Maverick is a European Blue Great Dane who currently works for the USO. Maverick supports service members, escorts children to military funerals for their parents, and helps men and women cope with trauma, according to American Humane.
See more pictures of Maverick in action here.
Such a good boy!
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Oakland, California is a democrate-run city that is failing. From The Daily Mail:
“Police data shows the city now has the second worst 911 response time in California, while the number of homicides has jumped by 79 per cent from 2018 to 2022. In the year to date, violent crime is 22 per cent higher than last year, motor vehicle theft is 51 per cent higher and robbery is 36 per cent higher.”
Seneca Scott ran for mayor of Oakland last year and lost. He had called for ‘shifting budgets away from the police’ and a ‘complete overhaul of how we want our communities to interact with law enforcement.’
2022 Oakland Mayorial candidate Seneca Scott
After a recent incident, he’s had a change of heart. From The Daily Mail:
Details of the incident:
“At around 10pm on October 30 2021, Scott discovered two men were trying to steal the water heater from his garden. He went down to confront them, taking his gun for protection, and found they had set up a tent and laid out drugs on his picnic table.
He told them to put down the water heater and one of them pulled a knife. Scott showed them his pistol and again told them to put down the water heater.
At this point one of the men fled, but the other flagged down a police car and told them Scott had pulled a gun on him. Police arrested Scott on charges of brandishing a weapon and carrying a concealed firearm.
The charges have all since been dropped.“
Seneca says now he is vehemently anti what he terms the ‘woke left’ and ‘phony “progressives”‘ who he says are ‘dismissive towards black and brown people’. (I would argue that they are dismissive towards law and order.)
Scott told The Free Press that he changed his views when he realized ‘how deep the damage was’ and how ‘the people we had put in place were just complete frauds’.
Read the whole article here.
Better late than never to realize what disasterous democrat policies are doing to his city. Now we just need about another 250,000 Oakland residents to wake up and change their voting habits.
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Posted in Crime, Democrats, drugs, failed city, failed state, safety, woke culture
Tagged defund the police, Oakland
Take a bow: Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Our Nation’s capitol is a democrat-run city and a dangerous place to live. Violent crime is up 38% in Washington compared to the same time last year.
Now, thanks to democrat policies, it’s more difficult to shopt at CVS. As reported by The Daily Mail:
How you get to shop in democrat-run cities.
From their story:
“A CVS pharmacy in Washington DC has been forced to replace almost all its stock with photographs in an attempt to combat rampant shoplifting.
Framed images of items such as toilet paper and kitchen towels stand in place of the real thing, according to pictures shared to X, while customers have to press a button to request staff fetch the products from storage.
‘This is how we live in America now?’ questioned conservative commentator Joey Mannarino, who shared the images. ‘This is the third world!’
The pharmacy’s dystopian move comes just weeks after a CVS store in DC was ransacked by up to fifty teenage looters, who routinely attack the store and pillage its shelves.
Amid the shoplifting crisis, CVS has joined rival drugstore chains Rite Aid and Walgreens in closing over 1,500 stores combined in the coming months. “
Read the whole article here.
Voters in blue cities continue to elect soft-on-crime officials who refuse to adequately protect law-abiding citizens. Y’all need to wake up before it’s too late!
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Posted in Crime, Democrats, failed city, failed state, safety, The Left
Tagged CVS, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Rite Aid, shoplifting, Walgreens, Washington DC
Grab a tissue!
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Democrat policies are killing once-great American cities. Seattle is a prime example.
The lawlessness allowed in Seattle has led to an increase in cime, open-air drug use, repeat offenders and decreased public safety. This can be directly attributed to democrat policies that include their Defund the Police Movement as a capitulation to BLM and the Saint George riots.
Remeber CHOP (Capital Hill Occupied Protest)? In June 2020, then mayor Jenny Durkan allowed Antifa/BLM/various thugs to take over six blocks of the city for 23 days and had the Seattle Police abdicate their responsiblities and vacate a precinct building. Shootings occured there and a teenage boy was killed.
Seattle democrat leaders haven’t learned much about policing crime and adequately punishing criminals since that event as they have now set a record for homicides, the highest level of homicides the city has seen in nearly three decades.
The criminals have now set their sights on new targets: middle and high school students at/around schools. Jason Rantz at KTTH reports the following:
“The Seattle crime crisis is now finding middle and high school students. A group of armed and masked thieves are targeting students after school and there aren’t enough officers to proactively police the neighborhoods. They’re committing the crimes in broad daylight.”
Yahoo News reports that Ballard High School and Whitman Middle School parents are on edge after a number of muggings, some of which turned violent. Since September 15, there have been five attacks where teen boys on their way home from school were jumped for their iPhones. Guns were used in some of the robberies.
KTTH also reports that there will be minimal consequences for the minors committing these crimes, as is to be expected in democrat-run cities.
“Following the nationwide trend in Democrat-run cities, the thieves appear to be teens. In Washington state, teen criminals seldom suffer meaningful consequences. Washington Democrats passed legislation preventing officers from talking to teen suspects until they have a lawyer present, even if the suspect’s parents consent. When teens do get caught, they seldom see jail time. Instead, they’re pushed into restorative justice programs run by police and prison abolitionist groups. The county provides little oversight.”
Read the full KTTH story here.
Seattleites should embrace the suck. Y’all voted for this yet never remember this key item:
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Posted in Crime, Democrats, drugs, failed city, failed state, safety, The Left
Tagged Capitol Hill, Seattle, Seattle Police
This is very cool!
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Criminals in democrat-run cities are given a pass under the guise of “criminal justice reform,” “equity” and “systemic racism.”
Throw in activist judges, BLM and the “Defund the Police” movement popular in these cities and you have the perfect recipe for the release of repeat offenders and increased crime.
Seattle has 118 repeat offenders which the city, a couple of years too late, now realizes is a threat to public safety.
The problems associated with democrat policies extends south of Seattle as well.
In Thurston County, Washington (Olympia area) they experienced slightly more crime in 2021 compared to 2020.
Judge Sharonda Amamilo
In 2020 the people of Thurston County elected Judge Sharonda Amamilo to the Thurston County Superior Court. The Court web page describes the good judge:
“Judge Sharonda D. Amamilo was elected to the Thurston County Superior Court Bench in 2020 and began her historic first term in 2021 as the first person of color to serve as a Judge in Thurston County. She is committed to protecting the constitutional rights of all citizens, bringing a diversity of experience and background to objectively deliver compassionate justice to litigants appearing before the court; many with traumatic backgrounds.”
How compassionate is the judge? As reported by Jason Rantz at KTTH, she released a woman who led police on a high-speed chase, has 17 prior convictions, failed to show up for five previous court appearances, and was booked for three counts of assault in the first degree, possession of a stolen vehicle, attempt to elude, and DUI. The good judge released the suspect on her own personal recognizance, on the promise she’d return for a future court date.
You can read all the details about the judge’s compassion for criminals here.
Progressives never learn:
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Posted in Crime, Democrats, failed city, failed state, safety, The Left
Tagged BLM, criminal justice reform, defund the police, repeat offenders, Thurston County, Washington State
A woman in Connecticut found out what happens when you leave a window unlocked: A black bear may come in to steal your lasagna!
Hope the guy enjoyed the Italian pasta!
Read about the whole story here.
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In case you need a much-needed break from the stresses of our world today…
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