{"id":2255300,"date":"2024-05-29T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-solution-to-the-violent-crime-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T22:08:46","slug":"the-only-solution-to-the-violent-crime-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-solution-to-the-violent-crime-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending the Violent Crime Epidemic: The Ultimate Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-only-solution-to-the-violent-crime-epidemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage highlights the surge in violent crimes and the catalytic converter\u200c theft epidemic, exacerbated by diminishing law \u2064enforcement.\u2064 An incident involving\u2064 actor Johnny Wactor underscores the\u200b audacity \u200cof criminals. Tessa Farrell\u2019s response, advocating for empathy towards \u2063criminals, reflects a dangerous societal mindset. The narrative stresses the\u200d complexity\u200d of criminal behavior, dismissing poverty \u200bas\u200d the sole motivator and advocating for stricter \u200cconsequences.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know you\u2019re living in a state of total lawlessness when criminals start pulling off heists that, under normal circumstances, they\u2019d don\u2019t even attempt. Think of the train robberies in the Wild West with Butch Cassidy, where they\u2019d detach the rail car and dynamite the safe and so on. Brazen crimes like this only happen when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-claim-defund-the-police-strict-gun-laws-keep-people-from-defending-selves\/\" title=\"Critics Claim 'Defund the Police,' Strict Gun Laws Keep People From Defending Selves\">law enforcement isn\u2019<\/a>t doing its job for one reason or another. Otherwise, the risk of getting caught is just too high, so the thieves don\u2019t even try.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Post-BLM, there\u2019s been a lot of coverage of crime rates increasing as police retreat and criminals become emboldened. But there hasn\u2019t been much coverage of the dramatic increase in one specific kind of crime, which used to be relatively rare. I\u2019m talking about the theft of catalytic converters. Stealing catalytic converters doesn\u2019t take very long, but it\u2019s highly conspicuous. Thieves typically slide under cars and start sawing \u2014 or they lift cars for easier access. In either case, it\u2019s a loud and noticeable process. It\u2019s brazen \u2014 and it\u2019s definitely not the kind of thing you\u2019d try if you thought there might be any police officers around. But there aren\u2019t many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-minneapolis-police-officers-left-after-getting-slammed-now-city-spending-millions-for-new-recruits\/\" title=\"Hundreds Of Minneapolis Police Officers Left After Getting Slammed. Now City Spending Millions For New Recruits.\">police officers left<\/a> in major cities in this country, which is why thefts of catalytic converters have skyrocketed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To give just one prominent example \u2014 in the city of Los Angeles, from 2018 to 2023, the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-announces-267-million-in-grants-to-stop-retail-theft\/\" title=\"Newsom allocates 7M grants to combat retail theft.\">catalytic converter thefts<\/a> per year has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/on-your-side-prius-is-biggest-target-for-catalytic-converter-thieves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">increased<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by more than 720%. Put another way \u2014 Los Angeles went from having 970 catalytic converters stolen every year to more than 8,000 stolen every year. And the numbers are similar in many other major cities. Nationally, catalytic converter thefts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nada.org\/legislative\/fight-rising-catalytic-converter-theft#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20catalytic%20converter,vehicle%20owners%20averaging%20over%20%242%2C500.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jumped<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by more than 900% from 2019 to 2023. Thieves want these converters because they have precious metals they can sell for hundreds of dollars. Now that they know the police aren\u2019t interested in stopping them, they\u2019re just lifting cars in the middle of the street and removing the converters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s what happened in the early hours of Saturday morning to actor Johnny Wactor, who was a regular in the show \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d for two years. He also appeared in the show \u201cWestworld.\u201d Around 3 a.m., Wactor and a co-worker were leaving a rooftop bar in downtown Los Angeles, where Wactor served as a bartender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s when Wactor noticed that three individuals had raised his Toyota Prius with a floor lift, and he initially suspected that his vehicle was being towed. (Thieves target Priuses and other hybrids because their catalytic converters have a higher concentration of precious metals than gas cars). But when Wactor confronted the group, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/1795470655460450740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to police, he was shot, \u201cwithout provocation.\u201d The men fled and Wactor died shortly afterwards. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The woman you just saw, Tessa Farrell, is Wactor\u2019s ex-fiance. In a video she posted to TikTok on Monday, Farrell states that she hadn\u2019t seen Wactor \u201cin a few years\u201dprior to his death. She also indicates that she hasn\u2019t \u201cbeen talking to him\u201d lately because she\u2019s been busy working on a movie. She then goes into some detail about their relationship and how much she cared about him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as the video goes on, Farrell reveals how little she understands about what happened to Wactor, and about violent crime in general. Before I show you the rest of the footage, I want to make it very clear that my intention is not to mock a woman who\u2019s grieving. The point here is not to demean Tessa Farrell in any way. But the fact remains that the ideas she promotes in this video must be addressed because they are a cancer on society that has cost many people their lives, and will continue to cost people their lives unless these ideas are rejected. So with that in mind, here\u2019s the rest of Tessa Farrell\u2019s video:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This attitude on display here is deeply sick, yet also entirely pervasive. She implores the criminals who just murdered a loved one to \u201cstop being so mean\u201d and to \u201clove each other\u201d and \u201cnot steal.\u201d She acknowledges that the \u201cjob market is hard\u201d but says they \u201cdon\u2019t have to steal.\u201d We\u2019re all in this together, she says. We need to \u201csupport each other.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Violent thugs have been allowed to take over our communities precisely because of this delusional liberal approach to crime. If Tessa were just one naive woman crying out in the wilderness, then this wouldn\u2019t be worth responding to. But she\u2019s one of millions of people saying this. Again, this attitude is why lawlessness has claimed hold of so many communities. People with this view elect people who have the same view, or at least who express the same view, and those people usher in more chaos and criminality. The cycle repeats over and over and over again, while thousands more fall victim to these crimes. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1377-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s the reality these people just can\u2019t wrap their minds around: These criminals cannot be redeemed with a lecture about the value of teamwork. They are not committing crime because they\u2019re poor and desperate. I want to say it again. They are not committing crime because they\u2019re poor and desperate. The job market has nothing to do with it. At all. They steal and kill because they enjoy it. They want to do it, so they do. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Cernovich put it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Cernovich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">succinctly<\/a> on X\/Twitter yesterday when he tweeted: \u201cCriminals like crime.\u201d It really is as simple as that. They act this way because they want to. You could hand them a million dollars and they\u2019d be back out on the street committing petty \u2014 and not so petty \u2014 crimes by next week. You could give them a high paying job in a corner office downtown and they\u2019d never show up for work. Not even for a single day. They\u2019d rather be on the street stealing pieces from people\u2019s cars. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are observable reasons for this. One of the major ones \u2014 though certainly not the only one \u2014 is pretty simple: People with high IQs <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0160289618301466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tend<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  to be more empathetic because they have the intellectual capacity to consider what other people might be thinking or feeling. People with very low IQs often have little or no empathy. A few years ago, there was a study published in the journal \u201cPsychological Science\u201d that came up with a finding along these lines. As The New Haven Register reported at the time, one of the psychologists behind the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/news\/article\/FORUM-Do-less-intelligent-folks-have-empathy-11513418.php\">remarked<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201c\u2018There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others.\u2019 Into account\u201d \u2026 In other words, the less intelligent you are, the harder it may be for you to put yourself in another\u2019s shoes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that finding in mind \u2014 guess where criminals stealing catalytic converters rank on the IQ spectrum? We can assume it\u2019s not very high. In fact we don\u2019t have to assume. Based on the data we have, chronic adult offenders <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com\/correlates-of-crime\/intelligence-and-crime\/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20the%20IQ%20for,deviation%20below%20the%20population%20mean.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  an average IQ of around 85, which is a full standard deviation below the population\u2019s average. In other words, the people committing much of the crime in this country are very stupid. They\u2019re often so stupid that they don\u2019t feel empathy, at least not to the degree that normal people do. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re psychopaths, although that\u2019s certainly true in some cases. It\u2019s that, by and large, they\u2019re morons. There is no reasoning with them because they don\u2019t care what you think. This is not an excuse for them. Not remotely. I\u2019m just trying to explain that there are deep seated problems here, and poverty and desperation have not nearly as much to do with it as people think. Of course the other major factor \u2014 even more significant \u2014 is that many of these criminals were raised in homes without any parental guidance and where there was no effort put in to their moral formation. After all, even if they are low IQ, that doesn\u2019t mean they have to become violent criminals. Being raised correctly can guard against that pretty effectively. But they were not raised correctly, or raised at all, really. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But all of these factors together create a very disturbing situation. The lack of moral guidance, the lack of proper adult supervision growing up, the lack of spiritual formation, and the lack of intellect all together mean that no matter what Tessa Farrell says to these people, it won\u2019t matter. She understands the concept of empathy. They don\u2019t. Although she doesn\u2019t have much understanding of human nature. And that\u2019s why everything she says in that video is completely pointless. It\u2019s also why every politician\u2019s effort to \u201crehabilitate\u201d these thugs is a waste of time. They quite literally don\u2019t even know what rehabilitation means. That\u2019s why the only thing you can do with them is remove them from society. Put them in prison. Lock them away. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it possible for these sorts of people to be redeemed? The type who casually kills another human being after stealing from his car? As a Christian I have to believe that, as a matter of faith. But it takes a supernatural intervention to bring that about, and the simple fact of the matter is that the vast majority of violent criminals will never be functional members of society, ever, in their lives. That\u2019s a fact whether we like it or not. Which is why our only choice is to lock them away forever, and let God be the judge at the end. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even Leftist politicians understand this to some extent, which is why they never blame criminals for their own actions. They find others to blame \u2014 sometimes to comical effect. A year ago, there was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13465005\/Democrats-Nithya-Raman-blames-toyota-thieves-General-Hospital-star-johnny-Wactor-catalytic-converter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  of a Los Angeles city councilwoman named Nithya Raman that made the rounds. She was announcing her decision to vote against a measure that would have, \u201cmade it unlawful for any person to possess a detached catalytic converter unless valid documentation or other proof of lawful possession can be produced.\u201d The point of the measure, obviously, is to help prevent the kind of thefts that led to the death of Johnny Wactor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, the measure passed. But before it did, Raman explained why she opposed it. She said that Toyota was responsible for the thefts of catalytic converters \u2014 not the thieves \u2014 because they made the catalytic converters too easy to steal. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the government requires car manufacturers to place catalytic converters on cars, with the Clean Air Act. And now the government blames car manufacturers for making these converters too easy to steal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be fair, it\u2019s true that a lot of cars have their catalytic converters in the engine bay now, where they\u2019re less accessible to thieves. But the reason these thefts have increased in the last six years has nothing to do with their placement on vehicles. If it did, these thefts would be declining, not increasing, as more manufacturers place the converters in the engine bay. The reason these thefts are skyrocketing is that the police have stopped enforcing the law, and D.A.\u2019s have stopped prosecuting crimes. Rather than admit that, Los Angeles politicians are blaming car manufacturers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are the lengths that Leftists in Los Angeles will go in order to absolve criminals of responsibility for their actions. They\u2019d rather blame Toyota than hire more police to prevent these thefts, which are brazen in pretty much every case. And the family and friends of the victim, in turn, are hopelessly confused about why their loved one is dead. And by the way, whether you think these criminals are responsible for their actions or not, it actually shouldn\u2019t matter. You could make the argument that if most of these criminals are low IQ and were raised in dysfunctional, neglectful homes, then to some extent it isn\u2019t their fault they turned out the way they did. I think that argument only goes so far. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately we all have free will and we all make choices, and should be accountable for them. But it doesn\u2019t actually matter. It\u2019s all academic. Either way, the violent criminals must be removed from society. And in fact I would argue that if they are indeed not responsible for their actions that\u2019s all the MORE reason to remove them, because it means all the more that they probably can\u2019t be rehabilitated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is usually how it goes after a senseless murder. It\u2019s exactly what you saw in that video. We hear from friends and family calling on the community to come together. Sometimes they advocate on behalf of the murderer, telling us to be understanding and forgiving of the scumbag who murdered their loved one. Just once I\u2019d like to see someone calling for justice and punishment. I\u2019d like to hear something like: \u201cThis criminal killed someone I love. I hope that he is brought to justice and that justice is swift and severe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s a much healthier response. It would actually solve the problem, too, because a very small percentage of the population is responsible for an overwhelming amount of violent crime. But you rarely hear anything like it anymore. The people committing these crimes don\u2019t understand much. But they understand exactly what\u2019s happening right now in cities like Los Angeles. And at the expense of innocent men like Johnny Wactor, they\u2019re taking full advantage of the opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a state of lawlessness, criminals attempt audacious heists beyond imagination. Recall Wild West train robberies led by Butch Cassidy &#8211; detaching rail cars, dynamiting safes. 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