Category: Crime

  • Gun groups on campus

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    Human Events has a rather good article about the popularity of gun rights and shooting groups on campus: According to Ed King, an LI (Leadership Institute) campus services coordinator, there has been a steady increase over the past two years. LI currently works with 136 gun groups. Of those, 84 were created in the past calendar…

  • Background check stats

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    Not quite sure what to make of this, but the Medical College of Wisconsin released a study that gun suicide and homicide rates were about 25% lower in states that did local background checks as opposed to state or federal checks. It does strike me from the map that a) there are not that many…

  • Why Did Tony Rezko Begin Serving His Sentence Immediately?

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    Last week Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a political fundraiser and business man with ties to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Barack H***** Obama, and others, was convicted on 16 of 24 counts of fraud and extortion. The scene after a conviction like this is fairly routine; unless the judge revokes the defendant’s bail, the defendant leaves, the…

  • Political Corruption

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    From JSOnline.com Former Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee was a man constantly in need of cash who used his power to shake down business owners, at one point driving around his district brazenly demanding money at stores, according to a new document from federal prosecutors. … The new document also reveals allegations that McGee contacted a…

  • Quote of the Day – Quagmire Edition

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    Nothing we can do will stop these people from committing senseless acts of violence. It’s in their culture. The best thing we can do is to withdraw and leave them to each other. . . . (Glenn Reynolds, on the DC “Neighborhood Safety Zones.”)

  • Stupid Criminal

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    A man was asked to leave a Citgo gas station on the city’s south side after he apparently didn’t have money to pay for the food he was carrying. After he left the cashier’s area, he attempted to ignite a gas pump with a lighter, according to Milwaukee police. Police said there was a minimal…

  • When all you have is not enough

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    There have been a couple of stories lately dealing with robberies that ended in murder, despite the victim cooperating with the criminals. In Milwaukee, a young man was convicted of killing a Miller Brewery executive, and in Cleveland, a young Marine was killed by a thug after he handed over the money he had. His…

  • Another useless restraining order

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    The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Gerhard Witte, the 70-year-old physician charged Wednesday with slitting his ex-wife’s throat in a downtown parking garage, repeatedly threatened to kill the woman after she filed for divorce in early 2005, once telling police he wouldn’t need a gun because “he is a medical doctor, and he knows precisely where to cut…

  • Another reason we own guns

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    Breda has a heartbreaking story of Chevonne Ecclestone, who died 18 days after she was attacked by a recidivistic maggot recently released from jail. Todd A. Torok, 39, of Parma, is charged with attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated robbery. Police said he has a nine-page rap sheet and has been arrested at least 36 times.…

  • Airline carry on rules to be relaxed?

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    MSNBC is reporting that TSA is looking at relaxing the list of prohibited items, including allowing knives and scissors back in carry ons. Considering that you can already bring foot long metal knitting needles onto an airplane, I don’t think it is unreasonable to be able to take your Swiss Army knife. Sadly, no mention…