[FoxNews] The California Supreme Court eliminated cash bail earlier this year for defendants who can’t afford to pay it
A 21-year-old homeless man was arrested in Los Angeles County this week on charges of kidnapping and having sex with a minor, according to police.
Simon Lopez was arrested Monday afternoon in a residential neighborhood of Canoga Park, Glendale police said in a press release.
Lopez’s arrest stemmed from a reported confrontation between a minor and an adult male earlier this month in Glendale, police said. Investigators learned that the male was seen physically assaulting the minor before fleeing the area in a vehicle.
Investigators also learned that Lopez had been having a romantic relationship with a minor under the age of 15 and had a non-local warrant out for his arrest, according to police.
Police tracked down Lopez in the 21000 block of Roscoe Blvd. in Canoga Park on Monday around 2:30 p.m. and arrested him.
He was charged with kidnapping, domestic violence, engaging in intercourse with a minor, and for his outstanding warrant. Jail records show he is in custody at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles.
Glendale police said District Attorney George Gascón’s office recommended that Lopez’s bail be set at $0 because of the county’s emergency "Zero-Dollar" bail order. When reached for comment, a spokesman for Gascón’s office appeared to contest the Glendale police, telling Fox News its prosecutor did not recommend $0 bail and that a judge ultimately set bail at $100,000.
The "Zero-Dollar" policy was implemented to reduce crowding in county jails during the COVID-19 pandemic and applies to misdemeanors and lower-level felonies.
Justice reform advocates have long argued that low-income and minority communities are disproportionately affected by cash bail. Earlier this year, the California Supreme Court eliminated cash bail for defendants who can’t afford to pay it – essentially requiring that poor defendants be freed unless they are deemed too dangerous to be released awaiting trial.
The court’s decision came despite California voters’ November 2020 rejection of a proposed end to the state’s cash bail system.
The "zero bail" policy has since come under scrutiny amid an increase in crime, most notably with a series of brazen smash-and-grab robberies at high-end retail stores. Gascón's progressive policies, too, have made him the target of multiple recall attempts.
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[FoxNews] San Francisco leaders on Friday approved an emergency plan to combat drug use in the city's much-troubled Tenderloin neighborhood after Mayor London Breed made a proposal earlier this month that some fear will criminalize addicts and the homeless.
The 8-2 vote by the Board of Supervisors came after a lengthy meeting that ended just after midnight Friday. Board President Shamann Walton and Supervisor Dean Preston dissented, arguing that potential over-policing could impact African Americans, among other issues.
The declaration authorizes the city's Department of Emergency Management to bypass certain red tape in an effort to set up a temporary center where people can access drug treatment and counseling.
Tenderloin includes City Hall but has been plagued with crime and open-air drug dealing and use and homelessness. The order does not call for an increased police presence, but Chief Bill Scott said officers just can't ignore what's happening in the neighborhood, where parents have said their children can't go outside and addicts inject themselves with drugs out in the open.
"We’re out there to help," Scott said. "We’re not out there to turn a blind eye to people killing themselves on the street."
In a social media threat this week, Breed said: "When someone is openly using drugs on the street we're going to give them the option of going to the services and treatment we're providing. But if they refuse, we're not going to allow them to continue using on the street. The families in the neighborhood deserve better."
Deaths attributable to overdoses have increased more than 200% in San Francisco since 2018. Last year, more than 700 people died from drug overdoses in the city, more than the number who died from COVID-19, according to the emergency proclamation.
Nearly 600 people have died from drug overdoses this year, Breed said earlier this month.
Nearly half of the deaths occurred in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, according to the proclamation. The areas make up 7% of the city's population.
When she announced the declaration, a visibly frustrated Breed said the city needed to be "less tolerant of all the bull—- that has destroyed our city."
District Attorney Chesa Boudin and public defender Mano Raju both denounced the plan at a news conference this week.
"If arrests and prosecutions alone could solve the drug crisis in this country or in this city, it would have been solved long ago," said Boudin, who is facing a recall campaign. "We’ve invested over a trillion dollars in fighting the so-called war on drugs, and where has it gotten us?"
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Wow!only a politician could be praised for causing and fixing the same problem.
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-12-25 04:11
...In the words of Governor LePetomane, "Gentlemen - we've GOT to save our phoney baloney jobs!!!"
Mike
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In the late 80's I was litterly buying drugs in the Tenderloin - and it was exactly like this article describes, except that some maniac was also decapitating male prostitutes.
San Franciscans have gotten soft. The SF of 2021 is the traditional SF, and white male mayors weren't any better at running it. Save for a roughly twenty year period from 1995 to 2015, it's always been a dump.
[FoxNews] Taylor Budowich's bank, JPMorgan, is represented by Obama AG Loretta Lynch.
Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for former President Donald Trump, is fighting a subpoena sent by the House Jan. 6 Committee to JPMorgan Chase for his banking records, arguing in a court filing that he's being denied due process in the matter after providing hundreds of pages of documents and hours of sworn testimony.
"The Select Committee acts absent any valid legislative power and threatens to violate longstanding principles of separation of powers by performing a law enforcement function absent authority to do so," a complaint filed by Budowich in the Washington, D.C., federal district court reads.
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[BREITBART] Blue states that have repeatedly imposed mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and lockdowns over the last year have lost population to red states that have done away with such policies.Newly released data from the United States Census Bureau reveals that while blue states like Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and New York have increasingly lost population from July 2020 to July 2021, red states such as Texas and Florida have seen population increases.
Thirty-three states saw population increases over the last year while 17 states, and Washington, D.C., saw their populations decline. New York has suffered the largest numerical population decline with roughly 319,000 fewer residents today than a year ago.
New York, especially New York City, has imposed school closures, business lockdowns, vaccine requirements, and mask mandates sporadically in the last 12 months.
Simultaneously, Texas — which has not had any statewide Chinese coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... -related restrictions since March — has gained population to the sum of more than 310,000 residents.
Florida, with a similar ethos of remaining open with little-to-no restrictions, saw the second-largest numeric population gains after Texas with more than 211,000 new residents.
California and Illinois, oppositely, saw the largest population decreases after New York.
In California, where mask mandates and vaccine requirements remain policy in major cities, there are nearly 262,000 fewer residents than there were before July 2020. In Illinois, with similar restrictive coronavirus-related policies and a statewide mask mandate, there are nearly 114,000 fewer residents.
Domestic migration out of California, New York, and Illinois were the largest of all 20 states and Washington, D.C. that saw population decreases as a result of residents moving out of state.
Florida, Texas, and Arizona saw the most growth from domestic migration.
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Another way of lookin at this is Dem States are "Santa Claus States" and the hardworking reindeer are tired of footing the bill, so they stay or leave. The ones who stay may do this in 2022, during the election...
[AMERICANTHINKER] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s state politicians recently failed to pass bail reform legislation, creating a case study in how fundamentally poor public policy will self-destruct if it’s exposed for what it is. On the face of it, there is a logic to the continuing argument that cash-based bail is unfair to people who have little or no money. But that simplistic premise is deeply flawed and has led to a huge increase in violent mostly peaceful crime in California, as well as in other places that implemented the policy. Unfortunately, the grim repercussions are not just statistical. There is a human face to criminal justice reform gone bad—and ultimately it tripped up the politicians behind the latest attempt at force-feeding bail reform to the Golden State’s citizens.
Even the staunchest bail reform advocates were compelled to take a step back after the horrific events of September 6. In Sacramento, Troy Davis, a convicted felon, broke into 61-year-old Kate Tibbitts’s home, raped and murdered her, slaughtered her two dogs, and then set the house ablaze. The night before, Davis had exposed himself on a neighbor’s porch.
When it emerged that Davis had been released on zero bail, the impetus for a bail reform bill that was steamrolling its way through the California Senate immediately screeched to a halt. But is that the end of the story or is there another domino waiting to fall?
In 2020, as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Judicial Council, hoping to prevent COVID’s spread, had implemented zero-bail schedules to reduce jail populations. Senate Bill 262 was later introduced in another of a series of attempts to eliminate most monetary bail. For reasons having nothing to do with protecting health and safety, Senate Bill 262 would have made the schedules permanent. In effect, if defendants could not afford bail, they would simply be released.
The grim reality of zero-bail policies became increasingly apparent as late summer turned to fall. Dramatic expansions in crime. Rampant retail theft. Law enforcement and prosecutors unified in their complaint that the zero-bail schedule was a problem. A big problem. In fact, the Judicial Council had terminated the zero-bail schedule order even before its emergency authority expired, presumably because these policies failed. Troy Davis’s rape and murder of Kate Tibbitts was the final straw in Sacramento, at least for Senate Bill 262.
Even as the importance of bail in the criminal justice system is being recognized, the careful balance that it creates between defendants and the public (including victims of crime) has grown more precarious. For example, retail criminals are now organized and increasingly brazen. A mayor in a California city could order police to go on an old west-style round-up of these lawbreakers, who would then immediately walk free out of jail...only to go out and do it again.
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[FOXNEWS] Parents in the Austin, Texas, area expressed outrage after a technology teacher read a Dr. Seuss-style poem mocking "evangelicals" and parents who have expressed concerns about books they call pornographic.
Krista Tyler, instructional technology specialist at Grisham Middle School in the Round Rock Independent School District (ISD) read the poem at the Leander ISD school board meeting Dec. 16.
"Everyone in Leander liked reading a lot/ but some evangelicals in Leader did not," Tyler begins. "These kooks hated reading, the whole reading season./ Please don't ask why, no one quite knows the reason./ It could be perhaps critical thinking causes fright./ It could be their heads aren't screwed on just right./ But whatever the reason, their brains or their fright,/ they can't follow policy in plain black and white."
"These bigots don't get to choose for us, that's clear," Tyler's poem continues. "Then how, I am wondering, did we even get here./ They growl at our meetings, all hawing and humming,/ ’We must stop this indoctrination from coming!’/ They've come for the books and the bonds and what for?/ Their kids don't even attend Leander schools anymore./ Bring back our books, maintain decorum, good grief./ Wouldn't it be nice to have a meeting in peace?"
Parents in Round Rock ISD and Leander ISD expressed outrage over Tyler's poem.
"I'm disgusted and disheartened that there are teachers in our school district who think it is OK to mock parents for their religious beliefs, and for demanding that children not have access to books in the library or classroom that have pornographic illustrations and graphic descriptions of sex acts," Dustin Clark, a father of four children in Round Rock public schools who got arrested for speaking out in a school board meeting, told Fox News.
Clark mentioned two of the books in question: "Lawn Boy," by Jonathan Evison, which includes long sections of a boy reminiscing about explicit experiences he had at 10 years old; and "Gender Queer: A Memoir," by Maia Kobabe, which includes photos of sexual acts between a boy and a man. Concerned parents have spoken up about these books and others in Leader and Round Rock, as well as in other school districts, such as Fairfax County, Virginia.
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At the end of the day the only thing that will stop this is that every teacher and administrator in the country understands to the core that doing anything like this will result in swift removal of their magic government paycheck and a lifetime ban on employment anywhere else in the Education-Government Complex.
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[FoxNews] Biden plans to roll out 500 million free tests beginning in January.
As of Thursday, the White House had yet to finalize and execute a contract to acquire the tests, and as a result there was no distribution date in place or a hard date for when the website to request the tests would go live.
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[JUSTTHENEWS] The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Department of Education's equity project manager has resigned due to the fact she lives in Texas.
Pamela Kadakia worked for the California state department while living in Texas, according to Politico. Additionally, the Lone Star State is on California's state-funded travel ban list.
California law mandates that state employees live there unless they need to live in another location for their work, such as lobbying in D.C.
Kadakia is the second California education equity official to depart in recent weeks. The Golden State's first superintendent of equity, Daniel Lee, resigned earlier this month. Politico reported how Lee lived in Philadelphia while collecting a salary of more than $161,000 from the state of California.
The California Department of Education issued a statement Thursday to Politico, confirming that Kadakia left the agency.
"We sought to ensure that all our personnel were in line with the new guidance," the department stated. "In doing so, we accepted Ms. Kadakia’s resignation."
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[JUSTTHENEWS] Dominion voting machines in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, will be sent to the state Senate for inspection next month following a ruling by the commonwealth court, according to a blurb Thursday by The Amistad Project."The court recognized that it was improper to demand that the county — which owns the machines, and has the responsibility of running the election along with the legislature — can’t determine whether the machines worked properly," Amistad Project Director Phill Kline said. "As the judge noted, there’s no justification for preventing the county from looking at their own machines."
The inspection was scheduled for Dec. 22, but Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Democratic Secretary of the Commonwealth Veronica Degraffenreid sued to prevent it. The judge ruled the investigation must go forward, but he allowed a short delay for both sides to determine a formal protocol for the inspection, which is scheduled for Jan. 10, 2022.
"Executive branch officials were trying to stop the inspection altogether, but the judge did not grant their emergency motion to stop the inspection," Amistad Project attorney Tom King stated. "They did not go to court seeking a delay; they sought to stop it, and they lost."
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Why would anyone want to stop the county from examining its own machinees? It is, after all, responsible for the proper working of them.
Perhaps the Pennsylvania Legislature should question the officials who seek to stop this investigation as to their motives in doing so.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Leftism is driven by committee advice; it’s how the echo-chambering communal groupthink works.
After the White House COVID "Winter of Death" messaging was ridiculed and ignored by almost everyone in the general public, the communications team quickly went back to the drawing board. You can almost hear Ron Klain instructing the team to find ways to avoid the ’Grinch team’ labeling.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the ordinary emotional disposition of leftists and Democrats, writ large, is depressing, angry and negative, the result from a lifetime of blame casting. The most valued skillset advancing the career of any professional leftist, is their ability to project victimhood. If you do this long enough, it becomes the only thing you know how to do. ’Hang around a one-legged man long enough, and you will walk with a limp’.
As a direct result, the political left genuinely does not understand or experience joy, nor do they have a connection to the emotion of happiness.
White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, hired dancing nurses to come into the East Room to deliver a performance for the First Lady. In the video, the group sings about the joy of covid, the "winter of death", and needing to spread a little Christmas cheer.
You might find the entire performance cringeworthy, because it is. The messaging is ridiculous, odd and, well, just plain weird. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... this is what happens when the narrative pendulum swings wildly amid the communications team. The base of Biden supporters, ideological leftists, do not see the cringe, instead they see it as cute — but that’s because they have no connection to the actual emotion of Christmas joy.
What you end up with is this weird North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n style performance of nurses dancing in unison and singing. The expression on Jill Biden’s face is exactly the same look you might find on the face of Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... ’s sister, Kim Yo Jung. To the White House, this is cute and fun; however, the look on the faces of the American audience is an uncomfortable grin.
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It's the Woke version of the Mel Brooks classic, Springtime For H!tler!
Wokery was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where, Oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around and then we found
The man for you and me
And now it's..
Springtime for Brandon and Wokery Wokesters are happy and gay
We're marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes Replacement Race
Springtime for Brandon and Wokery
Winter for Unvaxxed Deplorables
Springtime for Brandon and Wokery
Goosestep's the new step today
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Just watched the JWST launch. The gap between the quality those people bring to their jobs vs the pathetic mediocrity of Fauxi and his court is astounding.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] In the tweet, Bill Bratton - who worked under outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio - showed several homeless people sleeping on a subway train
AOC joined many on the left in slamming Bratton for insensitivity to homeless people and pointing out how much of the city's budget the police takes up
The second-term Congresswoman has vigorously fought for the 'defund' movement
Ocasio-Cortez said in June 2020 she's 'actively engaged in advocacy' for a 'reduction of our NYPD budget and defunding a $6billion NYPD budget
AOC has also supported several other policy solutions for police reform, including an end to qualified immunity that shields officers from legal accountability
The NYPD's budget is set to rise again from $5.22billion to $5.43billion in 2022
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They funded a 'tiny village' in Albuquerque for the homeless. "They built it and no one came". Seems they prefer to live without restrictions (like drugs/alcohol). People like AOC don't understand that these are only 'victims' of their own making and the vast majority don't want to change.
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I wonder how much money has been spent on homelessness over the years? Nothing but more homeless people. Guess she know a few "communtiy organizers".
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As the progressivists wish, you could spend every $ from national defense and policing on social programs - You'd still have homelessness, drug abuse, gang violence, drug abuse, and teh assorted ills. People will be what they will be
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[NYPost] What a moron
President Biden got a visit from a Christmas troll Friday when a father participating in the annual White House NORAD Santa-tracking call used the phrase "Let’s Go Brandon," the slangy stand-in for "F— Joe Biden."
The dad, identified only as Jared from Oregon, wished the president and first lady Jill Biden a merry Christmas before adding the anti-Biden phrase at the end of his family’s portion of the call.
"Merry Christmas and let’s go Brandon," the father said as he signed off.
"Let’s go Brandon, I agree," Biden said without missing a beat.
It was unclear from Biden’s reaction if he knew what the phrase meant.
Jill Biden, seated next to her husband on a couch in the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building, did seem aware of the meaning and gave an awkward chuckle before rolling her eyes.
Moments earlier, the father told the president his 2-year-old daughter Penelope would be happy with any presents from Santa and the president urged the family’s children to go to bed by 9 p.m., according to a pool report.
The anti-Biden neologism emerged in October after a TV reporter mistakenly claimed a NASCAR crowd was chanting "Let’s Go Brandon" when they were actually saying "F— Joe Biden."
The slogan has appeared on protest signs, in Republican congressional speeches and on merchandise sold by former President Donald Trump.
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When do they put Magoo out to pasture?
Will he survive 2022?
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"Let's go, Brandon," Joe Biden enthused,
On Christmas Eve cruelly abused...
For, to judge by her look
That could kindle a book,
Dr. Jillgood was not much amused.
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
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[FoxNews] The California Supreme Court eliminated cash bail earlier this year for defendants who can’t afford to pay it
[FoxNews] San Francisco leaders on Friday approved an emergency plan to combat drug use in the city's much-troubled Tenderloin neighborhood after Mayor London Breed made a proposal earlier this month that some fear will criminalize addicts and the homeless.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
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