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I’D LIKE TO WELCOME ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE TO THE BLOGOSPHERE: EX-LIBERAL IN HOLLYWOOD.
Clark Baker, the proprietor of this site, is a former LA police officer, and a current private investigator. He really knows the police scene. Check this post out, in which Clark fisks a Huffington Post article by Stephen Elliot.
[Baker quotes from Elliot’s post:] …a fifteen-year-old boy named Alonza Thomas walks into a convenience store wearing a bandana over his mouth and nose. He’s carrying a gun. He places the gun against the clerk’s chest and demands money. Another clerk tackles the boy and a struggle ensues in which the gun is fired leaving a tidy hole in the store rooftop. Plaster and dust sprinkles on the combatants while the boy is subdued.Here are the facts: It is the boy’s first crime. His record is as clean as an upscale restaurant. He is alone. No one was hurt…
[Baker responds to Elliot:] Lee Malvo had a clean record when he murdered his tenth victim. Mr. Elliott assumes that this is Alonza’s first criminal act. Let’s consider that Alonza carried a concealed and loaded firearm to a convenience store. The gun wasn’t his and it’s doubtful that the owner gave him permission to use it. Alonza entered the convenience store with the intent to commit a theft or a felony, which is a burglary. Both of these crimes occurred before Alonza pushed the loaded handgun into the clerk’s chest demanding cash. Figuratively speaking, Alonza was a third-striker before his first arrest.
...Mr. Elliott confuses the absence of a recorded criminal record with what he assumes is a first-time criminal act. The last time I checked with the FBI, the typical street criminal like Alonza commits eighty (80) crimes between arrests.
This looks like it’s going to be another very cool site.
