Tag: law enforcement

New law proposed to ban body armour sales in US

A new law that has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives “would prohibit the sale, transfer or possession of military-level body armor by civilians”.

In other words, private citizens all over the entire nation would be permanently banned from owning body armor if this bill gets passed and signed into law. The bill that I am talking about is H.R. 5344 (The Responsible Body Armor Possession Act).

The driving force behind this new law is Democrat Mike Honda from California. To Honda, it doesn’t matter that large numbers of very responsible Americans have purchased body armor to protect themselves and their families in a society that is rapidly decaying.

Instead, it makes perfect sense to Honda to ban body armor because “access to military-grade body armor emboldens criminals and mass shooters to act.” And Honda wants to make possession of body armor a criminaloffense with a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. This is absolutely crazy, and it is yet another example of the “police state mentality” that is so prevalent among our politicians these days.

When I first learned about this new law, I could hardly believe it. But it is actually true. The following is an excerpt from a news story about the introduction of this new bill…

Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, has announced legislation that would block civilians from accessing military-grade body armor to prevent criminals from using them in gun battles with law enforcement.

Honda, speaking at a news conference in San Jose Wednesday morning with police chiefs and the district attorneys and sheriffs from Santa Clara and Alameda counties, said his proposal would discourage criminals from wearing enhanced body armor to commit mass shootings.

“This bill will keep military body armor out of the wrong hands,” Honda said. “It would ensure that only law enforcement, firefighters and other first responders would be able to access enhanced body armor.”

Source: Michael Snyder

Amabherethe to clean up Baberton

drugsParents are responsible for keeping their children away from criminal activities, the department of community safety said on Sunday.

“Women must also not allow poverty to keep them in abusive environments, which usually leads to their children being sexually abused,” Mpumalanga Community Safety MEC Vusi Shongwe said in a statement.

Shongwe was speaking at a public gathering between residents, the police and other government departments in Barberton on Saturday.

Residents called on Shongwe to strengthen law enforcement to fight crime in the area by bringing in the police’s Tactical Response Team, also called “Amabherethe”.

The residents listed the increasing use of drugs by youth in the area, school pupils loitering during school hours and the rising number of rape and common crimes in the area as some of the problems in the community.

Shongwe said communities should stop promoting crime by buying stolen goods.

“These perpetrators are known in our communities, therefore communities must play a role by informing police and not protect them,” Shongwe said.

The department and the police would embark on a clean-up programme in Barberton.

They would also target non-compliant liquor stores, Shongwe said. – Sapa

Crime pays: International crime ranks as top economic player

geldwasPolice find it hard to compete with international crime syndicates who rake in $870 billion a year via activities from drug trading and human trafficking to identity theft, a top UN official said Wednesday.

“This is an enormous amount of money,” Yury Fedotov, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, told AFP in an interview.

If crime syndicates were classed as an industry, their collective clout would rank them among the world’s top economic players.

Crisis-era cuts have widened a longstanding financial gulf between criminal gangs and those who fight them, Fedotov said.

“Gangs are better funded than any law enforcement institution. That is clear, and especially if we compare the huge amount of illicit revenues with limited budgets of many law enforcement institutions,” he said.

But funding is just part of the problem, Fedotov explained, as law enforcement agencies struggle to keep up with shape-shifting networks that move faster than the traditionalist mafias of the past.

“Contemporary organised crime is also sophisticated and highly adaptive,” Fedotov said.

“We should be more flexible, and not only follow the flow, but also prevent and anticipate developments in terms of organised crime,” he added.

Cybercrime is a major growth area, he explained, given that around one third of the world’s population now has active access to the Internet.

The annual proceeds of online identity theft alone are estimated at $1.0 billion, he noted, though that is still outstripped by $20 billion generated by trafficking in endangered species.

In the narcotics trade, meanwhile, concerns focus on the rising number of designer drugs.

Fedotov also flagged worries about rising drug trafficking via the troubled Sahel and West Africa — notably through lawless Guinea Bissau, which he dubbed the “weakest link”.

The trade through the region has been stoked by notoriously violent central American cocaine-running gangs whose north American markets have shrunk. – The Citizen