a society in which any “good” politicians are removed and the handful with honor who are allowed to stay are neutered. They cannot accept that an army of unsuspecting useful idiots are helping to bring about their own demise.
The cops depicted in this video aren’t thinking about the damage they’re doing to their own community and their own nation. They see a sweet gig in which they get to sit around with no risks and make a lot of money. They probably get paid more to be NGO security guards than they do when they’re actually putting their lives on the line for the sake of a citizenry that doesn’t appreciate them.
To suspend disbelief in the systematic destruction of our nation requires Americans to realize just how much power is being wielded around us. They need to realize that it doesn’t take a million globalists to subvert the foundations of our country. It takes a few thousand dedicated people in power plus a whole lot of useful idiots like these San Antonio cops.
Until more Americans understand this harsh reality, they will still be expecting someone else to save them. Until more Americans wake up, they will not be preparing themselves for the fight that’s coming.
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]]>One of the militant transgender terrorists is Timothy Johnson also known as “Caboose” Johnson, who describes himself as an Irish-American and “reconnecting” Cherokee on Twitter. According to Justice Report, Caboose is somewhat of a minor e-celebrity in the communist TikTok community. He is also an ANTIFA activist who has infiltrated the anti-government “Boogaloo Boys” group which started as libertarian but drifted leftward due to their lack of vigilance. He also served in the United States Armed Forces as an “Infantry Soldier” for the Army National Guard, as per his LinkedIn.
Reports reveal that Caboose regularly puts on fatigues and engages in live-action role-playing (LARP) as a military enforcer during ANTIFA rallies. (Related: Antifa attack on police training site outside Atlanta deemed ‘domestic terrorism’ as dozens are arrested.)
“I provide transportation solutions with years of trucking, dispatching, insurance, and supply chain experience at my disposal. My military experience shows I can operate well under pressure and adapt to challenges in a creative way,” he wrote regarding his activity at a protest in Louisville for Breonna Taylor, a drug-dealing, gun-slinging thug who was killed during a police encounter.
Johnson expressed his desire to kill cops and praised the actions of renegade Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cop Christopher Dorner, who went on a murder rampage on some of his former colleagues before committing suicide back in 2013. However, he still critiqued Dorner’s personal ideology and motivations as “cringe.”
In the private chatroom conversations, he posted hundreds of times since the OAT Discord was first created, repeatedly expressing his desire for extreme violence. On April 19, he made the sadistic comment in a fit of rage after a conservative University of South Carolina student defied his anti-social politics at an “Uncensored America” speaking event. The post came immediately after OAT’s supposedly peaceful counter-protest escalated into violence. “I wanna bash his face in and piss into the back of his skull. That’s all I could think about last night,” he said.
Not only does he regularly post about rage and violence, but he also is a major advocate of grooming children with pro-transgender sexual propaganda as well as leftist-anarchist materials to make them hate America and white people as well as bask in the revolutionary Marxism ideology. He even has a video reading a subversive propaganda book aimed at children.
Meanwhile, another individual exposed in these leaks is Matt Cox, who is a “proud father of a nonbinary child” and professes to be the “official dad of OAT.” Cox offers his expertise as a mixed martial artist to the group and has regularly trained OAT members in what he calls “mutual aid martial arts” (MAMA) regimens. Also, according to the leaked convos, he attended firearm combat exercises hosted by local members of the infamous John Brown Gun Club (JBGC) and the local Socialist Rifle Association (SRA).
In a January 31 discussion, which took place after one of the group’s first firearm combat drills, Cox debated with another user, who didn’t want to mention JBGC due to a rightful fear of public backlash. The discussion, where Cox questioned the hesitancy, revealed that the only vetting done prior to entry to one of OAT’s SRA-hosted rifle training exercises is a round of what they called “vibe checking.”
The unearthed Discord chats also suggested latent aggression simmering within Cox and numerous times it appears as if he’s champing at the bit to fight “fascists” in the streets. “I didn’t think I could get more angry at this situation,” he said in a January 24 post. When another member of OAT replied, “They are really f*cking around today,” he replied, “Time for them to find out.”
He also pledged that he would “bleed” with them “till the war is won,” referring to his devotion to fighting “transphobia.”
Additionally, Cox seemed to present himself as arrogant and invincible in his posts. However, this is not because of his own abilities. “My wife’s a lawyer in the biggest progressive firm in [South Carolina], f*ckin come at me ghouls,” he boasted, referring to his wife Sarah JM Cox of Burnette Shutt & McDaniel.
During his free time, this late 40s man admitted he’d troll mainstream conservatives with immature comments during YouTube live streams. In his post on January 6, he shared a screen capture of his comment during a live episode of Corey Allen’s “The Overton Report,” a conservative program critical of homosexual perversion in South Carolina.
“The comment, made with his personal YouTube account ‘@phagtacular,’ is crude and full of cheap profanities but appears to stem from a previous incident in which Cox allegedly harassed Allen in real life, adding further evidence of Cox’s willingness to abide by OAT’s point of unity #2, “a diversity of tactics.'”
He was proud of himself that the host did not know it was him, but a little scared that he vowed to be more careful next time.
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