FBI quietly changed violent crime data to show increase, not decrease, from 2021 to 2022
FBI quietly changed violent crime data to show increase, not decrease, from 2021 to 2022
By Julian Baron
October 16, 2024
The FBI quietly adjusted its annual crime data to show an increase in violent crime from 2021 to 2022.
The agency previously claimed violent crime decreased from 2021 to 2022, touting “an estimated 1.7%” decrease in violent crime between the two calendar years. The revised data, which was first identified by RealClearInvestigations, shows violent crime actually increased during that timeframe.
FBI data summaries reviewed by The National News Desk show the agency originally reported1,253,716 violent crimes in 2021 and 1,232,428 violent crimes in 2022, representing the 1.7% decrease it originally advertised. The updated data summary reported 1,197,930 violent crimes in 2021 and1,256,671 in 2022, showing a starkly different 4.9% jump.
The originally reported decrease in violent crime had been a political talking point for Democrats looking to praise the Biden-Harris administration for its handling of public safety. The revision has also called into question the accuracy of 2023 violent crime data released by the FBI earlier this year, which became a hot topic at the debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump sparred with ABC News anchor DavidMuir during the debate over what the former president called “defrauding statements” by the FBI regarding violent crime trends. He claimed the latest FBI data did not include “the worst cities,” painting the figures as an incomplete picture of a public safety crisis impacting the U.S.
Muir, who pushed back on Trump’s claims, cited FBI data that shows “overall violent crime is coming down in this country.”
Harris used the 2023 data as an opportunity to reassure Americans that the Biden-Harris administration has made the U.S. safer.
“Today’s new data submitted to the FBI confirms that our dedicated efforts and collaborative partnerships with law enforcement are working,” Harris said on social media last month. “Americans are safer now than when we took office.”
The FBI wrote in a statement late Wednesday that the adjustment was due to a change in the way crime data is reported to the agency.
“As part of this movement, the FBI has moved towards automation, allowing for past years’ estimates to be updated as data are submitted,” the statement said. “Therefore, 2021 counts now showing in the 20-year estimation tables reflect only estimates based on the data directly reported to the FBI.”
The Revised FBI Crime Data Reveals that it Originally Missed 1,699 Murders in 2022. Given that Almost all Murders are Reported, How Does the FBI Miss that Many Murders?
The Revised FBI Crime Data Reveals that it Originally Missed 1,699 Murders in 2022. Given that Almost all Murders are Reported, How Does the FBI Miss that Many Murders?
October 10, 2024
USA Today’s headline on the FBI’s reported crime data released in September 2023 claims “Violent crime dropped for second straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.” There are two errors in their headline. First, that it is the FBI’s measure of reported crime that fell, but that is not the same as all crime nor is it the only measure of reported crime. So they could have written, the FBI’s measure of reported violent crime fell in 2023. The second error is that they are wrong claiming that this was the second straight year, where an adjustment in the data showed a 4.5% increase in 2022. Originally, the FBI said that violent crime had fallen by 2.1% and now they say it increased by 4.5%. Just like the Bureau of Labor Statistics overestimated the number of jobs created.
Presumably the media was just reading the FBI’s press release and not looking at the actual data, and that may be why the media has ignored these statistics. Shockingly, the FBI’s September press release with the 2023 data doesn’t mention the changes to earlier data and that the original drop in violent crime for 2022 was now an increase. Nor did they mention that the new reported increase in 2022 was larger than the claimed decrease in 2023.
With the adjustments, compared to the new adjusted data for 2021, there is a net increase of 80.029 more violent crimes, 1,699 more murders, 7,780 more rapes, 33,459 more robberies, and 37,091 more aggravated assaults.
A major weakness for reported crime data is that most crimes aren’t reported to the police. Murder has the advantage because the vast majority of murders are reported. But the revised data for 2021 and 2022 shows a net increase of 1,699 more murders. How do you miss 1,699 murders? Another crime category that is well reported is motor vehicle theft because the thefts have to be reported for insurance to cover the theft. But the revised data shows a net increase of 54,216 more motor vehicle thefts.
The newly released FBI data is available here. The original 2022 FBI data is available here for comparison.
Another way of looking at these numbers is that the FBI overcounted the number of murders in 2021 by 1,074 and undercounted the number in 2022 by 625, again a gap of 1,699. Similarly, the FBI overcounted the number of violent reported violent crimes in 2021 by 55,786 and undercounted the number in 2022 by 24,243, again a gap of 80,029.
The percent changes in the various crime rates are dramatic.
Here is absolute proof that Los Angeles Democrats don’t care about the victims of violent crime
https://www.foxla.com/news/la-county-repeat-offender-linked-killing
17-year-old previously tried as a minor for double murder now linked to another killing after release
By Gina Silva
September 28, 2024
LOS ANGELES – Nearly five years ago, Alfredo Carrera and his friend, José Flores Velázquez, were murdered in South Los Angeles simply for standing in a gang’s territory.
“It was devastating, honestly,” says Cynthia Carrera, Alfredo’s sister.
Neither man was gang-affiliated. Alfredo was about to become a father, and Jose, a student at UCI, had just accepted a job with NASA.
“This was cold-blooded murder. And it wasn’t just one person; two innocent people lost their lives for no reason,” said Carrera.
Seventeen-year-old Shanice Dyer, a member of the East Coast Crips, was charged with premeditated murder by then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey and was set to be tried as an adult. However, that changed when George Gascón took office in 2020.
“The public needs to know what’s going on,” said Michele Hanisee, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys President in LA County. She explained, “One of the many blanket policies Gascón implemented on his first day in office was that no crime committed by a juvenile — no matter the circumstances — would ever be transferred to adult court.”
As a result, Shanice Dyer was tried as a juvenile. Despite being convicted of two murders, she was in custody for less than four years. “It’s still very hard. And now we find out that this person has committed another crime, doing this to yet another family,” said Carrera.
The same woman who killed Alfredo and Jose is now accused of murder once again, allegedly aiding and abetting in the murder of 21-year-old Joshua Streeter. Retired LA County Deputy DA Kathy Cady, now a victim’s advocate, said, “George Gascón refuses to take responsibility for the fact that his policies have led to this murder. He hides behind explanations that don’t make sense.” Carrera added, “Gascón’s reform aimed to rehabilitate and give people a second chance, but since the incident, no one has ever reached out to the victims. No one has ever asked, ‘What can we do for you?'”
George Gascón declined our request for an interview, but his office released the following statement:
“Our heart breaks for the victim and his family. This is an unimaginable tragedy. However, it is very unlikely that Ms. Dyer would have been transferred under any administration. Under the law, there are five factors that a juvenile court would have considered and weighed in determining if Ms. Dyer were amenable to remain in the juvenile system. Of those five factors, only one factor, the circumstances and gravity of the offense, weighed in favor of transfer to adult court. All the other factors weighed in favor of Ms. Dyer remaining in the juvenile system. Given this, it is highly unlikely that Ms. Dyer would have been transferred to the adult system even if the court had held a transfer hearing. Those factors include:
She was under the influence of adult men and acted at their direction, which indicates that she did not exhibit a high degree of criminal sophistication;
Her lack of any serious criminal history at the time;
The amount of time and opportunity that remained at that time to rehabilitate her in the juvenile system; and
The absence of any previous opportunities to rehabilitate her in the juvenile system.”
In March 2022, LADA’s Juvenile Alternative Charging Evaluation Committee (JACE) was formed. Since that time, 23 transfer requests have been approved for transfer motions to adult court by JACE.
Of those approved, 5 JACE cases have gone to hearings before the juvenile court.
4 JACE transfer motions were denied by the court.
1 JACE transfer motion was granted by the court.
1 JACE transfer motion is still in progress as of today.
Women in lesbian relationships are more likely to be victims of domestic violence than women in heterosexual relationships. But that doesn’t fit the “men are evil” narrative, so liberals never bring it up.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1841231111847891236
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_lesbian_relationships
The radical leftists who are obsessed with hate crimes don’t care about the 93% of black murder victims who are killed by other blacks. All black lives matter, not just the ones who are killed by whites.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1841231820710355186
https://cbsnews.com/news/feds-49-of-murder-victims-are-black-men/
Even though there’s a 911 recording of K’Shawn Jimerson confessing to the murder of Michael Gray, he was released after he was arrested. Why didn’t they give him his right to a “speedy” trial, and have him executed within 30 days?
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1841179295080988789
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-killed-renton-stabbing-suspect-041938762.html
Man killed in Renton stabbing, suspect released 27 hours after arrest
By Jennifer Dowling
October 1, 2024
RENTON, Wash. – A 19-year-old man accused of stabbing a Renton handyman to death on Friday was released from jail just 27 hours after his arrest on $50,000 bail.
Now, the victim’s friends and neighbors are speaking out about his death.
Michael Gray lived with his roommates in a single-story home across the street from the duplex where he was killed.
Gray’s roommates say he was a kind man who was always willing to lend a hand. They say he was a tremendous person, and much more than just a handy-man.
One man said Gray had a knack of fixing physical objects, and used his skills to help and maintain his large network of friends. He was also friends with those who lived in the duplex where he died.
Although his roommates didn’t want to appear on camera, they told FOX 13 Seattle they were shocked when they learned of his death.
One man said he was still working through it. He said Gray never bothered anyone and didn’t deserve what happened.
Roommates also say Gray was a military vet. A neighbor added that Gray “wasn’t perfect, but he was the perfect friend.”
Newly released court documents are also revealing more about what happened the day of the stabbing.
Dispatchers reported that 19-year-old K’Shawn Jimerson called 911 himself to say “he stabbed someone,” and that he would be waiting outside with the knife.
“The 911 caller called and said that they had stabbed the handyman inside the house,” said Susan Hassinger with Renton Police.
When officers arrived, they reported that they found “K’Shawn Konscience Jimerson in front” and saw “blood on Jimerson, but no knife.”
Court documents also say Jimerson had blood on his jeans, his shoes and on his feet.
“Once inside, officers discovered a male subject in the living room of the apartment who was suffering from knife wounds,” the documents read.
Investigators say Gray had been stabbed in the back and on his side. Police told FOX 13 Seattle they have located the knife used in the stabbing.
“Patrol responded to that call. They located the suspect outside. He cooperated and was detained,” said Hassinger.
When law enforcement was asked if they objected to his release, they marked “yes” on the court form, stating, “Jimerson, who is 19, stabbed a 65-year-old man with a large knife during an argument.”
At his court appearance, prosecutors asked for $2 million bail. Despite finding probable cause for second-degree murder, Judge Michelle Gehlsen set bail at $50,000.
Jimerson posted bail, according to jail records below, and has been released.
The investigation into the stabbing is ongoing.
Convicted murderer released in the ’90s agrees to life sentence on 2 new murder charges
https://www.yahoo.com/news/convicted-murderer-released-90s-agrees-214432487.html
Convicted murderer released in the ’90s agrees to life sentence on 2 new murder charges
By Jim Vertuno
September 30, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A convicted murderer who was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993 pleaded guilty Monday to two new murder charges in a deal that allows him to serve life in prison and avoid the death penalty, over the objections of the victims’ family members.
Raul Meza Jr., 63, served about a decade in prison for killing an 8-year-old girl in 1982 before he was released under laws at the time that gave him credit for good behavior behind bars.
He was charged in 2023 with killing 65-year-old Gloria Lofton in 2019, and 80-year-old Jesse Fraga, his roommate, in 2023. Meza pleaded guilty to capital murder in Lofton’s death and to murder in Fraga’s death. Meza will not be eligible for parole.
“Our hearts continue to break for the Lofton and Fraga families. We hope this outcome continues to help them with their healing process,” Travis County District Attorney José Garza said in a statement. “As a result of this outcome, Mr. Meza will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole and will never threaten our community again.”
But the families of Meza’s victims wanted him to go to trial and for Garza to seek the death penalty.
“A lifetime in jail will not be equal to the pain,” the families have experienced, Loftin’s daughter, Sonia Houston, said in a statement she read in court. “By accepting this plea, we are giving Raul exactly what he wants.”
Meza was first convicted in the 1982 murder of 8-year-old Kendra Page, who authorities said had been strangled and sexually assaulted. He accepted a plea agreement in which he admitted to the murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison, but only served 11.
Meza’s early release from prison in 1993 caused an uproar throughout Texas, and he was met by protesters at nearly every turn. Picketers drove him out of six cities, sometimes with threats of violence.
“In my heart, I know that I will not willfully bring harm to anyone,” Meza said during an August 1993 news conference after he had been driven out of the communities.
Austin police said Meza called them in May 2023 and confessed to killing Fraga and implicated himself in the 2019 sexual assault and killing of Lofton.
Apparently, Soumitra Sarkar, MD thinks it’s wrong for a person to shoot an intruder who is trying to kidnap, rape, and murder their family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5dWgrCaX4
https://www.yahoo.com/news/letters-editor-kamala-harris-disturbing-100056747.html
Letters to the Editor: Kamala Harris’ disturbing remark on shooting a home intruder
Los Angeles Times Opinion
September 26, 2024
To the editor: As a physician who has spent the last 40 years saving countless lives, I abhor guns and the damage they have wreaked on society. I was appalled to hear Vice President Kamala Harris laughing while talking about shooting an intruder during her campaign event with Oprah Winfrey.
I cannot consciously vote for someone who can laugh about taking a life, while at the same time I will not vote for her Republican opponent, a convicted criminal and pathological liar.
We the American people deserve better, though with our current deeply divided nation, I am not hopeful for the near future. I will cast my vote for the Green Party candidate Jill Stein in protest.
Soumitra Sarkar, MD, Long Beach
I agree with Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood: “Since parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them. Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there.”
https://x.com/SheriffChitwood/status/1835706233195479197
Florida sheriff fed up with school shooting hoaxes posts 11-year-old’s mugshot to social media
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources
By Kate Payne
September 17, 2024
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources
A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he’s posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.
Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes recently, including in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., which killed two students and two teachers.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts Monday, Chitwood warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making these threats, he’ll make sure the public knows.
“Since parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them,” Chitwood said. “Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I can do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to.”
Chitwood made the announcement in a video highlighting the arrest of an 11-year-boy who was taken into custody for allegedly threatening to carry out a school shooting at Creekside or Silver Sands Middle School in Volusia County. Chitwood posted the boy’s full name and mugshot to his Facebook page.
In the video, which had more than 270,000 views on Facebook as of Monday afternoon, the camera pans across a conference table covered in airsoft guns, pistols, fake ammunition, knives and swords that law enforcement officers claim the boy was “showing off” to other students.
Later, the video cuts to officers letting the boy out of a squad car and leading him handcuffed into a secure facility, dressed in a blue flannel button-down shirt, black sweatpants and slip-on sandals. The boy’s face is fully visible at multiples points in the video.
“Right this way, young man,” an officer tells the boy, his hands shackled behind his back.
The boy is led into an empty cell, with metal cuffs around his wrists and ankles, before an officer closes the door and locks him inside.
“Do you have any questions?” the officer asks as he bolts the door.
“No sir,” the boy replies.
The video prompted a stream of reactions on social media, with many residents praising Chitwood, calling on him to publicly identify the parents as well — or press charges against them.
Others questioned the sheriff’s decision, saying the 11-year-old is just a child, and that the weight of the responsibility should fall on his parents.
Under Florida law, juvenile court records are generally exempt from public release — but not if the child is charged with a felony, as in this case.
Law enforcement officials across Florida have been tracking a stream of threats in the weeks since the 2024-2025 school year began. In Broward County, home to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, officials said last week they had already arrested nine students, ages 11 to 15, for making threats since August.
“For my parents, to the kids who are getting ready for school, I’m going to say this again,” Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said at a press conference, “nothing about this is a laughing or joking matter.”
“Parents, students, it’s not a game,” he added.
NBC News: “Colin Gray gave his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift… after authorities interviewed the father and son last year in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting.”
Georgia school shooting live updates: Suspect’s father arrested on charges including involuntary manslaughter
The father of the 14-year-old suspected of fatally shooting four people at Apalachee High School had given his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, two law enforcement sources said.
September 5, 2024
Two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting yesterday at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, Nine others were injured and are expected to recover.
The 14-year-old suspect, Colt Gray, who used an AR-style weapon in the shooting, surrendered immediately and was taken into custody within minutes. He was charged with four counts of murder today.
The suspect’s father, Colin Gray, 54, was arrested on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said today.
Colin Gray gave his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, two law enforcement sources said. It’s unclear when he gave the gift, but it was after authorities interviewed the father and son last year in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting.
The suspect was a new student at Apalachee High, having only been there for a partial day. The day of the shooting was his first full day at the school, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the victims killed as Mason Schermerhorn, 14; Christian Angulo, 14; Christina Irimie, 53; and Richard Aspinwall, 39.
My prediction: Los Angeles will give parole to Nathaniel Radimak, he’ll end up assaulting an innocent person, and the people who gave him parole will have zero concern for this new victim.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1826358720957481219
https://yahoo.com/news/tesla-driver-smashed-cars-pipe-174051007.html
Tesla driver who smashed cars with a pipe in incidents of road rage could be paroled early
By Andrew J. Campa
August 21, 2024
The Tesla driver who became notorious for violent, pipe-wielding incidents of road rage through video captured by a victim may be back on highways sooner than expected.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón described Nathaniel Radimak’s “reign of terror” when he was charged in January 2023.
Now, the 37-year-old could be freed after serving less than a year of his five-year sentence, according to files from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. His earliest eligible parole date is listed as August 2024, though the department noted the date was “subject to change.”
Radimak is being held at the Sierra Conservation Center in Jamestown, about 50 miles southeast of Stockton. The minimum- to medium-custody facility also serves as a training center for incarcerated people who aid in firefighting efforts.
He’s been there since Oct. 3, 2023.
Radimak was initially charged with four counts of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, four counts of criminal threats and one felony count of vandalism, along with two misdemeanor counts of vandalism and one misdemeanor count of elder abuse.
He pleaded no contest and was eventually sentenced to five years for stalking and two years for criminal threats (served concurrently) in state prison in August 2023.
He’s credited with 424 days served awaiting sentencing — 212 days for time served and 212 days for good behavior, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records.
In June 2022, Radimak threatened a 74-year-old woman outside a doctor’s office in Glendale, and then in November he threatened a woman at a storage facility in Atwater Village, Los Angeles County prosecutors said. That same day, he got out of his Tesla, threatened a woman on a freeway and broke one of her headlights.
On Jan. 11, 2023, prosecutors said, he struck another vehicle with a pipe on the 2 Freeway near York Boulevard, an incident caught on dash-cam video. He was also accused of following a car from a Pasadena mall later that day, nearly hitting it with his vehicle, then striking it with a metal pole.
Democrats allowed a known serial killer who murdered 23 people to enter the U.S.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1824495114372387197
Reputed Peruvian gang leader arrested in NY as suspect wanted for 23 killings in his home country
By Associated Press
August 15, 2024
A reputed Peruvian gang leader suspected in nearly two dozen killings in his home country was arrested Wednesday in New York by U.S. immigration authorities.
Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, the leader of “Los Killers” who is wanted for 23 killings in his home country, was arrested in Endicott, New York, about 145 miles (233 kilometers) northwest of New York City, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday.
He is being held at a federal detention facility near Buffalo pending an immigration hearing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Torres-Navarro, 38, entered the U.S. illegally at the Texas-Mexico border on May 16.
He was arrested the same day and given a notice to appear for immigration proceedings, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
The agency, known as ICE, said it moved to arrest Torres-Navarro after receiving information on July 8 that he was wanted in Peru.
“Gianfranco Torres-Navarro poses a significant threat to our communities, and we won’t allow New York to be a safe haven for dangerous noncitizens,” said Thomas Brophy, the director of enforcement removal operations for ICE’s Buffalo field office.
Immigration agents also arrested Torres-Navarro’s girlfriend, Mishelle Sol Ivanna Ortíz Ubillús, described by Peruvian authorities as his right hand. She is being held at a processing center in Pennsylvania, according to ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System.
Peru’s justice system confirmed to The Associated Press that it ordered the location and international capture of Torres-Navarro and his partner Ortiz-Ubilluz on July 3.
According to Peruvian authorities, Torres-Navarro is the leader of a criminal organization known as “Los Killers de Ventanilla y Callao” that has used violence to thwart rivals seeking to cut into its core business of extorting construction companies.
Torres-Navarro allegedly fled Peru after the killing of retired police officer Cesar Quegua Herrera at a restaurant in San Miguel in March, Peruvian media reported.
Six reputed members of “Los Killers,” formed in 2022 in an area along the Pacific coast where Peru’s main port is located, were arrested in a series of raids in June and accused of homicide, contract killing, and extortion, the National Police of Peru said.
Torres-Navarro was previously a member of the Los Malditos de Angamos criminal organization, Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office said.
He is also known as “Gianfranco 23,” a reference to the number of people he is alleged to have killed.
His girlfriend, Ortiz Ubillús, has a prominent role in “Los Killers,” Peruvian authorities said.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office described her as Torres Navarro’s romantic partner, lieutenant and cashier.
She also has a sizable following on the social media platform TikTok where she showed off their lavish lifestyle, including designer clothes, resort vacations and shooting targets at a gun range.
After one week, no arrests have been made, despite the fact that their faces are on video. They know they won’t be punished. George Gascon sides with violent criminals, not their victims.
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1823106163568963881
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7J0t2_ajg
Mob of teens violently assault man, break his leg in downtown Los Angeles
August 11, 2024
As he pulled over and got out of his car, he said the group of roughly 30 teens surrounded him, with the situation turning violent very quickly.
Footage of the incident was captured by a witness who happened to walk up on the mob as they assaulted Uulu, stole items, including his backpack and wallet, out of the vehicle, shattered the windows and stomped on the hood and trunk of his car.
In the video, Uulu is seen barefoot, limping as he’s pushed and punched in the back of the head by several of the teens.
He sustained a broken leg, along with deep cuts and lacerations all over his body after getting kicked and punched while on the ground. The injury to his leg, he said, will require surgery.
A woman named Lauren Johansen was beaten to death because Nashville refused to lock up a violent criminal named Bricen Rivers after the first time that he tried to beat her to death
“I can’t explain to you the beating that this man did to my daughter,” Lauren Johansen’s father speaks out after Bricen Rivers is denied bond
By Delaney Dukes
July 27, 2024
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – A man charged with beating his ex-girlfriend to death will remain in jail after a hearing in Forrest County Court this morning.
“I can’t explain to you the beating that this man did to my daughter,” said Lauren Johansen’s father as he became emotional when trying to describe how he found his daughter after she was killed earlier this month.
“He beat her so badly that her skull and her face pretty much became fractured from the rest of her body,” Dr. Lance Johansen said. “He basically beat her until the front of her head came off. No human being deserves to have this happen to them.”
Lauren Johansen’s ex-boyfriend, Bricen Rivers, is charged with her murder.
Rivers faced a Forrest County judge for the first time Friday afternoon.
Forrest County District Attorney Lin Carter explained what his office’s was hoping to accomplish Friday.
“We made a strong argument against bond,” said Carter. “The court went along with our argument, and he received no bond on the murder, and then he received a $20,000 bond on the grand larceny auto and the tampering with evidence.”
During the 30-minute hearing, Forrest County ADA Clay Cranford listed Rivers’ current charges; first-degree murder, grand larceny auto and tampering with evidence.
When Judge Gay Polk-Payton asked if he was out on bond at the time of the murder. Rivers replied, “No, not to my knowledge.”
In response, Cranford laid out Rivers’ past criminal charges, including a December incident in Nashville, Tennessee, when officers there said Lauren Johnansen was beaten nearly to death while the couple was on vacation.
Rivers was, in fact, out on bond for that crime at the time of her murder.
“He misled the judge here (Friday),” said Lance Johansen. “He misled the judge there before, and I think the bottom line is, you cannot take a criminal’s word for saying the right thing, because this man is a pathological liar.”
In Nashville, a Davidson County Criminal Court clerk recently told WDAM 7′s sister station WSMV that mistakes were made surrounding Rivers’ release.
But now, Lance Johansen said he was glad Rivers will remain behind bars.
“Well, I already feel some relief knowing that that he’s in this detention facility,” said Lance Johansen. “So, this is some justice for me (Friday).
“And I’m confident that he’s never going to see the light of day again. This man’s not done killing people, and if he has a chance, he’ll kill somebody in in jail.”
According to the Washington Post, Kamala Harris tweeted support for a bail fund that bailed out murderers, rapists, kidnappers, shooters, and looters.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
July 31, 2024
Kamala Harris made this tweet, encouraging people to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund:
Original: https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1267555018128965643
According to this article from the Washington Post, that charity has bailed out murderers, rapists, kidnappers, shooters, and looters.
The Washington Post wrote:
Kamala Harris tweeted support for a bail fund, but the money didn’t just assist protesters
September 3, 2020
One defendant, Jaleel Stallings, was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at police during protests on May 30, county records show. MFF paid $75,000 in cash to get Stallings out of jail, according to MFF interim director Greg Lewin.
MFF also paid $750 toward a bond for Chylen Evans, who was charged with looting a liquor store, clothing store and mobile store.
On Aug. 10, Minneapolis television station KMSP aired a report documenting how, after receiving the torrent of donations, MFF had bailed out a number of people charged with violent crimes, including posting $100,000 for a woman accused of killing a friend and $350,000 for a twice-convicted rapist charged with kidnapping, assault and sexual assault in two separate cases.
After Lyden’s report aired, Lionel Timms, a man whom MFF bailed out on an assault charge in July, was charged with committing third-degree assault on Aug. 14, leaving the victim with a traumatic brain injury and a fractured skull.
The result of Harris and other social justice warriors helping these violent and dangerous criminals has been absolutely disastrous to the regular, law-abiding people who live in Minnesota.
Insurance experts estimated that the damage caused by Black Lives Matter protestors in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region during 2020 could exceed $500 million.
This article about the Black Lives Matter protestors in Minneapolis is called, “Neighborhoods where stores were destroyed become food deserts overnight.”
As a high ranking government official who is protected by armed guards, Kamala Harris doesn’t have to worry about getting hurt by these kinds of criminals.
And as a person who lives in a safe neighborhood with easy access to grocery stores, she doesn’t have to worry about how to get food from the store to her home.
But for a lot of the regular, law-abiding people who live in Minneapolis, that’s not the case.
Because of the kinds of violent and dangerous criminals that Kamala Harris supports, many of the regular, law abiding people who live in Minneapolis no longer have easy access to get groceries or prescription drugs.
And now Kamala Harris is running for President of the United States.
I wonder what she has in store for the rest of the country.
An 11-year-old girl named Maxi Park was repeatedly slashed, and almost killed, because New York City refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Shaquan Cummings.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/11/us-news/mom-wants-justice-for-daughter-11-slashed-in-nyc-attack/
NYC mom demands justice after girl, 11, slashed by maniac career criminal and left ‘showered in blood’
By Georgett Roberts, Marie Pohl, and Rich Calder
May 11, 2024
An 11-year-old girl slashed in the head by an apparently homeless maniac was left “showered in blood” by the attack and is “lucky to be alive,” her mother fumed to The Post — while demanding the career criminal who hurt her be put behind bars.
“I was thinking, ‘Oh my God! She is going to die right now,’ ” recalled Malgorzata Sladek, referring to her daughter, Maxi Park.
“Her lips were blue. She was losing color.”
“The cut was so big,” the mother of two added.
“Her clothes, her jacket was covered in blood. It looked like you poured red water on her, like she was showered in blood.”
The fiend — who has a lengthy rap sheet — knifed the youngster in the back of the head and cut her ear as she walked down the street holding her mom’s hand, authorities said.
“I turned around and saw her hair on the sidewalk,” said Sladek, “Her head was sliced from top to bottom. Blood was pouring out of her head. I was in shock.”
The child required multiple stitches and staples to fix the gash and was “doing a little better” Saturday while still recovering in the hospital, her mom said. Doctors won’t know if further procedures are needed to repair the wound until the bandages are removed, Sladek said.
Shaquan Cummings, 30, who has a lengthy rap sheet, knifed the youngster in the back of the head and cut her ear as she walked down the street holding her mom’s hand, authorities said.
Cummings, 30, allegedly preyed on the girl outside the 116th Street 6 subway station Friday and fled underground, moments after he’s accused of sucker punching an unsuspecting 43-year-old woman around the corner, according to sources.
“Bitch, get the f–k out of my way,” Cummings allegedly told the woman, prosecutors said at his Saturday arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The attack on Maxi, which left the girl with a seven-inch gash on the left side of her head, was caught on video and the box cutter was found near the scene, according to prosecutors.
Sladek tried to chase down Cummings, even hailing a conductor to stop a train from departing, but he managed to get away.
Cops ultimately tracked him down a block away.
The suspect was then cornered by a raging mob of Harlem locals seeking street justice, forcing a group of NYPD officers to protect him, video showed.
In the clip, a man appears to poke him with a cane as the alleged assailant cowers behind cops.
Manhattan Judge Laurie Peterson ordered Cummings, who lives in the Jerome Avenue Men’s Shelter, held without bail Saturday. He’s facing a minimum of 12 years in prison as a persistent violent felon, prosecutors said.
The suspect has health issues, claimed his lawyer, Seann Riley.
Cummings’ rap sheet covers more than 20 arrests for assault, criminal mischief and fare evasion, sources said.
He’s been convicted twice for violent felony crimes – including in 2019 for first-degree attempted assault – and has five misdemeanor convictions, according to prosecutors
“My daughter could have been dead — not with me anymore,” said Sladek, who also has a 9-year-old son.
“Why is this person walking the streets of New York? They need to change the laws.”
Residents who live near the Norwood shelter said its occupants notoriously harass people, but some pegged Cummings as among the more well-behaved temporary tenants.
“All of them, one day they are normal, the other they are acting up, but I never see him acting up,” said one Norwood resident.
“I feel really bad — slashing women, slashing children. That’s big. I thought he was one of the best ones over there.”
“[The shelter residents] harass women. They attack people, especially if they beg you for money and you don’t give them,” another resident added.
“I live around here and that’s the worst thing they could have put there. It’s not safe. They can go off at any time.”
Los Angeles County Deputy Samuel Aispuro was shot because District Attorney George Gascón refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Raymundo Duran
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-police-officer-shot-back-080051990.html
California police officer shot in back by criminal who should have been in jail: progressive DA’s challenger
By Louis Casiano
May 9, 2024
A known gang member with a long violent criminal history accused of shooting a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy could have been kept behind bars if not for soft-on-crime policies by the region’s top prosecutor, his election opponent said.
Raymundo Duran, 47, who allegedly shot Deputy Samuel Aispuro in the back at a stop light while he was sitting on his marked sheriff’s department motorcycle on April 22 in West Covina, California, has been involved in a number of violent crimes, including two felony assaults that he committed while serving an 11-year sentence for manslaughter, according to court records.
Aispuro, a nearly 20-year veteran of the department, was wearing his bulletproof vest and survived the unprovoked attack.
In 2021, Duran was arrested after leading authorities on a car and foot chase in which he was charged with committing a hit-and-run, resisting arrest and fleeing from a police officer. Authorities were forced to collide with Duran’s vehicle to stop him before he briefly ran from the scene, authorities said.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, a Democrat, could have had Duran imprisoned, but he was instead sentenced to probation as part of a plea deal, according to Gascón’s election challenger.
“Raymundo Duran, by all accounts, is a sociopath who has committed violent act after violent act for decades,” Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor running as an independent to unseat Gascón, told Fox News Digital. “Unfortunately, the sentences that he’s received haven’t deterred him from committing additional violent conduct.”
“So, when George Gascón has his chance to deal with Mr. Duran and make it so he won’t be able to victimize others, he decides to go for the lowest sentences,” he added.
Gascón has faced harsh criticism from his own prosecutors as well as law enforcement and elected officials over his progressive criminal justice policies.
Jason Lustig, a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, said prosecutors have been demoralized after nearly four years under his boss.
“Everybody has just really been sickened over it,” he told Fox News Digital. “We have a front-row seat to seeing more victims adding up. We see it every day.”
At the time of his 2021 arrest, Duran was a four-time convicted felon wanted for a parole violation. He also has a 1996 conviction for domestic violence. In 2002, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for stabbing his boss at a Jiffy Lube to death as part of a plea deal, Hochman noted.
In 2003, a year into his prison term, Duran assaulted a guard at Salinas Valley State Prison. He pleaded no contest in Monterey County Superior Court, court records state.
On Nov. 9, 2009, Duran stabbed another prisoner with a “shank,” a makeshift knife. He was sentenced to another four years after pleading guilty to assaulting a prisoner in a manner likely to cause great bodily injury.
After his release, he violated his parole, and in February 2022, he was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The crime was punishable by six years in prison, but prosecutors entered into a plea deal with Duran, who was sentenced to two years, four months.
“In 2021, had he actually gotten a six-year sentence or longer, he wouldn’t have been in the place to have shot the gun at the deputy in West Covina,” Hochman said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Gascón’s office.
Duran, who was in a 2008 Toyota Camry, was arrested in San Diego County hours after the ambush shooting. He is charged with first-degree attempted murder of a peace officer, assault against a peace officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
“The senseless and unprovoked shooting of Deputy Samuel Aispuro is a stark reminder of the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily,” Gascón said days after the shooting. “Our office is committed to vigorously prosecuting the offender to the fullest extent of the law. Our thoughts are with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Deputy Aispuro as he recovers from this tragic incident.”
This rape was completely preventable. Carl Jerome Hamilton should have already been locked up for life a long time ago. Shame on Nashville.
Convicted felon with 100+ past offenses arrested for raping, kidnapping Amazon delivery worker
By Ethan Illers
April 26, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A convicted felon, who has been charged with 105 offenses in Nashville since 2007, was arrested Friday for allegedly raping and kidnapping an Amazon delivery worker.
The Metro Nashville Police Department said 34-year-old Carl Jerome Hamilton is charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, and robbery for allegedly attacking an Amazon delivery worker in the mailroom of an apartment building located in the 700 block of President Ronald Reagan Way.
The 25-year-old victim was delivering packages to the building at around 4 a.m. Friday, April 26, when Hamilton allegedly pushed her further into the mailroom and shut the door. He then demanded she remove her clothing and sexually assaulted her before forcing her to come with him to her delivery vehicle and drive to an ATM on Murfreesboro Pike, where he used her debit card to withdraw $100, according to investigators.
Hamilton then reportedly drove the victim around for nearly an hour before eventually leaving her and her car.
Officers reviewed surveillance video at the apartment building that showed clear pictures of the man committing the attack. As officers were about to leave the building, Hamilton – wearing the same clothing as seen in the surveillance video – passed by the front window and was immediately arrested, according to police.
Detectives said the apartment manager knew Hamilton by name because he was arrested at the property on March 5 and Jan. 2 for criminal trespassing.
Hamilton was also arrested for kidnapping and robbery in 2020 in connection with the assault of a 24-year-old woman on Academy Place. Investigators said he was convicted of those charges in July of 2022 and received a six-year sentence.
At least 15 women were raped because Boston refused to lock up a violent serial criminal named Alvin Campbell, who was the brother of Boston city council member Andrea Campbell when these rapes happened.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/04/22/boston-alvin-campbell-rape-case-police
Boston police failed to arrest ‘serial rapist’ for years despite DNA evidence
By Walter Wuthmann
April 22, 2024
It started off like countless other Uber rides in downtown Boston.
A group of friends piled into a car after hanging out at a bar. Then, they started arguing. Most of the friends got out at their hotel, and the man offered to drive the remaining rider around to “collect herself.”
But when the woman asked the driver to drop her back off at the hotel, he refused.
Instead, he took her to his apartment in Dorchester that Saturday in July 2016 and sexually assaulted her, police alleged in court records.
A DNA test identified the suspect as Alvin Campbell Jr., a burly 43-year-old with a long criminal history and a prominent relative. Campbell is the brother of Andrea Campbell, then a Boston city councilor and now the state’s attorney general.
Despite the DNA evidence, Alvin Campbell was never arrested or charged in connection with the encounter. And police never alerted the public.
Over the next two years, a WBUR investigation found, three more women shared similar stories with police about a man who assaulted them after offering them rides at Boston bars. In each case, DNA and other evidence pointed to Alvin Campbell, according to an application for a search warrant obtained by WBUR. And each time, authorities decided not to detain him or seek criminal charges.
Boston police finally arrested Campbell in early 2020 after a fifth woman reported she was raped. At that point, investigators made a horrifying discovery. They found evidence on his phone indicating he had sexually assaulted at least 10 additional women since the first incident in 2016.
Campbell grew up in Roxbury and graduated from a vocational high school there. According to interviews and other public records, Campbell spent much of his adult life cycling in and out of state and federal prison for physical assaults and gun convictions.
In court, prosecutors and police allege Campbell preyed on intoxicated women at downtown Boston bars for at least three years, often posing as a ride-hailing driver.
Why didn’t Diablo Valley College ethics professor Eric Clanton get any prison time for hitting seven Trump supporters in the head with a metal bike lock?
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
April 20, 2024
This video shows a masked Antifa thug using a metal bike lock to smash the head of an innocent Trump supporter at Berkeley, California, in April 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qKCl9NL1Cg
Some awesomely talented amateur sleuth observers at 4chan later identified the thug based on his partially visible face, his clothing, and several other things.
Any one of these things by itself is pretty meaningless. But taken together, it is extremely likely that they identified the correct person.
For specific details, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The police also did their own investigation, and when they searched the person’s house, they found clothing and other items that matched that of the person in the video. Phone records also show that the person was present during the assault.
And it turned out that the thug is left wing Diablo Valley College ethics professor Eric Clanton.
Clanton supports shoplifting, opposes private ownership of property, and has defended convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
It was later reported that Clanton would not be getting any prison time for his brutal assaults against seven innocent Trump supporters.
The news reported that Clanton used the metal bike lock to assault the heads of at least seven people.
The news also detailed the evidence the police found in Clanton’s home tying him to these attacks.
It’s completely despicable that Clanton did not get any prison time for what he did.
Why didn’t Diablo Valley College ethics professor Eric Clanton get any prison time for hitting seven Trump supporters in the head with a metal bike lock?
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