Category Archives: Crime

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A post of mine that will piss off a lot of people

My good friend Chaya Raichik — OK, OK, she has no idea who I am, bit I follow her on Twitter, posted:

Ryan Evans was charged with assault to r*pe a child in 2021. He was let free and sentenced to house arrest, awaiting trial. 3 months ago a judge loosened his curfew.

Now he was arrested again for luring a 5-year-old child behind a restroom and attempting to r*pe him.

Why does our justice system let violent child pr*dat*rs back onto the street to continue t*rr*rizing communities?

Naturally, the responses to Miss Raichik were almost uniformly supportive, but mine was different, and I would imagine it will be unpopular. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution specified that the accused have a right to a reasonable bail amount, meaning a bail that they can reasonably make, while the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial.

Mr Evans was charged with horribly serious crimes, crimes which, to me, merit life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted, but that’s the point: he has not actually been convicted of anything yet. The judge in his previous case granted him bail, which he made, but put him on house arrest, complete with the requirement to wear a GPS ankle monitor. I can see the merit in that, but Mr Evena has been awaiting trial for three years now. Continue reading →

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Pennsylvanians are incensed that Larry Krasner will not seek the death penalty for a cop killer But the truth is that, even if sentenced to death, the killer would never be executed

It should not have been a surprise to anyone. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, upon the election of the George Soros-sponsored, police-hating, and criminal-excusing defense attorney Larry Krasner to become District Attorney of the City of Brotherly Love, said, “It’s time to end the death penalty…mass incarceration … cash bail.” He has also stated that he has been opposed to capital punishment since 1984.

Why, then, is anyone acting shocked that Mr Krasner and his minions are not going to go for a death sentence against Miles Pfeffer, the teenaged punk who murdered Temple University Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald? Continue reading →

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right.

My good friends at The Philadelphia Inquirer have, as we have previously noted, been giving OpEd and other space to those criticizing Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins’ harder line on the open-air drug markets and junkies sleeping on the streets in Kensington.

Well, here they go again!

Drug deaths and overdoses plague Philly jails, raising concerns about plans to step up Kensington arrests

Since 2018, 25 people have died drug-related deaths in Philly jails, where drugs are widely accessible. As the city plans to arrest more drug users in Kensington, that has compounded safety concerns.

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The part the media didn’t mention Sometimes kids notice things that adults think they don't..

I do spend too many hours on Twitter — sorry, Elon Musk, but I refuse to call it “X” — and occasionally use Facebook, though not for politics, but I’ve never created a TikTok account. One of the people I follow on Twitter is Chaya Raichik and her wildly popular Libs of TikTok, where she made a name for herself by checking through TikTok and reposting to Twitter the most inane and insane things that the left were posting there.

So, while I haven’t checked out any of these things, this story in The Philadelphia Inquirer greatly amused me:

Malvern middle schoolers created more than 20 TikTok accounts that impersonated teachers and posted inappropriate content

Great Valley Middle School students set them up to impersonate, and demean, staff members.

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What about the right to a speedy trial?

George Aldridge, photo by Fayette County Detention Center, and is a public record.

On August 28, 2023, we noted the case of George Wayne Aldridge, previously accused of three sexual assaults in Lexington then being charged in a cold case from Louisville as well. Our August story concerned his bail reduction from $150,000 to $50,000.

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution specifies that “Excessive bail shall not be required, but Mr Aldridge was unable to make the reduced bail amount, either. And that brings us to the present. From the Lexington Herald-Leader:

Lexington survivor terrified, ‘disgusted’ that alleged ‘serial rapist’ could be released

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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.

All of my good friends in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia, wracked by crime — despite the fact that reported crime is down — would love to hear news like I’m going to report below. Crime in Philly isn’t so down that it prevented Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez, 36, from — allegedly, of course! — shooting a 31-year-old Philadelphia Police officer following a traffic stop. While Mr Rodriguez-Vazquez has no rap sheet in the Keystone State, he was arrested in his native Puerto Rico in 2011 after he and another man, José M. Serrano Ares, 24, stole an SUV at gunpoint, and then shot at responding officers.

If he had been in jail in Puerto Rico last weekend, he could not have shot a Philly police officer. Continue reading →

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Bad causes attract bad people * Updated! *

As we predicted on June 22nd, Joel Searby has scrubbed his internet profile. His Twitter account has been deleted, and his personal website has been reset to “Private”. This “Husband, Father, Friend. Renewer, Reformer, Dreamer,” is in some seriously deep doo-doo.

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As we noted three years ago, The Lincoln Project, an organization of anti-Trump “Republicans” which had been doing everything they could to hamper our 45th President, was then distancing itself from and denying any real knowledge about co-founder John Weaver. Many publicly mused about how co-founders George Conway, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, Jennifer Horn and Rick Wilson could not have known about Mr Weaver’s activities. Twenty-one young men, including one who claims that things began when he was just 14, have accused Mr Weaver of sending unwanted sexually provocative messages, sometimes including solicitations for sex, often in exchange for the promise of career help, to which Mr Weaver admitted once caught.

And yes, of course Mr Weaver was married to a woman at the time. Bad causes attract bad people. Continue reading →

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Philly advocates for prostitutes want the johns arrested, but not the hookers

It has always struck me as odd that something which is completely legal to do for free can be illegal to do for money, but such is prostitution and the buying of sex. But an OpEd in Tuesday’s Philadelphia Inquirer raised a point that I suspect the authors didn’t realize:

Want to eradicate the sex trade in Kensington, Mayor Parker? Arrest the people buying sex.

Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Philadelphia police should arrest them instead of those who are already exploited. 

by Shea Rhodes, Mary DeFusco, and Ann Marie Jones | Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | 5:00 AM EDT

As experts in sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and systems of prostitution, we disagree with Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s recent decision to empower the Philadelphia police to make arrests for prostitution in Kensington.

People in prostitution should not be arrested or charged with prostitution offenses. The practice of prosecuting people in prostitution perpetuates a harmful ideology that they are criminals, rather than people who are being exploited.

Traffickers and sex buyers perpetuate sexual exploitation and keep the commercial sex trade alive. Police should arrest them instead.

Parker’s decision will also create additional barriers for victims attempting to exit “the life” of sexual exploitation. Criminal convictions serve as an additional hurdle for survivors to seek meaningful employment, housing opportunities, immigration opportunities, federal student loans, and more.

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