Progressive crime policy fail
Michael Dotel OIS
Tik Tok Police Impersonator
Justice for Ella French
1. Progressive Crime Policy Failure
If you take progressive crime policy to its logical resting place you will end up with Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City. Cities where violent and property crime expand, police officers are demoralized, and communities are destroyed. But, recently, the obvious consequences of these inane “soft on crime” policies are disliked - even by those who wanted to take the risk to give them a try.
Reality always wins though.
Oregon had decriminalized small amounts of hard drugs in 2020.
Predictably, there were a shit ton of overdoses.
Last week the Oregon House passed bill 4002 - which will again make the possession of hard drugs a crime.
Bad public policy has consequences and costs real lives. In 2019 (per the CDC) Oregon had 84 overdoses due to “synthetic opioids”. By 2023 that number was 1100.
This is not that complicated: alcohol, caffeine, and marijuana may not be great - but we can still maintain a functioning society if they are present.
The same is not true for heroin, meth, and fentanyl. Public policy should follow that logic.
San Francisco voters just embraced conservative ballot measures.
In part because 806 people died from overdoses last year in SF.
Prop E. More police surveillance, more leeway for police in pursuits with the use of drones, less documentation on low level use of force investigations, and limited oversight of civilian police commission.
Prop F. Requires adults who receive cash assistance from the city to be screened for drugs. If positive - they have to enroll in treatment to keep benefits.
It’s almost as if Ben Shapiro wrote those ballot initiatives.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul deployed 750 National Guard members to the NYC subways and 250 State Police and transit officers to combat rising violent crime.
Broken Windows1 (implemented the last half of the 1990s under Giulani and Chief Bratton) focused police efforts on addressing the signs of social decay.
It worked.
New York City murders:
1990 - 2605 murders
2000 - 952 murders
2. Michael Dotel OIS
NYPD
12/23/23
There was a 911 call regarding a man armed with a knife - who was reported to be on drugs and acting violent.
Officers arrived on scene and as they knocked on the apartment door a woman with slash marks on her face (later identified as the offender’s girlfriend) ran out of the residence.
Officers entered the apartment and found Michael Dotel (30) holding his mother in a headlock - while holding a large carving knife.
Officers yelled commands at Mr. Dotel to drop the knife and he responded by yelling, “I have the knife… Shoot me!”
Victim began to lose consciousness.
An officer fired a single headshot. Mr. Dotel fell to the ground and died from his injuries. The victim was saved.
*I know what you are all thinking. They should have just called a social worker.
(body cam)
3. Tik Tok Police Impersonator
Santa Fe, NM
Aldin Hamby creates Tik Tok videos on the channel get the stick.
He is 29 and was helping out a friend who worked at a dry cleaners.
A New Mexico State Police Officer dropped off his uniform for cleaning and Mr. Hamby decided to put on the uniform, dance around, and made Tik Tok videos. These videos got his channel a lot of views and were obvious satire comedy videos2.
The State Police were notified and asked him to remove videos and it was reported that Mr. Hamby greed. However, he did not remove the videos and was subsequently charged with “Unauthorized use of a police uniform and badge” (a misdemeanor).
Mr. Hamby is not likely to be convicted. The issue is that one element is that the “wearer appears to be member of the New Mexico State Police” .
The videos were obvious satire. No one thought he was a real cop. Therefore, the chance of a conviction is low.
Mr. Hamby has filed a lawsuit against the State Police citing a violation of the first amendment.
This lawsuit is also not likely to be successful. Mr. Hamby’s speech is not being prosecuted - it is the unauthorized donning of the State Police uniform.
The loser in this case - the dry cleaners business.
Who wants a dry cleaner to wear their clothes (pretty sure this was in a Seinfeld episode).
The winner - Mr. Hamby.
Minimally funny Tik Toker who is getting outsized attention for his content.
(our short video on this case)
4. Justice for Ella French
Chicago, IL
August 2021
Officer Ella French and two other officers (Yanez and Blas) stopped Emote Morgan and his brother Eric Morgan for expired plates. Eric ran from the traffic stop. Emote fought with officers and shot Officers French and Yanez. Ella French died from her injures. Yanez suffered serious injuries and is paralyzed.
Eric pled guilty and is serving 7 years.
Emote went to trial and was found guilty of murder and other charges last week.
Emote’s mother, right after the verdict, claimed that it was a “cover up” and explained how she was “hurting” and “fighting for justice”.
Emote is not the victim.
Emote’s mother is not the victim.
They are the fucking problem.
Ella French is finally getting some justice.
A creation of Sociologist James Q. Wilson.
Though he is not very funny.
How the heck did either party, the runner or the suspect who shot the officers only get 7 years for that. If no death penalty is present, I understand some states don’t have this, they should have at least given him life without parole. Of course this is Chicago and the only thing lower on the list of things progressives have to hate more than cops is someone wearing a MAGA hat so they are lucky he was convicted and sentenced to anything. Want to know why law enforcement isn’t stepping up hard to combat the crime wave that has swept the country over the last decade or more, its easy, look at this story and it says it all. If that community, th politicians, the DA, hell even the admin for the agency gave a rats a** about those officers, they would have been in that court and raising cane with that judge to actually give that person a sentence that was commensurate with the crime. He didn’t steal a car or kick a dog, he killed a cop and paralyzed another. You have one family that will never see their loved one again and the other that is going to have to now take care of that loved one for the rest of his life. Thats only worth 7 years of the suspects life in return, either the suspects years are mighty worthy or the judge believes the lives of the officers weren’t worth much.
As for the article about New York putting national guard troopers into the subways, heard some dumb a** ideas and this stands out right at the top. Law enforcement has qualified immunity and other criminal and civil codes that protect them while they are doing their jobs, National Guard troops don’t have squat protecting them. It’s NYC, how long being down there before some guard members is attacked by a crack head and the guard caps him with 10 or 15 rounds, spraying him all over the subway walls. Of course the suspect will be black and it doesn’t matter what color the guard is, the bottom feeding lawyers and money grubbing race baiters will be all over this. The guard is in a loose loose situation unless he just lets the suspect kill him, he might get a medal posthumously and not destroy his family’s life, but if he lives and takes action, killing the suspect, the riots in the streets and destruction of part of the US will start all over again. Here is a clue for NYC and the governor of NY, it took about a decade for you to destroy a city and state, its gonna take probably twice that long or more to bring it back, if you can. Rudy Gulioni did it in the 90’s by doing simple police work, arresting the bad guys, and finally, putting them in jail. See thats the issue right now, the police can arrest all they want, but the crooks just walk out of the jail as fast as they are arrested. Get rid of the BS no bail system you have, whoever thought that was gonna be great obviously has zero common sense and the IQ of my shoe. National Guard to do “Police” duties to US Citizens is gonna end in disaster, guaranteed. Now the National Guard on the border, thats different, criminal illegal aliens don’t have constitutional rights to start with outside of the US and as such, the National Guard can act without fear of civil actions against them personally.