In the US, people are getting away with murder. The clearance rate, the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved, was 58% in 2023. In other words, a murderer's chance of getting caught within a year essentially comes down to a coin flip. For other crimes, clearance rates are even lower. Only 8% of car thefts result in an arrest. Compared with its peers, America overall does an unusually poor job of solving killings. The murder clearance rates of other rich nations, including Australia, Britain, and Germany, hover in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. Several issues, including a lack of resources, the sheer volume of cases, and a distrust of the police, have converged to make the jobs of American detectives much more difficult. "It's a serious problem," said Philip Cook, a criminal justice researcher at Duke University. The lack of legal accountability emboldens criminals, leading to more crime and violence resulting in "a vicious cycle." read more
Ozzy Osbourne (76) sang his final concert with his legendary heavy-metal band, Black Sabbath, in Birmingham, England on Saturday. read more
Noah Lamb (24) was charged in the Eastern District of California in an eight-count indictment for conspiracy, soliciting the murder of federal officials, and other offenses in connection with his work on a hit list of "high value targets" for assassination. Lamb was a member of the Terrorgram Collective, a transnational terrorist group that operates on the digital messaging platform Telegram, where it promotes racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism. Members of the Terrorgram Collective believe the white race is superior; that society is irreparably corrupt and cannot be saved by political action; and that violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and accelerate the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate.
Food banks say they are wholly unprepared to feed millions of Americans when Republicans' cuts to traditional federal safety net programs take effect. read more
The Honorable US District Judge Thomas Zilly set a tentative trial date of 15 Sep after an appeals court rejected Seattle Police Officer Christopher Myers' claim of qualified immunity. The lawsuit names a second officer as a defendant and accuses the Seattle Police Department of demonstrating "deliberate indifference" by not getting Myers " who fired his gun in four separate encounters from 2010 to 2019, three of which were fatal " "professional, mental, or other help to assure he stops shooting people." Myers has not been disciplined or charged with any crimes in connection with those shootings. The mother of murdered Ryan Smith (31) filed the lawsuit against Christopher Myers which was affirmed by the USDJ Thomas Zilly, a Ronald Reagan appointment. read more
Governor Gavin Newsom may want to order the State Police to establish DUI and speeding checkpoints around the saloons and taverns the ICE and DHS goons gather to get sloshed after a long day of bullying defenseless people. A recent CHP dragnet caught several DUIs and unsafe drivers. Link: www.chp.ca.gov
#11: Hi Hamburglar: There are many of us who suspect Dummkopf Trumpf of being an asset for the Kremlin. I am one of them. I also suspect the Orange Putrid Dotard was a Confidential Informant for the FBI in the 1980s, along with Felix Satyr. The two would cough up an occasional Russian mobster or expose a KGB agent and be allowed to continue grifting and pilfering NYC. This is why Trumpf said "OMG, I'm fkkked!" when he heard that Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel to investigate him. Robert Mueller knows all the Russian and Italian mob connections with real estate and construction, as well as the KGB connections, money laundering, and confidential informants.
link: slate.com
This is just as I predicted in this OP two weeks ago: drudge.com
Jair Bolsonaro's son is working behind the scenes from Texas to get Trumpf's intervention to free his loser father (a Matt Gaetz doppelganger).
The same Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in this case also defied Felon Musk several months ago. Felon then threatened this judge with hideous 'X' posts.
#15: This Republican dumfuq Ted Cruz also fled to Mexico during a terrible winter storm and blackout, abandoning his constituents: www.bbc.com
Moron Republicans will keep voting for moron Republicans. And I bet the US Ambassador to Greece (a Trumpf daughter-in-law or somesuch) ensured he received VIP treatment at Athens Intl Airport.
Thanks to Western complicity and the hardworking American taxpayer, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) have created the largest number of child amputees in modern history, as well as an army of orphans. The child amputees join a legion of adult amputees, like the victims on the Palestinian soccer team who the IDF began maiming twenty years ago to destroy any vestige of a nation.
Take that Adolf, Vlad, and Pol Pot! You've got nothing on Bibi when it comes to cruelty!
Link: Middle East Monitor.
#32: "Who would like to hand Dummkopf Trumpf his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo this December?"
"I do! I do!" "No, no, pick me!" "No, I want to!" "By Allah, pick me or I will kick you with my one good leg the Israelis left me!"