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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"16"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4876762431027184018"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-10T20:46:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-10T20:46:32.872-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EAt 6:11 PM, Ernest Lee Johnson, a monster who murdered three people, two of them poor single mothers, with a claw hammer was pronounced dead.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s290\/jones.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"174\" data-original-width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/jones.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EDespite the pro-crime lawfare that went all the way to the Supreme Court insisting that lethal injection would cause painful violent seizures, he died quietly.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThat was more so than could be said for his victims.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EOn a cold day in a Missouri winter, Mary Bratcher never came home to the trailer park where the single mother lived with her three children. She was working that night as a manager at a Casey’s General Store in Columbia helping out Mable Scruggs, another single mother, making ends meet by picking up a night shift. Neither of the two women would make it home again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E An hour before midnight, Ernest Lee Johnson came in after a binge in which he bought three rocks of crack cocaine, traded one of them for a gun, put on a mask and came to rob Casey’s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe plan had been to lock the employees in the back and have one of them open the safe. But then Johnson beat all three of the Casey's employees to death.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe stabbed Mary Bratcher repeatedly through her hand with a screwdriver, likely defensive wounds as she fought the monster for her life. Then he smashed her over the head with a claw hammer again and again. Johnson appeared to be aiming for her face, striking her mouth and nose, to disfigure her while killing her. He beat Mabel to death in the same vicious way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was 1994. Like every monster, Johnson never had any shortage of defenders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995, but the Missouri Supreme Court intervened claiming that the jury should have heard testimony that the crackhead was actually suffering from \"cocaine intoxication delirium\". The case went to a jury yet again which refrained from excusing the crackhead on the grounds that he had been high while murdering three people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then the liberal justices on the United States Supreme Court gave murderers on death row a gift with a decision falsely contending that executing murderers with intellectual limitations was cruel and unusual punishment. Any killer who could claim an IQ under 100 was home free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstantly every killer, no matter how cunning and clever, became retroactively retarded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson had plotted to rob the Casey's safe, he had carried out the crime, and then tried to conceal the evidence. He was evil and high, but not stupid. But the Missouri Supreme Court threw out the decision again and a third jury found the crackhead guilty all over again. But by then over a decade had passed since the original murders while the families waited for justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo decades later, Johnson was finally scheduled to die when the United States Supreme Court intervened, complaining that the monster who beat two women to death with a claw hammer might suffer “painful seizures” when he’s executed by lethal injection because he has a tumor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then he found exciting new legal stratagems to delay justice, including requesting death by laughing gas and firing squad.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice Sonia Sotomayor, Breyer, and Kagan wanted to hear his plea for a firing squad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In addition to being near instant, death by shooting may also be comparatively painless. And historically, the firing squad has yielded significantly fewer botched executions,” Sotomayor ranted in her dissent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EDid the court’s wise Latina develop a sudden fondness for firing squads? No more than the rest of the delaying tactics that kept the bludgeoner alive this long.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftist lawyers and judges wage lawfare against the law and the victims to protect killers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now that Johnson is out of tricks, the Democrats have come to his defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Cori Bush, a former organzier for the racist hate group, Black Lives Matter, co-signed a petition demanding a commutation of Johnson's sentence because it's just like \"slavery and lynching\". It’s understandable that Bush would take that position considering that Mary and Mabel were white women and their worthless lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Johnson’s first victim was the store’s third worker: Fred Jones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJones, an African-American man, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiamissourian.com\/news\/local\/victims-family-prepares-for-execution-of-their-mothers-killer-ernest-lee-johnson\/article_f4c9f4ec-7f3a-11e5-9f69-e754a006f459.html\"\u003Ehad been the\u003C\/a\u003E only caregiver for his mother and a disabled brother. When Johnson murdered him, he also took away the only helper left in their lives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohnson started out by shooting Fred Jones. But when the bullet didn't kill him, the crackhead beat the store employee to death with a hammer instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen he began the rest of his killing spree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFred Jones had been in the cooler, perhaps because as the only male in the store he was seen as more of a threat. And he may have resisted or tried to fight Johnson, leading the crackhead to decide to kill him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd everyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe killer had shot Jones in the head. Then he beat him with the claw on the hammer fracturing his skull.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut his black life, like the lives of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/black-lives-matter-killed-2000-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eover 5,800 black people \u003C\/a\u003Ewho were killed in 2020, don’t matter to Rep. Bush and to Black Lives Matter. Only the lives of crackhead killers do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-crime lawfare had already put the families of Johnson’s victims through hell. When the Supreme Court decided to illegitimately intervene in his previous execution, the family members had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/deathwatch.medium.com\/ernest-johnsons-execution-will-be-a-nothing-burger-d6f3a06c1cc7\"\u003Ealready been there\u003C\/a\u003E and waiting. Instead justice was denied to them for another six years.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERep. Cori Bush claims that executing the killer of a black man is racist, the NAACP is rallying on behalf of the killer, not the victim, and Pope Francis has appealed to the “sacredness of human life.” Except the lives of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones which are not sacred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This would be a crime against humanity,\" Rep. Bush falsely claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe crime against humanity was that Mary Bratcher never came home to her three children, that Mable Scruggs also never came home to her children, and Fred Jones never returned to his mother. But that is not the only crime here. The feverish efforts to prolong the pain of their family members in order to keep the monster who killed them alive is a crime against humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd a crime against justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery dirty trick, every fashionable legal trend, from mental disability to the supposed risk of side effects from death penalty drugs, had been enlisted in the crackhead killer’s defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"These death sentences are not about justice,” Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver whined in their pro-killer petition. \"They are about who has institutional power and who doesn’t.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey’re right.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhich House members have spoken out on behalf of Mary Bratcher, Mable Scruggs, and Fred Jones? Do Bush and Cleaver even know their names? Does Pope Francis? I doubt it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe institutional power that allowed the killer to escape justice for 27 years is on his side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is not about justice, it’s about who has institutional power. And it’s the killers who have all the power and their victims who have none. After Johnson got through beating three people, poor people, to death with hammers, lawyers and judges took up what he had left undone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver took a turn swinging the claw hammer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHollywood, the media, and politicians keep pushing the big lie that criminals are helpless victims of the system. And yet they provide the best evidence of the vast institutional power that even the lowest and vilest killer can summon against justice and the families of his victims.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4876762431027184018\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-power-is-on-side-of-killers-not.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4876762431027184018"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4876762431027184018"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/the-power-is-on-side-of-killers-not.html","title":"The Power is on the Side of the Killers, Not Their Victims"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DMHDS1wp_AI\/YWOJWZR9KsI\/AAAAAAAATgE\/3ZEK6yp8tOwnhudGavTiwYGXGkuFBwQpACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/jones.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2151237929217476000"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-04T17:35:12.700-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Black Lives Matter movement and the allied criminal justice reform movement which opened jails and decriminalized crimes led to a nearly 30% surge in murders in 2020.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 29.4% increase is historically unprecedented.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe worst one-year percentage jump in murders was a 12.7% increase in 1968 during a crime wave that led Democrats and Republicans to embrace tough on crime policies. 1968 was the year that LBJ signed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act into law. But the opposite happened in 2020 as Democrats and some libertarian Republicans colluded to dismantle the criminal justice system, open up the jails, and endorse Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pro-crimers have the blood of thousands on their hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FBI’s numbers are in and they show that Black Lives Matter and its corporate backers killed more black people in one year than anything short of an African civil war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,595 black people were murdered in 2019. But in 2020, 5,839 black people were murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's an additional 2,244 black people killed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E56% of the murder victims of 2020 were black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile people of all races were more likely to be murdered in the year of Black Lives Matter, black people were disproportionately likely to be killed as a result of police defunding and the George Floyd Effect, as well as the pressure on the justice system to open up prisons, free criminals, and stop arresting new criminals in the name of fighting for the big lie of racial justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3,060 white and Latino people were killed in 2019, which rose to 4,167 in 2020. The 36% increase is devastating, but the number of black people murdered in 2020 shot up 62%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people should be the headline in every single media outlet which currently treats the lack of black classical musicians or chefs as a major crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile statistics like 135 \"unarmed\" black people being shot by police in 5 years becomes a cause for massive riots, violent assaults on innocent people, and the defunding of the police, a 62% increase in the murders of black people won’t even get a mention from the same media which regales us with claims that car accidents are racist because of disproportionate impact.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 62% increase in the murders of black people is the biggest disproportionate impact statistic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the 2,244 black people had been shot by white people, Asian people, or Republicans, we could talk about it. Indeed, the odds are that we would never talk about anything else. Ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut unfortunately it’s the devastating result of black-on-black crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack perpetrators were responsible for 5,832 murders or approximately 50% of the murders despite making up only around 13% of the population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people and Latinos who make up 76% of the country accounted for 3,981 homicides or 34%. American Indians were responsible for 116 murders and Asians for only 65 murders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people both commit murders and are the victims of murders at disproportionate rates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no escaping these facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoddling criminals and defunding police hurts people of all races, but black people are the ones suffering the worst from the gang members and criminals in their communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe number of black murderers rose 38% from 4,208 to 5,832. That’s a sharp increase in black murderers, but it’s dwarfed by the 62% increase in black murders. The number of black crime victims is rising much faster than the number of black criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack people are becoming victims at higher rates than they are becoming criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is exactly why it was black communities who originally championed a crackdown on crime, why the NAACP had originally demanded the death penalty for drug dealers, and why black people are still far more likely to oppose police defunding and other pro-crime measures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in the one category of violent crime, rape, that decreased overall in 2020, that was true of every group except one where the number of black rape victims defied the trend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut black rape victims, like black lives, don’t matter to Black Lives Matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Israel, the hashtag Arab Lives Matter took off after the rise in arab-on-arab crime to demand that Israeli police stop the criminals. In the United States, Black Lives Matter is a demand that the police allow gang members to shoot up black neighborhoods with no interference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe additional 2,244 dead black people are a tribute to Black Lives Matter’s efforts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Robin DiAngelo cashes in preaching the cult of anti-racism, and suburban white liberals search their souls for systemic racism, what’s really destroying black people is in the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E5,839 black people were murdered in one year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomicide doesn't even make the CDC's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthequity\/lcod\/men\/2017\/nonhispanic-black\/index.htm\"\u003Etop 10 causes \u003C\/a\u003Eof death for men in America, but it's number four for black men. In 2017, it caused 5% of the deaths of black men, more than strokes, diabetes, or most diseases. The only things more likely to kill black men than black-on-black crime are heart disease, cancer, and accidents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong black men under the age of 20, homicide is the leading cause of death at 35.3%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Those were 2017 numbers, the 2020 numbers, if they’re released, will be much worse.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's also the leading cause of death for black men from 20-44 years old at 27.6%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly at the age of 65 does homicide drop out of the top 10 causes of death for black men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are no such numbers among any other group, including black women. They reflect a high rate of gang violence, drug dealing, and violent crime among a subset of black men. This crisis is not news. There has been ample research on the subject going back generations that the new wokeness decided to shut down, suppress, and penalize anyone who mentioned it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2020, the Left used George Floyd’s overdose death to initiate a massive cultural revolution, supposedly on behalf of black people, but in reality to spread terror and seize power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust as the proletariat paid the price for the leftist revolutions conducted on behalf of the working class, black men are paying the price for the latest revolution being waged on their behalf. The people paying the price may be ordinary, or they may be gang members themselves. The dismantling of the criminal justice system also led to an unprecedented expansion in crime that recruited a generation of black teens into drug dealing, robbery, and carjacking. The police now routinely arrest armed carjackers as young as twelve years old as part of the new crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven if a new anti-crime consensus is forged between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who shed the madness of criminal justice reform, the damage will be hard to fix.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECracking down on crime increased property values in black areas, led to a growth in black small businesses, and made it more possible for black teens to go to college, and earn higher incomes. Black Lives Matter calculatedly undermined many of those achievements. The teens whom teachers’ unions kept out of school, joined gangs, and began to deal and steal will find it much harder to build stable lives. The women they might have married and the families they might have built are more casualties. It is hard to build things, but all too easy to break them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 5,839 dead black people are just the most obvious sign of the social wreckage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile black people are the biggest victims of black crime, they are not alone. As these statistics show, we all pay a price. Some pay it directly in the forms of murders, muggings, and assaults. But we all pay for the social cost indirectly through our taxes, the price of goods and services, the cost of insurance, the broken social compact and lack of trust, and the diminished future of our cities and our country. The criminal justice reform movement, like all leftist propositions, was based on ignoring everything we had learned from the past about crime and how to fight it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Black Lives Matter movement terrorized cities and became the official dogma of Corporate America. Every major institution began accusing itself of systemic racism and purging itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile thousands of black men died in the streets of major cities. The CEOs and university presidents heard the death toll reported on the evening news and paid no attention because it was taking place in neighborhoods and housing projects that they would never set foot into.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the sum total of the carnage is in. 5,839 black people killed. 2021 is on track to see more elevated murder rates. The question is how many black people have to die until the big lie of systemic racism, the scam of anti-racism, and the criminal justice reform killing fields end.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2151237929217476000\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2151237929217476000"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/black-lives-matter-led-to-62-increase.html","title":"Black Lives Matter Led to a 62% Increase in Black Murders"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vE4h92iEOk8\/YVtzXugPe_I\/AAAAAAAATfU\/Wor1VCe6EhQbDXkbzZ4I3mWBUojUsMd0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/6310924_071020-wls-white-house-chicago-kids-530aVO-vid.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3604841734525238085"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-12T19:10:00.007-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-12T19:10:58.290-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California Legalized Theft. Porch Piracy Soared."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California legalized theft with Proposition 47. Since then pharmacies and small businesses have been forced to shut down by a wave of shoplifters with nothing to fear from the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not just stores that are reeling from the crime wave unleashed by criminal justice reform.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OWTOyrMZCKc\/YOzL8342a-I\/AAAAAAAATWY\/lMWDmi-gG-01qIJfOKLFN_Sl6aZayeqUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s552\/pirate%2Bframe3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"384\" data-original-width=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OWTOyrMZCKc\/YOzL8342a-I\/AAAAAAAATWY\/lMWDmi-gG-01qIJfOKLFN_Sl6aZayeqUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/pirate%2Bframe3.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EProposition 47 was passed in 2014. LAPD crime data\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/xtown.la\/2018\/09\/09\/the-precipitous-rise-of-porch-pirates-in-la\/\"\u003Eshows\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that package thefts shot up from 500 to 700 between 2014 to 2015. By 2016, they rose to 1,000, and 1,200 in 2017.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Sawtelle, home to Little Tokyo and a historic Japanese neighborhood, package theft went from practically zero to a record high in only a few years after Democrats legalized stealing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegalizing theft didn’t just hit stores, but led to an epidemic of ‘porch piracy’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Los Angeles, brazen criminals took to\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2020\/04\/16\/porch-pirate-follows-delivery-truck-through-la-neighborhood-swipes-packages\/\"\u003E driving behind delivery trucks\u003C\/a\u003E and stealing the packages as soon as they were delivered. Others dressed up in Amazon uniforms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut nowhere was the problem as bad as in the pro-crime metropolis of San Francisco.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPorch piracy has been growing across America alongside the Black Lives Matter riots and the election of Democrat mayors, council members, and prosecutors who support criminals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2018, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/porch-piracy-is-growing\"\u003Eless than a third\u003C\/a\u003E of people responding to a survey said that they had been ripped off, but by 2020, the number had shot up all the way to 43%. One survey estimated that porch pirates had been responsible for over \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.abc12.com\/2020\/11\/13\/porch-pirates-stole-more-than-5-billion-last-year-survey-says\/\"\u003E$5 billion\u003C\/a\u003E in thefts in cities across the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut San Francisco has topped the nation in package thefts for two years straight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s no coincidence that California, which has led the way in legalizing crime, accounts for three of the top ten cities for porch pirates and that the state \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2019\/03\/25\/how-bad-are-porch-pirates-in-california-you-might-want-to-rethink-those-online-purchases\/\"\u003Eranks third\u003C\/a\u003E in the nation. But San Francisco has been unique in its tolerance for crime and contempt for crime victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPharmacies have been shutting down across San Francisco due to the shoplifting epidemic, and as the nation’s Big Tech capital turned to online retail, the thieves turned to porch piracy. Big Tech companies have urged homeowners to adopt high tech solutions like doorbell cameras, but recording the thieves is next to useless when nothing happens to them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne article \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/11\/stealing-amazon-packages-age-nextdoor\/598156\/\"\u003Echronicled \u003C\/a\u003Ea multi-year effort by a socialist union leader, a Google employee, and a lesbian BLM supporter to stop a heroin addict who was repeatedly caught stealing packages. The junkie blamed racism, and refused to show up in court. Police officers came, wrote her tickets, and she went right on stealing. Judges issued bench warrants, and then released her, telling her to report to drug rehab, and she went right back to stealing. While one of her victims was in court waiting for the case to be heard, the thief was stealing packages from his porch.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe was hit with a stay-away order, forced to wear an ankle monitor, and none of it helped.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen a trial finally happened, she was convicted and sent to a drug rehab program. She failed drug tests, refused to show up for hearings, went on stealing packages, and was sentenced to more drug rehab.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s what happens when people spend a lot of time and effort to try and get justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Francisco is both the epicenter of the tech industry and the pro-crime movement. Big Tech donors have fueled the rise of pro-crime prosecutors like George Gascon and Chesa Boudin, even as they have cashed in by selling doorbell cameras and package security systems. But surveillance technologies are useless when there’s no law enforcement to back them up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA packaging supply company conducted a survey and found that the \"four states with the lowest search rates of package theft (Alabama, South Carolina and Arkansas came 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively) were all southern states.” The company concluded that “the south is safer from porch piracy than the north.” But California isn’t the north. The issue isn’t geography, it’s the law.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA bill to criminalize porch piracy was\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/increased-porch-pirate-penalty-bill-voted-down-by-senate-democrats\/\"\u003E killed\u003C\/a\u003E last year. It’s been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/section-2\/increased-porch-pirate-penalty-bill-introduced-for-the-second-time-in-the-senate\/\"\u003Ereintroduced again\u003C\/a\u003E this year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It doesn’t matter how many times somebody steals a package, it’s still only a misdemeanor. And in California right now, a misdemeanor is usually a citation. People aren’t showing up for their court dates or not paying the misdemeanors, and they just keep on stealing from people’s porches,\" Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) noted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy shouldn’t porch pirates steal packages when all they come away with is a citation?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs long as the porch pirates steal less than $950 worth of packages, it’s classified as petty theft. The same decriminalization of theft that led to an epidemic of shoplifting, forcing stores and pharmacies to close, has also led to a boom in porch piracy. When brick-and-mortar stores close, that leaves people more dependent on online deliveries and vulnerable to porch pirates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an economy dominated by Big Tech, porch piracy, like everything else, has become a weapon in a rivalry between unfathomably huge companies. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his radical leftist wife, Patty Quillin, have been some of the biggest pro-crime donors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Netflix CEO was the sixth biggest donor for Proposition 47. The Big Tech boss vastly outspent pro-victim donors opposed to legalizing theft. While legalizing theft had little impact on Netflix, whose big product is an online subscription service, it’s hurting Amazon, one of its biggest video streaming competitors. Ordinary Californians are just Netflix’s collateral damage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomeowners are turning to locked delivery boxes and rigged packages. A cottage industry of companies provides doorstep security solutions and YouTube is full of guides to rigging up every type of package trap from glitter bombs to fouler concoctions to surprise porch pirates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut no matter what homeowners do, the rates of porch piracy keep rising because glitter bombs will never be as effective a deterrent as a working criminal justice system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProposition 47 hasn’t just hurt stores. The thieves empowered by criminal justice reform have stolen birthday presents, prom dresses, and priceless heirlooms. They’ve destroyed special days and stolen moments that can never be replaced. And above all else they’ve robbed millions of ordinary people of their sense of security in their own homes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s experiment in legalizing theft has been successful in stealing public safety.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3604841734525238085\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/california-legalized-theft-porch-piracy.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3604841734525238085"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3604841734525238085"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/california-legalized-theft-porch-piracy.html","title":"California Legalized Theft. Porch Piracy Soared."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-OWTOyrMZCKc\/YOzL8342a-I\/AAAAAAAATWY\/lMWDmi-gG-01qIJfOKLFN_Sl6aZayeqUQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/pirate%2Bframe3.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3778564347651845217"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-07T03:18:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-07T03:18:33.124-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the \"most elaborate illegal marijuana\" setup in Mendota with\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/50000-marijuana-plants-found-at-illegal-grow-near-mendota\/10673498\/\"\u003E 50,000 pot plants\u003C\/a\u003E that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/08\/massive-illegal-pot-farms-discovered-in-california-wilderness\"\u003E$169 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the eastern Sierras, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/content\/news\/Siskiyou-County-has-almost-tripled-illegal-cannabis-plant-seizures-in-2020-572329961.html\"\u003E$285 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, California seized almost 1 million pot plants. One busted operation not far from San Francisco was processing\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/27\/us\/marijuana-california-legalization.html\"\u003E 500 pounds\u003C\/a\u003E of marijuana a day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s762\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"492\" data-original-width=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EGovernor Newsom had kicked things off with an address announcing that he was pulling the California National Guard from fighting what he described as President Trump’s “manufactured crisis” on the border to “refocus on the real threats facing our state”, like “illegal cannabis farms”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year, 7 Laotians were brutally murdered at an illegal marijuana operation in Riverside by Mexican cartel members over Labor Day. With helicopters piloted by the Air National Guard and black SUVs full of DEA agents showing up in small towns, it’s like the drug war never ended.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow the drug war in California is worse than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-pot advocates promised that legalizing drugs would bring in the money. And it did. Billions of dollars have been spent on “legal drugs”, but far more is being spent on illegal drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was fought by Republicans who believed that drugs were bad, but the new drug war is being fought by Democrats who love pot, but love drug money even more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe issue isn’t morality: it’s money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn ounce of pot is estimated to cost as much as $100 more bought legally than on the street. The profit margins are great and decriminalization expanded the illegal market even more than the legal one. Buyers no longer fear being busted, sellers have little to worry about, and even the growers who take much of the risk don’t have to worry about the stigma. Illegal growing has become an environmental and financial violation. The only real thing to fear are the cartels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican cartels now control much of the wilderness that California’s militant environmentalists had insisted on protecting from development. But while developers might fear the Sierra Club and its government allies, the cartels and the immigrant growers under their control don’t. What they’re afraid of is having their throats cut in the middle of the night. And as massive marijuana growing operations take off in wilderness areas, it turns out that the environmentalists were saving all that land so that drug lords from south of the border could grow millions in pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile California’s legal agriculture industries are dying: its illegal pot industries are prospering. If you want to grow avocados, good luck getting the water. Instead, Californians are buying Mexican avocados, from which the cartels take their cut, while the water goes to illegal operations that aren’t worried about permits or environmentalist pressure groups in Sacramento.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's rice production will fall by 20% and its avocado production fell by nearly half in 2019 from 338 million pounds to 175 million pounds, while its illegal pot production vastly increased.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug warriors wore suits and ties. The new drug warriors are the “entrepreneurs” who spent fortunes lobbying politicians in the hopes of cornering the market only to be stuck with a small slice of it aimed at upscale buyers willing to pay premium prices at boutique pot shops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmentalists who once got high to commune with nature are among the most vocal special interests urging an aggressive war against this new form of agriculture which can’t be regulated. Behind them are identity politics groups and unions which want their cut of the cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA glance at the members of the Cannabis Advisory Committee shows some of the special interests involved from the pot workers branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to the head of the California NAACP to environmentalists. Legal drugs means money for unions and community groups, which really means money for Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican drug cartels don’t pay consulting fees or offer donations to environmentalists, they don’t provide a cut to the black caucus, or hire unionized workers. It’s not the beheadings or rapes that bother California Democrats who shrug at such things from their gated communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the illegal drug business is cutting into the profits from their legal progressive drug cartel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Governor Newsom claimed that massive invasions of the country by illegal aliens are a “manufactured crisis”, but illegal pot farms that don’t pay his party are a serious threat. Illegal aliens build the power and wealth of the Democrats, but illegal pot farms steal from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKarl Marx observed that history repeats itself as farce. California’s Marxists are doing everything possible to live up to their leader’s teachings. After spending two generations fighting against the old drug war in the name of civil rights, they’re fighting a new drug war for civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights being anything that increases the power and wealth of California Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why California’s Democrat majority passed a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/california-spend-100-million-helping-pot-growers-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$100 million bailout\u003C\/a\u003E for the “legal” pot industry. The widely reported bailout is really for the Democrats because it pays cities to hire experts to work with the industry on environmental compliance. What’s really going on is that the Democrat machine is paying its own environmental consultant class nine figures to navigate the roadblocks that same consultant class created in order to profit from the pot business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s part of why an ounce of pot is $100 cheaper from the street than from a store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial justice is just a bunch of Marxist rhetoric behind which the same political mafia is moving money into its own pockets while laundering them through whatever ‘ism’ it’s fighting this week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether it’s the environment or systemic racism, it’s another way for Democrats to get paid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was justified as a battle against a serious social ill, while the new drug war is just corrupt rent-seeking. The new drug warriors ridiculed the idea that locking up people for the harm caused by drugs was morally justified, but insist that locking up people because they haven’t paid the Sacramento mafia its share of the vigorish is completely morally justified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats legalized drugs, further wrecking working class families, trashing what’s left of local agriculture and water supplies while feeding organized crime, to score $1.8 billion in tax revenues. But the illegal market is estimated at $8.7 billion. The new drug war is about the Democrats getting their hands on those extra billions by going back to the old drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did California Democrats legalize drugs? It wasn’t to end the war on drugs, nor to make marijuana accessible to users with medical problems, or any of the other lies and excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was to make billions of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s new drug war pits socialists against drug lords over control of the drug market. It’s a familiar dynamic in South America that, like so much else, has crossed over the border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats cloak their new social justice drug war in racial justice, offering “reparations” from their drug money to black people, in environmentalism, decrying the impact of illegal grows, in unionization, and in the whole colorful spectrum of leftist virtue signaling. But virtue signaling is no match for the ruthless determination of the cartels and their state sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the battle between the legal drug cartels of the Democrats and the illegal drug cartels of South America, the illegals are winning as they have won everything else in California.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3778564347651845217\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html","title":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4139209464903752851"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-09T15:45:56.237-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pro-Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Carjacking is booming like no form of crime in Biden’s America. Homicides are up, especially in those cities that defunded their police, pharmacies are going out of business in San Francisco and other cities where shoplifting was legalized, but stealing cars is where it’s really at now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s719\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"464\" data-original-width=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ECarjackings more than doubled in Chicago, and increased 537% in Minneapolis, the capital of police defunding, and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/crime\/dc-kids-arrested-for-carjackings-as-vehicle-crimes-surge\/65-76d89fca-b770-4c58-a5bc-a33d6a8d4791\"\u003E around\u003C\/a\u003E 500% in Washington D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Atlanta, mayoral candidate Antonio Brown, who had advocated defunding the police, was leaving a ribbon-cutting ceremony when he was carjacked and dragged for a block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“These kids were in my opinion somewhere between 7- and 11-years-old,\" Councilman Brown said, after calling the police.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey probably weren’t 7, but 11 is all too plausible because the carjackers are getting younger.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nation was briefly shocked when four children, including an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old, were busted for armed robberies and carjackings in California. A 12-year-old was arrested for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/boy-12-arrested-series-armed-carjackings-hour-police\/story?id=76305918\"\u003Efour armed carjackings\u003C\/a\u003E in an hour in Washington D.C. In Pittsburgh, a carjacking crash ended in the deaths of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/14\/riverside-ohio-deadly-carjacking\/\"\u003Ethree teen carjackers\u003C\/a\u003E: the youngest of whom was a 14-year-old.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn one of the worst teen carjackings, two teenage girls, a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old, carjacked and killed a Pakistani Uber driver.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(One reason Ubers have become harder to find is that drivers are afraid of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/05\/04\/we-want-to-go-out-chicago-rideshare-drivers-are-in-demand-as-customers-pay-more-for-dwindling-supply\/\"\u003Ebeing carjacked.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Philly, a Lyft driver avoided a similar fate by pulling out his gun and shooting a 14-year-old carjacker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media, which assured the country that defunding the police, freeing all the criminals, and ending bail would reform public safety, claims to be baffled by the rise in carjackings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome are blaming the increase in teen carjackings on the teachers’ union shutdown of schools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s certainly a factor, but the teens turning to carjacking would otherwise be moving drugs. The pandemic lockdowns however made stealing cars more profitable than running drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lockdown’s destruction of the economy has made new homes unaffordable, and also increased the price of cars. Fewer people and businesses could afford to make big new purchases during the shutdown, and instead held on to their existing cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe price of new cars is sharply up, but used car prices have shot up by as much as a quarter and inventory is low. That’s where the carjackers come in. Supply is meeting demand.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just the consumer market. There are severe rental car shortages and Uber shortages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven after the economic devastation of the Democrat lockdowns, Biden’s signature program is pushing subsidized electric cars. Car manufacturers are waiting to see what sort of mandates and rewards they’ll be dealing with under Biden’s infrastructure program. And with the supply of chips low and prices rising, they’re in no hurry to roll out cars they may not be allowed to sell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Obama’s disastrous Cash for Clunkers environmentalist program, used car prices shot up 10% and used SUVs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/ct\/business\/biz_beat\/biz-beat-used-car-prices-soar-some-blame-cash-for-clunkers\/article_f6a6a472-bb7c-11df-b4e9-001cc4c03286.html\"\u003Erose 30%\u003C\/a\u003E. Inventory dropped and people were no longer able to afford used cars. Biden is helping bring back Obama’s economic woes in a bigger way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the luxury housing and car markets are thriving, the lower end has locked millions of Americans out of buying a home or a car. Car manufacturers are happy to push luxury electric SUVs to buyers who can afford to pay whatever the asking price may be. Working class and middle class car buyers and businesses that depend on fleets of vehicles are out of luck.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUrban organized crime is meeting the demand for used cars with underage carjackers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrat municipalities dismantled law enforcement, destroyed police morale, and shut down much of the justice system in response to the Black Lives Matter riots over the overdose death of George Floyd. The arrest and prosecution of teens, already unpopular, went by the wayside.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same drug rings exploiting children to run drugs began using them to steal cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOrganized gangs employed young recruits to shoplift from stores when it became clear that even the most brazen daylight robberies would not be prosecuted in major urban areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially if the perpetrators were teens. And the younger the teens, the better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGangs that had used children to run drugs because they were unlikely to face serious charges moved them into robbery and then, as cars became a hot commodity, into carjacking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe criminal justice reform movement has fought against prosecuting teenagers, even those who commit murder, as adults. And, indeed, the two teen girls who killed an Uber driver in D.C. reportedly reached a plea deal. Teen carjackers know that even if they kill their victim, the worst thing that will happen is they’ll be in the custody of the state until they become legal adults.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeen carjackers assault drivers while fearlessly brandishing guns like it’s hunting season because they know the police won’t shoot them and district attorneys won’t lock them up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile criminal justice reformers claimed that trying teens as adults ‘criminalized’ children, it dissuaded teens and, more importantly, the organized gangs using them as pawns. The decriminalization of teenage crimes led to a boom in teens being recruited by organized crime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more Democrats refuse to prosecute teens, the more teens become criminals. And their crimes escalate until they destroy someone else’s lives or just their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese kinds of unintended consequences are typical of criminal justice reform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe carjacking boom is the outgrowth of the two worst Democrat policies from 2020. The lockdowns wrecked the economy and created a booming black market for criminals. The BLM movement and its race riots helped spur a decriminalization that led to a massive crime wave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Biden’s electric car push implodes, the auto market may begin to stabilize and recover. But the carjackings will just give way to other lucrative criminal enterprises. Decriminalizing drugs and prostitution won’t decrease crime or make society safer. The most basic level of crime is still theft. Legalizing immoral social ills will just shift criminal resources over to various forms of theft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats have become socialists and their obsession with controlling markets is leading to artificial shortages that criminals are happy to meet by redistributing some wealth. Like cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialism, whether in the USA or the USSR, feeds a black market as consumers try to get hold of whatever is no longer available in the controlled legal marketplace. And since those socialists criminalized legal sales of many products, while decriminalizing crime, the criminals are filling niches by stealing from those who have a product in order to sell it to someone who doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen capitalism becomes a crime, then criminals become capitalists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nightmare of 11-year-olds stealing cars at gunpoint in Washington D.C., Chicago, Philly, and other major cities, was born from the pandemic lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything that Biden and the Democrats are doing will only make the new crime wave worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Biden’s America, carjacking is how used car sales work. And 11-year-olds hijacking cars at gunpoint are the new used car procurers of a broken economy that prints worthless money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are happy to write everyone a check. But pieces of paper with Biden’s signature on them are only worth what they can buy. Biden’s checks can’t buy you a car or a home. But they’ll buy a car stolen by an 11-year-old boy being run by Biden’s base of urban criminals. If he gets caught, he’ll be out the next day. And you’ll still be out of a car. You may not be able to find a new or used car you can afford to replace it with on the lot, but the carjackers will find one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the Biden economy.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4139209464903752851\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4139209464903752851"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-democrats-created-carjacking.html","title":"How Democrats Created a Carjacking Outbreak"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JlsmNxh-0q0\/YMEaZTEl9OI\/AAAAAAAATTE\/IXT0MReuX38WhqNbvH2bB8qpBQYShu2EgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-09_124541.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}}]}});