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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God’s Honest Truth.
Last night my girlfriend and I got into an argument. The laundry came up. I’m like, Hell you must use 5 towels a day!
So she says, I kid you not, “Well I don’t reuse towels. I can’t remember which end I used to clean my face or my ass”
I said “Well I use toilet paper on my ass”
Women......
Didn’t Moron Gavin get an adverse from the Covid vaccine.
Cali is becoming worse than South Africa. They will double down on their Mandela type icons, tho
Meanwhile their cops will be sent like morons to enforce pronoun and plastic straw laws, so zealous to cover for their full retard politician pimp they help elect.
You should say “modern women”. They are super spoiled and it affects their abilities. There was this video out there of black dudes laughing at this rich young blond who could not find her Tesla’s gas port at the gas station ...
Apparently, it’s okay if they are not victims. Or if the victims are not wealthy.
IOW, the entitled elite think they will be safe from the monster they have created by virtue of their virtue signaling.
Meanwhile reality smacks them upside the head.
Get real..Ya think millions of leftist from CA are moving into your state? C'mon.
Ya might want to look at your own leftist public school indoctrination centers, who have been producing hundreds of thousands of newly minted leftist voters every single year in your state and every state.
Wanna stop this crap? Administer 1911 lead justice. Pain is more effective than a judge’s lecture.
Incessant TV blah-blah mindless drivel doesn’t even rise to the level of pseudo-intellectual.
In the 50s, my dear old Opa called it the idiot box, and that was back when it was one-hundredth the wasteland it is today. There wasn’t a lot of airtime for pure idiocy when there were three channels on 18 to 24 hours a day.
Much of the violence has occurred in poor communities and among vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, and receives little attention.
...because the news crews who try to cover it get mugged or worse.
Sure took Oprah long enough to see the topsy-turvy world of Calif.
Wait until all this crime hits Montecito !!!!!
LA - shit hole
You don’t think millions of leftists have moved to Florida?
How about Georgia? They don’t all have to come from California.
I’m in Real Estate. And you better believe that people from New York, California, Nevada(showing properties today to a family from Las Vegas), Illinois, Oregon etc. are moving to Alabama. It doesn’t take “millions” a year. Thousands each year will do it.
Why are they moving here, now? Property is comparably low priced. Going up though partially because people moving from out of state will pay more than natives. Taxes. Property taxes are very low currently. Compared to say...Illinois or California. Weather. Ever been to Chicago in the winter? Building regulations. Relaxed comparatively. And along with that cost of living. Plus several other things.
So no. Millions of Californians are not moving to our state. Just takes a few thousand a year from all Blue states to make a big difference.
You completely ignored and evaded my comments...Just went right over your head. Keep ignoring it...No problem.
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