This is dancing:
This is not dancing. This is thugs destroying public property: ...
Anthony Sowell has been convicted of murdering eleven women and trying to kill three more.
Now that his defense team has finished lying about the evidence during the trial phase, they will now move on to lying during sentencing. ...
Surveying the current crop of well-known criminologists is sort of like watching a sack of drowning cats trying to make excuses for the guy who just threw them in a lake. It didn’t used to be that way. Once, giants in short-sleeved button-down shirts with clip-on ties labored anonymously in room-sized IBM computers.
Now we have celebrity criminologists like James Alan Fox jealously guarding his speciality of crawling into sex killers’ brains and popping back out to tell the rest of us stuff like: “serial killers are really angry, and they blame other people for their problems.” That is, when he isn’t seething with thinly-disguised contempt towards crime victims, who seem to bother him by existing. ...
Atlanta serial rapist Lavelle (Lavel, Lavell) McNutt was sentenced to life this week for two rapes and two other assaults that occurred while the convicted sex offender was working in Atlanta’s Fox Sports Grill restaurant. When you look at McNutt’s prior record of sexual assaults and other crimes, you really have to wonder what inspired the owners of Fox Grill to endanger female employees and customers by choosing to employ him.
Particularly with McNutt’s history of stalking women. Particularly with the length of his record, and the density of his recidivism. Was some manager actually sympathetic to McNutt’s hard-luck story? This is no record to overlook. Below is my partial round-up of the crimes I could find on-line. I’m sure there’s more in arrest reports. This guy is the classic compulsive* offender. ...
Is crime really dropping in Chicago? Not long ago, the public would have been forced to rely on some pretty unreliable sources for an answer:
- academicians who worship at the ‘the public’s crime fears are overblown‘ altar
- mainstream reporters who worship at the “academicians who worship at the ‘the public’s crime fears are overblown’ altar” altar
- Chicago politicians
From sources like that, you get contradictory numbers like this, in the Chicago Sun-Times: ...
It’s hard to find anything to say about this story that the New York Times has not trumped simply by writing it:
A Safety Valve for Inmates, the Arts, Fades in California ...
James Wolcott, Jurisprudential Dauber
Sanctimony and sneering are usually opposites. Leave it to the puffy sophisticates at Vanity Fair to combine them into a sentiment more unattractive than the sum of its parts. Wolcott responds to the Casey Anthony verdict by celebrating what he perceives to be an admirable case of jurors putting it to “the man,” in this case, Nancy Grace: ...
The Nun: ...
In this article by Matthew Boyle about the Marilyn Buck case.