Anonymous ID: e65820 Oct. 26, 2021, 4:02 p.m. No.14863400   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3508 >>3622 >>3708 >>3945 >>3949

ABC News’ ‘Gun Violence Tracker’ Pads Numbers with Non-Crimes: Officer-Involved Shootings, Suicides

AWR Hawkins26 Oct 2021

 

ABC News’ “Gun Violence Tracker” pads numbers by counting officer-involved shootings and suicides as gun violence.

 

ABC News is rolling out a “Gun Violence Tracker,” which they will use to keep mass shootings and other high-profile gun crimes at the forefront of American minds.

 

The launch of the tracker coincides with the network’s current miniseries, “Rethinking Gun Violence.”

 

ABC News notes, “We…developed a Gun Violence Tracker to help illustrate the daily toll of gun violence in America in partnership with the independent, nonprofit Gun Violence Archive because of the lack of up-to-date federal data.”

 

The “Gun Violence Tracker” is being carried out in partnership with the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which ABC News describes as “an independent non-profit [that] has been tracking gun-related incidents in the U.S. since 2013 on a near real-time basis through a variety of other sources including law enforcement, media and other government entities.”

 

As ABC News includes GVA numbers in the “Gun Violence Tracker,” it is important to note that GVA counts officer-involved shootings and defensive gun uses as gun violence. The GVA notes:

 

Gun Violence describes the results of all incidents of death or injury or threat with firearms without pejorative judgment within the definition. Violence is defined without intent or consequence as a consideration. To that end a shooting of a victim by a subject/suspect is considered gun violence as is a defensive use or an officer involved shooting. The act itself, no matter the reason is violent in nature.

 

GVA also points out:

 

Our definition of gun violence is intended to be fully inclusionary of disparate elements of gun related incidents…in that, all types of shootings are included, whether OIS, accidental, children shooting themselves, murders, armed robberies, familicide, mass shootings, DGU, Home Invasions, drivebys and everything else. We derive our definitions from CDC, FBI, NIH, and other organizations who have established standards.

 

Kek, our defintion is bogus intentionally

 

It is also important to note that ABC News relies on individuals such as Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association.

 

Benjamin lumps suicides in with homicides as examples of gun violence, “We talk about the mass shootings or the kid in the city that’s shot, but we’re not talking about the other forms of gun violence, the depressed, lonely man who took his own life with a gun.”

 

ABC News explains that the deaths reported in their “Gun Violence Tracker” will “include homicides, accidental discharges, and suicides associated with police standoffs and murder-suicides.”

 

Counting suicides as gun violence swells the number of annual deaths via gun violence by roughly 60 percent.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/26/abc-news-gun-violence-tracker-officer-shootings-suicides/

Anonymous ID: e65820 Oct. 26, 2021, 4:17 p.m. No.14863515   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3708 >>3945 >>3949

Bidenflation: U.S. Home Prices Jump by Record 19.9%

John Carney26 Oct 2021

 

U.S. homes prices were up by a record amount in August compared with a year earlier, as Americans continued to bid up house prices.

 

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index soared 19.9 percent in the 12-months leading to August. That’s the largest price jump in records going b

 

The 20-city home price index jumped 19.7 percent in August compared with a year ago, just below July’s 20 percent jump that was the largest on record. Home prices are now at record highs in all 20 of the metropolitan areas tracked by the index.

 

The biggest jump in home prices was Phoenix’s 33.3 percent. That was followed by San Diego’s 26.2 percent gain and Tampa’s 25.9 percent rise.

 

As a candidate, Joe Biden promised to increase the supply of affordable housing. But in President Biden’s first eight months in office, prices of goods, services, and housing have soared. And the number of new single-family home construction projects declined in July, August, and September despite rising prices for new homes.

 

Many of the housing officials in the Biden administration regard single-family housing as detrimental to the climate and racial equity. They are developing plans to make it relatively more costly to maintain single-family zoning and construction new single-family homes compared with apartments and attached homes.

 

In early September, the Biden administration announced a plan that claims would “create, preserve, and sell to homeowners and nonprofits nearly 100,000 additional affordable homes for homeowners and renters over the next three years.” Some housing market experts believe the plan will not accomplish enough to make housing affordable.

 

There was some evidence that the pace of gains may be slowing. The monthly increase was 1.4 percent and has been declining for two months now.

 

Even still, August 2021 was the 12th largest month-over-month increase in the national index, according to Bill McBride of Calculated Risk.

 

“The top 5 have all been in the last year, and the last 13 months have all been in the top 25,” McBride wrote in his newsletter.

 

The number of homes available is shrinking. There were just 1.27 million houses on the market in September, 13 percent lower than a year ago.

 

An alternative measure of home prices, the Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index, showed prices rising 18.5 percent from August 2020 to August 2021. On a monthly basis, prices were up 1 percent, a slowdown from July’s 1.4 percent gain.

 

“Annual house price gains remained extremely high in August but the pace of month-over-month gains continues to decelerate,” said Dr. Lynn Fisher, FHFA’s Deputy Director of the Division of Research and Statistics. “This does not mean house prices are at risk of declining—far from it, they continue to climb at a double-digit pace in all regions—but it does suggest we may have seen the peak in annual gains for the time being.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/26/home-prices-jump/

Anonymous ID: e65820 Oct. 26, 2021, 5:01 p.m. No.14863786   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3945 >>3949

Unfucking believable

 

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1453129557922521088?s=20

 

BREAKING: McAuliffe-Linked Law Firm, NSBA Fighting Student Who Said She Was Gang-Raped, Asks Supreme Court To Alter Title IX To Diminish Victims Rights

By Luke RosiakOct 26, 2021

 

A law firm that employed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe has made a cottage industry out of aggressively fighting victims of alleged sexual abuse in schools, being paid huge sums by school administrators whom the girls say ignored their accusations.

In one case, the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior adviser from 2019 until recently, is battling a young woman who says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, and anally penetrated.

The law firm and McAuliffe’s campaign refused to comment on whether the law firm still employs McAuliffe by the deadline but McAuliffe reported income apparently linked to the firm in 2021, after announcing his run for governor of Virginia on December 8, 2020. Later advertisements from the firm for McAuliffe fundraisers refer to McAuliffe as a “former colleague.”

The girl said she was afraid of having her real name attached to the case because one of her alleged tormentors had threatened to kill her if she came forward. The McAuliffe-linked law firm is seeking to have the case thrown out because it was filed under a pseudonym, even though there is no dispute that the school system knows who she is. A judge rejected Hunton’s argument, but the firm would not relent, filing an appeal on behalf of its client, the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).

In a separate case, a girl alleged that after FCPS administrators were told of an unwanted sexual incident on a band trip, a school security officer told her there was no point in seeking criminal charges, and the school gave an award to her alleged abuser. Hunton told the court that the school system lost documentation showing its investigation of the allegations – in part because it was not using a sexual harassment allegation database that it had promised to use pursuant to a federal settlement in the other girl’s case. In both cases, a women’s rights group filed “amicus” briefs to express opposition to Hunton’s arguments.

Joining McAuliffe’s former law firm and FCPS in the latter case was the National School Boards Association, which filed its own amicus brief. The trio is banking on an aggressive and novel interpretation of Title IX, a law that provides protections in sexual assault cases, that would be more favorable to school administrators and less favorable to victims. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals forcefully smacked down their logic, but Hunton has filed to take the case to the Supreme Court. A win there would mean the same interpretation would apply to schools across the country.

The Daily Wire’s review of Hunton’s work brings into stark relief themes that have come to define the race for Virginia governor. McAuliffe’s statement that parents’ role in schools should be limited; the National School Board Association’s implication that parents angry at school policies could be akin to “domestic terrorists;” and the financial ties between the McAuliffe-linked law firm, his campaign, school systems, and teachers unions.

The cases tie thematically and legally to an earlier exclusive Daily Wire report about a sexual assault case in Loudoun County. Loudoun County Public Schools blamed its actions in that case on Title IX, saying it would lobby for changes to make it more favorable to victims. Yet the records show that the NSBA, the Virginia School Board Association, and the former law firm of the state’s possible governor are actively seeking the opposite.

The review also revealed a pattern of alleged cover-ups of shocking mistreatment of girls in public schools by bureaucrats who may seek to avoid bad publicity, negative statistics, and accountability. The incidents highlight the often divergent interests of parents and the school system bureaucrats funded by their tax dollars.

On September 21, a 22-year old woman sat by her lawyer as a judge got unusually snippy at the opposing counsel. The lawyer from Hunton seemed to be implying, at times, that the woman might not exist.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-nsba-fighting-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped-asks-supreme-court-to-alter-title-ix-to-diminish-victims-rights