It’ll take a hell of a peace circle to raise the dead.
1,120 people have been shot this year in Chicago and 282 people have been murdered. Yesterday, four people were shot and killed in four hours in just another Wednesday.
Good thing the city has “peace circles”.
Police defunders have been tasked with coming up with “restorative justice” alternatives to the three P’s, police, prosecutors, and prisons, that ask criminals to apologize to their victims.
The first person to find the bodies of Barry and Honey Sherman inside the pool room of their Forest Hill home had no doubt they were the victims of a double homicide.
“Someone has killed my clients,” Sherman real estate agent Elise Stern told the 911 operator on Dec. 15, 2017. The grotesque tableau she witnessed was to her untrained eye a double murder. The gardener, who saw the bodies a few minutes after, came to the same conclusion.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys argued on Wednesday that the disgraced British socialite should be sentenced to “well below” the 20 years imprisonment that probation authorities have recommended in her New York federal sex-trafficking case.
In a pre-sentencing report, Maxwell’s attorneys provided detailed descriptions of her allegedly perilous conditions in jail, and described an emotionally distressing upbringing, as part of their argument for leniency.
They made the shocking allegation that “an inmate in Ms Maxwell’s unit threatened to kill her, claiming that an additional 20 years’ incarceration would be worth the money she’d receive for murdering Ms Maxwell”.
An 1,800 page report commissioned by the provincial government has found hundreds of millions of dollars of cash was laundered through B.C. casinos between 2008 and 2018.
The report by Austin Cullen is the result of 133 days of hearings, where the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia heard testimony from 199 witnesses.
Cullen was highly critical of the B.C. Lottery Corporation and several provincial ministers responsible for gaming for not doing enough to stop the rampant money laundering, which he says was happening in plain sight.
It’s a feature not a bug.
Alek Minassian, who was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder in the 2018 deadly Toronto van attack, has been handed a life sentence in jail with no parole for 25 years.
The new inspector of constabulary for England and Wales pledges to focus on crime and resist “thought policing.”
Here in Britain we seem to police everything except crime. Yet some signs suggest that things could change. Andy Cooke has been named the new chief inspector of constabulary, with responsibility for overseeing the operational procedure of all police forces in England and Wales and making recommendations for improvement. Cooke clearly wants to send a message, telling the Times in an interview, “We’re not the thought police.”
TORONTO – Jacob Hoggard, the frontman for the Canadian band Hedley, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting an Ottawa woman but acquitted of the same charge against a teenage fan.
Hoggard, 37, has also been found not guilty of sexual interference, a charge that relates to the sexual touching of someone under 16, in an incident involving the same fan when she was 15.
The singer, who wore a dark suit, hugged his wife in the courtroom after the verdict was read.
For a long-time, many of us have had the sense that things in Canada are completely upside down.
Yet, the past few days have made that even more clear than ever before.
We now live in a nation where law-abiding Canadians are criminalized even as criminals face lighter and lighter punishments.
As jurors in the Jacob Hoggard sexual assault trial begin their deliberations, they weren’t told the Hedley frontman is facing a third sexual assault charge in addition to the two young women who accused him of violent rape in 2016.
According to court documents, the new information against Hoggard was sworn April 13 detailing the same charge — sexual assault causing bodily harm — in relation to a third complainant, this time on June 25, 2016 in Kirkland Lake, Ont. His next court date on that charge is in August.
Firearm-related homicides have gone up 37 per cent over the past 11 years and handguns were the most commonly used weapon in such crimes, a report from Statistics Canada has found, but it warns there are large data gaps in information collection.
… The proportion of homicides where a firearm was used rose from 26 per cent in 2013 to 37 per cent in 2020, it said. Handguns were the weapon of choice in 59 per cent of the firearm crimes, it added.
“Firearm-related violent crime typically represents less than three per cent of police-reported violent crime in Canada,” said the report.
New record-keeping requirements for nonrestricted firearms began this month, but the origins of Canada’s so-called crime guns are largely unknown.
A drone lifted off from Michigan this month and flew across the St. Clair River toward Port Lambton, Ontario. Its spooked pilot aborted the landing after being spotted by a neighbor, leaving the police to later fish the drone out of a tree and discover 11 handguns strapped to it with plastic bags, tape and carabiner clips.
Four years ago, I was one of many who tried to raise the alarm in the media about a Canadian crisis. I called attention to the staggering statistic that 98 percent of girls in Saskatchewan youth jails were Indigenous, and upwards of 70 percent of inmates in Manitoba jails were Indigenous.
These are unacceptable rates by any measure. At the time, 43 percent of women in federal prisons were Indigenous.
Last week we learned that Canada has crossed a terrible threshold: 50 percent of all women in federal prisons are now Indigenous, despite Indigenous women making up only five percent of Canada’s female population.
Let’s look at three Tweets from Conservative leadership candidates in response to the horrendous Supreme Court ruling that struck down multiple life sentences for mass killers.
When the evidence is incontrovertible, murderers should be executed immediately after conviction, in public, and required to be covered by all media.
Canada’s supreme court has ruled that life sentences without the chance of parole are both “cruel” and unconstitutional, in a landmark decision that could give more than dozen mass killers who committed “inherently despicable acts” the faint hope of release in the future.
The court unanimously determined on Friday that sentencing killers to lengthy prison terms with little hope of freedom risked bringing the “administration of justice into disrepute”.
The closely watched case centred on the fate of Alexandre Bissonnette, the gunman who killed six worshippers at a mosque in Québec City in 2017, but the court’s decision will possibly have consequences for at least 18 others who are serving multiple life sentences.
In different ways, progressive prosecutors Chesa Boudin, George Gascón, and Larry Krasner are facing backlash against their disastrous policies.
Progressive prosecutors are on the run. Having taken office on promises of de-prosecuting and decarcerating without affecting public safety, they’ve helped usher in the largest one-year homicide increase in U.S. history. A CDC report notes that the nation’s homicide rate has risen to its highest level in over 25 years, with the largest increase coming “among non-Hispanic Black or African American males aged 10–44 years.” No surprise, then, that those who promised leniency without consequences now find themselves in serious trouble.
