Bookeristas on Crime

Kenneth Durden: "Climate Change Causes Prostitution?"

Kenneth Durden, an American libertarian-conservative blogger, isn't buying an emergent meme: "In more climate change hysteria, U.N. rep Suneeta Mukherjee suggests that the supposed phenomenon is now responsible for driving women into prostitution. If anyone doubts that there is an economic and political basis to much of the global warming madness, just follow these kinds of stories. The U.N. will continue its efforts to grow in power and stature as well as redistribute wealth from nations like the U.S. The same game will be played within our borders with nonsense like cap and trade."

Justice Malala: "Great Police Work And Not A Shot Fired. End South Africa's 'Shoot To Kill' Policy"

The South African center-right journalist argues that competent cops get convictions using their brains and not bullets. He discusses a hijacking, robbery, and attempted murder of a schoolteacher who was pushed off a bridge and survived the 20-story fall: "In the case of this young woman, the police had a lucky break, and the professionalism and presence of mind to take advantage of it. During the hijackers' wanderings with [victim Kavisha] Seevnarain, while they withdrew money from various ATMs, one of them dropped his driver's licence. A few hours later he laid a case of theft at Durban Central police station. The police's provincial hijacking team and its national intervention unit had been piecing together the events on the night of the hijacking and, tracking the movements of the hijackers through the ATM withdrawals from their victim's account, they made the connection between the lost licence and Seevnarain. Four days later, they raided a flat in Durban and arrested three men. They linked the three to other hijackings in the area. Here is the clincher. The police extracted confessions from two of the three and, on Friday, magistrate Anand Maharaj had the accused, Wandile Nsibande (20) and Sibusiso Dlamini (29), in the dock in front of him. In the public gallery was Seevnarain's family and members of a public outraged by the crime."

After mentioning that the criminals got 25-35 years in prison, Mr. Malala continues: "This is a case that shows that the police and judicial system at their best: the police were empowered, not with guns, but with the talent, the tools and the education to investigate. The courts were swift and professional in putting a solid case together. Justice was not delayed and has not been denied. The moronic drone of politicians going on about 'shooting to kill' is not what our police service needs. The Seevnarain case is the perfect example of what our police leaders should be celebrating and entrenching in the police. But are they listening? Will they empower more cops to do what these brave policemen and prosecutors achieved in KZN? I doubt it. Instead, expect more 'shoot to kill', with more innocent people being caught in the crossfire."

Kenneth Durden: "From Rapist To Police Chief?"

The libertarian-conservative blogger writes: "Derek S. Snavely, who was accused of raping a woman while on duty as a West Virginia State Police officer last year, is now police chief in Hinton, West Virginia. Snavely claims the sex was consensual and the woman admits to not resisting. Still, the fact that he was on duty and had pulled the woman over takes away from his argument. It's unethical at the least and should keep this man from holding such a position of authority."