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Police are losing control of the streets, warns former Met officer

Vikram Dodd and Damien Gayle
The Guardian
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:09 UTC
Victor Olisa
© Steve Brown/BBCVictor Olisa, in 2015, in post as a chief superintendent in north London.
A former senior police officer has warned that Scotland Yard appears to have lost control of London's streets and has accused the Metropolitan police leadership of a "deafening" silence as the capital's murder toll for the year moved past 50.

The day after two further murders in Hackney, east London, Victor Olisa, the Met's former head of diversity and head of policing in Tottenham, said he feared that the violence could get worse.

He warned that budget cuts and new demands on police were taking officers off the street and away from gathering intelligence. "Communities are saying we don't see the police around any more," he said. "It appears to people I have spoken to as though the police have lost control of public spaces and the streets."

Olisa said Met chiefs should have been more visible after this week's rise in violence.

"The silence from senior officers in the Met is deafening," he said. "They should say we need more information from the public; this is what we are doing; this is what the results are."
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As Oklahoma teachers forced to beg for funding, government accused of covering up fraud in state agencies

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
oklahoma teachers strike
More than 30,000 teachers gathered to protest at the Oklahoma State Capitol this week, and while they are demanding that the state pass a bill that would provide an additional $150 million in education funding, some taxpayers are questioning why the teachers aren't calling for the government to be held accountable for the way it is spending the money it already has.

While teachers march with signs that say "Fund Our Schools" and they share photos online of dilapidated textbooks that need to be replaced, they are calling on the state to solve their problems by increasing taxes. However, a study conducted by the 1889 Institute revealed that in 2014, only 48 percent of public school revenue came from the state.

The other 41 percent of revenue came from the district and 11 percent came from the federal government. Even if the state increased taxes and allocated more money for the education budget, the state's more than 500 districts are responsible for determining the salaries of teachers and support staff as long as they are over a state minimum schedule.

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Coming for your guns: Residents of Illinois town given 60 days to give up their assault weapons or face fines

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:54 UTC
no guns notice
As the state promises gun rights activists they're not coming for their guns, behind the scenes they're pleading for it to happen. And now the feared gun grab is occurring. Residents in Deerfield, Illinois have 60 days to surrender their "assault weapons" or face fines of $1000 per day per gun.

The gun ban ordinance was passed on April 2nd with residents left with few choices of how to dispose of their valuable "assault weapons." Upon careful reading of the ordinance, residents will be left with revolvers, .22 caliber "plinking" rifles, and double barrel shotguns to defend their homes and families from criminals who could care less about the law.

Fines for not disposing of the weapons range from $250 to $1000 per day per gun for those who choose not to comply with the city's ordinance. While a fine may seem reasonable to some, as TFTP has reported on multiple occasions, failure to pay fines always results in police action. It is not far-fetched to predict major turmoil and arrests in the event of non-compliance.

One example of the so-called "assault weapon" is the Ruger 10/22 which can accept magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Even though the 10/22 is not listed in the list of guns the village wants to see banned, the gun cannot legally be possessed in the village.
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Skripal's niece denied visa to enter UK and return poisoned relatives to Russia


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:43 UTC
Viktoria Skripal
© ReutersYulia Skripal told her cousin Viktoria she would not get a visa.
Sergei Skripal's niece has been denied a visa to enter the UK after claiming she would come and take her relatives back to Russia.

Viktoria Skripal had planned to travel to Britain after her uncle Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were exposed to a chemical agent in Salisbury on March 4.

The UK Home Office said on Friday that Viktoria is not being granted a visa to come to the UK. "We have refused a visitor visa application from Viktoria Skripal on the grounds that her application did not comply with the Immigration Rules," a Home Office spokesman said.

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Ambulance

London's crime wave: Senior surgeon says hospitals resemble Afghan war zones

Liam Deacon
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
London violence knife crime
© Rob Stothard / Getty
Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan's London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital's surging violent crime wave has said.

The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to death and a 17-year-old girl shot in a "drive by".

Wednesday night's killings, both in Hackney, East London, brought the death toll from suspected murder in the capital to 50 so far this year, pulling away from New York City, which London overtook at the weekend.

Dr. Mark Griffiths, the lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said that knife and gun wounds had moved from a "niche" part of his job to a daily chunk of his workload, and a growing number of victims were "children".

Comment: More evidence that the UK is crumbling under the weight of a corrupt and incompetent establishment:

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Handcuffs

German authorities seek to remove children from anti-Semitic parents


RT
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:44 UTC
burn Israeli flag
© Amr Dalsh / Reuters
Authorities should be allowed to take children away from parents who express anti-Semitic views, the head of Germany's 2nd largest police union has stated, without elaborating on how or when such measures would be enforced.

"Authorities need to act decisively [against anti-Semitism] including when the aggression comes from migrants," Rainer Wendt, head of the German Police Union (DPoIG) told Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper on Wednesday.

"If children are raised to become anti-Semites we shouldn't be afraid to take them away from their families." He went on to accuse many school administrators of ignoring the problem, saying "they act according to the mantra 'it doesn't exist in my school.'"

"There has also been a tendency not to willingly register anti-Semitism by Muslims - but it needs to be recorded without prejudice so that we can develop effective counter-strategies," Wendt said.

Comment: Pandora's box continues to open. Laws against hate speech, and now just hate alone, are being escalated into draconian policies that can only serve tragic ends. The definitions of 'hate' are easily left open to interpretation. For instance, if someone supports BDS due to Israel's inhuman treatment of the Palestinians, will their children be taken away due to 'anti-Semitism'? This easily opens the doors to the power hungry bullies forcing 'acceptance' of the endless variations of identity politics.

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German woman sentenced for murdering newborn babies and keeping them in a freezer for over 10 years


RT
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 16:46 UTC
female prisoner
© West Coast Surfer / Global Look Press
A 46 year-old German woman was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison for the willful homicide of her two newborn babies. She put the babies in a freezer, and kept their bodies there for 10 and 14 years respectively.

The frozen corpses were discovered in January at the woman's apartment in Benndorf, a village of 2,000 residents in eastern Germany, after her partner raised the alarm.

In 2004, her hidden pregnancy resulted in the birth of a baby girl, whom the woman promptly put in a plastic bag that, according to her own statement, she had prepared beforehand. Then, still breathing, the baby was left in the freezer to die.

The same scenario was repeated again four years later, in 2008, after the woman gave birth to a baby boy. The autopsy confirmed both children were born healthy. The woman, who has two other, older children, did not attempt to deny her guilt.

"What I did is serious. I have to be punished for it," she told the court in Halle, where she was prosecuted, Mitteldeutschland Zeitung reported.
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Body of woman missing for 50 years found buried under home of cop ex-boyfriend

Arden Dier
Newser
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:45 UTC
Louise Pietrewicz
© National Missing and Unidentified Persons DatabaseLouise Pietrewicz's family finally has some closure.
I'm happy. I'm sad. I'm angry. I want to smack somebody." Such is the reaction of a daughter to confirmation that the body of her mother, missing some 50 years, has been found buried beneath the home of her late boyfriend, a married police officer, per Newsday. After emptying her bank account, 38-year-old Louise Pietrewicz vanished from her family's Long Island farm in October 1966.

Her daughter, Sandy Blampied, was then only 11, reports the Washington Post. "I gave her a hug and a kiss before I left for school, and I bet that was the day he killed her," Blampied now tells the Times Herald-Record of one-time Southold police officer William Boken, who died in 1982. An early suspect, per ABC 7, Boken's conviction for beating his wife landed him in a psychiatric hospital, and no further questioning was done.
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#Terror: Twitter suspended over 1 million accounts for terrorism promotion since 2015


Times of India
Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:47 UTC
twitter big screenshot
© AP Photo/Richard Drew, File
Twitter said on Thursday it has suspended over one million accounts for "promotion of terrorism" since 2015, claiming its efforts have begun to make the platform "an undesirable place" to call for violence.

In its latest transparency report, Twitter said it suspended 274,460 accounts between July and December 2017 "for violations related to the promotion of terrorism."

The figure is down 8.4 per cent from the previous reporting period and is the second consecutive decline, a Twitter statement said.

"We continue to see the positive, significant impact of years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism, resulting in this type of activity increasingly shifting away from Twitter," said the statement from the messaging platform's public policy team.

Twitter has faced pressure from governments around the world to crack down on jihadists and others calling for violent attacks, while at the same time maintaining an open platform for free speech.
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Evil Rays

YouTube shooter's brother warned police in advance of his sister's rampage

Meredith Digital Staff
FOX5
Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:38 UTC
Nasim Aghdam
© Twitter/San Bruno Police DeptThe woman who shot three people at YouTube headquarters in Northern California has been identified as Nasim Aghdam, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
The brother of Nasim Najafi Aghdam worried she might do something dangerous.

The concerns started over the weekend when Aghdam stopped answering her phone, her brother told CNN affiliate KGTV. Then the San Diego resident's car was found more than 700 miles northwest, in Mountain View, California.

"I Googled 'Mountain View,' and it was close to YouTube headquarters. And she had a problem with YouTube," said Aghdam's brother, who did not want to be identified.

So he called the police to say "she went all the way from San Diego, so she might do something."
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