Tag Archive: Pittsburgh


Birmingham 1 Of 6 Pilot Sites In Federal Effort To Restore Police, Community Relations

 

 

 

 

 

 

” Birmingham has been chosen as one of six cities nationwide to serve as a pilot site for a national initiative on restoring relationships between law enforcement and citizens.

  Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement today. The $4.7 million National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice was announced in April and is a partnership between federal officials and criminal justice experts focused on providing training, policy and research to address distrust between citizens and law enforcement.

  The other pilot cities are: Ft. Worth, Gary, Indiana, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Stockton. The initiative comes after several high profile fatal police-involved shootings.”

 

 

    This can only end badly . Considering that the Justice department does not exactly inspire faith in government how is it’s attempt to co-opt the police forces of numerous cities going to restore faith in law enforcement ? It’s just one more step towards the nationalization of police . Read more here 

  A message to the citizens of the FIRST six cities to fall under federal control; if you think your local PD is unresponsive to your pleas and that increasing the bureaucracy with a federal level of “supervision” will help , then you really have not been paying attention these last few years . You , and the rest of us , will rue the day that the Feds take over your law enforcement duties .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch This Pittsburgh Detective Steal A Man’s Money at 7-Eleven

 

 

 

 

” Another day, another American whose personal dealings with local police zap him of all faith in “the system”. Pittsburgh resident Robert Simpson was “the kind of guy who believes in the system” until a recent run-in with a greedy detective and a department uninterested in punishing him. 

  Last summer, Simpson accidently left an envelope containing $220 on a 7-Eleven counter after setting it there while he paid, according to CBS Pittsburgh. 

  When he returned, it was gone. He was sure he left it on the counter and talked to a clerk. “She told me at that point that if that’s the case, I can tell you exactly who took it because the cameras will show you,” he said. The surveillance video was reviewed and it showed that a few minutes earlier, city detective Michael Reddy allegedly took it.”

 

 

   I think the detective’s story is hogwash , but the judge bought it , thus opening the eyes of another law-abiding citizen to the corruption inherent in the system . Read more at Reason 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Cities Where You’re Most Likely To Achieve The American Dream

 

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” A new study from The Equality of Opportunity Project has mapped the 10 best and the 10 worst cities for economic mobility in the United States. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley used millions of anonymous earnings records to measure the chance that someone born into the bottom fifth of income earners reaches the top fifth. A full summary of their findings can be viewed here.

 

 

Upward Mobility in the 50 Biggest Cities: The Top 10 and Bottom 10 
Rank Odds of Reaching Top Fifth
Starting from Bottom Fifth
Rank Odds of Reaching Top Fifth
Starting from Bottom Fifth
1 Salt Lake City, UT 11.5% divider 41 Milwaukee, WI 5.6%
2 San Jose, CA 11.2% 42 Cincinnati, OH 5.5%
3 San Francisco, CA 11.2% 43 Jacksonville, FL 5.3%
4 Seattle, WA 10.4% 44 Raleigh, NC 5.2%
5 San Diego, CA 10.4% 45 Cleveland, OH 5.2%
6 Pittsburgh, PA 10.3% 46 Columbus, OH 5.1%
7 Sacramento, CA 10.3% 47 Detroit, MI 5.1%
8 Manchester, NH 9.9% 48 Indianapolis, IN 4.8%
9 Boston, MA 9.8% 49 Charlotte, NC 4.3%
10 New York, NY 9.7% 50 Atlanta, GA 4.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh Brawl:Shooting

 

 

 

” A shooting outside of downtown Pittsburgh’s Capital Grille was caught on surveillance tape.

  Police allege the brawl between the accused and the victim started after the shooting.

“ They pulled out their guns and shot at each other right in the street in broad daylight. People were running,” a witness said.

  Police said 22-year-old Hassan Howze is seen scuffling with and then shooting Jamel Terry.

  Howze and another man, Antonio Peterson, were both arrested in connection with the shooting. Peterson is accused of being an accomplice.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Black Violence v. White Skyrockets; Media Dead Silent

 

 

 

 

 

 

” As pundits pondered whether calling George Zimmerman a “white a** cracker” was a racial epithet, black mob violence in other parts of the country proceeded apace last week, almost unnoticed.

In Niagara Falls, a black mob of 20 attacked a mother and her family on a picnic. They hurled racial slurs and told them they did not like their “Puerto Rican (expletive) music.”

Just a few hours earlier a few hundred miles away in Pittsburgh, a mob of black people “savagely beat” a white teenager, then stole his shoes. All on video. All the while screaming “World Star. World Star, ” apparently a reference to popular hip hop website that often features videos of black-mob violence.”

 

 

 

 

Just do a youtube search and you will find dozens of examples .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More ObamaCare Unintended Consequences

” It’s a bad day to be one of the (dwindling number of) women of childbearing age in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

A southwestern Pennsylvania hospital will stop delivering babies after March 31 because its obstetricians are either leaving or refocusing their practices, and because hospital officials believe they can’t afford it based on projected reimbursements under looming federal health care reforms.
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