Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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Standing Up for Criminals
Last week two village radicals in Albemarle County masked up and tried to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from apprehending two illegal immigrants who had been charged with misdemeanors. This post isn’t about the illegals — they’re now being held in the Farmville Detention Center — it’s about the “legals” who interfered with the…
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Justice for Jews?
Five months after a student sent antisemitic messages, entered a Jewish student’s room, and brandished a gun, UVA leadership has yet to denounce or acknowledge the hate crime. by James A. Bacon Two-and-a-half years after the University of Virginia failed to prevent the shooting homicide of three football players, a student who entered a Jewish…
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More Bizarro Logic from the Intelligentsia
by James A. Bacon Governor Glenn Youngkin issued a press release yesterday highlighting the success of the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force, which, in cooperation with federal authorities, has made 521 arrests since February 25, including 132 individuals affiliated with MS-13, Tren de Aragua, and other transnational criminal gangs. Markus Schmidt with the Virginia Mercury…
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Any Wonder No One Trusts Legacy Media?
by Kerry Dougherty Far be it from me to offer advice to the stupidest businessmen and women alive – news media executives – but here’s a thought. If you’re wondering why no one trusts you or wants your products anymore, consider the simple, long-ago mission of the news industry: Tell the truth to the public.…
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Bacon Bits: Crime and Immigration Edition
Cracking down on MS-13. Yesterday law enforcement authorities arrested Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos (yes, two “r”s in Henrry and a “u” in Josue), a top member of the MS-13 gang who had been living in Virginia for 10 years. He was charged with illegal gun possession after a search of his home. State police and…
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Redacted
by James A. Bacon After more than a year of delays, the University of Virginia has finally released two reports ordered by the Attorney General — one detailing the University Police Department (UPD) response to the Nov. 13, 2022, mass shooting at UVA, and one reviewing the failure of the University’s Threat Assessment Team (TAT),…
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Youngkin Commutes Killer’s Sentence
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Well, this is a turnabout! Steve Descanos, the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s attorney much maligned in Bacon’s Rebellion for being woke and soft on crime, secured a guilty verdict in a trial involving the killing of an unarmed man. Two days after the offender was sentenced by the presiding judge, Governor Youngkin commuted…
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A Homework Assignment – Nursing Facility Neglect and Abuse
by James C. Sherlock I read two comments on my local Nextdoor blog this morning. They reminded me that most people know nothing about nursing homes or about what to do if they or their loved ones are abused or neglected. I urge readers to post the following as a public service on Nextdoor and…
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End of Watch
by Kerry Dougherty We don’t pay police officers enough. Then again, there isn’t enough money in the world to fairly compensate these men and women who put on the uniform and wade into the cesspools of our cities — areas most of us avoid — so we can sleep soundly in our beds at night.…
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A Public Health Crisis in Central Virginia
by James C. Sherlock A terribly injured 33-year-old homeless male schizophrenic recently was found lying hidden in a church in Chesterfield County. He was discovered with multiple displaced fractures in the lower pubic bone, a break on the left side of the sacrum (base of the spine), a large amount of blood in his pelvis,…
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More Pathetic Excuses
by James A. Bacon Democrats in the General Assembly are killing Republican bills right and left. In one incident that drew my jaundiced attention this morning, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted yesterday to spike a Republican-sponsored bill that would make it easier to deport convicted violent felons. I almost feel guilty writing about…
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Too Many of Virginia’s Skilled Nursing Facilities Present a Public Health Problem
by James C. Sherlock In a recent 12-month period overlapping 2022 and 2023, almost 8,400 Medicare patients alone were admitted to a hospital directly from or within 30 days after discharge from one of Virginia’s 280+ skilled nursing facilities. We simply do not know how many eventually died as a proximate outcome of poor care…
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UVA Shooter Report Delayed… Again
We knew the $1.5 million, taxpayer-funded Attorney General report on the circumstances surrounding the Nov. 13, 2022, triple murder at UVA would be delayed past the promised release date next month — we just didn’t know the excuse for doing it. Now we do. UVA President Jim Ryan vowed to release the report, which he…
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Is There a Doctor in the House?
by James C. Sherlock Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing Center (Colonial Heights) is in the news again. New story, similar outcomes — a patient either dying or dreadfully injured — both ignored. The first time 18 staff members were arrested. This time it was a physician who allegedly wasn’t even there. That was the problem.…
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Virginia’s New Jersey Problem
Updated Jan 27 @ 16:30 by James C. Sherlock New-found evidence points to New Jersey-operated business plans that may result in severe threats to patient health and safety in up to 56 Virginia nursing homes. At least one person has already died. Current government allegations in the wrongful death scandal surrounding Colonial Heights Rehabilitation and Nursing…