Friday morning’s Current Crime Statistics page by the Philadelphia Police Department indicated that there had been 433 homicides in the city as of 11:59 PM EDT on Thursday, October 20th. Since the police only update that page Monday through Friday during normal business hours, we don’t get individual daily reports, but just the one on […]
The mission of journalism is to report the news, the truth, to the public, even if it means digging deeply into things that some people, particularly people in positions of power, do not want disclosed. Journalists must have an open mind, to see the truth, even if the truth is not what they wanted or […]
While I have mentioned the censorship of The Philadelphia Inquirer previously, we don’t always get the evidence quite so directly. Police Officer Miguel Torres, Badge Number 7191, reported on a shooting in Mantua: 16th District — Shooting Incident 35XX Fairmont Avenue on highway at 7L06 PM. Victim #1 – Black female 19 years old was shot […]
Tishaura Jones, the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, is very, very worried about “gun violence.” “Gun violence” is the euphemism that the left use to describe people shooting and killing each other, without blaming bad people, but blaming inanimate objects, as though firearms simply levitate and fire at people all by themselves. From CNN: Gunshots […]
We have spent a considerable amount of bandwidth on the murder epidemic in Philadelphia, but it isn’t only the City of Brotherly Love in which this has happened. From The Wall Street Journal: A Year After George Floyd’s Murder, It’s ‘Open Season’ in Minneapolis Homicides have more than doubled in a year. Three children have […]
St Louis is our most murderous city. As of last night, there had been 76 homicides in the Gateway City . . . and 71 of the victims were black. St Louis is ‘only’ 45.3% black, but comprise 93.4% of the city’s murder victims. Of the 32 murders of blacks in St Louis, all 32 […]
I’ll admit it: I went on kind of a rant in the comments section of my good friend William Teach’s story: In Violent St. Louis, Mayor Wants To Empty Prisons And Defund The Police By William Teach | May 19, 2021 | 10:30 AM EDT No, wait, they should do this, because every experiment needs […]
I rather mockingly tweeted, on Sunday around 11:30 AM: Since there are no stories about homicides on the @PhillyInquirer‘s website main page, should I assume that no one was killed in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend? — Dana Pico (@Dana_Pico on gab.com) (@Dana_TFSJ) May 2, 2021 At 10:33 AM EDT this morning, I […]
When you have been married for 41 years, 11 months and 7 days, as my wife and I have — but who’s counting, right? — a six-month anniversary seems pretty inconsequential, something that you remember like six-months of dating or you first six months of being married.[1]Actually, we got married just six months and two […]