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Now A.I. could decide whether criminals get jail terms… or go free

Artificial intelligence should be used to help gauge the risk of letting criminals go free or dodge prison, a government adviser has said.

Martyn Evans, chairman of the Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission, said AI would have a ‘role’ in the criminal justice system and could be used by judges making decisions about whether to jail offenders.

AI programmes could look at whether someone is safe to be released early into the community or avoid a jail term in favour of community service – despite concern over its accuracy and tendency to ‘hallucinate’ or make up wrong information.

The commission – set up by Justice Secretary Angela Constance – has proposed effectively phasing out prison sentences of up to two years and slashing the prison population by nearly half over the next decade.

Speaking to the Mail, Mr Evans, former chairman of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), said he was ‘absolutely convinced’ that AI ‘will have a role’ in risk assessment and other areas.

He said: ‘The thing is not to put all your eggs in an AI report – AI aids human insight.

‘So for criminal justice social workers having to do thousands and thousands of reports, police, procurators, it will help if you have a structured system to pull data from various sources and draft.

‘But the key for me is that AI is an aid to human reporting.

‘It will reduce the time it takes, increase some of the information available, but we know AI has faults and it can make things up.

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Tren de Aragua Brutally Tortures and Kills Innocent People While Benefiting From Federal Funds

When reports of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua first appeared, Democrats denied its existence, claiming it was an anti-immigrant myth perpetrated by Republicans. That denial began to unravel after the Aurora, Colorado incident in August and September 2024, when video surfaced showing armed men inside an apartment complex.

Governor Jared Polis’s office initially dismissed claims of an “invasion,” with a spokesperson saying the narrative was a “feature of local officials’ imagination” and suggesting the allegations were being used for political theater.

Several mainstream media echoed that dismissal, describing Tren de Aragua as a new “bogeyman” or even a hallucination. While acknowledging the gang’s existence, they argued that reports of organized violence amounted to a fabricated “invading army” narrative designed to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment and justify mass deportations.

In reality, the gang is very real and has been brutally torturing and killing people while also taking advantage of federal and state benefits programs. ICE has been arresting its members and leaders, but those cases receive little attention from the mainstream media because they do not fit the narrative.

Last January, a 58-year-old woman in Burien, Washington, just south of Seattle, was kidnapped from her apartment complex by two illegal aliens, Alexander Arnaez-Gutierrez and Kevin Sanabria-Ojeda, who have confirmed ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. The attackers tortured the victim by using a power drill on her hand to force her to reveal her ATM PIN and the location of her jewelry. They also beat her and eventually shot her before leaving her for dead. The woman survived by playing dead until help arrived.

On January 8, 2026, ICE arrested an illegal alien, Venezuelan national, and confirmed Tren de Aragua gang member, Yorvis Michel Carrascal Campo, in Colorado Springs on charges including murder, racketeering, and drug trafficking tied to crimes in New Mexico. According to a federal indictment, Carrascal Campo participated in the June 2024 kidnapping and killing of a man and helped conceal evidence of the crime. The victim’s body was later hidden in a remote area of New Mexico.

Under President Trump, federal investigations into Tren de Aragua have focused on how the gang exploits migrant infrastructure by embedding itself within legitimate support systems run by nonprofits and funded by the federal government. While these programs are intended to provide humanitarian aid, investigators say Tren de Aragua has used them as hubs for recruitment, logistics, and criminal activity.

Federal agencies and congressional committees have focused on multiple locations where Tren de Aragua established footholds, most prominently New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel. FEMA and DHS opened investigations into claims that Tren de Aragua–linked groups, including Diablos de la 42, were operating out of city-run shelters.

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Democrats Hate Anyone Who Doesn’t Love Crime And Fraud As Much As They Do — Even Leftists

Democrats hate certain other Democrats and leftists about as much as they hate you, and their targets are quite revealing.

In Los Angeles, elected City Controller Kenneth Mejia has unearthed significant social services fraud and waste and is pushing to fund more investigators — without success — so he can dig deeper. Mejia is way left, a high-octane Bernie bro who ostensibly “left” the Democrat Party in 2024. He has at times identified with the Green Party, apparently because the Democrats were much too far to the right for him. But Mejia is also a certified public accountant and a true believer in leftist social intervention, and he takes it personally when people steal from government programs that are supposed to help the poor. Mejia’s investigators are the reason a homeless services contractor in Los Angeles is awaiting trial on a massive list of state and federal felony charges for fraud.

Mejia revealed earlier this week that real estate and private equity “executives” as well as multiple “billionaires” are “pouring money” into the 2026 controller’s race to “oust” him amid his reelection bid.

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Team Trump Catches Gavin Newsom in a HUGE Lie During Back-and-Forth as California Governor Releases Thousands of Violent Criminal Illegals Back into Society

No lie is too big for California Governor Gavin Newsom, even when such falsehoods have the potential to put the lives of Americans in danger.

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday sent out a press release on Friday, revealing that 33,179 illegals are in California’s custody, yet the state government is refusing to honor the ICE detainers. The crimes by these prisoners include 399 homicides, 3,313 assaults, 3,171 burglaries, 1,011 robberies, 8,380 dangerous drugs offenses, 1,984 weapons offenses, and 1,293 sexual predatory offenses.

This policy by California has resulted in 4,561 criminal illegal aliens being released since January 20.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that Newsom change course and cooperate with the Trump Administration on immigration.

“I am urgently calling on @gavinnewsom to agree to NOT release the 33,179 criminal illegal aliens in California’s custody back into the public without notifying ICE,” she wrote.

“The crimes of these aliens include 399 homicides, 3,313 assaults, 3,171 burglaries, 1,011 robberies, 8,380 dangerous drugs offenses, 1,984 weapons offenses, and 1,293 sexual predatory offenses.”

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5 Lane Bryant Employees Inexplicably Killed in Illinois Store Subject of Documentary 18 Years Later, as $100,000 Reward Remains

Family members of the victims of the Lane Bryant murders are continuing to look for answers.

On Feb. 2, 2008, an unknown suspect entered a Lane Bryant location in Tinley Park, Ill., where four employees were on shift, tending to two customers. The assailant, posing as a delivery driver, entered the store and tied up the six women inside.

Rhoda McFarland, 42; Connie Woolfolk, 37; Jennifer Bishop, 34; Carrie Chiuso, 33; Sarah Szafranski, 22, were all shot execution style and died of their injuries. The sixth woman shot, a part-time employee at the store who survived her injuries, has never been publicly identified by police. One of the women was also sexually assaulted by the suspect, though police have never revealed which of the victims was involved.

The surviving victim was able to relay details to police about the suspect’s appearance, while his voice can be heard on a 911 call reporting the incident.

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Roman Catholic church worker who stole £100,000 that could have been used to help the homeless and food banks to fund a ‘high lifestyle’ avoids jail

A church worker has avoided jail after stealing nearly £100,000 from the Diocese of Westminster, money that could have been used to support the homeless and food banks. 

Francisca Yawson, 37, made nine bank transfers to herself while she was a gift aid and operations technician for the central London division of the Roman Catholic Church between September 2018 and August 2019, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Yawson, who gave birth to her fourth child in October, previously pleaded guilty to nine counts of theft and was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison, suspended for two years.

Judge Mark Weekes said: ‘All in all, you were funding yourself to a reasonably good standard of lifestyle – grossly and dishonestly.’

Judge Weekes said that the money could have been used to help the homeless and families fed through food banks, adding that it would be on her ‘conscience’ that children may have gone hungry ‘while you were helping yourself to a high lifestyle’.

He said that the case had seen a ‘shocking’ delay after police wrongfully closed the investigation between 2021 and 2025, which he said had produced a ‘different outcome’.

The judge said that had sentencing for her ‘meanness and selfishness’ taken place in 2019 or 2020, she would likely have been jailed.

He told her that she was ‘lucky because of the passage of time’, urging her to reflect on ‘the very real damage you caused to people less fortunate than you’.

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Masked stalker fearing ‘fascist takeover’ arrested for murder plot of Trump aide

Donald Trump‘s budget director is the latest in a string of Trump administration officials to face a death threat.

Colin Demarco, 26, of Maryland was arrested January 22 by Arlington County Police for attempted murder charges following a five-month investigation stemming from a suspicious incident this summer.

He showed up in August at the Northern Virginia home of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought wearing a surgical mask and gloves under the guise of job searching, according to court documents.

Demarco feared Trump’s reelection would lead to a ‘fascist takeover’ and wrote notes plotting to murder a victim with the initials ‘R.V.’ and who ‘has served as a presidential appointee,’ though Vought’s name did not explicitly appear in the complaint.

The alleged victim was, according to court documents, involved in Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-funded conservative outline for the US during Trump’s second term proposing a reshaping of the federal government to consolidate power in the executive branch.

Vought, an architect of this plan, has generated controversy due to his role in leading mass layoffs of thousands across the federal government during Trump’s first year back in office.

‘We are grateful for the work of law enforcement in keeping Director Vought and his family safe,’ an OMB spokesperson said in a statement on the arrest and charges against Demarco.

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Illegal Alien Released Into US by Biden Regime Kills Innocent 59-Year-Old Man During High-Speed Pursuit in SoCal

An illegal alien from Colombia released into the US by Biden Regime killed an innocent 59-year-old man during a high-speed pursuit in Orange County, California, last month.

21-year-old Darwin Felipe Bahamon Martinez illegally crossed the US border in August 2023 and was released under Biden’s deadly ‘catch and release’ policies.

Police pulled over Martinez in Anaheim for reckless driving. As officers approached his Jeep, he sped off and a high-speed pursuit ensued.

Martinez crashed into a Honda and killed the driver, an innocent 59-year-old man.

According to Fox News, Martinez is being held in the Orange County jail on a homicide charge.

Democrat Governor Newsom’s dangerous sanctuary policies also prevented ICE from detaining Martinez and now an innocent man is dead.

“He was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration’s so-called ‘catch-and-release’ policies, but if that hadn’t happened, the innocent 59-year-old driver he allegedly killed may still be alive today,” ICE said in a statement to Fox News.

“If local officials in Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary California choose to release Bahamon Martinez into the community, they will put ALL Californians at risk,” ICE said.

“California must honor our immigration detainer. Otherwise, ICE will be forced to re-arrest this criminal illegal alien at-large. At-large arrests are significantly more dangerous than custody transfers are because they require ICE officers to arrest unpredictable criminal illegal aliens in public settings,” they said.

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Minneapolis Viral ‘Relationship Anarchist’ Anti-ICE Agitator Elizabeth Rose Arrested for Ramming Federal Agents’ Vehicle During ICE Crackdown 

Viral Minneapolis anti-ICE agitator Elizabeth Rose has been arrested and charged with assaulting federal agents after she allegedly rammed an agent’s vehicle with her own.

Rose, 42, who proudly identifies as a “relationship anarchist” practicing nonmonogamous relationships, allegedly tailed and crashed her vehicle into a car occupied by Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection agents on January 21.

The activist went viral last month for a video about her dating desires.

“I am 42… I am a relationship anarchist… I am on the lookout for somebody who right now will be able to call and say hey, get in the passenger seat and let’s go f*k some sh-t up,” she says in the video.

She is seen getting dressed in Carhartt overalls, a keffiyeh scarf, safety goggles, a gas mask, and ear protection, framing her activism as a call to arms against what she described as ICE “occupying” Minneapolis by “going door-to-door and kidnapping people from their homes… schools… churches.”

The incident occurred amid “Operation Metro Surge,” the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants in the Twin Cities.

According to court documents, agitators in multiple vehicles began following a team of federal agents. Rose reportedly blocked their path on a narrow street, ignored commands to move, and then reversed her car into another agent-occupied vehicle that had arrived to assist.

A video of the incident was posted on social media by Rose. It does not show the impact but shows her reversing into the vehicle and touching it when she stops.

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Trans murderer sexually assaults a female prisoner after they were allowed to serve time in a women’s prison

Taxpayers have covered a secret compensation bill after a trans murderer sexually assaulted a female prisoner after he was allowed to serve time in a women’s prison. 

Killer Clinton Rintoull attacked the prisoner at Victoria’s HM Tarrengower Prison in 2022 after being transferred there from a men’s facility.

Rintoull had been moved to the minimum-security women’s prison while transitioning from male to female.

Last week, the Allan government approved a taxpayer-funded secret payout to the victim of the prison sex assault.

Following the attack, Rintoull was transferred back to the minimum-security Langi Kal Kal men’s prison farm near Ballarat.

Despite the assault, Rintoull was granted parole in 2024 and is now living in the community under a new and undisclosed identity.

The murderer had been serving a 20-year sentence for the savage 2007 killing of 19-year-old Sudanese refugee Liep Gony.

Rintoull and co-accused Dylan Sabatino beat Mr Gony to death, with Rintoull telling others beforehand he was ‘going to take the town back by killing blacks’.

However, the murder was found to be ‘not racially motivated’ despite Rintoull spraying racist graffiti in a flat which read ‘F*** da n***as’.

Rintoull was spotted carrying a pole and making threatening remarks which were heard by a neighbour.

‘These blacks are turning the town into the Bronx. I am looking to take my town back. I’m going to kill the blacks,’ Rintoull said.

Former Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Curtain described Mr Gony’s bashing as ‘vicious, brutal and unprovoked’.

Rintoull was handed a minimum 16-year term, which he commenced in a male prison before he was shifted to Tarrengower near Maldon in Victoria’s west.

The bombshell development came after it was reported Corrections Victoria last month updated its policies for the placement of transgender prisoners to ‘allow them less say over where they are held in custody’.

It’s understood senior Labor figures pushed for a tougher crackdown, including a blanket ban on any male-born transgender killers or sex offenders being housed in female prisons.

Senior government sources said the blanket ban plan will be reignited amid revelations of Rintoull’s offending. 

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