Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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Cop Who Shot Donovan Lynch Acted in Self Defense
by Kerry Dougherty On a balmy spring Friday night last March — the 26th to be exact — the Virginia Beach resort strip was packed with young people as an orgy of violence exploded. By the time the gunfire stopped and the crowds were dispersed, 10 people had been shot. Two were dead. And scores…
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To Get Respect, Show Respect
by Dick Hall-Sizemore There are frequent posts on this blog citing the low morale of police officers and officers quitting or retiring as a result. (For one example, see the post from earlier today.) However, for some reason, those posts often fail to report on the continued bad behavior of police. Early last month, a…
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Bacon Bits: Crime and Delusion Edition
Another drive-by, two more dead. Family, friends and community leaders gathered a week ago to remember 14-year-old Rah’quan Logan, who was murdered at a Richmond community store, in a drive-by shooting. Nine-year-old Abduel Bani-Ahmad, whose family owned the store, died in the same incident, in which occupants of an SUV drove past the store and…
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White Supremacists Are Pathetic Broke Losers
by James A. Bacon The mainstream media portrays white supremacists as an ever-present danger to the republic, and heavy hitters from the New York Times to the Washington Post gave the trial of White nationalist leaders in Charlottesville daily coverage. At last an article has been published that portrays the racists as the broke, pathetic…
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Will the Left Scrap Bail Reform After Waukesha?
by Kerry Dougherty Looks like we can add “bail reform” to “defund the police, ” “school choice” and “CRT” as issues that will fuel the 2022 red wave. It’s coming. The far left, in Virginia and elsewhere, has been pushing hard to do away with cash bail because they say it discriminates against poor defendants.…
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Rehire Norfolk Police Lt. Kelly. Fire Chief Boone.
by Kerry Dougherty Justice prevailed in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Friday when a courageous jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of two rioters — both felons — who were threatening or attacking him and in the wounding of another criminal who was pointing a gun at his head. Despite months…
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A Curious Coincidence Regarding Those Price-Gouging Actions
by James A. Bacon Earlier this week, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced a successful enforcement action against a gas station under the state’s price-gouging statute. Richmond-based 7HC Inc., doing business as 7 Heaven BP in eastern Henrico County, will be required to refund $2,858 to 152 customers for jacking up the price per gallon…
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What Is Going on in Portsmouth?
by Kerry Dougherty Are there cities that are more dysfunctional than Portsmouth, Virginia? Yes, of course there are. There’s always San Francisco where you can get an app for your phone called “SnapCrap” to allow you to report piles of human feces to city sanitation workers. There’s Chicago. The Windy City was recently designated the…
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Miyares Seeks to Override Progressive Prosecutors
by Shaun Kenney Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares announced Thursday that he’s looking to pass legislation that will override “social justice” commonwealth’s attorneys who refuse to prosecute entire categories of crime. Miyares said his plan has the support of Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin. Fox News reports: Under current law, the AG’s office can prosecute a case on…
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Common Sense for Virginia: Glenn Youngkin
The left’s huge blind spot is that they’re truly unaware of how unhinged and abnormal they look to the rest of the country. — Anna James Zeigler (@ajzeigler) October 31, 2021 by Kerry Dougherty Well this is NOT a surprise: A new NBC poll shows that 71% of Americans believe the country is headed in…
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Another Let-Em-Out-of-Prison Campaign by the Press
by Kerry Dougherty In a news story dripping with undisguised advocacy, the Virginian-Pilot last weekend published a piece practically begging for the early release from prison of a man serving 80 years for a string of armed robberies in 1997. “His debt is paid, Portsmouth Man Fights For Pardon Of 80-Year-Sentence,” screamed the headline. Virginia…
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COVID Did Not Cause the Spike in Richmond Murders
by Hans Bader Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) suggested a spike in murders in Richmond is due to the coronavirus. But it isn’t. VCU Medical trauma surgeon Michael Aboutanos said VCU is experiencing a 121% increase in gunshot-wound victims from across the Richmond metropolitan area. In response, Senator Warner cited the effects of COVID-19, the “frustration…
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Virginia Likely to Reinstate Parole for Murderers
by Hans Bader Senator Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, predicts that Virginia’s senate will vote to bring back parole in 2022 — “across the board,” meaning for even the most serious crimes, such as murder. Restoring parole could increase the number of murders, rapes, and robberies in Virginia. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: A movement to reinstate parole…
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Shootings Are Spiking? Let’s Blame COVID!
by James A. Bacon It came as a big surprise to U.S. Senator Mark Warner to hear about the spike in violence occurring in the City of Richmond. The Senator, who last lived in the city when he was governor in 2006, met with what WTVR-TV describes as a gathering of government and community leaders.…
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Dying for a Photo Op
This post has been excerpted from a longer column published in The Republican Standard. — JAB by Shaun Kenney Two things have always bothered me about Charlottesville 2017. First, that the political Left never mentions that three people died that day. Yes, we all know the name of Heather Heyer. But you never see the…