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.
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YES
The Left loves military police. They are their tool for controlling the people.
Truly. They burn everything to the ground. and it is not because they are clueless. They know exactly what they are doing.
It could all be stopped pretty quickly if a force of decent people got ahold of the FBIs documentation on the perps and where the funding come from. What’s happening in the cities is an operation being run by secret police agencies. It is always thus.
I disagree.
They are moving to safer Red States. There they will continue to vote like in Kommiefornia and the rot will spread.
We see it all the time here.
Notice how the blue check mark crew only cares now that it’s THEIR swanky stores being robbed……now that the criminal scum is robbing THEIR homes in their oh so tony neighborhoods.
When it was the Walgreens or mom & pop stores frequented by the peasants they couldn’t have cared less. Hell, it was “social Justice”. Just so long as it never affects them.
This is nonsense and its results are before us. California politicians' response is to see how little they have to backslide from this "progress" in order to maintain a comfortable existence for themselves. It won't be much, they'll begrudge and resist at every step, and it won't work.
This one's gonna come back and bite liberal 'elites' on the butt....
“So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.””
Good. I would love to see videos of some group getting together to rob/trash/burn (in other words, your typical leftist day at work) this idiot’s residence.
I’m waiting.
We were warned of a FEDERAL POLICE FORCE way back in 1968.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
The most “brutal, brazen crimes” have been committed on the city and its residents by Garcetti ... no need to investigate further.
I agree. Lefties in general do not believe in “cause and effect”, and this goes double for Californians.
They are moving to safer Red States. There they will continue to vote like in Kommiefornia and the rot will spread.
Yep. Like roaches. They have about taken over Florida. Georgia too. My Alabama is still staunchly Conservative. Only because we have been ridiculed as backwoods rednecks. Which is fine with me. If you are from Cali, New York, any New England state, Do Not Come Here! Weather sucks...We’re all racist...Little girls and boys are not safe....You’ll learn to love your cousins, wayyyyyy more than you do now. Beaches and waterways are clogged with plastics and terrible chemical sludge. We’re just now getting indoor plumbing and electricity. Lynchings of minorities are commonplace. As a matter of fact it’s a favorite Friday night activity! Fun for all girls and boys. Schools....wow. They suck too! Why would you want any of that? Oh if I could only move from this place....Like you are doing from your shit hole.
Don’t forget to mention that the nearest dentist is over in Georgia someplace.
has shaken the laws of the Universe,” declared Oprah Winfrey,
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OK, Windfree, what are these “laws of the Universe”?
Is there something above evolution, and karma, etc.?
We’re just now getting indoor plumbing and electricity.
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Are you still wiping with corn cobs?
A few well placed bullets will stop this crap in a heart beat!
Yes sir. We try to reuse them for at least a week. Depending on what company we have over.
Did you know a guy from Alabama invented the tooth brush?
Anywhere else it would have been call a “teeth brush”
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