Appearing on Steve Malzberg’s weekly Sunday commentary show “Eat the Press” Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of Gun Control Myths , blasted President Joe Biden’s recent gun control proposals, claiming they were based on “lies” and will endanger “blacks and hispanics” living in high crime urban areas. After Malzberg called out Biden for denying he intends to limit the Second Amendment while saying “in the next breath” that “no amendment to the Constitution is absolute,” Lott replied that, “In ten minutes or so [Biden] literally made about at least two dozen different lies on [the subject],” with some of the claims being “so outrageous.” “It’s just like one false claim after another,” he added. One example Lott cited was Biden’s claim that the “alleged” reason for the substantial increase in homicides last year was due to a “lack of gun control.” “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realize that when you have inmates being released from jails and prisons, and some in a number of places more than fifty percent of the inmates being released; when you have police being ordered to stand down and not do their jobs; when you have police budgets being cut and prosecutors in major urban areas refusing to prosecute violent criminals; if you make it so that criminals aren’t being caught, and when they are caught — not being punished, and it’s not risky for them to commit crime, guess what? They’re going to commit more crime.” Lot added the “irony” of the situation is Biden is “claiming that he cares about poor blacks and hispanics that live in these high crime urban areas,” yet “the proposals that he wants are actually going to harm them.” “It’s going to make it so those are the very people who aren’t going to be able to afford the fees and other costs that he’s imposing on law-abiding gun owners,” Lott elaborated. Noting the left simultaneously seeks to prevent effective policing, ...
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Jury is out — no matter the verdict, Congress must act
Van Jones is an attorney who has spent 25 years working for police accountability and criminal justice reform. He is the co-founder of three criminal justice organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Dream Corps JUSTICE (formerly #cut50) and the REFORM Alliance. In 1998, he won the Reebok International Human Rights Award for his work against unlawful police violence. In 2018, he helped pass the First Step Act. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) America is bracing for a verdict . After watching footage of a police officer applying brutal force against a man who was handcuffed, crying out for his mother and begging for his life, will the jury find former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd? Or will jurors doubt that Chauvin's actions were a major cause of Floyd's death and let the officer go free? And what will happen after the verdict? America desperately needs a Truth and Racial Healing Commission This whole situation brings me back to 1992. We had protests in the streets then -- just like we do today. We had plenty of chatter on television then -- just like we do today. And unfortunately, we had too little action in the halls of Congress then -- just like we do today. For those who are too young to remember: 30 years ago, another video of police brutality shocked the nation. On March 3, 1991, bystander George Holliday filmed four Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King, an unarmed Black motorist, for what seemed like an eternity. It was 1 minute and 21 seconds. Read More King survived. But those of us who lived through that time will never forget the images of officers savagely beating him with batons -- stomping on his head with their heavy boots. Then on April 29, 1992, Americans held our breath as the foreman delivered the verdict. The majority-White jury acquitted all ...
Democrat Recalled in 2018 Drops Bill to Reveal Names on Recall Petitions
California State Sen. Josh Newman (D-Fullerton), who was recalled in 2018 but reelected in 2020, has dropped an effort to pass a bill that would reveal the names of voters who sign recall petitions. The Associated Press reported : State Sen. Josh Newman, a Democrat, said Tuesday he’s pulling the bill due to pressure from supporters of a likely recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat. Newman’s bill would not have applied to the anti-Newsom effort, but that movement’s supporters vehemently opposed it, saying it would violate citizen privacy and intimidate voters. “The environment is so charged around the recall that it made it hard to have a thoughtful discussion around this bill,” Newman said. Critics said that Newman was attempting to protect political incumbents by allowing them to “dox” their opponents. Democrats had already changed many state laws about recall elections in an unsuccessful attempt to protect Newman from recall in 2018, after he cast an unpopular vote to raise the gas tax in the state. As Breitbart News noted in 2017: Democrats have attempted to obstruct, delay and rig the recall election by any means necessary — including sneaking an amendment into the state’s budget bill to delay the election until November 2018, which was later struck down by a judge. Later the state’s Democrat-controlled ethics watchdog panel voted to allow elected officials to transfer unlimited amounts from their massive war chests to Newman’s recall defense. Democrats did succeed in delaying Newman’s recall election until the California primary election in 2018. He lost and was replaced by Republican Ling Ling Chang. He regained his seat again thanks to strong Democrat turnout in the area during the 2020 presidential election, when Republicans won several congressional seats elsewhere in the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a likely recall election later this year. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at ...
De Blasio revisits last year’s failed NYPD plan in effort to curb gun violence
close Video Suspect accused of attacking NYPD officer released without bail Joe Borelli, New York City councilman, argues 'when Democrats control every level of government,' crimes go 'unpunished.' Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to curb the surging gun violence in NYC is to try out the failed policing strategy from last year — but this time, with 100 fewer cops. The NYPD will reassign 200 cops to areas where the Big Apple has seen the highest rates of gun violence as part of their annual Summer All Out program, the mayor said Tuesday. NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison said the "bulk" of those cops would be moved to East New York and Brownsville, which have seen gun violence upticks of 67% and 88%, respectively. DE BLASIO, NYPD ASK NYC TV STATIONS TO KEEP COPTERS CLEAR OF DEMONSTRATIONS TO AVIOID, 'HEIGHTENING TENSIONS' He also noted Bronx neighborhoods, Mott Haven, Highbridge and Crotona, would get some additional patrols. But all of those areas were also a policing focus last year during the summer when the city saw a months-long surge in gun violence and assigned 300 cops to the "Summer All Out" initiative. "We’re going to make sure that the officers are where we need them to be and we’ll make adjustments constantly," de Blasio said when asked about the similarities to last year’s plan, which failed to combat the surge in gunplay. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP De Blasio chalked up 2020’s skyrocketing shooting totals to the effect the pandemic had on the city. "Last year again. Perfect Storm. Literal Perfect Storm. Global pandemic. Society shut down, a million jobs lost… everything went wrong simultaneously," the mayor said, brushing off any comparison to this year. Yet, gunplay in New York City still continues the 2020 trend — outpacing the year prior each week. This story first appeared in the New York Post . ...
2018 Colorado officer-involved shootings
The Denver Post has compiled a list of officer-involved shootings that have happened since Jan. 1. An officer-involved shooting is one in which either police officers or suspects fire shots and someone is injured or killed. March March 19: Denver police shot two men after a chase while they were searching for an inmate charged with attempted murder who had escaped custody earlier in the day. Police were searching for Mauricio Venzor-Gonzalez , 23, who escaped that morning from Denver Sheriff’s Department deputies at Denver Health medical center. Steven Nguyen died of his injuries. The second man is expected to survive. His name has not been released. As of March 21, Venzor-Gonzalez has not been apprehended. March 12: Colorado Springs police fatally shot a robbery suspect who had taken a woman hostage before he barricaded himself inside a Colorado Springs motel room. Police evacuated the motel and crisis negotiators made intermittent contacts with the man, identified by police as Corky Lee Oliver , 31. At about 9:40 p.m., officers forced entry to the room and shots were fired. Oliver was declared dead. The woman sustained non life-threatening injuries. Police have not released her name or provided information about how she was injured. . March 6: Two Pueblo police officers shot and killed an armed suspect who pulled a gun on them during a chase, the Pueblo Police Department said. The chase began when the suspect fled as police responded to a report of an armed man violating a restraining order. When police caught up to the suspect and confronted him, he refused to comply the officers’ commands and reached for his waistband, police said. The officers deployed a stun gun but the suspect again ran until police found him in a nearby backyard. When the suspect pulled his gun, both officers fired, police said. The suspect died at the scene. His name has not bee released. The Tenth Judicial District Critical Incident Team initiated an ...
