By Cyrus Farivar NBC News “It would be difficult to introduce a single thing and it causes crime to go down,” one expert said. When the Westland Real Estate Group bought Liberty Village, a sprawling 1,000-unit apartment complex on the northeastern edge of Las Vegas nearly two years […]
By Mel Leonor, Richmond Times-Dispatch Kisare Bundy had been on probation for most of his adult life when, at 22, a marijuana possession charge sent him to prison for just under a decade. An ounce and a half in his car toppled his probation status, altering the course […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 23 percent of voters say crime in their area has gotten worse in the past year as President Biden rolls out a plan to address the rise in violence. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss. This survey was […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Democrats are grappling with an issue they thought they had largely put to bed in the 1990s: crime. President Joe Biden turned his attention to the wave of gun violence in major cities on Wednesday. The Democratic primary for New York City mayor […]
Team Rising reacts to the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd.
Krystal and Saagar talk about newly released information that could shake up the Julian Assange case, which nobody in mainstream media would dare to cover.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 and a half years for the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of second-degree unintentional murder, second degree manslaughter and third-degree murder in the 2020 death of George Floyd.
So I guess the lesson is don’t commit a crime while someone is video recording what you are doing. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will be sentenced for the murder of George Floyd on June 25. A Minneapolis jury convicted Chauvin of murder and manslaughter in April, […]
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd
Before a judge sentenced him to 22 and 1/2 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin made a brief statement in court. CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman called his comments “bizarre.”
At Derek Chauvin’s trial, his lawyer gave a statement asking the judge to consider all the circumstances before making a decision.
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, discusses the challenges of independent media.
@Kim Iversen, host of The Kim Iversen Show, discusses recent SCOTUS decisions.
It’s funny that now that there is a market for economic populism, a capitalist corporation like The Hill is trying to capitalize on it.
Krystal and Saagar look at a court decision that declared Rachel Maddow to be an unreliable news source.
Krystal and Saagar go over the latest Supreme Court rulings against workers and for free speech.
This guy is a douchebag who built his career as an arch-drug warrior and arch-police statist in the 80s and 90s, so fuck him. But it is interesting how the new popular front/ruling class unity regime continues to purge and/or co-opt the opposition. So far, they are using […]
A woman from Indiana has become the first person sentenced in connection with the Trump-incited Capitol Hill insurrection on January 6. MSNBC’s Brian Williams has details.
From a black conservative law professor’s perspective. BY ELLA KIETLINSKA AND JOSHUA PHILIPP Epoch Times Critical Race Theory training, which pressures people not to say certain things, take a certain stance, or forces them into some segregated settings, may infringe on people’s constitutional rights and even violate civil rights laws, said […]
Right on schedule. Attacking 2nd Amendment rights and strengthening federal law enforcement at the same time. By Brittany Shepherd National Politics Reporter WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday announced his administration’s plan to combat rising rates of violent crime that plague major cities across the United States by […]
Krystal delivers updates about a major Supreme Court ruling for wall street that nobody is talking about.
This is one of the best discussions of criminal justice in the USA I’ve seen in a while. By Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner Prison Policy Initiative Can it really be true that most people in jail are being held before trial? And how much of mass incarceration […]
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Colin Rogero and Emily Jashinsky give an update on Harvey Weinstein and discuss an upcoming documentary on Ghislaine Maxwell.
By Billy Binion, Reason The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids railed against cops for enforcing the same kind of anti-vaping rule they help pass. “We are horrified and outraged by the incident of police violence in Ocean City, MD, this weekend,” reads a statement from an advocacy group, drafted […]
Team Rising react to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s claims that he will block President Biden from filling a SCOTUS vacancy in 2024.
By David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Amateur internet sleuths have turned the Washington, D.C., insurrection on Jan. 6 into the ultimate online manhunt. As he watched footage of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, Chris Sigurdson, an out-of-work actor in Canada, found himself drawn to a disturbing image: […]
By Nate Raymond, Reuters BOSTON, June 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has urged the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, despite President Joe Biden’s stated opposition to capital punishment. The department in a 48-page […]
This doesn’t really sound like defunding the police. By Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters June 15 (Reuters) – Five months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Biden administration on Tuesday will unveil steps for federal and local officials and social media companies to battle national security threats posed […]
Glenn Greenwald wrote a white paper in 2009 about decriminalization of all drugs in Portugal. They stopped a heroin epidemic.
BY MAJOR NEILL FRANKLIN (RET.) t this point, most people who have studied this issue (including Mr. Sabet) agree that the prohibition of marijuana has been a catastrophe. Police make hundreds of thousands of marijuana arrests each year—663,000 in 2018 alone—wasting time that could be spent solving and preventing […]
Environmental attorney, Steven Donziger, explains why he thinks most mainstream media outlets refuse to cover his story.
Private prisons are only about 7% of the US prison industry. Most prisons are government-run prisons. The problem I have with most leftist critiques of the US prison system is that they tend to predictably blame everything on capitalist profiteering and/or racism. While those are obviously part of […]
By Emily Shapiro, ABC News A 14-year-old girl is seriously hurt after she and a 12-year-old boy allegedly armed themselves with stolen guns and opened fire on Florida deputies, officials said. The children, who reportedly ran away from a group home hours earlier, allegedly broke into an empty […]
By Sara Gentzler, KIRO-7 OLYMPIA — About a month has passed since the Washington state Supreme Court ruled the state’s simple drug possession law unconstitutional in its State v. Blake decision. Justices found the law was unconstitutional because it didn’t require prosecutors to prove an accused person knowingly or intentionally had drugs. […]
Well, Saddam Hussein implemented a general amnesty program for prisoners in October of 2002 in order to rally public support for his regime. If it’s good enough for Saddam… Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for closing jails and treating mental health issues to reduce violent crime.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky weigh in on reporting that the guards who were asleep when Jeffrey Epstein hung himself planned to “slam” federal prison system at trial.
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law. In 1960, the U.S. violent crime rate started rising, and for three decades this was one of the most vexing and […]
Remember that Silvio Berlusconi went to jail after his term as Italy’s Prime Minister. Purging the opposition. Team Rising reacts to reports of a grand jury convening to examine evidence in a criminal investigation into Trump’s business dealings.
Saagar Enjeti explains how Bill Gates planned to leverage his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The USA: a country where doing a fraction of what a reasonable person would consider baseline standards gets called “sweeping reform.”
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
This contains a pretty good overview of what would happen if Roe v. Wade were actually repealed. The majority of the states would still be “pro-choice.” By Jacob Sullum, Reason “They’re taking away fundamental rights,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) declared during a pro-choice rally outside the […]
Saagar Enjeti and Colin Rogero react to New York AG’s office criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
Excellent. This will have the effect of alienating MAGAs from the system to an even greater degree than they already are.
The human rights attorney who sued Chevron over environmental pollution, Steven Donziger, discusses the details of his own contempt trial.
By Liz George, American Military News The Supreme Court ruled Monday that warrantless gun confiscation from Americans’ homes is unconstitutional, voting unanimously on the side of a Rhode Island man whose firearms were taken by law enforcement without a warrant after his wife expressed concerns that he might […]
Gabriel Shipton, Kevin Gosztola & Glory Jones join The Vanguard for a live panel concerning Julian Assange and the status of the #FreeAssange movement.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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