Crime

The current levels and psychic costs of violent crime in many US cities are, well, criminal

Just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday June 1, 18-year-old Kennedy Hobbs of Jackson, Mississippi stopped at a gas station off of Medgar Evers Boulevard to gas up. She had graduated from Murrah High School in Jackson that same day and was on her way to a graduation party. While at the gas station, she made a phone call. While talking, she was shot multiple times by an unknown person and died on the scene. Details are murky and police are still investigating, but at this time it doesn’t appear that Hobbs knew the shooter.

Chicago continues to be the U.S. poster city for random and senseless violence. During the last weekend of June, 77 people were shot and two mass shootings occurred almost back to back.

Hours after Chicago’s Puerto Rico Day parade on June 19, a Puerto Rican driver and passenger were dragged from their car by a mob after a minor traffic accident and shot execution-style. The spark from the gunfire can be plainly seen in a video before the offenders run off. The slaying resembles a lynching that might occur in a lawless, poor country but not in the U.S.’s third-largest city.

#BREAKING: Police have charged 31-year-old Umar Zameer with first-degree murder in the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup this morning in the City Hall parking garage. https://t.co/C3Fd5tmXfD

— CityNews Toronto (@CityNews) July 2, 2021

A Toronto police officer has died following an incident near City Hall overnight, Chief James Ramer has confirmed.

“It is with profound sadness that I confirm the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup of 52 Division,” Ramer said while providing an update on the situation Friday morning.

More… Toronto police officer run down, killed in city hall parking garage

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned Bill Cosby’s 2019 sexual assault conviction, ruling that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous prosecutor should have prevented him from being charged in the case.

The 83-year-old comedian has served more than two years of a three-to-10 year sentence in a state prison in Montgomery County, after his conviction on charges he drugged and molested Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004.

Mere days after federal prosecutors recommended that Allison Mack receive leniency for her involvement with the NXIVM cult, the former Smallville actress and her attorneys have directly requested no time behind bars.

“It is now of paramount importance for me to say, from the bottom of my heart, I am so sorry,” said a letter from Mack herself, accompanying sentencing guideline recommendations from her attorneys.

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Cops in Florida and New York weren’t quick on the draw when it came to investigating billionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

Too much money. Too many influential friends.

… Toronto Mayor John Tory described the shooting as “irresponsible, outrageous behaviour” during an interview with CP24 on Sunday morning.

“There is no other way to put it,” said an exasperated Tory who urged anyone with information to come forward and speak to the police.

“I don’t know why anybody in the city of Toronto needs to have a handgun of any kind — and then of course using them in a circumstance like this or anywhere. For that matter, but around children. I mean, who does that?” he said.

As usual Ban E’m All Tory makes no distinction between criminals using guns and law abiding legal gun owners, what a twit.

Five people, including three children, have been injured in a shooting in Etobicoke, Toronto paramedics say.

Emergency crews were called to the area of Tandridge Crescent and Byng Avenue, west of Albion Avenue, just before 8 p.m. Saturday for reports of shots fired.

That area is social housing so no doubt legal gun owners are responsible.

The best policy to prevent a vicious circle of gang vendettas is to empower law enforcement to send violent criminals to jail.

Murders and non-fatal shootings have been soaring in cities across the United States. One reason is a phenomenon that police refer to as “ping pong murders”—a cycle of retaliatory violence that can spiral out of control. Before that happens, public officials must take quick and decisive action to cut the cycle off.