Law Enforcement
December 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Steve thinks liberals may be hoisting the white flag on immigration, but I don’t know: some of them seem to be awfully dug in. Take Denver’s Mayor Mike Johnston. Johnston said that he was willing to deploy the Denver Police Department to stop federal agents from deporting illegal aliens from his city, a clear act of insurrection. He has backed off that position to some degree, but still intends to
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October 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Today Alpha News has released the documentary Minnesota v. We the People. The related Alpha News story explains: The documentary was made in memory of five first responders who were murdered in the line of duty over a span of 13 months in Minnesota. Matthew Ruge, Paul Elmstrand, Adam Finseth, Jamal Mitchell, and Joshua Owen were all brutally killed while sacrificing their lives for the people of Minnesota. “Minnesota v.
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September 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Trump was in grave danger of assassination as he played the fifth hole of The Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach yesterday. Ryan Wesley Routh was lying in wait. He was armed with an AK-style rifle and scope to take Trump out. He had a GoPro camera to stream or film the planned shooting and ceramic body armor plates to protect him. Having set up a sniper’s
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September 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
For me, the reversal of the incredibly destructive policies of the Biden-Harris administration is the leading issue in the campaign. First among these policies is the Biden-Harris administration’s support of illegal immigration. It can’t go on like this. I didn’t have CNN exposing that wacky Kamala on my bingo card. Yet here we have CNN’s Erin Burnett and Andrew Kaczynski looking into the mixed-up files of Ms. Kamala D. Harris
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July 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Madeline Brame was only one of the excellent speakers at the Republican National Convention last night, but she stood out. The New York Post covers her remarks here. I have posted the six-minute video below. She’s not having any of that “lowering the temperature.” She is righteously angry. She testifies: “Mine eyes have been opened.” Via Rich Lowry/NRO.
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June 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Attorney Chris Madel represented Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan in the absurd murder case she brought by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty against Minnesota State Trooper Ryan Londregan. Moriarty is a Soros-style prosecutor who has proved an embarrassment to the DFL. At long last she stood down and dismissed the charges against Londregan. John covered the dismissal in a post with links to his previous commentary on the case here.
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June 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Mary Moriarty is the pro-crime County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. We have written about her a number of times, including her prosecution of State Trooper Ryan Londregan (here, here and here.) The linked posts contain more detailed accounts of the facts, but briefly, Trooper Londregan and his partner tried to execute an arrest warrant on a career criminal named Ricky Cobb. Cobb, knowing he was in trouble as a
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May 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In 2002, a Twin Cities gang member, Myon Burrell, murdered an 11-year-old girl named Tyesha Edwards. She was sitting innocently in her home when a bullet fired incompetently by Burrell in a gang shoot-out brought her life to an end. Burrell was sentenced to life in prison for Edwards’ murder. But someone–who was it?–wrote years ago about the mismatch between the dead victim and the living murderer. The murderer can
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February 4, 2024 — Scott Johnson
If there is a story/video/photo that captures the madness of the moment, it must be the one featuring illegal alien Jhoan Boda flipping off the crowd as he left the courthouse in Manhattan last week. Miranda Devine recapitulated key elements of the story in her Devine Online newsletter with the subject heading “Crazy Town.” Here is her summary of the story: Look at this charmer coming out of Manhattan Criminal
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February 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My friend the economist John Phelan says that the entire field of economics can be summed up in the statement that incentives matter. This is a good example. Why do illegal immigrant theft rings steal in New York, go to Florida to spend their loot, and then return to New York to steal some more?
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January 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota was famously the scene of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent criminal prosecution of four police officers, most notably Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted of second degree murder and is currently in prison, having survived an attack on his life. In my opinion, Chauvin’s conviction was wrong on both legal and factual grounds. His case was tried in an atmosphere of anti-police hysteria and threats of violence, so that
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January 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged State Trooper Ryan Londregan with second degree murder in the death of a felon that arose out of a traffic stop. Here we go again. State troopers stopped the felon, Ricky Cobb, at 1:50 am because he was driving on a major highway without proper lights. When they ran his identity through their system, they found that there was a “pick up” warrant
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January 7, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The dogma that American law enforcement is “systemically” racist is one of the chief pillars of what passes for liberal thought. In truth, that theory has been perhaps the most damaging of all leftist shibboleths. A recent meta-study concludes that there is no empirical evidence that our criminal justice system discriminates against blacks, but that academics nevertheless continue to assert that claim–even in studies whose data actually refute it: An
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November 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Black Lives Matter era is over. The BLM organization turned out to be a fraud, and, worse, the anti-police movement caused a spike in crime that continues to this day. Voters have ejected Soros prosecutors, and even liberals are vowing to crack down on criminals. The story of Marilyn Mosby illustrates the downfall of BLM. Mosby was the States Attorney in Baltimore when a man named Freddie Gray died
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October 3, 2023 — John Hinderaker
It’s a stiff competition. Democratic Party prosecutors who have brought frivolous charges against Donald Trump are certainly in the mix. Nevertheless, I would award that title to Mary Moriarty, the County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Hennepin is the state’s most populous county, and it includes Minneapolis along with a number of other high-crime towns. Nevertheless, Moriarty ran for office on a platform of not prosecuting criminals, and she is
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September 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Many criminals are dumb, and some are crazy. But virtually all criminals pay attention to what concerns them the most: the likelihood of being caught and the severity of punishment for their crimes. Even the most deranged criminal does not commit his felony in front of a policeman. And the extent to which laws are enforced is the most important variable influencing whether laws are broken. We are reminded of
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September 7, 2023 — John Hinderaker
That formula goes back, I think, to the 1980s, and while “neoconservative” has taken on a different meaning, it still holds true. The latest case in point is Shivanthi Sathanandan, a vice chairwoman of Minnesota’s Democrat-Farmer-Labor party. Like most Democrats, Sathanandan was anti-police and pro-criminal. In June 2020, she wanted to “dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department”: But that all changed on Tuesday. Ms. Sathanandan was carjacked and viciously beaten: The
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