Category Archives: Crime and Punishment

Crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system.

Insult To Hundreds Of Injuries

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Chinese national in the US on a student visa, busted for leading a ring (one might say “racket” of iPhone thieves that stole over 1,000 smart phones (sometimes violently) worth over $800K, gets arrested…

The central figure behind what prosecutors called a roving network of robbers admitted to leading the scheme to steal cellphones in downtown Minneapolis and Dinkytown, drain their financial apps of money totaling more than $275,000 and then ship the phones overseas for sale.

Zhongshuang Su, aka Brandon Su, 33, of Minneapolis agreed to plead guilty to four amended felony counts of stolen property in connection with the operation that lasted roughly a year until charges against Su and his band of thieves were filed last September.

Su is accused of being the man known to others in the scheme as the “iPhone Man,” who bought the stolen phones and sent them to foreign buyers. In total, prosecutors believe Su shipped more than 1,100 phones to addresses in Hong Kong. Prosecutors put the value of those phones at more than $800,000.

…and gets a sentence that couldn’t even be failrly described as a slap on the wrist:

The plea agreement between the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and the defense calls for a 13-month sentence that would be set aside for three years and dismissal of the felony racketeering charges as long as he stays out of legal trouble. The prosecution also reserves the right to ask for Su to serve up to a year in the workhouse.

Someone trying to defend themselves against one of the thieves could easily have gotten a tougher sentence.

“A Conservative Is A Liberal Who’s Been Mugged”

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That might not be the result of this episode – at least, I but this past Tuesday Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Minnesota state DFL executive who advocated defunding the police gets the living crap beating out of her by carjackers.

And yep, she was one of those DFLers::

In her June 2020 post, Sathanandan thanked two Minneapolis City Council members for their “radical leadership” in working to “dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.”

“We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me,” she wrote.

This past Tuesay, Sathanandan it was in her own yard when…:

“Four very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight,” DFL Second Vice Chair Shivanthi Sathanandan wrote in a public Facebook post, which included a picture of her face after the alleged assault.

“Look at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the sh$t beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, ‘let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away.’ This is the face of a mother who just listened to her four-year-old daughter screaming non-stop, her seven-year-old son wailing for someone to come help because bad guys are murdering his Mama in the backyard, her neighbors screaming in outrage … all while being beaten with guns and kicks and fists,” she said.

It’s not Sathanandan’s job to add that if any of those neighbors had responded with the kind of force that could have ended the assault, Mary Moriarty would likely have prosecuted them far more harshly than the carjackers themselves.

But unlike some previous victms, who’ve blamed “the system” and themselves, Sathanandan reaches a rational conclusion:

“And I have rage. These men knew what they were doing. I have NO DOUBT they have done this before. Yet they are still on OUR STREETS. Killing mothers. Giving babies psychological trauma that a lifetime of therapy cannot erase. With no hesitation and no remorse,” she said.

“We need to get illegal [!!! – Ed.] guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM,” she said. “Look at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.”

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It’s natural – and in some cases appropriate, and in Sathanandan’s case documentably true. The DFL does in fact own the situation. And I do pile schadenfreud on the

But I’m going to urge people to take the opportunity to see the opportunity, here. Sathanandan may never become a law-and order conservative – but Minneapolis got where it is incrementally, and any improvement will be at least as incremental.

And if you’re so inclined, pray for those kids. The fruits of the politics of the parents shouldn’t be visited on the kids.

Much less their neighbors.

UPDATE. There is speculation that this is staged. Some are make a plausible case. The blood doesn’t look like any head laceration usually looks (and believe me, I’ve had a few), and she takes a pretty composed-looking photo for someone with a broken leg.

OTOH: the hoax, if it is one, benefits conservatives, and even the Frey administration, against whom the Minneapolis DFL is mustering money and votes.

Not saying that’s not plausible – but why?

Insidious

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Article on how to respond to being “gaslit”…

…gaslights half the species (emphasis added by me):

The form of emotional abuse, where someone seeks to make a person doubt their own sanity, is something experienced by many – particularly women, who, according to a 2018 policing report, account for 95% of all gaslighting victims. 

The linked report, by the way, relies on British police reports from domestic abuse situations in relation to an expansion of domestic abuse law to cover “coercive control”, something that the researchers point out is fuzzy, vague and not the subject of any broad consensus, but was passed by a legislature wanting to expand the definition of “domestic abuse”.

Put another way – data gathered by mental health non-professionals about an ill-defined offense in an area of law that is heavily weighted against men to begin with, related to a psychological phenomenon that even mental health professionals don’t entirely agree on, is being used to tell men they are inclined to abuse women – not to mention giving women the oddly Victorian notion that they are just plain less capable of abuse, particularly psychological abuse, than men.

So – do I credit this to a writer with an agenda? Or to a sloppy, probably 20-something pseudoacademic writer who eagerly prattles what she’s told on command?

I say “why choose?”

Going Just Fine

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The deeply conservative sheriff of Jim Hogg County, Texas, has decided to remove its school resource officers from schools in that rural central Texas county.

Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton yesterday announced that the Jim Hogg County School District had put bizarre and unworkable restrictions on his deputies.

Oops. Did I say Sheriff Jimmy Bob Throckmorton of Jim Hogg County, Texas? I meant the comfortably left-of-center Sheriff Dawanna Witt, of Hennepin County.

Not sure how that slipped past SITD’s copy-editors.

Let Them Eat Paint

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Overdoses.

Public solicitation and delivery of prostitution.

Open drug dealing.

Gang activity. Robberies. Muggings. Assaults

No, I’m not talking about the House DFL Caucus offices. I’m talking about the big Metro Transit stations in Minneapolis.

And what’s the remedy?

According to Metro Transit and its big government stakeholders: murals.

Metro Transit is turning to murals in an effort to make its bus and light-rail stations more welcoming.

The latest installation is at the I-35W and Lake Street Transit Station in south Minneapolis, a busy hub that’s been plagued by graffiti and where two people were wounded in a shooting this spring. Police data also show there have been two robberies near the station this year.

Local artist Kada Goalen spent six weeks and 90 gallons of paint transforming gray and beige concrete walls and pillars into a vibrant spectacle featuring giant songbirds against a backdrop of color.

Let’s cut to the chase: what this is is not a serious attempt to make Transit less onerous at best, dangerous at worst.

It’s yet another transfer of money from taxpayers to the favored clients of the political class.

Pretty Vacant

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Mary Moriarty broke with a couple decades of Henco Prosecutor tradition and used the State’s sentence enhancement for using a gun in a crime:

Wait – wut?

A north Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 15 1/2 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegal possession of a firearm after engaging in a shootout in north Minneapolis.

Charges in the Dec. 20, 2021, case say police found Dominique Marquise McCaskel with a gunshot wound to his neck and shoulder on the 3600 block of Aldrich Avenue North after responding to a report of a shooting.

According to the charging document and dispatch audio at the time, police subsequently located surveillance video that showed McCaskel walking at the location as a suspect vehicle rounded the corner. McCaskel was seen on video running toward the suspect vehicle and an exchange of gunfire ensued. Casings were initially located by police, and a witness came forward and showed police where the gun was that had been in McCaskel’s possession at the time of the gunfire exchange and shooting. Police also found that McCaskel had several suspected fentanyl pills and cash on his person.

The Feds did it?

Yep. I was just yanking your collective chain. Moriarty has never used the state’s sentence enhancement for using a gun in a crime. Either did Freeman before her. I don’t know that Klobuchar ignored it when she was Henco prosecutor, so I won’t say one way or the other, but let’s be honest, probably not.

In Ramco? Choi has never used it – his office even specifically denied it was an appropriate charge in a case where it was clearly precisely appropriate. Either did Susan Gaertner before him. Either did Tom Foley before her.

Hennepin County is letting the Feds do the heavy lifting.

Huh. Wonder why?

Sikh Burn

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The moral of the story? I think there are two:

First: Sikhs people with a millennia of warrior tradition. I don’t know if “adept at smashing things“ is a genetic trait, but if it is, it runs in that particular ethnic bloodline.

Second: when people know they can’t count on law enforcement to enforce order, they will enforce it themselves. That enforcement will frequently be very ugly.

Third: I love a happy ending. This is a happy ending.

A Matter Of Trust

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Self-governing society depends on people trusting each other, and the institutions we create.

Put a pin in that thought.

A lot of people on social media, not to mention the victim’s family as quoted in this Fox9 tweet, were a little horrified by the denouement to this horrible case, which we covered here almost two years ago:

It never went to trial:

Alexis Saborit, 42, was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in court on May 11 in the death of 55-year-old America Thayer. However, Judge Caroline Lennon ruled on Saborit’s mental competency on Monday, citing in part psychologists determined “[Sarboit’s] mental illness prevented him from understanding his actions were morally wrong,” the order reads….

The order discusses Saborti’s history of mental illness, including his hospitalizations for “bizarre delusions” early as March 2013. He suffered a traumatic brain injury after being in a coma from a car crash in 2017 and began experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions. 

After the crash, he was hospitalized in May 2020 for believing there was a camera in his head after the crash and everyone could hear what he was thinking, according to court records. He was also diagnosed with various mental health disorders, including manic psychosis and delusional disorder, among others. 

The defense argues since no expert testimony or evidence challenged the psychologist’s opinions he was mentally ill at the time of the crime, he should not be held criminally liable. 

Now, on one level I get the horror and revulsion. It’s a grisly, horrific crime.

But determining whether someone is incompetent to stand trial – “insanity” – is, like self-defense, an “affirmative defense”; the defense affirms “Yes, my client did what he’s accused of, but he was so out of his mind that trying him for it would be pointless; he can’t participate in his own defense”. As steep a hill as getting “self-defense” is to climb, insanity may be even harder to get past a judge.

Or so one hopes.

So let’s un-pin that first bit from way above.

Whatever the merits of the case (I don’t know), or Judge Lennon’s reasoningi – after this last five years in the Twin Cities, how many of you looked at this decision and thought “I just don’t trust that our legal system got this right”?

Red Flag

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Why have we learned so little about yet another spree killing in yet another blue city?

Oh:

The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.

Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources.

Cops haven’t yet publicly disclosed the suspect’s identity.

On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of himself wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting.

Now, I’m not going to say that being trans/nonbinary predisposes anyone toward carnage. But there’s been a bit of a streak lately:

This is a pretty significant chunk of the spree killings [1] in the past year.

And the best the MSM can do to explain it is to compare the number of trans spree killers [1] with the raw number of mass shootings [2] – which is a little like saying “Elizabeth Taylor didn’t have a lot of husbands” by comparing her total marriage count to all of the marriages in the country.

[1] A mass shooting [2] where the only motivation is to kill people

[2] Any shooting involving 3+ victims – a botched robbery, a murder-suicide, a gangland driveby, even a self-defense shooting where someone takes out a group of attackers.

Frozen

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I’m never going to be the one to pile on someone who freezes up at the thought of charging toward mortal danger.

It happens to the best of people; trained cops and soldiers freeze solid when the immediate threat becomes real. Even soldiers who’ve been there, over and over, will freeze up – think of the Gunner Sergeant from Percy Sledges memoir The Old Breed, who fought through battle after battle against the Japanese, only to freeze up in his final battle.

Nobody can predict how they’d do.

Of course, there are still consequences. They may even be just consequences.

Of course, we know a couple things about spree killings: left unchecked, they rack up horrific death tolls. And the best way to end them is to respond with immediate lethal force .

Something that cops have been taught, now, for a few decades.

I’ll let God decide whether Scot Peterson – the cop who busied himself searching the buildings on the Parkland campus that didn’t have gunfire coming from inside during the Stoneman-Douglas High School massacre – is truly culpable for freezing up, not “under fire” but under the threat of it. He was 56, nearing retirement, probably not too unlike Danny Glover’s character in the (fictional) Lethal Weapon series, and just “too old for this s**t”.

Because due to double jeopardy, that’s the next judgment that matters. Because a jury acquitted him of culpability in those deaths last week:

“If they need to really know the truth of what occurred… I’ll be there for them,” he said.

Mr Peterson, 60, put his head in his hands and began sobbing as the verdicts were read out in court in Fort Lauderdale.

After the verdict, Mr Peterson told reporters that he would like to talk to the parents of the students who were killed.

I am not the one to judge.

But I’ll defer to someone who is (emphasis added by me):

But Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was one of the students murdered, said he continued to blame Mr Peterson for not trying to stop the shooting.

“His inaction contributed to the shock, the devastation of students and teachers at that school,” Mr Montalto told reporters. “We don’t understand how this jury looked at the evidence that was presented and found him not guilty.”

“All I can say to the members of the jury is: ‘I think your school should hire him to protect your children,‘” he said.

The person who should be at trial, Sheriff Scott Israel, who held his officers back from confronting the maniac who murdered 17, and spent the rest of his disgraceful career as a gun control activist to deflect away from his own uselessness, has not been charged with anything. I don’t suspect he can be.

It’s a shame.

Capitulation, Or Fighting For The Enemy?

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City of Minneapolis will be closing the Stone Arch Bridge – one of the city’s iconic attractions, and one of the very nicest overviews there is anywhere – for the entiire Independence Day weekend:

This should help solve downtown’s crime problem.

In much the same way that France’s surrender solved that whole “German invasion” problem in 1940.

Ghastly

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The descriptions of the accident over the weekend that killed five MInneapolis women were bad enough.

Seeing it is another matter entirely:

I know it’s a trick of the light and angle and video – but it looks like the victims car is completely erased. It takes a lot to upset me. This did it.

Not sure how any jury seeing this video doesn’t go into the room with a serious bias against the driver…

…assuming it ever goes to trial. How sick is it that we have to preface all accounts of tragedies and atrocities in Minneapolis with a reference to “Moriarty Justice”.

And we do – because the driver, Derrick Thompson, has apparently already skated from one heinous traffic crime – a fact we learn on the 22nd and final paragraph:

Thompson has a long history of driving-related offenses, including multiple convictions for driving with a revoked or suspended license, according to state court and Department of Public Safety records. His license was reinstated in March 2023 and remained active at the time of the crash.

Which was five paragraphs below the fact that he is the son of former DFL representative John Thompson:

Though police have not publicly named the driver, two sources identified him as 27-year-old Derrick John Thompson, of Brooklyn Park. Public records indicate that he is the son of former state Rep. John Thompson, DFL-St. Paul. John Thompson did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Just as the sins of the father aren’t visited on the sons, a son’s crime isn’t a father’s fault. The fact that Thompson the Younger apparently benefitted from revolving door justice.

But the dead are Somali, in Hennepin County. I doubt even Moriarty can ignore that.

Minneapolis Is Back Baybee!

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And if you say otherwise…

…you must be an uncool middle-aged white guy from Fridley!

I guess the upside is, jacking cars makes those kids too busy to commit the white collar crime that is this nation’s real problem.

A County Of Cowards

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In 1993, when Jeff Snyder published his classic monograph A Nation of Cowards, one of the key takeaways was that until the people had the will (to say nothing of the means) to resist the tyranny of street crime, they were getting what they deserved.

This was after a few decades of New Yorkers being told…:

  • Carry an extra wallet to give to the muggers.
  • But make sure the spare wallet doesn’t have too little money, or the mugger may get angry and kiill you anyway
  • Leave your car window open so the thieves don’t just smash them to get what they want.

Eventually, even New Yorkers had enough, and elected the law-and-order Giuliani as mayor, and supported his crackdown on petty crime.

These days, the Minneapolis Police Department is telling us this:

So the question now becomes – are 2020s Minneapolitan more bovinely acquiescent than 1970s New Yorkers?

A Simple Proposition

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To: Calvin McDonald, CEO, Lululemon
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: Business Stuff

Mr. McDonald,

Last week, a couple of employees at a Lululemon store were axed after they tried to react like a normal law-abiding human when someone robbed their store.

You defended this response:

Lululemon’s CEO stands by his decision to axe two employees who called the police while three masked men robbed a Georgia outpost, citing the company’s “zero-tolerance policy” for intervening with a robbery as reason for firing the workers.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging during a theft,” Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald told CNBC during Friday’s “Squawk on the Street.”

“Educators” are what Lululemon calls its workers…

Ferguson said that once a robbery occurs, workers are instructed to “scan a QR code. And that’s that. We’ve been told not to put it in any notes, because that might scare other people. We’re not supposed to call the police, not really supposed to talk about it.”

However, McDonald said that the policy is in place “because we put the safety of our team, of our guest, front and center. It’s only merchandise,” he told CNBC.

Question : Since it’s “only merchandise”, why even charge for it?

That is all.

De-Evolution

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120 years ago, when you went into a general or dry goods or grocery store, you went to the counter, got hold of a clerk, and gave or related a list of what you wanted. That clerk would then run around the shelves in back and bring the order up front, ring it up, and send you on you way.

The bottleneck is obvious. Shopping speed is limited by the number and speed of the clerks available.

So a little over 100 years ago, when the chain now known as “A&P” rolled out a model where the customer could walk through the aisles and “pick” the order themselves, and get it rung up by dedicated cashiers when they were good ‘n ready, removing the bottleneck? It revolutionized shopping. The old fasioned “Warehouse PIcker” model pretty much disappeard.

Until now.

A new Walgreens concept being tested in Chjcago brings back the “General Store” model, with a thin veneer of technology to cover that 19th century smell:

In what was once a typical Walgreens, there are now just two short aisles of so-called “essentials” where “customers may shop for themselves.” If you want anything else—a bottle of booze, a deodorant brand deemed “non-essential”—you’ll need to order it at a kiosk and pick it up at the counter.

After undergoing a few weeks of construction, the store reopened on Tuesday. The pharmacy is in the back and to the left, equipped with a fancy new kiosk system of its own. An employee will teach you how to use it.

To the right, gated by anti-shoplifting devices to protect the inventory, two rows of low-rise shelves offer a very limited selection of those so-called “essentials.” Unlike the tall shelves you’re used to seeing in your neighborhood Walgreens, this store’s shelves are no more than five feet tall, giving everyone a clear look at what everyone else is up to…After placing your order, a plastic-framed sign next to the computer instructs, you should “relax while we shop for you.” When your order is ready, head to the pickup/FedEx/Western Union counter to claim your goods.

It’s because of crime, of course.

Democrat governance – dragging us back to the middle ages, a century and an industry at a time.

Leave No Man Behind

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Last week, I did one of my periodic cites of Jeff Snyder’s epochal “A Nation of Cowards“.

It was partly in reference to the Penny case.

Daniel Penny was the good samaritan who put a sleeper (not choke) hold on a mentally-ill man who was actively threatening people in the NYC subway. He was assisted by a black man and a latino fellow – all good samaritans, all men doing the right thing, all examples of what masculinity is supposed to be in the face of danger.

But Penny is being charged by Manhattan DA Lavrentii Beria. Oops – I mean Alvin Bragg.

He’s got a legal defense fund:

Penny (amd the other men) were the opposite of the “cowards” Snyder assailed. Naturally Beria..er, Bragg can’t tolerate that.

This has the potential to wedge NYC the way the Bernard Goetz case did.

In a just world, anyway.

The Same Thing Over And Over Again

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“Juvenile Offender” alleged to have murdered a Saint Paul man while burgling the man’s wife’s car is already a frequent flyer:

FOX 9 has confirmed through multiple sources that the 17-year-old suspect in custody on suspicion of Michael Brasel’s murder is the same young man captured on a video that went viral last year inside a Saint Paul Harding High School bathroom…the teen, who we are not naming at this point, was charged and eventually pled guilty to aggravated robbery in that case. He was discharged from probation and supervision four months ago, in January.

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Former St. Paul Police chief Todd Axtell makes an appearance in the story, showing us again why he was literally the only public figure in either of the Twin Cities not to disgrace himself completely during the 2020 riots.

Remember – if the murder victim had instead shot the teen (while meeting all the other criteria for self-defense naturally), the Ramsey County Attorney’s office would have take a much greater interest in punishment.

That’s intentional.

And just watch – John Choi will not ask for the sentence enhancement for using a gun in a violent crime. Mark my words.

A Nation Of Cowards

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In the 1960s into the 1980s, New York City hit rock bottom – so far.

It was a time when leftism had ravaged the city – rent control had eliminated the supply of affordable housing, leaving block after block of vacant, burned out buildings in a city where finding an apartment was the stuff of upper-middle-class horror story.

And the crime?

It got to the point where New Yorkers were advised to carry a “decoy” wallet – with a little bit of money in it (because muggers would sometimes attack or kill people who didn’t have some money to give up. New York had well over 2,000 homicides a year – among the most dangerous cities in the country.

And here we are today: as criminals re-take the streets, the violent mentally ill are all over the subway, and our idiot elite is saying we have it coming.

Not actually the Green Line at 5AM in the Midway. Or…is it?

Go ahead – condemn the bystanders for grabbing cameras instead of hauling off on the crazy who’s abusing the woman on the bench. We’ve seen what happens when the wrong criminal, addict of crazy gets harmed. New York has a long history of holding good guys to a level of account that no bad guy will ever see.

Giuliani cleaned all that up. It’d doubtful there are enough sane voters left in Gotham to do that again, of course.

It’s not just New York, of course. This happened in Dinkytown Minneapolis on Friday night/Saturday morning:

Another episode – same night, some of the same “people”:

One of the victims contacted CrimeWatch:

A few people asked why “bystanders” didn’t help out. It’s simple – they travel in a pack, and pick out people walking alone:

Perhaps the good guys need a lot more bystanders to flood the zone?

By the way – this was the media’s coverage:

No word if the authorities are still looking for a man with an umbrella.

I bring it up because of the parallels with the 1970s.

It was 30 years ago that New Statesman published Jeffrey Snyder’s epochal monograph, “A Nation of Cowards”, which made the case that it was time for citizens to step up and defend the order that society depends on.

It was one of several prime movers in pushing “gun culture” out of the shadows and into the mainstream, of course – but more signally, it made the case that relying on the police to protect order was not only futile, but a little craven; what makes your life invaluable, but a cop’s worth only whatever we pay them to do the job?

Once, and always, worth a read.

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Meanwhile In Saint Anthony Park

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Saint Anthony Park is Saint Paul’s neighborhood for “old money” without all the ostentation of Summit Avenue or Crocus Hill.

Its leafy streets and gently-cared-for Victorians full of university profs and senior administrative types and other moderately successful architecture geeks is the kind of place that makes city life look good.

It’s also a neighborhood full of people who haven’t been robbed, burgled and gone over enough to get hypervigilant just yet.

Fearless prediction: if they find a perp, he’ll be out of jail on his own recognizance for several felonies, and was moving up-market by going to SAP.

Condolences to Mr. Brasel’s family.

Profile In Cowardice

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The Feds are on the case in Minneapolis, going after the gangland bosses who, we’re told, are driving the crime.

Getting mobsters off the street is a good start.

But this is also a very bad sign.

This is Minneapolis, Hennepin iCounty and the State’s job. Having the Feds do it just means that Jacob Frey won’t have to answer, personally, to the “Progressive” goon squad that bedevils him; that Mary Moriarty doesn’t have to explain to the “progressives” who own her why she’s rounding up gangsters; why Governor Klink doesn’t have to take flak from the “progressives” that have wires hooked to his giblets.

It’s cowardice, and political expediency.

What A Difference A Few Column-Feet Makes

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What must it be like to be Jackie Rahm Little (who also goes by Joel Arthur Tueting), the guy arrested for a wave of arson and vandalism at mosques, a police car and Ilhan Omar’s office?

To commit one of the very few types of crimes that the Minneapolis law and order apparatus bother to investigate and prosecute – crime against Muslims?

If he’d burned down a bar in South Saint Paul, or a barbershop in North Minneapolis? He’d be a free man.

No, even if he had somehow gotten himself arrested. Because Big Left looks out for the insane and depraved:

By the way – I hope Nancy Nord Bence will go public with any knowledge she has of this criminal’s activities.

Making That Problem Go Away

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I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. When government doesn’t – can’t or won’t – provide the law and order that is its one unambiguously legitimate job, people will provide it for themselves.

And outside of libertarian fantasies, that can be an extraordinarily ugly thing:

On Monday, Haitian police confirmed that a civilian-organized lynch mob captured a group of gang members before beating them and burning them alive amongst gasoline-soaked tires.

Haitian police spokesperson Gary Desrosiers explained that the gang members had been roving the streets of the capital in a vehicle, which was in the process of being searched when the mob took over.

As the Daily Mail reports, thirteen gang members in total were somehow separated from police just before being arrested, and dragged into the street. They were beaten and stoned, then covered with gasoline-soaked tires and set ablaze.

This sort of thing isn’t unknown in America; organized crime and street gangs often bring, if not “law”, at least order to an area.

I’m just not sure if the mewling white progressives in Powderhorn Park prattling on about defunding the police are ready for this.