Crime

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Over a year ago, I was involved in a case where a patient attempted to punch a pregnant doctor. I stepped between them and took the punch instead. I pressed charges. After a year’s time, where I was served with no fewer than 5 subpoenas and had at least two depositions taken, as well as giving a written statement, and a few calls and visits involving the police and the prosecutor’s office, the case is done.

One of the depositions was legendary. It went like this:

• Did you restrain my client? Yes.
• Were you aware that he is disabled? No.
• Are you allowed to restrain patients? Yes, under certain circumstances.
• What circumstances? If a doctor orders it, or if a patient is an imminent threat to themselves or someone else.
• Did the doctor at any time ever ask you to restrain the patient? No.
• Are you saying that you restrained my client using your professional judgement? Yes.
• What are your qualifications? (We cover my licensure, college, training, and experience. It sounds rather impressive when listed like that, if I might say so myself.)
• Is the training provided by your employer in compliance with Florida law? I don’t know.
• Why don’t you know? You are asking me to draw a legal conclusion, and that isn’t my area of expertise. If you want to know about the compliance of this training with state law, I suggest you contact my employer.
• Let’s get back to the subject. In your professional opinion, can you give me an example of a person who is presenting an imminent threat to someone else? Sure. One that comes immediately to mind is when a grown man is trying to punch a pregnant woman in the back of the head.
• Ok, let’s move on to another line of questions. (I smirked. The prosecutor had to cover her face with her hands for a moment)

Since he was arrested in my incident, he has been arrested at least half a dozen times for attacking people, burglary, domestic violence, and flagging down a motorist to attack them. That doesn’t sound like he is too disabled to attack anyone. In fact, at the time of my last deposition, he was on probation for an assault charge from March of 2025.

Anyhow, the case has ended with a plea agreement. He got a year’s probation. He still has charges pending in another case, but we all know that nothing will be done to him. The courts have done nothing. Again, and again. Attack, arrest, probation. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Sooner or later, someone will punch this guy’s ticket. I just hope that it won’t have to be me. I don’t need the hassle.

I did learn an important lesson here. This case cost me hours of my time and was a major inconvenience. This guy? His lawyer was free, and he faced no real consequences. I won’t press charges next time, it just isn’t worth my time.

Why am I seeing so much of the “Where is your warrant?” bullshit on social media. Cops don’t need to show a warrant while arresting someone, especially not to anyone who demands to see it.

Hopefully they did have a warrant seeing how they went into a home without permission or exigent circumstances.

— Beerus3.0 (@Beerus57lt1) December 29, 2025

I’m to the point where I think it should be legal to enter your home and clear it out by force.

A man sprayed his own HIV positive blood into the eyes of two hospital staff members. He was given time served- just 91 days in jail.

Criminals are being permitted to attack people with impunity. I’ve been attacked at work twice in the last 5 years, and they got away with it in both cases.

Imagine finding out at 45 years old that you are on the missing and endangered child list, and were abducted more than 40 years ago. Even more surprising, your mother was the person who abducted you and is now under arrest for the crime.

That’s what happened when Debra Newton was arrested in The Villages, Florida this week. She stands accused of running away with her daughter, changing their names, and going into hiding back in 1983. It was confirmed by DNA testing:

You’re not who you think you are. You’re a missing person. You’re Michelle Marie Newton,

The entire thing began when Debra Newton abducted Michelle, who was three years old when she and her mother left Louisville, Kentucky to begin a new job in Georgia and prepare a new home for the family.

I know that there are those who would claim that, being the child’s mother, she can’t have abducted her. My response to that is that the Father of that child has rights, and those rights were taken from him when his wife ran off with the kid. I’m glad they finally brought him closure, and did it in a way that he isn’t getting screwed into paying child support.

Incredibly unjust https://t.co/eR3MCu7fvI

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 5, 2025

As the father of a dead child, you wait until he is released and avenge your daughter. The police and courts exist to ensure that the accused get a fair trial. When that system fails, people will take matters into their own hands.

The eleven counties in the US with the highest number of homicides are (in order from most to least):

• Chicago (Cook County)
• Los Angeles
• Harris County (Houston)
• Philadelphia
• New York City (all 5 boroughs)
• Wayne County (Detroit)
• Shelby County (Memphis)
• Maricopa (Phoenix)
• Baltimore
• Dallas
• Marion County (Indianapolis)

Those eleven counties had a total of 4,758 of the 21,570 homicides in the US during the year 2020. Those eleven cities saw 22% of all US homicides that year, despite the fact that they contain only 41.7 million people, or about 12% of the US population. Those eleven cities have a homicide rate of 11.4 per 100,000. The only thing that shocked me about this was that St. Louis and New Orleans weren’t in this list.

In fact, diving in deeper, there are 31 counties where 42% of US homicides take place. The most violent 62 counties (2% of the counties in the nation) contain 25% of the US population, but represent 52% of all US homicides.

Contrast that with the 1634 counties who had zero homicides in 2020, plus the 502 counties that only had a single homicide, and you have 502 homicides out of a population of 32 million people, a homicide rate of 1.52 per 100,000. That’s right- 18% of the nation (60 million people or so) lives in a county with no more than a single homicide.

The part that doesn’t surprise me was, when I tried to analyze these homicide stats in comparison to the racial makeup of those counties, there was no information publicly available. Since we already know that more than half of all homicides are committed by blacks, it is not surprising that those stats would be hidden, and I am sure that it isn’t Asian software engineers or Amish farmers who are committing the murders in this country.

Sources:

• John Lott’s report to the Crime Prevention Resource Center
• National Association of Counties
• FBI 2020 supplementary homicide report

A 7-11 clerk was being attacked by a customer because she refused to accept a counterfeit $100 bill. Read what happened next:

Stephanie Dilyard was working alone when a customer attempted to pay for burritos, beef sticks, and ice cream with a counterfeit $100 bill. When she refused the transaction, the situation quickly escalated.

“He threatened me and said he was going to slice my head off,” Dilyard recounted. As she tried to call police, the suspect began throwing items and then came behind the counter. “I tried to run off, but he grabbed his hands around my neck and pushed me out of the counter space. That’s when I pulled out my gun and I shot him.”

Good on her. However, her employer didn’t agree: they fired her for defending herself. I used to get roasted for this on the now defunct Packing.org, but I think that, if a property owner prohibits carry, they should be subject to liability for not taking steps to defend you from criminals. Apparently, property rights are sacrosanct to the libertarian crowd. This is what an attorney had to say about the shooting:

Ed Blau, a criminal defense attorney, explained the company’s stance, stating, “7-Eleven as a corporation, they do not want all of their employees packing heat while working all over the country. That presents a tremendous liability risk for them.” Blau suggested that Dilyard might face challenges in pursuing a wrongful termination lawsuit, as the company’s policy was clear.

The libertarian crowd has long held that, if a property owner wants to prohibit weapons or self defense on their property and you get attacked by a criminal while on the property, well, that’s just too damned bad. That’s the risk you take while on someone else’s property. I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, this is no different than a property owner chaining the emergency exit shut, then an arsonist sets the building on fire. While the owner didn’t start the fire, his actions contributed to the loss of life that followed.

So back to the criminals on property discussion: A property owner or employer prohibits weapons. A criminal comes in and stabs you, but you were prohibited the most effective means of self defense. It should be left to a jury as to how much of the liability is on the property owner. Perhaps the jury rules 10%, or even 70%. Each case is different, that’s why we have juries in the first place.

Otherwise, you create the situation we have now- you are attacked by a criminal on someone else’s property. The property owner can’t be held liable for the actions of criminals, so they are free from liability. However, if that property owner doesn’t prohibit weapons or self defense, then the criminal who gets shot in self defense can now sue the property owner for damages that were the direct result of their criminal behavior.

What a perverse incentive that favors criminals.

To sum it up- your employer is in business to make money. They don’t care if you live or die, unless your death somehow hurts the bottom line. The reason for this is that our current legal system punishes property owners and shields criminals. That needs to change.

Now I am going to get off of here and go fly my DCS plane. I’m learning inflight refueling today.