L.A. Sheriff: Inmate release effective, but possible surge in crime ahead

California really does prefer criminals to law-abiding citizens.  They worried more about criminals getting a Virus than they do about citizens getting hurt by recidivist offenders.

The Sheriff can say they’ve increased patrols for now, but how long until deputies come down with the virus or the Blue Flu?

Besides, it seem like the Sheriff’s Office is putting more effort into arresting people paddle boarding or jogging on the beach in defiance of Governor Newsom’s order than fighting actual crime, given how many deputies we saw in those videos versus the number of videos we’ve seen of people in California shoplifting and not getting arrested.

The lesson here is, if you are a woman and some sexual predator let out of jail tried to attack you, run to the nearest beach and start doing outdoor yoga.  You may end up in handcuffs but at least law enforcement will respond to you.

Talk about tone deaf.

I believe we are two weeks out from a blow out. Some governmental official is gonna say or do something sorely stupid and unconstitutional and he will be dropped like a ripe mango.

Politician: “The shutdown and lockdown worked.  It was a tough nine months until a vaccine was made available but the models projected 60,000 COVID deaths and there were only 40,000 COVID deaths.  We saved 20,000 lives by being proactive.”

Citizen: “But in that same time hald the working age population declared bankruptcy, dicorces are sky high, 60,000 overdosed and nearly 100,000 people blew their brains out.  Your plan cost more lives than it saved.”

Politician: “Are you telling me during the lockdown almost 100,000 people died of gunshot wounds?”

Citizen: “Yes, the lockdown drove them mad.”

Politician: “We need to pass a whole bunch of new laws.  Next time we need to be sure that we confiscate all the guns before we lock everything down to save more lives.”

Yesterday, 21 Attorneys General sent a letter to @SecPompeo & William Barr to urge the @StateDept & @DOJPH to enforce the federal Undetectable Firearms Act after Defense Distributed violated the law by distributing downloadable 3D gun files once again. #Stop3DGuns @AGWilliamTong pic.twitter.com/MEbeoVBLAW

— Newtown Action (@NewtownAction) April 14, 2020

This is what the letter states:

and page 2

It is in page 2 where we find the Big Lie:

So I download and automatically as if by magic, a gun will appear on my desk? I don’t even bother with assembly? Will it also manufacture the ammunition? Damn, those are some advanced plans!
Of course it requires the investment of another machine and materials for that to happen. But it seems the 21 State Attorney Generals want you to believe that the files only need the an used Chromebook and the cheap printer special in Walmart for you to get a fully semi automatic .50 caliber AR 47.

I’ve written about the crushing misery that is extended unemployment.

One thing that made it bearable for me was that after a buddy was laid off some years ago and watching what he went through, I made sure I had six months of savings put away which helped cover me during my unemployment.

I know that I was privileged that I could afford to put some away every month and build up a reserve.  Many people don’t have that ability.

It’s no surprise to me then to see this news:

Calls to Some Call Centers that Manage Helplines are up 300% amid coronavirus

The stresses around COVID-19 are causing mental health calls to skyrocket.

FirstLink, a local company that answers the 211 helplines and National Suicide Prevention Hotline, says call volume to some call centers are up 300% nationally

In 2017, the last year we have data, there were 47,000 suicides.

If you make the assumption that the ratio of calls to suicides is the same now as in 2017, then an extended shutdown and protracted unemployment could let to near 150,000 suicides.

That is more than double the 60,000 Coronavirus deaths projected by the models and more than six times the current number of 24,000 Coronavirus deaths.

If the reaction to the Coronavirus results in more people taking their  own lives due to stress than dying of the virus itself, there will be hell to pay by the decision makers.

This cannot be allowed to happen.  We must reopen ASAP.

Our acting Director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell is awesome.

He posted this online.

This is how some douchebag replied to that.

To paraphrase a classic quote: “Your right to leave your house ends where the danger of you infecting me with a deadly disease begins.” Not only is this tweet dangerous; it’s also horrid constitutional law.

— Joseph Hicks (@jrhicksesq) April 13, 2020

This guy advertises himself to be a civil rights attorney.

A civil rights attorney.

According to a fucking civil rights attorney, your right to leave your house is suspended without due process because you might get him sick.

I’ve never met a civil rights attorney who got a hard-on reading the majority opinion in Korematsu, but I guess there is a first for everything.

I wonder what other generalized threat you can pose that this guy believes gets your rights suspended without due process?

If I extrapolated his opinion to this Tweet, saying something this dumb on Twitter should get him disbarred and the law school professor who taught him Constitutional law fired.

What a fucking asshole.