Chicago on the Brink: Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald makes a compelling case against the "Black Lives Matter" narrative and the tragic consequences of tarring proactive policing as racist in this City Journal article. In Chicago, the ACLU and civil rights leaders have demanded a reduction in traffic stops and public interactions by police officers because the subjects are mostly black. As a result, urban violence and shootings have reached record levels and the vast majority of the perpetrators and victims are mostly black. MacDonald quotes a black, middle aged, former drug addict whose son was shot and killed last year, "I've been in Chicago all my life. It's never been this bad. Mothers and grandchildren are scared to come out on their porch; if you see more than five or six niggas walking together, you gotta run."
SC Man Dies After Standoff with Police: A North Charleston man died after being shot in a standoff with officers on Tuesday, ABC News reports. Police engaged in a gun battle with William Tracy Patterson, 34, when they responded to a call about a driver who was trying to run a pedestrian over. Officers located the vehicle and were fired upon by Patterson from his second-floor window, which struck and injured Officer Wayne Pavlischek. Officer Pavlischek was wearing a bulletproof vest and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Patterson was shot as he emerged from his home firing at officers and was transported to Trident Medical Center.
Future of Death Penalty in the Hands of CA Voters: This November California's voters will get to weigh in on the controversial death penalty debate. Karma Dickerson of Fox 40 News reports that the state will be offering two very different options for its voters that include: the Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act and the Justice that Works Initiative. The "Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act" calls for a faster execution process that will impose new requirements and deadlines onto the courts and will house inmates in less expensive, non-death row housing until their execution date. It will also require inmates to work and pay restitution. The "Justice that Works" initiative would repeal the death penalty and commute the sentences of condemned murderers to life without the possibility of parole. Proponents claim this will save roughly $150 million annually. Executions have been on hold for a decade as California has been developing a new lethal injection protocol, leaving 747 murderers on death row.
SC Man Dies After Standoff with Police: A North Charleston man died after being shot in a standoff with officers on Tuesday, ABC News reports. Police engaged in a gun battle with William Tracy Patterson, 34, when they responded to a call about a driver who was trying to run a pedestrian over. Officers located the vehicle and were fired upon by Patterson from his second-floor window, which struck and injured Officer Wayne Pavlischek. Officer Pavlischek was wearing a bulletproof vest and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Patterson was shot as he emerged from his home firing at officers and was transported to Trident Medical Center.
Future of Death Penalty in the Hands of CA Voters: This November California's voters will get to weigh in on the controversial death penalty debate. Karma Dickerson of Fox 40 News reports that the state will be offering two very different options for its voters that include: the Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act and the Justice that Works Initiative. The "Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act" calls for a faster execution process that will impose new requirements and deadlines onto the courts and will house inmates in less expensive, non-death row housing until their execution date. It will also require inmates to work and pay restitution. The "Justice that Works" initiative would repeal the death penalty and commute the sentences of condemned murderers to life without the possibility of parole. Proponents claim this will save roughly $150 million annually. Executions have been on hold for a decade as California has been developing a new lethal injection protocol, leaving 747 murderers on death row.
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