Posted on 12/06/2021 9:05:48 AM PST by karpov
Crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles’ most exclusive stores. Robbers following their victims, including a star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and a BET host, to their residences. And this week, the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, in her Beverly Hills home.
After two years of rising violent crime in Los Angeles, these incidents have sparked a national conversation and led to local concern about both the crimes themselves and where the outrage over the violence will lead.
“The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe,” declared Oprah Winfrey, expressing her grief over Avant’s killing to her 43 million Twitter followers. “The world is upside down.”
While overall city crime rates remain far below records set during the notorious gang wars of the 1990s, violent crime has jumped sharply in L.A., as it has in other cities. Much of the violence has occurred in poor communities and among vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, and receives little attention.
However, since the start of the pandemic and more rapidly in recent months, crime has crept up in wealthier enclaves and thrust its way to the center of public discourse in L.A. — against a backdrop of COVID-19 angst, evolving political perceptions of what role police and prosecutors should play in society and, now, a holiday season upon which brick-and-mortar retailers are relying to stay afloat.
Some wonder if this could be a turning point for California, which for decades has been at the center of the movement for criminal justice reform, rolling back tough sentencing laws and reducing prison populations.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“these incidents have sparked a national conversation”
This is how 3 ball-less Californicators address rampant, in-your-face criminality.
Perhaps Constitutional Carry legislation be a better solution?
It would wild-wild west for a very short time, then peace would settle across the land.
But but Seth Rogan said this wasn’t happening, same as Kumula Harris. If we can’t trust the word of an Actor and a Whore who can we trust ?
Exactly. It only matters when it hits Hollywood/celebrities.
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Bleeding heart liberal elites always got away with their duplicity, but they felt safe in their enclaves and gated communities. Now they don’t feel safe there either (at least in blue cities/states). Why did Pelosi buy a house in Florida recently?
Oprah is part of the problem. She is correct about the world being upside down, though. The truth is 180 degrees out of phase with the world. Much is hidden in plain sight and just needs to be inverted.
Isa 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Isa 29:16
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
The wealthy of LA will either starting hiring private police protection to patrol their neighborhoods or they’ll start moving further out toward Santa Barbara, Montecito or further south towards Newport Beach.
My son told me Avant gave massive amounts of money to the Clintons. Our elites are supposed to be untouchable and immune from common, everyday, stupid Democrat policies.
From the LA Times. Bwahahahaha. Hell they are part and parcel to the problem. They are the ones who have backed these liberals including the DA’s.
“...crime has crept up in wealthier enclaves ..”
Well, that’s where the money is. Besides, they are democrats.
They fine and imprison their political opponents for nonexistent crimes and offenses, But their pets may do as they please, just not to them. There’s the conundrum.
VOTE BLUE lol
the big dem donors are being affected by the policies they paid for
oh no
“Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
DIY reparations
I’ve never understood Oprah’s appeal.
In my opinion she peaked as a weather girl in Baltimore. (I think it was Baltimore!) In everything else she’s just pseudo-intellectual TV “noise”.
bingo!
To compound this, CA public school indoctrination centers are producing millions more leftist voters every single year.
Based on the above, I came to the hard conclusion about 5 years ago it's never going to go back to what it was, and CA will only get much worse.
Don’t worry you got newsom
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