Category Archives: Crime

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The problem isn’t mass incarceration; the problem is that not enough criminals are incarcerated, for not a long enough time.

Brandon Dockery, mugshot by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

This site reported, in August of 2021, on the arrest of Brandon Dockery for the murder of Raymar Webb. Held in the Fayette County Detention Center, he has finally gone on trial.

Defendant apologizes for deadly Lexington shooting during his murder trial

By Taylor Six | Monday, August 24, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT

The man charged with killing a Lexington father in a downtown parking lot testified at his own trial Monday, expressing remorse and saying the shooting was a “stain on him that will never go away.”

That won’t go away for Raymar Webb, either, because he’s been stone-cold graveyard dead for over five years now. Continue reading →

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Killadelphia Yeah, the murder rate is lower now, but it's still high

We previously noted the killing of 78-year-old Steve Alexander, killed by what reporters Ellie Rushing and Jesse Bunch called a “stray bullet” as four men jumped out of an SUV and fired more than fifty rounds “toward a group of young men on the sidewalk.” The Philadelphia Inquirer has been very careful not to call it a gang hit, at least in the articles I have seen so far, but they have at least stated that the 30-year-old victim, previously referred to as being 31-years old, was the actual target.

Over 50 rounds fired, three people struck, only one killed, and he wasn’t even the target, but just collateral damage. Gang-bangers are deadly, but still notoriously bad shots.

On August 10th, the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, said, after six homicides the previous weekend, “We had a bad weekend. We’re not having a bad year.”

Well, the bad weekends are continuing: Continue reading →

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Journalism differences between the Lexington Herald-Leader and Philadelphia Inquirer. ** Updated! ** When a poor newspaper outclasses a wealthy one

The First Street Journal has twice reported on the mass shooting in Charles Young Park in Lexington, Kentucky. We also noted the murder of a 78-year-old man in North Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.

But there’s a significant difference in coverage between two newspapers to which we subscribe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Lexington Herald-Leader. The Lexington newspaper is, to put it frankly, dying. Staff have been cut, there have been three General Managers in just a few years, and the paper, which once covered most of eastern and southeastern Kentucky, is a mere shadow if its former self, almost entirely restricted to Lexington now, and print publishing only thrice a week. Continue reading →

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Killadelphia Four shooters, over fifty rounds fired, sounds like a gang hit to me!

We noted, just a few days ago, that there had been 108 murders in the City of Brotherly Love, through Sunday, August 9th. The city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, following that weekend in which six people were murdered, said:

We had a bad weekend. We’re not having a bad year.

I contrasted Philly’s murder rate with that of Lexington, Kentucky, which, when I wrote, had four homicides all year, noting that Philly was 4.77 times Lexington’s size but has 27 times as many killings. Then Lexington had its fifth murder, as we reported here and here.

Well, it looks like Philly didn’t want to be left behind!

78-year-old man killed in North Philly triple shooting

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy! ** Updated! ** At some point it has to be asked: how stupid can people be?

The Lexington Police went from saying Sunday morning that they “have no updates” on the mass shooting at Charles Young Park to the (alleged) shooter being in jail Sunday evening. I suppose that’s the kind of thing the police do to not alert the suspect that they are hot on his heels.

18-year-old arrested, charged with murder and assault after shooting at Lexington park

By Valarie Honeycutt Spears | Monday, August 17, 2026 | 4:34 AM EDT | Updated: 9:09 AM EDT

An 18-year-old man was arrested Sunday and charged with killing one and injuring four in a mass shooting, according to the Lexington Police Department.

No, of course the Lexington Herald-Leader did not publish the suspect’s mugshot, but WLKY did, and one of my electronic friends tweeted it out to the world. Continue reading →

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So, what would Andy Beshear do? Leave it to Candy Andy to politicize everything * Updated! *

We noted, just two days ago, that, in contrast to foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, Lexington, Kentucky had seen only four homicides thus far in 2026. Alas! that number will have to be updated:

5 shot, 1 killed at a Lexington park, police say. 4-year-old among those injured

By Karla Ward | Saturday, August 15, 2026 | 8:33 PM EDT | Updated: 10:39 PM EDT

Five people were shot, including one who was killed, in an incident at Lexington’s Charles Young Park Saturday night, according to Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers and Gov. Andy Beshear.

Beshear announced the shooting while speaking at a Kentucky Democratic Party dinner at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington Saturday, but Weathers provided additional information shortly after at the scene of the shooting. Continue reading →

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Killadelphia Yes, homicides are down, but that doesn't mean things are good

Our Killadelphia posts have decreased in frequency since the bad old days of 2021 and 2022, and naturally the city’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, claims that his policies are working, but it’s never a surprise when one killing leads to another in the City of Brotherly Love.

Shooting of Philly couple was likely retribution for earlier killing, sources say

Police are seeking Shariff Perry, 35, in connection with the fatal shooting on Sunday in Strawberry Mansion.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, girl! Criminals really are stupid.

Megan Foley; photo via WKYT-TV.

As a good Catholic, I have been horrified by the revelations of sexual abuse of minors by priests, but these days, it seems that such sexual abuse of minors has become the province of public school teachers. The abuse by priests helped to widen investigations, put the scandal more into the public eye, and was doing so even before the arrest and suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. Things that got swept under the rug don’t get such anymore.

UK nurse, Bourbon County wrestling coach faces federal charges of sexual abuse

By Taylor Six | Sunday, August 9, 2026 | 11:07 AM EDT

A former Bourbon County wrestling coach facing state sex crimes is now also facing federal charges related to sex abuse of young boys. Continue reading →

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Yet another immigration sob story If they're here illegally, if their asylum claims ar not approved, they've got to go

Once again, The Philadelphia Inquirer, our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, and the past winner of twenty Pulitzer Prizes, uses their brand of journolism[1]The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their … Continue reading to try to create sympathy for an illegal immigrant, sympathy for people who have broken the law. Continue reading →

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↑1 The spelling ‘journolist’ or ‘journolism’ comes from JournoList, an email list of 400 influential and politically liberal journalists, the exposure of which called into question their objectivity. I use the term ‘journolism’ frequently when writing about media bias.