Milwaukee Police Chief Tells The Truth about Violence

In the perspective of the Michael Brown incident, and the vilification of Officer Wilson, this video by the Milwaukee police chief makes an oft-missed point about the realities of violence in the black community and in some large cities.

See here:  http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/post_538.html

As counterpoint to all the protestations that are being made across the country by those who misguidedly believe that Micheal Brown needs to be avenged, why is it that there is so little caring, or indeed news coverage, for the 29 teenagers (13 - 19) who died in Chicago since Micheal Brown died?  Maybe because most of the murderers were also black?

See Breitbart: Media-Ignore-224-Teenagers-Killed-in-Chicago-Since-Michael-Brown-Was-Shot
(It appears this number is not really correct, and that the author grabbed the wrong number.  See the comments to the Breitbart article, and below on the heyjackass site.)  However, the expression of wonderment at the lack of publicity is the key point.

Here is a running list website that lists Chicago victims:  http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2014-chicago-murders   I am not sure that this site contains a full listing.
Here is another site:  http://homicides.suntimes.com/
And another:  http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/   11 Deaths between Nov 13 and 19.

It is interesting that these sites disagree on actual numbers.  EXCEPT, that the numbers are horribly high.

So, continuing my investigation, here is another site that has numbers similar to Brietbart, but the 244 number is for teens were shot and injured, while 29 teens were killed and total murders of all ages were 155 (74% black males).   http://heyjackass.com/  My impression is that Heyjackass has the best numbers, but I have not tried comparing to Chicago PD stats.

An scary stat on the Heyjackass site is the clearance rate for murders.  Only about 1/3 result in charges. 

Another stat of note:  Almost 80% of victims are black, while almost 69% of attackers are black.

Fast & Furious: Another FNDD on Nov 18

FNDD = Friday Night Document Dump

Judicial Watch has finally received the documents referenced in the Vaughn Index from early in November -  see my post on November 5.

Judicial Watch Statement on Release of Enormous Trove of DOJ Fast and Furious Documents

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received from the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) on November 18, 2014, a large production of documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious. The documents were forced out of the Obama administration through a June 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent September 2012 FOIA lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice (No. 1:12-cv-01510)).

A total of 10,112 documents, comprised of approximately 42,000 pages, were disclosed to Judicial Watch in the new production.  The documents are being posted and most are now available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at http://www.judicialwatch.org/fast-furious-documents-released/.

Judicial Watch is asking people, in a crowdsourcing manner, to search for interesting things (read illegal) in these documents.

Also note that many of these documents just released by the "most transparent administration in history" are completely or almost completely redacted.

Also note that no one has yet seen any of these documents display a desire to get to the bottom of what happened in F&F.  It is all about CYA, attacks on Sharyl Atkisson, and attempts to justify the assertion of executive privilege, etc.

IRS Scandal - 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails "Discovered"

Who would have thought?  After all this time, that 30,000 of Lois Lerner's emails would suddenly be "discovered" on disaster recovery backup disk driver?

In a standard Friday Night Document Dump (FNDD), the IRS has released a new batch of Lerner emails, subsequent to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch.

"Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into how “lost and/or destroyed” IRS records may be retrieved." 

See here:  IRS admits to court it hasn't searched for missing lerner emails

This admission by IRS begs the reaction: Are you kidding me, this is computer operations 101?:  "IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency’s servers for missing emails because they decided that “the servers would not result in the recovery of any information.” They admitted they had failed to search the agency’s disaster recovery tapes because they had “no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering” the missing emails.  And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had “no reason to believe such a system … even exists.”"

Too Much Government?

In 1937, the US government had 100 agencies.

Today, one estimate says that 1370 agencies eat out our hearts and control our liberties.

This site says more than 2000:  http://www.ushistory.org/gov/8b.asp

Wikipedia says:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States

The Government doesn't know.  Even the CBO and the GAO don't know:  http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/03/the-government-has-no-idea-how-many-agencies-it-has/

This piece of government thinks it knows:  http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/

And too many of them have armed agents:  http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/bite-the-bullet-weve-got-too-many-agencies-with-armed-agents/   "There are now 73 federal agencies that have armed officers, often called “special agents.” And all of these agencies now cordon off and enforce a federal fiefdom of the more than 4,500 criminal laws at the federal level and thousands of additional regulations that have sprung up in recent decades."  At least 25,000 officers.

And too many employees?  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466363/posts
For 2008:  "Number of Full-Time Federal Employees - 2,518,101 Part-Time - 250,785 Full-Time State - 3,818,577 Part-Time - 1,451,002 Full-Time Local - 11,039,250 Part-Time - 3,383,976
TOTAL - 22,461,69"

Disparate Impact Regulation Tossed by Federal Judge

Disparate impact is a dismal theory of political racial policy used by the Obama Administration to accomplish political ends and punish businesses.

It makes the bad assumption that statistics can explain the results of, principally, lending practices and housing and business practices "without showing evidence of actual discriminatory intent."

This is like being declared guilty before being proven innocent, the opposite of the foundational American legal principle of innocence until proven guilty.

See  WSJ, Nov 4, 2014, Opinion Section:  http://online.wsj.com/articles/disparate-impact-rejected-1415059893

Fast & Furious: Finally Proof that Eric Holder and White House Covered Up

Judicial Watch last week finally received the thousands of document they have been fighting for in Court for two years.

Oops, sorry, not the documents themselves!  But they have received the Vaughn Index.  This is the index of all the documents that the Government did not release because President Obama claimed Executive Privilege.

From this index it is obvious that many of the documents and emails are actually not covered by executive privilege.  Such as, emails between Eric Holder and his wife where they discuss how they are working on keeping the documents from becoming public. 

This process began when Eric Holder was about to be held in Contempt of Congress and Obama declared executive privilege in an attempt to protect the Attorney General for stonewalling Congress.  Holder resigned in August, two days after a judge agreed that the Vaughn Index (1307 pages) and the documents (15662) must be released.

Listen to the interviews with Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch on the NRA News Cam & Company on October 24.  Also listen to the Cam & Company interview with John Hinderaker on Oct 27.  See www.nranews.com

Also go to the Judicial Watch web site at www.judicialwatch.org   and see a summary:  http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-key-fast-furious-information/

"Based on a preliminary review of the massive document, Judicial Watch can disclose that the Vaughn index reveals:

• Numerous emails that detail Attorney General Holder’s direct involvement in crafting talking points, the timing of public disclosures, and handling Congressional inquiries in the Fast and Furious matter.

• President Obama has asserted executive privilege over nearly 20 email communications between Holder and his spouse Sharon Malone.  The administration also claims that the records are also subject to withholding under the “deliberative process” exemption. This exemption ordinarily exempts from public disclosure records that could chill internal government deliberations.

• Numerous entries detail DOJ’s communications (including those of Eric Holder) concerning the White House about Fast and Furious.

• The scandal required the attention of virtually every top official of the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).  Communications to and from the United States Ambassador to Mexico about the Fast and Furious matter are also described.

• Many of the records are already publicly available such as letters from Congress, press clips, and typical agency communications.  Ordinarily, these records would, in whole or part, be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.  Few of the records seem to even implicate presidential decision-making and advice that might be subject to President Obama’s broad and unprecedented executive privilege claim.

UPDATE Nov 5:  On this day after the mid-term elections, where the referendum on President Obama's policies disclosed the depth of America's dislike for them, we learn of a Fast & Furious document dump on the eve of the election.

Yes, AG Eric Holder has finally released 64,280 pages of documents to the House Oversight Committee.  These are the ones mentioned in the Vaughn Index above.  Now we will really learn the  truth of Holder's malfeasance, of DOJ's obstructionism, and of the White House's part in this scandal.

See:  http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/391919/election-eve-dump-eric-holder-releases-fast-and-furious-documents-got-him-cited

See:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/4/justice-dept-submits-64k-pages-fast-furious-docs/


Also from JW, news of a previous weapons trafficking operation carried out by a DOJ prosecutor in Arizona and how Holder slowed down exposure of its existence:  http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/10/dojs-fast-furious-prequel-failed-grenade-running-operation/