Showing posts with label Youth Violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Youth Violence. Show all posts

April 25, 2016

Report Four Youths On Bicycles, Attack MIT Grad Student, Two Others In Cambridge, MA



Young people on bicycles, Not In Cambridge, MA

[From article]
Police are looking for four juveniles who are accused of robbing an MIT student in Cambridge.
Police said it happened Sunday morning near the area of Brookline and Pacific streets. The victim said the suspects threatened him with a knife and demanded money.
He said he was then hit on the head and the robbers took his iPhone and wallet. They then fled on bicycles.
Cambridge Police are investigating other similar incidents from over the weekend.
http://www.whdh.com/story/31805519/cambridge-police-search-for-four-suspects-involved-in-robbery-of-mit-student

MIT student robbed at knifepoint in Cambridge
Posted: Apr 25, 2016 6:05 AM EDT
Updated: Apr 25, 2016 4:45 PM EDT
WHDH-TV Boston MA

October 22, 2015

Two Dead After Sword Attack at School in Sweden



Killer: The 21-year-old posed for this picture moments before he stabbed a second teacher in the attack in Trollhattan, Sweden.

[From article]
The 21-year-old man, who launched a sword attack on a school in Sweden and stabbed two teachers and two pupils, stopped to pose for pictures with students before continuing his horrific spree.
Wearing a mask and holding a sword already covered in blood, the attacker, stands next to two young students at the school, seconds before stabbing a teacher, who died at the scene.
Another teacher was rushed to hospital alongside the injured students, two boys aged 11 and 15. The 11-year-old later died from his wounds.
The MailOnline understands the suspected killer to be Anton Lundin-Petterson, from Trollhättan, north of Gothenburg.
[. . .]
The anonymous girl who took the photograph told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that they thought it was a Halloween prank when they saw the masked man.
As Lundin-Pettersson allegedly moved across the school during his attack, the young student had no idea that the blood on the large sword he was holding was real.
She told the newspaper that she had left her classroom to fetch a pen when she spotted two friends standing with a man wearing a mask and holding a blood-covered knife.
[. . .]
Thinking that the attacker had dressed up as a holiday joke, her friends wanted a picture with him, so she obliged.
Seconds after the picture was taken, their teacher came out of the classroom and told the killer to leave as he was scaring the children.
'He just nodded, then he plunged the large knife into the teacher's right side. The last thing I heard him say was "call an ambulance".'
[. . .]
Kronan is located in an area of Trollhattan with a diverse population and many of the pupils are first or second generation immigrants.[. . .]
Police responded to an emergency call saying a masked man equipped with a sword was on the premises and that a person had been attacked at or near the school cafeteria, police said
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Tomas Fuxborg of Västra Götaland Police called the attack 'one of the worst events in Swedish history'.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, who was heading to Trollhattan, described Thursday as a 'black day.'
[. . .]
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has also made a a statement in the wake of the attack:
'Sweden is in shock. It is with great dismay and sorrow that my family and I have received the news about the events in Trollhättan.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3284339/Five-injured-sword-attack-Swedish-school-suspect-shot.html

'Right-wing' killer stopped to pose with pupils who thought blood-soaked sword and mask was a prank... then continued his murder spree that left two dead at Swedish school with high ratio of migrant pupils
Man, 21, in mask and helmet launch attack on school in Sweden
Teacher and 11-year-old dead, second teacher and student in hospital
Masked attacker shot inside the school by police and later died in hospital
The MailOnline understands the killer to be Anton Lundin-Petterson
He had 'expressed extreme-right wing sympathies' on social media
School in Trollhättan, Sweden, has students from pre-school to year 9
By SARA MALM and ANTHONY JOSEPH FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:18 EST, 22 October 2015 | UPDATED: 14:47 EST, 22 October 2015


September 29, 2015

Neuroscience Sexier Than Moynihan Report of 1965, John DiIulio




"Judge Gertner emphasized the importance of objective neuroscience." What evidence establishes a causal connection between neuroscience and crime? In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan published his report about youth from single parent homes. In 1995 John Di'Iulio described a large group of 7- to 10-year-old boys who were "fatherless, Godless, and jobless." Scholars and academics refuse to address this known source of violence and crime. Neuroscience is interesting. How does it prevent crime? Robert T. Kinscherff [. . .] said there is a need [to understand] conditions that lead to youth delinquency. [and government] should be 'smart on crime.'” He cites the Justice Dept, which has little jurisdiction over violent crimes, mostly a state matter. Senator Moynihan and Prof. Di'lulio provide material for "conditions" leading to "delinquency." Gertner said, “You can actually look at the [neurological] differences," You can also see the differences in young men from one and two parent homes.



[From article]
Describing how to implement these scientific breakthroughs, Judge Gertner emphasized the importance of objective neuroscience in strengthening the argument
[. . .]
Robert T. Kinscherff, a senior visiting fellow [. . .] said there is a need for increased understanding of the very common conditions that lead to youth delinquency. [and] the “growing political agreement” that—rather than being tough on crime—the U.S. Department of Justice should be “smart on crime.”
[. . .]
Gertner said, “You can actually look at the [neurological] differences,

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/9/29/panel-law-neuroscience-adolescents/

Scholars Discuss Role of Neuroscience in Youth Criminal Justice
By JONAH S. LEFKOE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
September 28, 2015

August 19, 2015

No Need To Reinvent The Wheel




In 1965 New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan issued his study of the black American family. His observations remain accurate and the situation has only gotten worse. Rev. Rivers and Police Commissioner Evans are correct. Why has there been little effort to implement the findings of Sen. Moynihan? John DiIulio, political scientist reported findings similar to Moynihan. Yet the problems remain. It seems as if the lack of will among political leaders is an unresponsive bureaucracy.



[From article]
the irrepressible Rev. Eugene Rivers stepped up. “One of the things that came out of today’s meeting is the recognition that not everything that happens in our community is a policing issue. We need to be intercepting young people as early as 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old. That’s not a policing issue.
“When a 14-year-old kid,” Rivers continued, “has a 40-member gang and hasn’t shot anybody yet, technically that’s not a law enforcement issue … we gotta intercept that child where grandma is 35, mom is 15, and Junebug is 3. That’s not a public safety issue. That’s not a policing issue.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/08/gelzinis_cops_clergy_say_violence_is_more_than

Gelzinis: Cops, clergy say violence is more than policing issue
Social work needed
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
By: Peter Gelzinis

June 9, 2015

Baltimore Mayor Meets With Islamic Relief Group Linked to Terrorists




[From article]
Islamic Relief USA is helping immigrants and refugees to find promising opportunities as instruments of economic and community growth in Baltimore.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlins-Blake recognized the successes of this program at a local film screening this past Wednesday. She congratulated prospective home buyers and urged non-profits to continue supporting this work.
[. . .]
Elements of the Islamic Relief Worldwide network has been accused of being linked to terrorist groups. The UAE and Israel have outlawed it. Obama works closely with Islamic Relief USA and its leadership is interlinked with the Brotherhood’s front groups such as the Muslim American Society and ISNA.
But I guess you can ask their public relations director about it.
Sheikh Omar Shahin identified himself as IRUSA’s Public Relations Director in 2010 and a bio stated he held the position in 2007.
Shahin raised money for the Holy Land Foundation and also held a position with KindHearts, both charities shut down for funding Hamas. He also hosted events by the Islamic Association for Palestine, a Hamas-tied group that is now defunct.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/baltimores-space-to-destroy-mayor-working-wterror-linked-islamic-group/

Baltimore’s “Space to Destroy” Mayor Working w/Terror Linked Islamic Group
June 5, 2015

May 12, 2015

Politiicians Encourage Youth Violence



Photo: New York Post Graphics
[From article]
The effort to separate good protesters from bad rioters is doomed to fail because too many people in both groups are motivated by hatred for cops. Fanning that flame while expecting to control the damage is mission impossible, even for Sharpton and the skilled community organizers in the White House and City Hall.
Recall that some anti-police protesters in New York last December chanted, “What do we want? Dead cops” a week before Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were assassinated. Only then did de Blasio stop praising the protesters and letting them shut down highways and invade stores with impunity.
Obama, even as Baltimore still smoldered over the Freddie Gray case, sneered that incidents involving dead black men and cops were “not new, ” then, after Moore died, switched gears to say cops have “a tough job.” The American Civil Liberties Uniontweeted after charges were filed against six Baltimore cops that the “Black Spring has begun,” an awkward phrase given that three of the charged cops are black.
[. . .]
The progressives condemn stop-and-frisk and virtually eliminate it, then profess to be shocked when young thugs carry and use illegal guns. Trying to avoid blame, the progressives demand another round of social programs to keep troublemakers out of trouble.
The one thing they won’t support is the one thing that has been proven to work — aggressive policing.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/05/sharpton-de-blasio-and-obama-only-love-cops-when-convenient/

Sharpton, de Blasio, Obama only love cops when convenient
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
May 5, 2015 | 10:37pm

August 20, 2014

Lack of Journalists Ability To Think Encourages Violence




[From article] It’s not just African-Americans who are stuck in the sixties. Reporters are still seeking out the Kerner Commission’s white racists, who are ultimately to blame for all racial problems. Historians and sociologists are offering structural explanations for the violence; whites in general, and small businesses in particular, have little to say but simply flee to safer climes. [. . .] Riots bring but one certainty—enormous economic and social costs. Businesses flee, taking jobs and tax revenues with them. Home values decline for all races, but particularly for blacks. Insurance costs rise and civic morale collapses. The black and white middle classes move out. Despite its busy port and enormous geographic assets, Newark, New Jersey has never fully recovered from its 1967 riot. This year, Newark elected as its mayor Ras Baraka, the son and political heir of Amiri Baraka—the intellectual inspiration for the 1967 unrest. The story is similar in Detroit, which lost half its residents between 1967 and 2000. Civic authority was never restored after the late 1960s riots, which never really ended; they just continued in slow motion. “It got decided a long time ago in Detroit,” explained Adolph Mongo, advisor to the jailed former “hip-hop mayor,” Kwame Kilpatrick, that “the city belongs to the black man. The white man was a convenient target until there were no white men left in Detroit.” [. . .] The drama persists in part because so many journalists and academics, not to mention black activists, have so much invested in it. It’s the conceptual air that they breathe. http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0818fs.html Fred Siegel A Grotesque Pantomime of Repression and Redemption Activists and journalists are stuck in the racial resentments of the 1960s. 18 August 2014

June 27, 2013

Chicago Gang Beats Theft Victims











http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130625/lakeview/mob-beats-man-unconscious-outside-belmont-cta-station

Crowd Watches as Man Beaten Unconscious Outside Belmont CTA Station
By Erin Meyer
on June 25, 2013 3:16pm | Updated on June 25, 2013 3:16pm

September 10, 2012

Four Young Men Shot Dead In New York City In 4 1/2 Hours

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sat_slay_mayhem_wt30MoaeQMHtBydY7dfLUN

Sat. slay mayhem
By JESSICA SIMEONE
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:38 AM, September 9, 2012
Posted: 11:53 PM, September 8, 2012

July 15, 2012

Criticism of Black Racial Violence Beginning to Appear

Denial of pervasive black racism is apparent at Harvard University as expressed in their student newspaper, The Crimson, and in Harvard's host city Cambridge MA as expressed in the local weekly publication, The Cambridge Chronicle. Black racism is never reported by either newspaper. Cambridge City police refuse to identify the race or skin color of suspects who they arrest. When a civilian posts a comment lamenting abuse of politicians, not black citizens, but politicians, black readers make personal attacks, on the person who made the comment calling them "racist," "bitter," "an idiot," and worse. How much influence does Harvard have making policy across the US? It is quite extensive. Civility is often the excuse to silence criticism of black officials, and black celebrities.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/blogger-why-dont-blacks-behave/

WND EXCLUSIVE
BLOGGER: WHY DON'T BLACKS BEHAVE?
'All people want to do is fight. Y'all acting like animals'
July 14, 2012

February 8, 2012

Youth Better Trained Than Police

This headline is misleading. Taxpayers, the 99 percent will pay for what the anarchists do. Youth employs new technology and uses it against powerful institutions who are clueless about its utility unless they can make money from it. Police and the FBI use technology to control and to destroy the lives of law abiding citizens. They violate laws they are sworn to uphold yet they are unable to stop abuses of technology when it is turned against them. How poorly are police trained these days?

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1402079&position=0

Hacker group: BPD will pay for Occupy eviction
By O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

February 6, 2012

Student, 11, Sets Special Needs Student on Fire

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/236652/8/New-Port-Richey-student-set-on-fire

[video embedded]
WTSP Tampa FL
New Port Richey student set on fire, parent concerned about safety
10:26 AM, Feb 6, 2012
Written by Althea Paul

August 14, 2011

Evil Is The Cause of Violence

[From article]
"Who, as of, say, 1989, could have imagined that in barely 20 years, what was then known as the Free World could sink so far?
What we are seeing in London and other English cities is an outpouring of evil. To try to explain evil as the result of something else is almost always a mistake.
The urge to do evil is a primary motivation, not the indirect consequence of something else."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/burning_london_fXsZQ7VVogrS92rxuoRkHL

Burning London
No excuses for evil
By JOHN HINDERAKER
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:16 AM, August 11, 2011
Posted: 10:35 PM, August 10, 2011

August 10, 2011

Liberal Policies Spawned Violent Youth

[From article]
"The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.
[. . .]
An underclass has existed throughout history, which once endured appalling privation. Its spasmodic outbreaks of violence, especially in the early 19th century, frightened the ruling classes.
Its frustrations and passions were kept at bay by force and draconian legal sanctions, foremost among them capital punishment and transportation to the colonies.
Today, those at the bottom of society behave no better than their forebears, but the welfare state has relieved them from hunger and real want.
When Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith recently urged employers to take on more British workers and fewer migrants, he was greeted with a hoarse laugh.
[. . .]
John Stuart Mill wrote in his great 1859 essay On Liberty: ‘The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.’
[. . .]
So who is to blame? The breakdown of families, the pernicious promotion of single motherhood as a desirable state, the decline of domestic life so that even shared meals are a rarity, have all contributed importantly to the condition of the young underclass.
The social engineering industry unites to claim that the conventional template of family life is no longer valid."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters
By Max Hastings
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 12:49 PM on 10th August 2011

April 26, 2011

Obama Silent on Black Racist Violence

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_obamas_silent_in_the_face_1.html

April 26, 2011
The Obamas Silent in the Face of Race Atrocity
By Lauri B. Regan
American Thinker

December 28, 2010

Failure to Recognize Importance of Two-parent Families

Government and taxpayer funded agencies allied to address this problem will never succeed. Having a functioning two-parent family cannot be matched for bringing up children. The refusal of liberals to recognize this wastes taxpayer funds and permits increasing criminal youth behavior.

[From article]
"a collaborative effort among the Police Department, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge Public Schools, and the Department of Human Services. It is founded on the principle that in order to meet the needs of at-risk youth there needs to be ongoing collaboration between families and the agencies that support the city’s youth."
[link to article embedded]


http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1808786153/Cambridge-Police-commissioner-Harvard-professor-write-article-on-at-risk-youth

Cambridge Police commissioner, Harvard professor write article on at-risk youth
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Dec 28, 2010 @ 12:47 PM

October 10, 2009

Chicago Youth Gangs Not Unique


http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/oct/10/the-wild-gangs-of-chicago/

Dan K. Thomasson thomassondan (at) aol.com.
The wild gangs of Chicago
Ventura County Star
Saturday, October 10, 2009

June 20, 2009

Role of Fathers


"one third of American children live without any father and that, in many inner cities, the out-of-wedlock birth rate exceeds seventy percent. Also well known, though rarely acknowledged, is the devastation that such a lack of paternity has wreaked on children and society more generally. Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two-parent counterparts."

[. . .]

"horse farmer and communitarian author Wendell Berry observes, marriage--like friendships, families, and neighborhoods--'is a form of bondage, and involved in our humanity is always the wish to escape. . . . But involved in our humanity also is the warning that we can escape only into loneliness and meaninglessness.'"

http://www.firstthings.com/RSS/onthesquare/2009/06/on-the-demise-of-fatherhood

or

http://tinyurl.com/lqceej

On the Demise of Fatherhood
Andrew Peach
First Things
June 17, 2009

May 17, 2009

Ending Youth Violence


This is a PR piece for more taxpayer funds. It is a way to keep people employed without addressing the underlying cause of youth violence. In 1991 a few criminal justice experts recognized that single parent homes was a contributing factor. Liberals who promote this funding refuse to focus. The latest figure is 40 percent of US births are to unmarried women. That is a large source of much of youth violence.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_05_17_Advocates:_Program_cuts_creating_%E2%80%98perfect_storm__for_youth_violence/

or

http://tinyurl.com/r6geoh

Advocates: Program cuts creating ‘perfect storm’ for youth violence
By Colneth Smiley Jr.
Boston Herald
Sunday, May 17, 2009

February 20, 2007

Legislature Enables Psychiatric Abuses, Violence

Legislature Enables Psychiatric Abuses, Violence

NAMI's letter ("Tolman does good job for mentally ill," Letter, Cambridge Chronicle, February 14, 2007) is an example of why I asked twice to speak with the new editor of the Chronicle. It is a recurring problem with new editors. Few journalists are aware of the role of NAMI, and how many serious psychiatric abuses are accepted.
NAMI gets a few million each year from drug companies to promote drug treatment. For evidence of NAMI's drug funding, see here:
www.psychsearch.net/nami_checks.html
and for a story on the funding see here:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/11/nami.html
NAMI says, "The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts, [is] a family-based advocacy and support group." That sounds as if they are concerned with protecting patients from abuses. NAMI promotes treatment. They work for the drug companies as a corporate "grass-roots" lobbyist. It is the most successful deception by corporations in the US.
Sen. Tolman gets awards from NAMI because he delivers for their campaign contributions to promote more taxpayer funds for more treatment. We see over and over again and again the results of the over-drugging of young people, most recently at Lincoln-Sudbury High School where a young man on psychiatric drugs killed another student.
Edel Quinn's anger ("Appalled at DSS," Letter, Cambridge Chronicle, February 14, 2007) should be directed at the legislature, which wrote the laws permitting the drug abuses of young people. Clonidine, the drug Riley overdosed on, is a hypertension drug approved for adults, but not for children. Rather than honoring NAMI and Tolman they should be exposed as the cause of much violence in this country.
US journalists and politicians remain ignorant of the clinical studies in England proving that psychiatric drugs cause violence. It is time to expose the abuses of NAMI and the drug companies, and to stop them.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

Letter: Tolman does good job for mentally ill
Cambridge Chronicle
Letter
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - Updated: 12:38 PM EST

Boston, Cambridge, Belmont and Watertown should be grateful they have a legislator such as Chairman Steven Tolman, who has taken an active and committed interest in the well-being of those in the commonwealth who suffer from a mental illness. He has filed legislation that will ensure that the restricting of access to effective and/or innovative medications, especially those for acute mental illness, will not occur without public input.
As the Senate assistant vice chairman on Ways and Means, and the past chairman of the Joint Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Chairman Steven Tolman has worked tirelessly on behalf of the mentally ill so that they can receive the proper treatment that they deserve and need.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts, a family-based advocacy and support group, is proud to support Chairman Tolman’s mission to protect the quality of care provided to those citizens of Massachusetts with mental illnesses.

TOBY FISHER, MBA/MSW
Executive Director NAMI-Mass.

Letter: Appalled at DSS
Cambridge Chronicle
Letter
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - Updated: 12:42 PM EST
I am appalled again to see the mistakes made by DSS in the case of the death of little Rebecca Riley, RIP. The last time I was so appalled was when Haleigh Poutre’s case was shown on television. The then-governor of the state of Massachusetts requested a report on her case to be prepared by an independent panel, but it seems the mistakes made then are being repeated again and again by DSS.
Is there no accountability in this state? How many more children in this state have to suffer at the hands of their parents — the ones who are supposed to be taking care of them? When they fail, then the state must provide a better home for them. We do not want to read about the death of another child. Please, Lord.
EDEL QUINN
Huron Avenue
[Cambridge, MA]