Tag: Social breakdown
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Rampaging Teens Need Handcuffs And Charges
by Kerry Dougherty Stop calling them “teen meet-ups” or “teen takeovers.” Those terms downplay what’s going on. I’m talking, of course, about the violent mobs of young people that spontaneously appear, wreak havoc and then disperse, looking like extras from the disturbing 2013 movie “The Purge.” Worse, they’re erupting around the country. Let’s call them…
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Court Strikes Down Virginia Beach’s Illegal Curfew
by Kerry Dougherty News flash: Apparently saying “It’s that time of the year again” is not enough for a Virginia city to close down businesses and order people off the street. Who knew? Certainly not feckless city officials in Virginia Beach, who were unceremoniously smacked down by a circuit court judge yesterday. The mayor of…
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Hey, Virginia Beach, Bedtime Is Now 9:30 P.M.!
by Kerry Dougherty They’re waving the white flag in Virginia Beach. After an almost 3-hour public hearing at which speaker after speaker begged their representatives not to impose an adult curfew at the Oceanfront for the next two weekends, city council members surrendered to the thugs and closed the place. It was an embarrassing admission…
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Criminal with Long History of Arrests Allegedly Stabs Woman to Death in Fairfax County
by Hans Bader On Monday, Stephanie Minter was stabbed to death at a bus shelter in Fairfax County’s Hybla Valley. Convicted criminal Abdul Jalloh was arrested for the killing. He was out of jail and free to allegedly commit this crime, despite having a long record of arrests for violent felonies such as rape and…
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The Fever Is Breaking
The number of homicides in Virginia declined in 2024 for the second year in a row after peaking in 2022 — down 24.5 percent during the two-year period — according to Virginia State Police data, including the just-published Crime in Virginia 2024 report. The 109 murders and non-negligent homicides with White victims fell in 2024…
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Time to Start Wearing Bullet-Proof Vests, People
It might help to hire a taste tester, too. Politicians and other public figures — now including members of university presidential search committees, apparently — have learned in recent months to take death threats seriously. Many people fantasize about seeing them dead. Here in Virginia, there was Jay Jones, who has been elected Attorney General.…
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Derangement Update
From The Virginia Mercury: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the arrests of two Virginia brothers accused of plotting violent attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — a case that immediately drew national attention amid the ongoing immigration crackdown and heightened threats against federal law enforcement. John Wilson Bennett and his…
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Bacon Bits: The “What Is Reality?” Edition
Lunacy down on the farm… The FBI has arrested Brad Kenneth Spafford following a raid at his 20-acre Isle of Wight County farm and charged him with possessing an unregistered short-barrel rifle. Law enforcement overreach? Well, FBI agents discovered more than 150 pipe bombs and other explosive devices, reports The Virginian-Pilot. They also found a…
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Bacon Bits: Social Mayhem Update
George Mason is rolling in his grave. An 18-year-old freshman at George Mason University was arrested Tuesday for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack on Israel’s General Consulate in New York City, The Washington Post reports. Abdullah Ezzeldin Taha Mohamed Hassan, an Egyptian national faced with deportation proceedings, was arrested in Falls Church and, as a…
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A Life of Low-Level Crime
by James A. Bacon Meet Chelsea Eileen Steiniger, a 31-year-old Buckingham County woman who, according to The Daily Progress, may have accomplished the feat of having been arrested more often — 63 times — than anyone else in Central Virginia. One reason she has been arrested so frequently, it appears, is the leniency of judges…
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Things Fall Apart: Loudoun County Edition
Loudoun County is not Appalachia. Loudoun County is not the inner city. It is, in fact, one of the most affluent counties — sometimes the most affluent county — in the country. But something is very, very wrong, and you can’t blame it on poverty. From Loudoun Now: In a statement emailed to division parents…