Crime

The Left shredded the bonds that tie a nation together.

There are two ways society can reduce crime and violence.

1. Maintain a strong sense of moral values and mutual trust. Create and socially enforce codes of conduct. Quickly suppress any groups that dissent from maintaining these standards. Give people the confidence to believe that they will be treated decently and fairly. And that there will be consequences for those who don’t.

2. Lots of police and prisons

If you don’t have the former, you’ll have to settle for the latter. That’s what we see in crime statistics in rural vs urban areas.

Six people are wanted in an alleged coordinated theft from a downtown Toronto store — and police they have been involved in similar incidents across the GTA.

The nation’s spy chief, a longtime college president and top women in finance. The circle of people who associated with Jeffrey Epstein years after he was a convicted sex offender is wider than previously reported, according to a trove of documents that include his schedules.

William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan.

Kathryn Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2020. He also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

Good snapshots in this thread.

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Calendar just dropped. The calendar includes meetings with the man who’s now the current Director of the CIA, William Burns, among other prominent names including Rothschild, Kissinger and many more. https://t.co/9CcLlzenoB

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) April 30, 2023

h/t Mauser

Fearing a voter backlash over public safety, U.K. Conservatives are belatedly cracking down on violence involving sharp instruments.

While some British politicians tout the politically favorable claim that violent crime has fallen 38 percent since 2010, new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) depicts a rather different and darker situation. The figures show that the number of people killed with knives in England and Wales in 2021 and 2022 was the highest since record-keeping began, 77 years ago. Across England and Wales, the number of knife offenses has increased by 34 percent since 2010. Now, 40 percent of all homicides involve a knife or sharp instrument.

In a case that appears unprecedented in Canada, three men have been sentenced for posting the image and audio of a key Crown witness in a Toronto murder case to a series of Instagram accounts with a total of more than 500,000 followers.

“These are not simple, mischievous pranks that will go unpunished,” Ontario Court Judge Phil Downes said, describing the case as an opportunity to send a strong message of deterrence that, as the courts embrace online video conferencing, “this type of abuse will not be tolerated.”

The following is part of a rare interview with a Chicago police officer and Federalist Staff Writer Evita Duffy-Alfonso, in which they discuss the surge of violence, political corruption, gun control, Black Lives Matter, and rap music. To protect the officer’s safety and his job, he has been granted anonymity.

Brutal.

Over 550 vehicles recovered and over 300 charges laid in ongoing Project Stallion, a Toronto Police Auto Theft Investigation

Toronto police have recovered more than 500 stolen vehicle and have charged dozens of people following a months-long investigation into auto theft in the city’s west.

The investigation, dubbed ‘Project Stallion’ began in November and was largely focused on the Etobicoke neighbourhoods located in 22 and 23 Division.

Police say that as a result of the investigation 556 stolen vehicles worth more than $27 million have been recovered to date.

119 Perps charged.

h/t DS

Canadian socialite Jasmine Hartin has pleaded guilty to the shooting death of a police chief in the Caribbean country of Belize.

Hartin, 34, the ex-wife of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft’s son Andrew, broke down in tears when she entered the plea at the Supreme Court in Belize City on Tuesday, the UK’s Telegraph reported.

The Big Apple is far and away the safest part of the U.S.

There was a time when the media was biased. That’s long since past. The media is just an arm of the left wing of the Democrats and is dedicated to pumping out whatever political narratives help its faction. Since the Dems are getting whacked on crime over their embrace of pro-crime politics, the media is doubling and tripling down on claims that crime is actually worse in conservative areas.

This week, in a brazen pilferage, a “high-value container” disappeared while it was being transported to a cargo holding facility near Canada’s busiest airport.

Authorities say the thieves gained access to the public side of a warehouse near Toronto Pearson International Airport that was unmanned by airport security.

The theft, which is still under investigation, was an isolated and “very rare” incident, police say. While a heist of that magnitude is indeed rare, a look at Canadian history shows it’s not the first.

Sophisticated or simple?