The ongoing debate about racial justice in policing, incarceration, and prosecution became a national fixation following the May 2020 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
Most law-enforcement policies are a function of decisions made by state and local governments, many of which have acted in recent months to hamstring cops and hack away at policing budgets.
A troubling study, coauthored by Harvard economists Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi, assessed the impact of pattern-and-practice investigations under President Obama and found a strong causal connection between some of those investigations-the ones that followed viral incidents of police use of force-and spikes in serious crime.
In Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Ferguson, and Riverside, investigations led police to scale back proactive policing.
A Biden administration could also decide to reduce or eliminate federal aid to local police departments already under new financial pressures as cities around the country move to cut funding to law-enforcement agencies.
Progressive critics say that the 1033 program represents the "Militarization" of local police and leads to a perception of cops as an occupying force in communities.
Denying local police equipment will only make it harder for them to do their jobs during a time of increasing violent crime.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Monday, February 1, 2021
Soft on Crime
The Impeachment, HRC’s Testimony & Much More!
Reminiscent of the Obama Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) witch hunt of conservative groups, a U.S. Senator who sits on the committee that oversees the tax agency is pushing it to revoke a student charity’s nonprofit status. The veteran lawmaker, Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, says the conservative student organization, Turning Point USA, should lose its nonprofit rating because it held large events that could help spread COVID-19. In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig the senator describes the gatherings as “superspreader” events. He specifically mentions a Palm Beach, Florida winter gala at the Mar-a-Lago Club famously owned by former President Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch announced that it filed a petition for writ of certiorari (“cert petition”) with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to take up its challenge to an appeals court order exempting Hillary Clinton from testifying under oath about her emails. Judicial Watch argues the court should hear its case because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in giving Clinton unwarranted special treatment that conflicts both with Supreme Court precedent and the precedents of other courts of appeal, including its own.
The Sham Impeachment, Biden Corruption & The Assault on The First Amendment
America has a new administration, and Judicial Watch is working hard to defend the Left’s ongoing attacks on election integrity, the Constitution, and our nation’s laws. Whether it’s undermining your constitutional rights, promoting unrestricted illegal immigration, or silencing concerns about corruption, the Biden presidency is likely to be worse than the Obama Administration, Fitton explained. “You’re a terrorist if you object.…that’s their thinking.” Fitton remarked that Biden’s inauguration speech was “a dogwhistle to the Left and to Big Tech … keep on taking steps to effectively outlaw dissent here in the United States.”
Soros-Funded Group to Provide “Mandatory Implicit Bias Training” for City Workers in L.A.
Billionaire George Soros’s radical leftism is spreading through America’s most populous county. Days after a Soros-backed prosecutor who vows to lock up fewer criminals became Los Angeles District Attorney, the city’s mayor is forcing all employees to undergo “implicit bias” training to be conducted by a group that receives funding from Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF). That makes L.A. County and its biggest city, the nation’s second-most populous, a stronghold of the powerful Soros machine that aims to promote the left’s agenda.
America Needs to Know the Truth About Biden Family’s Corrupt Deals – The Washington Times
The false narrative that Democrats concocted to hobble the Trump administration four years ago is now the real deal with Joe Biden and his family. And unlike President Trump, who faced unprecedented institutional resistance and Deep State resistance, President Biden can likely count on the Justice Department and the media to allow him to escape meaningful scrutiny.
Fitton: Big Tech Censorship Out of Control as Left Abuses Donald Trump with Sham Impeachment – Breitbart
I’ve joined many others, including the President of the United States, in being locked out of Twitter for posting a tweet about hydroxychloroquine that I posted time and time again and that Twitter had already found to be in compliance with its rules. Without warning, Twitter told me that not only did I have to take it down but that even if I did I’d be locked out for seven days.
Judicial Watch Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold Court Ruling Requiring Hillary Clinton Email Testimony – Judicial Watch
As Judicial Watch argues in its cert petition, granting Clinton this extraordinary relief flies in the face of the D.C. Circuit’s own precedent, most recently in the Michael Flynn case, who, unlike Clinton, was denied mandamus relief.
A Google Takeover of Biden's Justice Department?
We stayed quiet when reporters uncovered that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt started pushing the Biden administration to appoint Google's allies to top federal government positions.
With former Google lawyer Renata B. Hesse now the reported front-runner to head the Biden Justice Department's antitrust division, we can afford to be silent no more.
Biden is taking office at perhaps the most pivotal moment for reining in Google to date.
How then could Biden's staff possibly think it's a good idea to consider a former Google lawyer for this position - one whose husband's law firm still works for the company?
This is a corporation that, as recently argued by the U.S. solicitor general in the Google v. Oracle case at the Supreme Court, stole intellectual property from a competitor to create Android - its mobile operating system that's now home to 65 percent of the company's total paid clicks.
All the oxygen won't get sucked out of the nation's Google accountability push should the antitrust division fall into Hesse's hands.
In all likelihood, the company will still face justice following the Supreme Court's Google v. Oracle decision.
https://spectator.org/google-justice-department-renata-hesse/
Adam Schiff and 'Big Tech Oligarchs' Are Much More Dangerous Than the Capitol Mob
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii warned that people such as California Rep. Adam Schiff, former CIA Director John Brennan and Big Tech executives who are "Trying to undermine" Americans' constitutional rights are much more dangerous than the people who stormed the Capitol three weeks ago.
"But let's be clear, the John Brennans, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally-protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies - and much more powerful, and therefore dangerous, than the mob that stormed the Capitol."
The mob who stormed the capitol to try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities were behaving like domestic enemies of our country.
Let us be clear, the John Brennan's, Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in Big Tech who are pic.
Gabbard shared a clip of Brennan on MSNBC discussing the Biden administration's response to what he described as domestic terrorism.
"What this law does that Adam Schiff proposed is to simply take the existing war on terror law that is devoted to foreign terrorist groups, and just amend it to say, 'and domestic terror groups as well,' which means criminalizing all kinds of protests, associational and even speech activities," Greenwald said.
While some Democrats have pushed domestic terrorism legislation following the incursion of the Capitol on Jan. 6, Big Tech companies responded with widespread bans of those who questioned the integrity of the November presidential election, including Trump himself.
Kooks Like Marjorie Taylor Greene Sabotage Our Fight Against the Left
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is their biggest distraction.
Her presence in the Republican Party undermines our fight against Democrat leftist antisemitic racists like Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The Democrat Party is the party for anti-Semitic kooks.
People like Greene, the 'Shaman' who now wants to testify at the Democrat impeachment farce against President Trump, and the rest of the gang keep playing into the hands of the Left.
What we need is to take the fight to the Left by exposing their agenda.
Voters have the right to elect Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Republicans should expel Marjorie Taylor Greene and make it clear that the Democrats are the party of the nuts and the bigots.
Biden's Immigration Plans Disregard the Preservation of Our Culture
"In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it."
Roughly 61 million immigrants, for an overall increase of 18 million since the year 2000, currently reside in the U.S. including their American-born children, based on analysis of U.S. Census data.
"With 45 million legal immigrants and their young children already here," Camarota ponders, "Does it make sense to continue admitting more than one million new legal permanent immigrants every year?" President Clinton didn't think so.
The 13.5 million immigrants represented one in 15 U.S. residents.
Today, nearly one of every five U.S. residents are immigrants.
These immigrants, immediately handed a federal basket of goodies, will vote in the direction that those who applaud mass, uncontrolled immigration have steered them.
Did you get to vote on having the immigrant population here grow six times faster than the total population?
America's Biden 'Buyer Remorse'
With little more than a week and a half of the Biden Administration under our belts, America has already contracted a raging case of "Buyer's remorse" when it comes to our 46th president.
As for the pointless and now-doomed "Trial" of his predecessor by Democrats in Congress, Biden has done a masterful impression of Sgt. Schultz on the old Hogan's Heroes television series.
Obviously, John F. Kennedy did not have Joe Biden in mind when he wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage.
As the unfettered forces of repression have been unleashed by the new administration and their lackeys on Capitol Hill, they're slowly transforming America-founded on the cornerstone of Judeo-Christian values-into the Biden Roach Motel.
Which circles us back, again, to "Mr. Unity" himself, President Biden.
For years Biden and his fellow Democrats have draped every racist nut or fringe group in America around the neck of Donald Trump.
Should we crank-up the same smear machine, tying Biden to every anti-Christian nutter who crawls out from under a rock?
https://townhall.com/columnists/tomtradup/2021/02/01/americas-biden-buyer-remorse-n2583993