Friday, January 1, 2021

A NATION IN MELTDOWN - Homicide Rate in District of Columbia Highest Since 2004

 

Homicide Rate in District of Columbia Highest Since 2004

Police technicians survey the crime scene of the fatal shooting near the US Capital, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 in Washington. Police shot and killed an armed man in what authorities described as a routine rush hour traffic stop that turned deadly. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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While D.C. officials are busy locking down the city for fear of the spread of the coronavirus, data from the Metropolitan Police Department show that homicides in the city are at the highest number since 2004.

On New Year’s Eve, the data showed that 198 people had been killed in 2020, the highest number in 16 years. The number killed is up 19 percent from 2019 — at 166 and 198, respectively.

Shootings were up too — more than 920 people were shot in D.C. in 2020, which is a 64 percent increase from the number just three years ago.

The Washington Post reported on some of the victims who lost their lives last year and on how the D.C. region also has seen a spike in violence:

The victims of deadly violence include a beloved school bus driver, a construction worker killed while renovating a home and a grandmother who survived covid-19. A little boy was fatally shot at a “stop the violence” cookout, and a toddler was killed by gunfire as he was strapped in a car seat. Most victims of deadly violence in 2020 were black males. Twenty-six were women, and nine were homeless. The youngest was an 11-month-old girl who was injured while living at a homeless shelter; the oldest an 81-year-old man.

In the greater Washington region, some other areas also experienced an increase in deadly violence in 2020 while homicides remained relatively steady in some jurisdictions. Homicides in the Maryland suburbs rose from 2019 to 2020, going up slightly in Montgomery County and up nearly 30 percent in Prince George’s County. Homicides in Northern Virginia went down slightly in 2020, compared with 2019, led by Prince William County, which had seven killings last year, compared with 15 the year before.

Police and experts who study crime patterns cite myriad possible reasons for the spike in killings and shootings in the District and some other cities. They point to the coronavirus crisis, which slowed arrests and complicated efforts to mediate disputes on the streets before they turned violent. Many people struggled with the stress of job loss and, with schools and community programs shuttered or moved online, safety nets were limited for young people.

“It breaks my heart when I think of the promises not fulfilled as a result of violence,” the District’s newly named police chief, Robert J. Contee III, who takes the post on Saturday, said in the Post report.

“The new chief, who must be confirmed by the D.C. Council, promised that officers ‘will be relentless in pursuit of criminals who make our communities unsafe,’” the Post reported. “He also promised he will be mindful of residents’ challenges and concerns, starting with ‘community conversation and agreement.’”

Troy Donte Prestwood, who is chairman of an Advisory Neighborhood Commission in one of the District’s most violence-ridden neighborhoods in Anacostia, said that back in the high-crime era of the 1990s, people were “leaving the city because they were scared for their safety.” 

“I’m beginning to hear that conversation come up again in communities like mine,” Prestwood said.

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Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Sees 55% Rise in Homicides in 2020

In this March 24, 2019 photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot listens to a question during a candidate forum sponsored by One Chicago For All Alliance at Daley College in Chicago. Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle are competing to make history by becoming the city's first black, female mayor. On issues …
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Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.

Over the course of the year 2020, Chicago suffered 3,237 shooting incidents, Time reported on December 30, an increase of more than 50 percent from the 2,120 incidents reported in the same time frame in 2019.

The city also saw an astounding 55 percent increase in homicides during the same period.

Chicago shootings totaled 4,005 between January 1 and December 16, 2020, the Chicago Tribune reported last month.

In just one weekend, from December 26-27, 27 people were shot in Chicago, seven of them fatally.

Violence against police has been especially affected. The Chicago Sun-Times highlighted in early December that Chicago police officers had faced a three-fold increase in shootings directed at officers.

“Chicago police officers have been shot at 71 times this year, and 10 officers have been struck by bullets,” the article noted. “In the same period of 2019, officers were shot at 18 times, with three officers struck by gunfire.”

While Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot has stated she does not support the Defund the Police movement, in October, she proposed cutting $80 million from the budget of the Chicago Police Department.

The record-level violence experienced in Chicago in 2020 was replicated in other Democrat-run cities.

New York City had 1,824 shooting victims as of December 20, 2020, compared to 896 in the same period in 2019, and a 39 percent increase in homicides, leading the New York Times to report 2020 as the city’s deadliest year in “nearly a decade.”

report from the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ) revealed that homicides had increased by 36 percent across 28 major U.S. cities,  including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia, between June and October 2020, as compared to the same period in 2019.

In 2020, Philadelphia and Charlotte saw the highest number of homicides since the 1990s, according to local news sources.

The sharp rise in shootings and homicides coincided with coronavirus lockdowns, the shuttering of businesses, and Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the country.


LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN 2020: ABORTION - Killed 42.7 million and that many innocent unborn children - Time to use rubbers?

 

Abortion Leading Global Cause of Death in 2020 with 42.7 Million Killed

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 27: An anti-abortion advocate rallies outside of the Supreme Court during the March for Life, January 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. This year marks the 44th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which established a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. (Photo …
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Abortion was once again the number-one cause of death globally in 2020, with a record 42.7 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer.

As of December 31, 2020, there were 42.7 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, and 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS.

By comparison, worldwide deaths from the coronavirus in 2020 totaled 1.8 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Worldometer — voted one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA) — keeps a running tally through the year of major world statistics, including population, births, deaths, automobiles produced, books published, and CO2 emissions.

It also registers the total number of abortions performed worldwide, based on the latest statistics on abortions published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Globally, there were more deaths from abortion in 2020 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidents combined, according to Worldometer statistics.

The shocking number of deaths from abortion, in fact, has led certain observers to call abortion “the social justice cause of our time,” since the sheer magnitude of the problem completely overshadows other human rights issues.

The year 2020 also saw abortion legalized in Argentina, one of the last bastions in the world to recognize and protect the right to life of unborn children.

In their yearly Christmas message, the Argentinean bishops denounced the government of Alberto Fernández for its “feverish obsession” with extending abortion rights in the midst of a pandemic.

Instead of attending to the real needs of the people of Argentina, the government adopted an “incomprehensible urgency” with establishing abortion in Argentina, the bishops declared, “as if it had something to do with the sufferings, fears, and concerns of most Argentineans.”

“This Christmas we find ourselves in a historic moment calling for an arduous rebuilding of employment, education, institutions, and brotherly ties,” the bishops stated, and instead of addressing these urgent needs, the government chose to push the abortion agenda.

“In recent weeks, the panorama has darkened,” they wrote. The government should be defending the human rights of the weak rather than “denying them to the unborn.”

The abortion lobby also targeted Poland after a High Court ruling outlawed eugenic abortions performed on babies with Down syndrome and other disabilities.

The pro-abortion Women’s Strike movement organized demonstrations in major cities, with one group gathering in the center of Warsaw and then marching toward the house of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS).

In early October, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal struck down a provision permitting doctors to abort fetuses on the basis of congenital defects, ruling that the law violated the national Constitution, which guarantees the right to life.

In its decision, the court argued that aborting a child because of probable birth defects constituted eugenics, an effort to rid society of the weak and undesirable, notoriously practiced by the Nazis against Jews and disabled persons, and advocated by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger against blacks and minorities in the United States.

Along with the capital of Warsaw, pro-abortion demonstrations were held in Poznan, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Krakow and other cities, and protesters invaded churches while service were taking place, “confronting priests with obscenities” and spray-painting churches with slogans and phone numbers of abortion providers, Associated Press (AP) reported.

On December 28, Christians around the world celebrated the Feast of the Holy Innocents, commemorating the decree by King Herod that all male children in Israel under the age of two were to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the newborn Christ child. Pope Francis has compared the massacre of the Innocents to the modern practice of killing babies through abortion.

The 48th annual March for Life in the United States will take place in Washington, D.C., on January 29, 2021 with the theme “Together strong, life unites!”

The stated purpose of the march is to end abortion by “uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square.”

The annual march commemorates the infamous January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade which, together with the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey, invalidated 50 state laws and made abortion legal and available on demand throughout the United States.

MEXIFORNIA - The Effort to Recall Gavin Newsom Just Got a Major Boost

 

The Effort to Recall Gavin Newsom Just Got a Major Boost

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The Effort to Recall Gavin Newsom Just Got a Major Boost

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The effort to recall California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has reached another major milestone, crossing the 60 percent threshold of votes needed to trigger a special recall election. Now the effort to replace the governor is receiving another major boost in the form of a six-figure cash infusion from a firm based in Orange County, California. 

As of Monday, Dec. 28, some 911,000 signatures have already been collected of the 1,495,709 signatures needed for a special election, and many of those signatures have poured in during recent weeks following the governor's infamous trip to the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley and Newsom's efforts to keep the state closed down. With the recall effort only picking up steam, the campaign against the governor is now attracting some major donors. 

According to Politico, an Irvine-based consulting firm named Prov 3:9, LLC, has given $500,000 to the effort to recall Gavin Newsom. In addition, the effort has received around $100,000 from Sequoia Capital partner Douglas Leone and his wife, Patricia Perkins-Leone. Proverbs 3:9 of the Bible says to "Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops." Last month, a judge gave the recall campaign three additional months to collect the nearly 1.5 million signatures needed to certify a recall. 

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who was picked by Newsom to take over for Kamala Harris in the Senate, recently notified organizers that county officials in the state will now begin the process of hand verifying every recall petition that has been collected by the group. 

While the governor has always been a divisive figure, Newsom has given his detractors plenty of ammunition in a year marked by deadly wildfires, administrative incompetence, a radical left-wing agenda, and brutal lockdown orders that the governor and seems to have a hard time following himself.

Newsom's outgoing chief of staff, Ann O'Leary, is reportedly on the shortlist for jobs in the Biden-Harris administration. According to Politico, O'Leary's departure comes as the governor reaches his lowest point in office (a good time for O'Leary to bail). In an article detailing O'Leary's career, Politico reports that Newsom's team is becoming increasingly worried about the recall effort against him.

"While Californians were ordered to stay home during the holidays by Governor Newsom, the People have responded overwhelmingly to our recall campaign by signing the petition from the comfort of their own homes.  This is a revolution," said Senior Advisor of the RecallGavin2020.com Randy Economy in a statement.

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When it comes to Newsom, there's something for everyone to hate. Those not incensed over the governor's "rules for thee but not for me" attitude can still fault the governor for the state's rolling blackouts, a deadly wildfire season exacerbated by Newsom's environmentalist buddies, the governor's decision to cut pay for firemen while handing out stimulus checks to illegal aliens, his signing of legislation removing automatic penalties for child sex offenders, and the list goes on and on.

More information about the recall effort can be found here.


Feds: Hundreds of Victims of Illegal Alien Crimes Sought Relief in 2020

FLORENCE, AZ - FEBRUARY 28: Immigration detainees stand behind bars at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility on February 28, 2013 in Florence, Arizona. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, ICE released 303 immigration detainees in the last week from detention centers through outArizona. More than 2,000 …
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Hundreds of Americans victimized by illegal aliens sought relief from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) this year, an office created by President Trump.

This year, VOICE officials said they received about 700 calls from Americans and surviving family members who were victims of illegal alien crimes. VOICE was first created in 2017 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the request of Trump to better help Americans who are often left navigating the criminal justice system, and immigration system, by themselves.

“In FY 2020, ICE’s VOICE hotline received approximately 700 calls from victims requesting assistance,” the year-end ICE report reveals. This is not a full tally of all Americans who have been the victims of illegal alien crimes this year but rather a total of the calls VOICE received by victims requesting relief.

The majority of calls to VOICE by victims were to request the case status of an illegal alien suspect. Others requested victim information, assistance in getting automated updates on a case which is known as “VINE,” and general information.

(Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

In October, Trump issued a presidential proclamation that makes November 1 of every year the “National Day of Remembrance for Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens” to honor citizens who have been killed at the hands of illegal immigration.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) estimates that about 2,000 Americans are killed by illegal aliens every year.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder


BLACK LIVES HATE - Even After Black Supremacist Massacres of Jews, Media Continues to Deny Their Existence

 

Even After Black Supremacist Massacres of Jews, Media Continues to Deny Their Existence

  

The Democrats and their media have been aggressively working to shut down FBI monitoring of black supremacist groups. Democrat Senate members, notably Senator Cory Booker, had berated the FBI over its Black Identity Extremists category despite a series of black supremacist terrorist attacks linked to the Black Lives Matter protests. 

Including the murder of white police officers in Dallas.

The FBI had been trying to track black supremacist violence, but were shut down by the Obama administration leading to the massacre of police officers. 

The Justice Department was warned that the New Black Panther Party was advocating the ambush assassinations of police officers. Obama’s DOJ, which had protected the black nationalist terror group through everything from voter intimidation to major terror plots, laughed off the threat.

Micah Xavier Johnson, the Dallas black nationalist terrorist, had attended meetings of the People’s New Black Panther Party whose members were present with weapons at the scene of the anti-police hate rally. Despite the claims that Johnson was a random lunatic with no connection to the otherwise “peaceful” protest, his brand of lunacy was mainstream among groups such as the New Black Panther Party and the New Black Panther Party had supporters at the highest levels of government.

Despite being caught on video engaging in voter intimidation, New Black Panther Party thugs had gotten a pass from the DOJ. A plot to murder a police chief and bomb the Gateway Arch led only to gun charges. The Justice Department had not only helped incite much of the anti-police hate that led to the massacre in Dallas, but it had acted to protect a violent hate group close to the heart of the plot.

Then, last year, the Black Hebrew Israelites, a racist black supremacist cult at the center of the Covington case which had been praised by the Washington Post and the New York Times, carried out two brutal terrorist attacks against Jews.

Including an attack against a synagogue.

When the shooting had ended, Moshe Hersh Deutsch, a yeshiva student who was known for helping distribute food packages to the needy, Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz, a mother of 3 who helped her husband run the grocery store, and Miguel Jason Rodriguez, the father of an 11-year-old daughter and a parishioner at an Assemblies of God church, were all dead.

Anderson, who left behind anti-Semitic and anti-police writings, had also killed Detective Joseph Seals, a father of 5, and wounded Officer Ray Sanchez and Officer Ferenella Fernandez.

The black nationalist terrorist had hated cops and Jews. He managed to kill both.

David Anderson, the Kosher supermarket shooter, had a whole YouTube playlist of such ugly incidents. In one video, a Black Israelite preacher shouts, “Satan is in you” at a Jewish man. “You stole our history. You are pretending to be us. The messiah, who is a black man, is going to kill you.”

Then came the next attack.

 Thomas entered a rabbi's home in Monsey, N.Y., around 9:52 p.m. Saturday as dozens of congregants from a nearby synagogue celebrated the seventh night of Hanukkah by lighting candles and reciting prayers.

With his face obscured by a scarf, Thomas said, "No one is leaving." Then he took out a machete and began stabbing and slashing people in the rabbi's home, federal prosecutors wrote in the charging document.

Five people had serious injuries, including one victim who sustained a severed finger. Federal authorities say one victim is still in critical condition with a skull fracture.

Family members of those who survived the attack told NPR that some of the people at the house threw furniture, including a coffee table, at Thomas to thwart his attack.

Witnesses said he stumbled out of the rabbi's home bloodied and attempted to enter a nearby synagogue, but it was locked

He later died. The black supremacist killer all but got off because a lefty went to bat for him by exploiting the religious faith of the family of the murder victim.

The FBI might have been in a better position to stop these black supremacist attacks if Senator Booker and other Democrats, along with the media, hadn't been pressuring the FBI to stop monitoring the 'black identity extremists' category.

Earlier this summer, Booker had grinned at a Senate grilling of FBI Director Christopher Wray. “So, you no longer use the term Black Identity Extremism,” he had gloated. “That's great news.”

“So nobody is being investigated or surveilled under black identity extremism?” he demanded.

At the Senate hearing, Booker followed the same talking points as other defenders of black nationalism did, objecting to Director Wray’s suggestion that racist violence was coming from both sides of the spectrum. “That language you said, both ends of the spectrum, the murders at synagogues, the murders we've seen motivated,” he rambled. “You said both ends of the spectrum, as if there actually is a movement of black identity extremism: it's almost creating this reality.”

And he wasn’t alone.

Booker, along with Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Dick Durbin, Senator Chris Coons, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and Senator Richard Blumenthal had sent a letter to Attorney General Barr this year claiming that "so-called 'Black identity extremists'" was a "fabricated term based on a faulty assessment of a small number of isolated incidents."

A letter by the Congressional Black Caucus had also taken issue with the BIE category. Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr, who represents the district in which the Kosher market shooting happened, is a CBC member.

Now, a year later, they're at it again with this wildly dishonest article by Jana Winter at Yahoo News.

More than three years after the FBI came under fire for claiming “Black identity extremists” were a domestic terrorism threat, the bureau has issued a new terrorism guide that employs almost identical terminology, according to a copy of the document obtained by Yahoo News.

Outrageous. How dare the FBI track the racist terrorists responsible for multiple attacks?

In 2017, a leaked copy of an FBI report on “Black identity extremists” sparked an outcry from activists, civil rights groups and Congress, who criticized the bureau for portraying disparate groups and individuals as a single movement, even though the only common factor was that those associated with the term were Black Americans. 

That's like saying that the only thing white supremacists have in common is that they're white. 

“As evidenced by this reference guide, white supremacists are the ones actually carrying out violent attacks, yet the FBI continues to equate them with Black activists and Black-led organizations who exercise their First Amendment-protected right to speak out against racism and racial violence committed by police,” Mark Carter, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, told Yahoo News. “Putting Black activists in the same category as violent racists is absurd and illogical.”

Tell it to the dead police officers in Dallas, and the dead Jews in New York and New Jersey.

Black nationalists are part of the lefty base. And lefty activists and the media are defending them while ensuring that more people are killed.

Malkia Devich-Cyril, the founding director and a senior fellow at MediaJustice in Oakland, Calif., also took issue with the FBI’s classification of Black separatists as racial extremists alongside white supremacists. “The fact is, Black radicalism, including Black separatism, has long been about winning equity, peace and justice for Black people, not about denying it to anyone else — while white supremacist violence has been responsible for the vast majority of domestic terror attacks in 2020 and throughout the last several decades,” she said.

This is a defense of black supremacism. It completely ignores the racist ideologies of the Nation of Islam, a key influencer, and that of other black nationalist groups. It's a false whitewash of these violent racist movements and yet it's allowed to stand. This is how deep the leftist support for black supremacism goes.


Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Sees 55% Rise in Homicides in 2020

In this March 24, 2019 photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot listens to a question during a candidate forum sponsored by One Chicago For All Alliance at Daley College in Chicago. Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle are competing to make history by becoming the city's first black, female mayor. On issues …
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Chicago has just concluded one of the most violent years in its history, with a massive increase in shooting incidents and homicides, Time magazine reports.

Over the course of the year 2020, Chicago suffered 3,237 shooting incidents, Time reported on December 30, an increase of more than 50 percent from the 2,120 incidents reported in the same time frame in 2019.

The city also saw an astounding 55 percent increase in homicides during the same period.

Chicago shootings totaled 4,005 between January 1 and December 16, 2020, the Chicago Tribune reported last month.

In just one weekend, from December 26-27, 27 people were shot in Chicago, seven of them fatally.

Violence against police has been especially affected. The Chicago Sun-Times highlighted in early December that Chicago police officers had faced a three-fold increase in shootings directed at officers.

“Chicago police officers have been shot at 71 times this year, and 10 officers have been struck by bullets,” the article noted. “In the same period of 2019, officers were shot at 18 times, with three officers struck by gunfire.”

While Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot has stated she does not support the Defund the Police movement, in October, she proposed cutting $80 million from the budget of the Chicago Police Department.

The record-level violence experienced in Chicago in 2020 was replicated in other Democrat-run cities.

New York City had 1,824 shooting victims as of December 20, 2020, compared to 896 in the same period in 2019, and a 39 percent increase in homicides, leading the New York Times to report 2020 as the city’s deadliest year in “nearly a decade.”

report from the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ) revealed that homicides had increased by 36 percent across 28 major U.S. cities,  including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia, between June and October 2020, as compared to the same period in 2019.

In 2020, Philadelphia and Charlotte saw the highest number of homicides since the 1990s, according to local news sources.

The sharp rise in shootings and homicides coincided with coronavirus lockdowns, the shuttering of businesses, and Black Lives Matter protests in cities across the country.