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Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested
Kris Thalamus writes "The Washington Post reports that a Virginia woman is being held in custody by police who allege that information she posted on her blog puts members of the Jefferson area drug enforcement task force at risk. 'In a nearly year-long barrage of blog posts, she published snapshots she took in public of many or most of the task force's officers; detailed their comings and goings by following them in her car; mused about their habits and looks; hinted that she may have had a personal relationship with one of them; and, in one instance, reported that she had tipped off a local newspaper about their movements. Predictably, this annoyed law enforcement officials, who, it's fair to guess, comprised much of her readership before her arrest. But what seems to have sent them over the edge — and skewed their judgment — is Ms. Strom's decision to post the name and address of one of the officers with a street-view photo of his house. All this information was publicly available, including the photograph, which Ms. Strom gleaned from municipal records.'"
1st post!
Illegal aliens are off the chart in terms of violent crime, and half (a large figure, most researchers round it off to around one half or even higher) the violent crime goes unreported inside their own communities, so the official figures are skewed to the lower end
If true, I don't know, you are free to cite rates of incarceration and crimes and the demographics involved, simply being an illegal alien doesn't necessarily translate into being a criminal.
It's like the wall, built to keep people out the end result is that it has caused an increase in the number of permanent illegal aliens because formerly seasonal migrants aren't willing to risk it a second a time, so they stay permanently. Similarly the more you ostracise a population the more it will turn to crime because the criminals feel trapped without any other options and their victims feel trapped because reporting a crime means they risk deportation themselves. Its a classic pressure cooker scenario and adding more pressure sounds great to the vindictive personality types but is probably only going to make it even worse.
Most of the US where illegal aliens aren't present in huge numbers does not suffer the same crime rates, and this is just pure data. Not to say there is "no" crime, just much less, especially violent crimes.
You mean cities like El Paso and Laredo?
Or how about the fact that non-citizens are vastly under-represented in prison? There are roughly 2M people in prison in the US for violent and non-violent crimes. ~70% of them entered with incomes below the poverty line. Nearlly all illegal immigrants live below the poverty line so ~12M illegals plus another 35M citizens living under the poverty line equals a pool of 47M people. Illegals make up ~25% of that group. But they only account for 6.4% of the people in prison.
Seems like they are 4x more law-abiding than the citizens in that group.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
If true, I don't know, you are free to cite rates of incarceration and crimes and the demographics involved, simply being an illegal alien doesn't necessarily translate into being a criminal.
Actually, there's a funny thing about being an illegal alien. It's actually illegal to be in this country illegally, so 100% of illegal aliens are criminals.
Actually, there's a funny thing about being an illegal alien. It's actually illegal to be in this country illegally, so 100% of illegal aliens are criminals.
(A) Forest for the trees. Your cleverness isn't irrelevant.
(B) Criminals on the order of a jaywalkers.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
(A) What forest? And I can't see any trees. Also, did you really mean to say that my cleverness is relevant?
(B) But criminals nevertheless. Also, if we're speaking in terms of order, an illegal trip across country borders is typically orders of magnitude greater than an illegal trip across a street. Moreover, illegal immigration is on the order of tax evasion.
how is posting their home address, along with pictures and map coordinates, anything less than off-duty stalking.
You didn't use a question mark. Did you mean that as a rhetorical question.
If true, I don't know, you are free to cite rates of incarceration and crimes and the demographics involved, simply being an illegal alien doesn't necessarily translate into being a criminal.
Allow me to point you to the word ILLEGAL in your sentence above.
And it's never "just" being in the US "without papers." There's the fraud of giving fake names to cops, or on welfare documents, or on hiring documents. There's the massive amount of fraud involved in illegal aliens stealing social security numbers, which winds up costing people money in higher interest rates (when they run off on bills) and in damage to citizens' credit ratings.
And that's not even touching the fact that illegals make up almost 30% of federal prisoners, not to mention half of California's state prison population, and the fact that the membership of drug gangs like MS-13 is predominantly illegals as well.
Oh, and then there's the numerous number of illegals who jumped the US border to escape prosecution in Mexico...
Or how about the fact that more Americans have been killed by illegal aliens than in Iraq since 9/11?
Well?