[BALTIMORESUN] City police and prosecutors have for the last several years preached the need to get "bad guys with guns" off the streets and have announced assorted special efforts to do so, from a "war room" to the recent creation of a new joint unit pairing experienced personnel from the police department and state's attorney's office. Police report they are making far more gun arrests, yet we are poised to exceed 300 homicides for the second year in a row, a rate of killing not seen here since the 1990s.
Part of the explanation for the discrepancy lies in Sun news hound Justin Fenton's investigation Sunday revealing that when people are incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on illegal firearm charges in Baltimore, they are less likely to be held without bail than in the past, their cases are dropped about a quarter of the time before they get to trial, and those who are convicted are given just a fraction of the jail time for which they are eligible, often with large amounts of the sentence suspended. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has sought help from the legislature to toughen penalties for firearm violations, and it's true that some legal changes might help. State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby says she is working to bring better coordination between prosecutors and police to prevent avoidable errors that lead to cases falling apart. That's part of the solution, too.
But the roots of the problem are deeper. There is a direct line between the failures of authorities to secure consistent jail time for gun crimes and the record of unconstitutional activity and civil rights violations documented by the Department of Justice in its report on the Baltimore Police Department. The statistics-driven policing DOJ Sherlocks described in Baltimore -- a legacy of the zero-tolerance strategy of a decade ago -- has led both to sloppy police work and an attitude of distrust among juries, with the result being that perpetrators are more afraid of what will happen if they don't carry a gun than they are of what will happen if they do.
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So, in Maryland, if you are dealing with firearms in a legal manner, you are living a nightmare. If you are dealing with them illegally, the justice system has your back. Got it...
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Here's a thought. There needs to be a mandatory minimum sentence - say 5 years in the jug for felons caught in possession of a firearm. The sentence must be served to completion with no time off for "good behavior". The sentence must be served consecutively rather than concurrently with other charges. Also, there is a need to hold Judges and Prosecutors accountable through citizens watchdog groups (ie; MADD Mothers) to deter plea bargins, dismissed charges, or suspended sentences. And in such cases,demand the media focus on the sentence as much as the crime itself. Look, this ain't no panacea but there's no need for new immeasurable laws that only affect the law abiding. For the most part, LE is doing their job enforcing the laws. Now it's time for the suits to step up and do theirs and "We" need to hold them to account.
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Is this going to be another story about gun control and gun confiscation, you know the story, we have to collect everyone's firearms to control the few thugs who have an illegal gun. I say these apparatchiks should go *&$# yourselves.
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The left believe the primary problem is "too many blacks in jail." How can they crack down on gun crime when doing so makes the "primary problem" worse?
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The left is in love with the "logic" of "get rid of guns, get rid of gun crime." By that "logic," cutting down on minorities committing crimes seems like a problem easily solved. Right?
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The left is in love with the "logic" of "get rid of guns, get rid of gun crime."
M. Murcek, I'm thinking it's more sinister than that. Get rid of guns to insure that citizens don't come after the D.C. criminals; in other words so that citizens cannot exercise the original intent of the 2nd amendment if necessary and that is to toss a tyrannical government.
[Daily Caller] The newest batch of John Podesta’s hacked emails released by Wikileaks shows Obama’s transition team kept lists of Muslim and Asian candidates for jobs in the administration.
According to an email chain from 2008, John Podesta received lists of exclusively Muslims and Asians to be considered for jobs in the Obama administration. The email chain revealed that in this process, Middle Eastern Christians were purposefully excluded, or set aside in a separate list, with an aide writing,
"In the candidates for top jobs, I excluded those with some Arab American background but who are not Muslim (e.g., George Mitchell). Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian. In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian)."
Also notable, there was concern that some of the Muslims suggested would not survive media scrutiny, with one aide writing, "High-profile Muslim Americans tend to be the subject of a fair amount of blogger criticism, and so the individuals on this list would need to be ESPECIALLY carefully vetted."
She continues, "I suspect some of the people I list would not survive such a vet -- but I do personally know, at least in part, virtually all of the candidates in the 1st two categories (but I know very few of those listed for outside boards/commissions)."
[Wash Times] Donald Trump demanded an investigation Monday after revelations that Hillary Clinton’s allies invested heavily in the state Senate campaign of a Democrat at a time when her husband oversaw part of the FBI’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton's secret email account.
Mr. Trump said the revelations about now-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his wife, Jill McCabe, a Democrat whose campaign collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations overseen by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, are the latest example of corruption that pervades the nation's capital.
"Hillary knew this money was being paid, and she has to be held accountable for this," Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally in Florida." She has to be held accountable because she knew that money, $675,000-plus, was being paid. So how is she allowed to continue to run for president?"
Down in the polls with two weeks to go before Election Day, Mr. Trump is struggling to recapture the attention of voters who have tuned him out over the past month.
He has delved more deeply into policy, laid out an agenda for his first days in office and increased his attacks on Mrs. Clinton and the "rigged" system he says is thwarting his campaign.
The McCabe revelations, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, gave him a new hook.
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I called Smartmatic who per their website recently indicated they have voting machines in 16 states, Smartmatic is owned by Soros, and demanded to know the exact location of each of their machines today. They referred me to their website which they said now shows they have no voting machines anywhere. I then asked them if they have no voting machines in the US, why am I talking to their US office, what is the purpose of having an office to the US? The person hung up on me.
The effort to put an American president into the oval office without consent of American people for the first time in our history is real.
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The effort to put an American president into the oval office without consent of American people for the first time in our history is real. Posted by Huperese Platypus
Actually, beta testing may have begun in 2008, with full production in 2012 thru 2016.
Dennis Miller - "One side or the other has the conch shell, and I expect my skull to be beaten in by it."
He will vote, Miller said, because the troops are fighting for him, but added, "Do I think the ship has sailed? Yeah, I do."
Sadly, I must agree with Miller. "The ship has sailed."
OK, assuming her health is as bad as implied by many, who benefits should she become unable to discharge the duties and responsibilities of her elected office?
Please direct your attention to the dog and child.
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If the Clintonistas should happen to drag Hillary across the finish line with a rigged election, the saving grace is that she probably will not be able to finish out her term due to terminal lying and associated health problems that have been kept hidden.
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But then, I can't believe that anybody thinks that old cackling witch Hillary Clinton is up for the jobs either. Maybe they think old Bubba will be the power behind the rocking chair but then he's getting pretty old and frail looking.
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My Twilight Years at 84. ...
If you realize each day is a gift, you may be near my age. As I enjoy my twilight years, I am often struck by the inevitability that the party must end. There will be a clear, cold morning when there isn't any "more." No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat. It seems to me that one of the important things to do before that morning comes, is to let ...every one of your family and friends know that you care for them by finding simple ways to let them know your heartfelt beliefs and the guiding principles of your life so they can always say, "He was my friend, and I know where he stood." So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please know this: I voted against that incompetent, lying, flip-flopping, insincere, double-talking, radical socialist, terrorist excusing, bleeding heart, narcissistic, scientific and economic moron currently in the White House! I won't be voting for the 'that' woman who is running to replace him with the same old s***. Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids."
Regards, Clint
[USATODAY] Federal regulators opened the federal exchange Healthcare.gov for consumers to browse for plans on Monday, as they announced that rates will be up 25% for the plans for which the tax subsidies are calculated.
The Department of Health and Human Services also warned that more than one in five consumers using the site will only have one insurer from which to choose coverage.
As concerns grow about much higher rates in many states, officials emphasized that the vast majority of people shopping on Healthcare.gov will pay less than $100 a month for premiums when tax credits are included. More than 70% of people will pay less than $75 a month after tax credits.
Healthcare.gov handles individual insurance sales for those who live in the 38 states that don't have their own exchanges.
The second lowest cost silver plan on the exchanges is the benchmark plan that regulators base tax credits on. That's the rate that is up 25%, which is also the expected overall increase in 2017.
"This is a big increase in an environment where health care cost growth is generally modest and incomes aren’t growing much at all," says Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "The increase is largely a reflection of insurers catching up to the fact that the number of sick people signing up for insurance is bigger than expected."
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But the inflation rate, according to the recent Social Security hike, is near zero.
But not too worry, most of the users' increases will be covered by subsidies.
Paid from the money tree.
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Heard on the radio this morning, an 'expert' saying people get in when they're sick and get out when they're well, and that ain't gonna work.
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All according to leftist theory and social engineering. See Cloward Piven. The only difference in the original strategy is they want to turn most of us into an underclass with only a few elites ruling.
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More than 70% of people will pay less than $75 a month after tax credits.
Hey, Bargain City! But wait, the deductible is $5,000. That means I need to spend almost $6K before the free money starts flowing. Bargain my ass! But birth control is free, right?
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Thing is, I had not even a minor illness/injury and I am in the income where I am supposed to receive benefits.
Oh, and this is a policy I have after the policy I had and liked was cancelled.
The wings are going to come off and this will crash into shark infested mountains, and all we get from the Barry Hill Show is how potentially dangerous sharks are.
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Something like $700b has been taken from Medicare to finance Obamacare. Even with this infusion of money, Obamacare is still a disaster. Moreover, now there are some doctors who won't accept Medicare patients. These politicians would screw up a good wet dream as the saying goes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BALTIMORESUN] City police and prosecutors have for the last several years preached the need to get "bad guys with guns" off the streets and have announced assorted special efforts to do so, from a "war room" to the recent creation of a new joint unit pairing experienced personnel from the police department and state's attorney's office. Police report they are making far more gun arrests, yet we are poised to exceed 300 homicides for the second year in a row, a rate of killing not seen here since the 1990s.
[Wash Times] Donald Trump demanded an investigation Monday after revelations that Hillary Clinton’s allies invested heavily in the state Senate campaign of a Democrat at a time when her husband oversaw part of the FBI’s investigation into Mrs. Clinton's secret email account.
The effort to put an American president into the oval office without consent of American people for the first time in our history is real. Posted by Huperese Platypus
[USATODAY] Federal regulators opened the federal exchange Healthcare.gov for consumers to browse for plans on Monday, as they announced that rates will be up 25% for the plans for which the tax subsidies are calculated.
