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GLENDORA, Calif. (KABC) -- Glendora police this week arrested and released a man for allegedly stealing cars and other property three times in the same day, blaming California's new zero-bail policy for their inability to keep the suspect behind bars. In early April, the California Judicial Council established a new policy setting bail at zero for most misdemeanor and low-level felonies to keep the jail population lower during the coronavirus crisis. As a result, Glendora police say, they were unable to keep a car theft suspect in custody, and ended up arresting him three times in the span of 12...

In the first 30 days of the policy, the Los Angeles Police Department has arrested 213 individuals multiple times, with 23 being arrested three or more times. They account for about 5% of all of those booked on misdemeanors or felonies, records show. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said while crime in Los Angeles is down in almost all categories since the pandemic began and L.A. implemented its stay-at-home order, career criminals are now exploiting the situation, getting arrested over and over with no real consequences. An examination of LAPD arrests shows that while arrests are down 37% in the last...

The Old Media in the form of the AP planted a doozie of misinformation regarding Bernie Goetz's recent arrest for attempting to sell marijuana to a police officer. The article described Goetz as a "vigilante" and racist, the thugs he shot as "panhandlers," and his gun as "illegal." All of the characterizations are completely wrong and deceptive. Frist, Goetz was not a vigilante, he was only defending himself. In 1984, Goetz was confronted by four youths demanding money. The thug uses a language of tone and body so that while his words may be asking for money, the real message...

Nikko Jenkins left prison in July well short of the maximum time he could have spent there. That's renewing questions over prison time and state law. Sgt. John Wells, with the Omaha Police Officers Association said, "He was definitely one of those people that when he was released from prison, had grave concerns that something like this may happen." Wells and his partner had taken Jenkins into custody a decade ago for robbery. By the time the case worked it's way through court, Jenkins had been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Under the Good Time law, he was released...

AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — "My wife, my son — I have to get back to them," Daniel kept telling himself, from the moment he was arrested in Seattle for driving with an expired license, all the way through the deportation proceeding that delivered him to Mexico in June. Nothing would deter him from crossing the border again. He had left his hometown at 24, he said. Twelve years later, he spoke nearly fluent English and had an American son, a wife and three brothers in the United States. "I’ll keep trying," he said, "until I’ll get there." This is increasingly...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Wednesday was a tough day for Flor Hull. Just a week ago, her beloved dog Ruffy was allegedly killed in her yard by a pair of loose pit bulls. Hull's husband found their dog's body when he got home but cleaned it up before the rest of the family arrived. Hull brought herself to look at the pictures for the first time Wednesday. The attack had an eyewitness. "As I came out, there was a pit bull running around that corner right there," said neighbor Raul Garza, who said the pit bulls went after him, too.

Redding animal regulation officers Thursday took two pit bulls from an apartment after the dogs allegedly attacked a man in a wheelchair while he was taking his dog out. Animal regulation officers and Redding police were called to Roanoke Avenue in Redding’s Martin Luther King Jr. neighborhood about 1:45 p.m. after several reports of dogs attacking people. Witnesses said 57-year-old Charles Osborn, who lives on Roanoke Avenue, was taking his dog outside when the two pit bulls got loose from an apartment on the 1800 block of Roanoke. Several neighbors said Osborn suffered scratches to his arms and was bloodied...

Another cop killed by a repeat offender http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20128356&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

Two teenage boys were arrested after allegedly throwing chemical bombs into the Pioneer High School's homecoming dance and a 16-year-old girl's birthday party, sending three to the hospital Saturday night. Police booked the 16 and 17-year-old boys on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, San Jose police officer Enrique Garcia said. The teens, according to police reports, first threw a chemical bomb into a crowd at the homecoming dance around 9:50 p.m., Garcia said. No one was injured and the boys ran away. San Jose Unified School District spokeswoman Karen Fuqua said approximately 700 students were on hand for...

(Michael P. Tremoglie is a former Philadelphia police officer and the author of "A Sense of Duty," available at Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com.) ONCE AGAIN, another killing - this time a double murder - in the city. Once again, the murderer has at least one prior violent felony conviction. Mustafa Ali has allegedly confessed to killing two armored-car security guards while they were collecting money from an ATM in Northeast Philadelphia. He has a federal conviction for bank robbery. He served just six of the seven years he was sentenced to in 1993, followed by seven years of supervised release after...

MANCHESTER, Ky. - John Becknell enters the courtroom and finds his usual spot in the front row, just behind the prosecutor’s table. Becknell — a devout Christian known to many as “Brother John” — pulls out a pen and an inch-thick docket, mostly of drug and alcohol cases. For the next three hours, he takes diligent notes on the judge’s actions, the attendance of police officers, repeat offenders making another appearance, and so on. The purpose? To make sure drug offenders in eastern Kentucky are getting what they deserve. Excerpted..

A bill to allow the death penalty to be assessed against a person who commits a second sex offense against a child under 14 years old passes the state Senate.

America Online Inc. agreed to pay customers as much as $25 million to settle claims that it wrongly billed them for some online services and products. America Online, part of Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, charged customers for services and products such as an AOL Desk Planner without consumers' consent, plaintiffs in several proposed class-action lawsuits claimed. The plaintiffs also said AOL billed customers for accounts after they tried to cancel them.

Man convicted in teen's death arrested for drunken driving again IOWA CITY, Iowa A man who spent more than two years in prison for drunken driving after killing a teenage boy on a bicycle has been arrested again after a minor accident. Police say Lawrence Henning, of North Liberty, was given a field breath test after the accident on Thursday in North Liberty. Officers say Henning smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and had difficulty balancing. The blood-alcohol test at the scene showed a zero-point-one-six percent reading, twice Iowa's legal limit of zero-point-oh-eight. Henning, who is now 48, was convicted...

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California governor who made his name playing movie tough guys, is under attack for freeing a record number of "lifers" from prison. The governor has granted parole to 34 convicted murderers and kidnappers in his first seven months of office, an astonishing record compared with his predecessor. Democrat Gray Davis, the former governor, freed only eight life sentence prisoners in his four-and-a-half years in office. The Terminator star turned Republican politician believes, however, that "people can reform and be reformed". But his approach has brought criticism from victim support groups. Harriet Salarno, president of Crime Victims United...

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Prisoners who take part in faith-based rehabilitation programs are much less likely to return to a life of crime, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Byron Johnson of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, found that graduates of Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship program are less likely than non-graduates to return to crime. The program provides spiritual counseling, job training and mentoring to prisoners nearing the end of their sentences. Of the 177 ex-prisoners who participated in the study, the 75 who underwent biblical education and counseling were...