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Friday, January 21, 2022
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Violent killings shock NY, bring back bad memories
One was thrown in front of an incoming subway train in Times Square. The other was shot over a few dollars at a burger joint.
These recent violent deaths of women in New York have set off alarm bells and brought back grim memories of when America’s largest city was a dangerous place to live.
Michelle Go, a 40-year-old Asian American, died last Saturday when a 61-year-old, who was homeless and dealing with mental health issues, shoved her in front of a train pulling into the station.
On January 9, a 19-year-old woman of Puerto Rican origin, Krystal Bayron-Nieves, was fatally shot during a robbery in the East Harlem Burger King where she worked. The assailant took about $100 from the till and shot her as he fled.
The deaths have convulsed the city, which initially had been America’s ground zero in the pandemic, then posted an economic and social rebound — only to see streets, restaurants, theaters and other public places empty out again because of the raging Omicron variant of the virus.
Police say that last year 488 homicides were recorded in the city of nine million, 4.3 percent more than in 2020. They are up sharply compared to the level five years ago.
“The number is small but concerning because there is an increase and we do not want to go back to where we were 25 years ago. We had a homicide rate that was four times more,” said Jeffrey Butts, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which is part of City University of New York.
400 million guns
Butts said the fact that America is awash with guns — there are an estimated 400 million of them in the country, more than the population — makes it prone to deadly violence.
“People don’t know how to navigate their frustrations and conflicts with one another. And when there’s a gun involved, it turns deadly,” Butts told AFP. He noted that at the start of the pandemic there was a spike in purchases of firearms.
Richard Aborn, president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, a non-profit organization that works to improve public safety, said there is a combination of factors behind the rise in violent crime, including burglary and rape.
Besides the widespread availability of guns — and the pandemic, which hit especially hard in poor, mainly non-white neighborhoods — protests that broke out nationwide against racism and inequality after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 have also led to a rise in violence.
And reforms in recent years of the US penal code to introduce changes like lower bail and less harsh sentences for non-violent crimes “also found its way into the violent crime space,” Aborn said.
“It had an unintended consequence of sending a message that the criminal justice system was no longer going to respond to violent crime,” he said.
Mental health
After the death of Go, authorities have also taken a new look at the link between crime and mental illness, especially among homeless people. It is common for them to seek refuge in subway stations during the cold months, and now because of high Covid infection rates in shelters, there is sometimes no other place for people to go.
Even New York’s new mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer who was elected on a pledge to fight crime, said this week he does not feel safe in the subway.
“I don’t want the knee-jerk reaction of going through our subway system and going through our streets and demonizing those who have slipped through the cracks and did not receive the mental health treatment that they deserve,” Adams said Tuesday at a vigil for Go.
Adams said he will station more police in the subway system, used daily by millions of people.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul promised to build 100,000 affordable housing units over the next five years to fight homelessness in the city.
“We just have to build solutions that go beyond law enforcement, because we cannot rely upon policing alone,” said professor Butts.
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Shawn Laval Smith, the suspect in the murder of 24-year-old UCLA grad student Brianna Kupfer, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in Pasadena, police say.
“We can confirm, Shawn Laval Smith, the suspect responsible for the murder of Brianna Kupfer is in custody, after being located and detained by Pasadena PD around 11:50am this morning in the area of Fair Oaks and Colorado Blvd,” LAPD tweeted on Wednesday.
“We would like to thank the public, the media and our partners at Pasadena PD for their support in apprehending the suspect,” the department added.
Smith’s arrest comes less than 24 hours after police identified him as the suspect in the killing of Brianna Kupfer. A $250,000 reward was offered for his capture. According to Los Angeles County records, Smith had a criminal record and was free on a $1,000 bail from an October 2020 misdemeanor arrest. Per the Daily Mail:
Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department records list Smith as currently free on a $1,000 bail from a misdemeanor arrest in October 2020.
The nature of the charge wasn’t immediately clear, and it was unclear why the case was still unresolved.
Smith is also currently free on a $50,000 bond in Charleston, South Carolina in relation to a November 2019 arrest on suspicion of firing a weapon into an occupied vehicle, court records show. An indictment in that case was handed down on March 16, 2020, just before COVID-19 paralyzed the courts, and the docket shows no further action on the case.
Smith allegedly stabbed Brianna Kupfer last week at the Croft House furniture store in Hancock Park where she worked while studying design at UCLA. The upscale neighborhood was considered relatively safe until recently.
Prior to the stabbing, Kupfer texted a friend saying she got a “bad vibe” from the man who entered the store. The friend did not immediately see the text message at the time.
Speaking with Fox News earlier this week, Brianna’s father, Todd Kupfer, blamed politicians for his daughter’s murder.
“Crime is truly spiking, and we have a lot of criminals on the streets that shouldn’t be out,” Kupfer said.
“We have a lot of politicians that somehow forgot about people and think the key to getting elected is to support the lowest rung of our society and to give them rights and somehow that’s the answer to getting votes,” he added.
On Monday, off-duty LAPD officer Fernando Arroyos and his girlfriend were out in South L.A. looking at houses, in anticipation of getting married and settling down there. Sure, it was after dark, and most Angelenos do not venture out at night these days, but Fernando was LAPD, highly trained in police work and educated at U.C. Berkeley, and thought he had it all down. Then four gangbangers from the local crime organization (too highly advanced to be called a gang), Florencia 13, saw the silver chains around his neck and decided to rob him. Arroyos told his girlfriend to run. Shots rang out, at least one hit Arroyos, and he died on the way to the hospital.
On Thursday, a 70-year-old nurse was attacked by a transient, right in front of Union Station, as she was waiting for a bus. (Public transport is often dangerous for people who work in downtown L.A.) She died in the hospital four days later.
Later that day, in a fashionable neighborhood in L.A. — in fact, the location of the mayor's mansion — a lovely young woman and recent college grad, Brianna Kupfer, was working in a design store on the busy main street, when a man walked in and for some inexplicable reason stabbed her to death. Just a fluke, the usual reassuring lie? No doubt it was meth or mental illness or both, as most random murders are these days in L.A. Residents are now setting up candles outside the store in yet another makeshift memorial instead of standing outside the mayor's office or the D.A.'s office shouting for their resignations. This, by the way, occurred a week after a woman pushing a baby stroller was robbed right in front of her nearby Hancock Park home.
With the deaths of these three people, two not yet out of their twenties, someone finally snapped in L.A. His name is Alex Villanueva, the elected sheriff of L.A. County, where the Arroyos murder occurred.
Usually, when a cop is murdered, the city's mayor and D.A. come out and angrily vow to catch and prosecute the killers to the fullest extent, and they file charges. After all, they are the apex of the law enforcement pyramid. If they don't care, the people are in deep trouble. This is the response from D.A. Gascon's office, though: a condolence tweet for the "death of an off-duty police officer" without even saying his name, without even admitting it was a murder.
Sheriff Villanueva discussed the case with some of Gascon's staff and then, in a shocking move, filed the case with the U.S Department of Justice instead, as he had no faith in Gascon's office to properly prosecute the case.
Gascon has said often that he will no longer file enhancements that result in extra prison time for criminals. So a criminal who robs someone would normally also have to answer for committing that crime with a gun or as a member of a gang. Villanueva was told by the D.A.'s office that they would not file gun or gang enhancements. It is passing strange that an anti-gun leftist D.A. declines to file gun enhancements, which are designed to punish gun violence, but that is another story. The death penalty is now on the table with the federal charges.
Some wonder how the feds could file so quickly. The gang is well known; the feds term it a multi-generational gang, more along the lines of the Mafia than a bunch of guys hanging out, and the subject of two prior racketeering cases. Let us hope that A.G. Garland does not interfere with this welcome turn of events.
Mayor Garcetti issued a weak statement decrying "gun violence," as if a gun jumped up and shot Officer Arroyos. Governor Newsom at least admitted he was killed by criminals. Still no voice of support for the federal prosecution of these murderous thugs.
Directly linked to the random violence in our streets, the Los Angeles homeless situation has exploded in the past couple of years despite billions spent to stop it. Villanueva is also the only official who has stepped up with any credible enforcement of vagrancy, drug-dealing, and assault laws. No matter that violence is perpetrated on and by what the leftist city structure euphemistically calls "the homeless" or "persons currently experiencing homelessness." The police have admitted that Ms. Kupfer's killer was likely a homeless person, for instance, as was the man who killed the nurse at a bus stop.
Villanueva calls L.A. pols "architects of failure" and so has gone around them to clean up the camps and over their heads to prosecute killers — because the city refuses to. He has cleaned out the settlements at Venice Beach and other tourist spots like Olvera Street and has vowed to keep them cleaned out. And CA has spent at least $3 billion per year on this issue, to no effect except to grow the homeless population. In response to the failure, Newsom just proposed another $13 billion, while the city of L.A. spends about a billion. No one except developers will be helped.
Finally and remarkably, after a record 397 homicides in 2021, it took these latest two murders last week to rouse the city out of its progressive slumber. Even the left-leaning media are reporting on it. On the center-right, local radio personalities John and Ken describe the destructive ideology as "like a religion ... a weird doomsday psycho cult." (Listen to reporter Steve Gregory's riveting report on the crimes on their January 14 podcast.)
Sheriff Villanueva has promised to end the institutional failure on virtually every aspect of city life. He has acted on it and promised more. The referral to the federal DOJ is a welcome effort. Angelenos stand behind him in his campaign to restore sanity to this once beautiful city. What other choice do we have?
PS: The new Virginia attorney general has announced legislation to allow prosecutors to bypass their Soros D.A.s and file criminal cases with his state office. A welcome tactic is developing.Patricia Jay is a film essayist and writer in Southern California and writes at https://pd1000.substack.com.
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Chicago, suburban businesses damaged in string of burglaries
It's hard to read the news out of Chicago. Weekend shootings have become as natural as hearing Cubs' fans talk about waiting for next year. I guess that nobody cares. What else can you say about it? This is from Rav Arora:
Chicago hit a grim milestone in 2021: the Cook County medical examiner’s office tallied 836 homicides, the most in 25 years. The New Year isn’t starting out better: last week, two 14-year-old boys were killed within a few hours; on the same day, a 29-year-old pregnant woman was sitting in a car when two men shot and killed her.
Once upon a time, the shooting of 14-year-old boys or a young pregnant woman sitting in a car would have been national scandals. It would have been the leading story in the national news and made the cover of newsmagazines.
That was then and this is now -- the new Chicago where killing people happens and no one forces the political class to say a word.
The Chicago PD is understaffed by more than 1,000 officers -- and this after the mayor already eliminated more than 600 police vacancies in her efforts to balance the city budget. The department also faces a recruitment crisis: only 5,000 people applied to Chicago’s police academy last year, compared with about 30,000 in past years. The most recent academy class, which graduated a few weeks ago, added a mere 13 new officers to the force.
I cannot blame the police here. They do their best but get no support from a mayor and governor who just want to talk about Trump.
Our once great city of Chicago is now a disgrace. The Democrats are worried about a so-called voting rights bill that will not change a thing in the streets of Chicago. Black Lives Matter is focused on blaming the police even though 97 percent of last year’s homicide victims were nonwhite. The mainstream media is still obsessed with President Trump or climate change.
But in Biden's nearly 2-hour press conference Wednesday, there was not a single question about Chicago.
A suspect has been identified in the murder of 24-year-old UCLA design student Brianna Kupfer: 31-year-old Shawn Laval Smith.
A $250,000 reward has been offered for the capture of Smith, who police consider armed and dangerous. He will likely be using public transit.
According to Los Angeles County records, Smith had a criminal record and was free on a $1,000 bail from an October 2020 misdemeanor arrest. Per the Daily Mail:
Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department records list Smith as currently free on a $1,000 bail from a misdemeanor arrest in October 2020.
The nature of the charge wasn’t immediately clear, and it was unclear why the case was still unresolved.
Smith is also currently free on a $50,000 bond in Charleston, South Carolina in relation to a November 2019 arrest on suspicion of firing a weapon into an occupied vehicle, court records show. An indictment in that case was handed down on March 16, 2020, just before COVID-19 paralyzed the courts, and the docket shows no further action on the case.
Smith allegedly stabbed Brianna Kupfer last week at the Croft House furniture store in Hancock Park where she worked while studying design at UCLA. The upscale neighborhood was considered relatively safe until recently.
Prior to the stabbing, Kupfer texted a friend saying she got a “bad vibe” from the man who entered the store. The friend did not immediately see the text message at the time.
Security footage from a 7-Eleven at Beverly and Wilshire boulevards allegedly recorded the killer, who was wearing an N95 mask, 30 minutes after the Kupfer’s murder. Speaking with Fox News earlier this week, Brianna’s father, Todd Kupfer, blamed politicians for his daughter’s murder.
“Crime is truly spiking, and we have a lot of criminals on the streets that shouldn’t be out,” Kupfer said.
“We have a lot of politicians that somehow forgot about people and think the key to getting elected is to support the lowest rung of our society and to give them rights and somehow that’s the answer to getting votes,” he added.
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