SHOCKING: 'FLASH MOB' theft hits Nordstrom as crime rates SKYROCKET across America



If you’re looking for a safe, crime-free city to call home, Los Angeles is probably not the place.

California police have reported that more than 30 people stole over $300,000 worth of items from a Los Angeles shopping mall this past Saturday afternoon.

Video footage shows what looks to be over a dozen people in black masks and clothing escaping the ransacked store with stolen merchandise in hand.

Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere review the footage, shocked.

“Nobody’s stopping them,” Glenn remarks.

“If I didn’t have, you know, my own moral compass, and I knew they couldn’t do anything, and I needed a screwdriver, why wouldn’t I just walk in and just grab the screwdriver and walk out?” he adds.

Stu claims that his wife and daughter witnessed something similar last year. The two were in a makeup store when three women came in with giant black grocery bags and filled them up with makeup.

“They just walked out with no conflict, no one trying to stop them. They just walked in and walked out,” Stu says.

When his wife asked a worker what had happened, she was told those people come in at least once a month and that employees have to let them in. No one's allowed to stop them.

And Stu isn’t sure how to stop shoplifters either.

“I don’t know what the solution is to it exactly. It’s either massive increase in police force, where you have police everywhere, which is like a police-state-type environment, because if you can’t trust anybody to not break the law constantly that’s what winds up happening.”


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Police: Former Kansas cop was a serial 'predator' who preyed on victims, including a child



A former Kansas police officer was arrested on Wednesday after being charged with 24 counts of crimes – including kidnapping, sexual abuse, and rape.

Officers with the Hutchinson Police Department arrested Todd Allen, a former member of their police department for 24 years.

Allen faces a total of 24 charges, including 17 felonies. Allen is charged with two counts of rape, three counts of attempted rape, one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, two counts of kidnapping, seven counts of aggravated sexual battery, two counts of sexual battery, two counts of attempted aggravated sexual battery and five counts of breach of privacy and eavesdropping, according to NBC News.

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Law enforcement believes that Allen committed a series of sexual assaults in Hutchinson city parks from October 2012 through November 2018. Authorities also suspect Allen in numerous reports of prowling or "window peeping" between May 2019 and June 2022.

WHEC-TV reported, "The criminal complaint listed 10 sexual assault victims and five others who alleged breach of privacy."

Allen resigned from the Hutchinson Police Department around October 2018.

At a news conference on Wednesday, Police Chief Jeff Hooper labeled Allen a "predator."

"I am appalled and disgusted that somebody who is a suspect in these type of crimes and this type of behavior ever wore the uniform and this badge that I am honored to pin on my chest every day," Hooper said. "But I’m very proud of this administration and all the men and women that diligently worked on these cases over the last decade and who today brought Mr. Allen to justice."

Hooper did not specify whether Allen was in uniform when the alleged sexual assaults occurred.

"Other details about his service were not immediately available, but a search of stories in The News showed Allen was a DARE Officer in the local public schools from at least 1996 through mid-2001 and then became a school resources officer, serving in 11 schools until the DARE program ended in July 2001," according to the Hutchinson News.

Hooper said he took command at the Hutchinson Police Department in late 2018. In November 2018, Allen reportedly quit the force shortly after Hooper held a press conference about a string of sexual assaults. The sexual assaults stopped after the press conference.

"In 2018, Hooper said all the victims were females, ages 15 to 28, and all the assaults occurred between 9:30 p.m. and the early morning," WHEC-TV reported. "He said the assailant would approach women sitting in a vehicle, shine a bright light in their face, and identify himself as a police officer or park security."

Police believe there could be more victims.

Allen, 51, is currently being held in the Reno County Correctional Facility with his bond set at $250,000.

Anyone with information regarding Allen and his alleged crimes is urged to call Crime Stoppers of Reno County at 1-800-222-TIPS or Sergeant Jones at Hutchinson Police Department at 620-694-2822.

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Amazon's private messaging app is being flooded with images of child sex abuse



Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned and operated by Amazon Web Services, is a popular digital gathering space for people seeking access to images of child pornography.

NBC News reported that court documents, online communities, law enforcement, and anti-exploitation activists sounded the alarms about the exploitative tendencies of some of Wickr Me’s userbase.

According to data gathered by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Wickr Me is far from the only digital service that is used to share exploitative images of children. However, according to subject matter experts and law enforcement officials, Amazon is doing comparatively little to proactively address the problem.

Amazon’s slow response to the problem reportedly attracts more people who want to participate in the platform’s growing child pornography marketplace. It is believed these people flock to Wickr Me because there is less risk of detection than in other corners of the internet.

There have been over 70 state and federal child sexual abuse or child pornography prosecutions where the defendant allegedly used Wickr Me from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Nearly every one of these prosecutions has resulted in conviction, but there are some that are still being adjudicated.

Almost none of the criminal complaints in these cases note cooperation from Wickr Me at the time of filing unless the company was legally compelled to provide information through the use of a search warrant.

Over 25% of the more than 70 prosecutions stem from undercover operations conducted by law enforcement on Wickr Me and other tech platforms.

According to two law enforcement officials involved in investigating child exploitation cases and two others who have firsthand experience surveilling the tendencies of people who spend their time on the dark web, these court cases only represent a small percentage of the problem of child pornography online.

Posts that link Wickr Me and child sexual abuse material can be found across the internet. These posts were most commonly found on Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter. There are reportedly dozens of forums, accounts and blogs where hundreds of posts have been made soliciting sexual acts from minors, discussing the exchange of child sexual abuse material, and discussing transactions for access to minors. Wickr Me screen names were commonly found alongside these posts.

Other apps, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram which are all owned by Meta, use algorithmic detections methods to constantly scan unencrypted text and media to find signs of child sexual abuse imagery.

Charges dropped against 16-year-old rapper and gangbanger who was accused of shooting NYPD officer



Charges have been dropped against a teenage rapper who was accused of shooting an NYPD officer earlier this year.

The gun and assault case against Camrin Williams, a 16-year-old gangbanger and rapper who goes by the stage name “C Blu,” were dropped on Friday, the New York Post reported.

The city Law Department released a statement that said Williams “cannot be prosecuted” without elaborating why.

Williams was facing charges stemming from a scuffle he engaged in this past January where he allegedly shot 27-year-old police officer Kaseem Pennant in the leg while he was already on probation for a prior gun case.

According to police, Williams’ gun went off while he was in the middle of a scuffle with an officer who was responding to a call concerning a disorderly gathering of people.

Williams is reportedly a member of the Reywey Crew, a subset of the Crips.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle set the gangbanging and rapping teenager’s bond at $250,000 in February. Williams was able to quickly post it after receiving a signing bonus from his contract with Interscope Records.

One week after making bail, Williams was hauled back into juvenile court for violating his probation, but it appears that Williams's luck changed earlier this week with the dismissal of his latest case.

In a prepared statement, the city Law Department said, “Just because the city cannot prosecute doesn’t mean this individual should have been carrying an illegal weapon — a weapon which contributed to both him and an officer being shot.”

“Pursuant to Family Court Law, the case is now sealed and we are unable to say more about the matter,” the statement continued.

Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the NYPD Police Benevolent Association, said that the decision to drop the charges against Williams was “absurd.”

He said, “This absurd decision should outrage every New Yorker who wants to get illegal guns off our streets. There is no dispute that this individual was caught carrying an illegal gun for the second time. If perps like this face absolutely no consequences, even after shooting a cop, we have to ask: why bother sending us out to get the guns at all?”

Williams was previously arrested in the Bronx in May 2020, at the age of 14, for the possession of a Tauris firearm.

Los Angeles gangs are sending crews to stalk and rob the city's elite



Street violence continues to spiral out of control in California, as gangs organize crews to carry out attacks on the wealthy elite of Los Angeles.

More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city’s wealthiest residents with increasingly aggressive tactics. Gangs are sending crews out in vehicle convoys to find, follow, and rob Los Angelinos they find driving high-end luxury cars or wearing expensive jewelry.

SFGate reported that “in many cases, [gang members are] making off with designer handbags, diamond-studded watches and other items worth tends of thousands of dollars — if not more — and then peddling them to black-market buyers who are willing to turn a blind eye to the underlying violence.”

According to the police, some suspects in these robberies have been arrested but are soon released from custody, only to commit additional robberies.

The police are calling these robberies “follow-home” or “follow-off” robberies because they are often taking place shortly after victims leave luxury boutiques, hotels, expensive restaurants, nightclubs, or other pricey locations where gang members scout for targets.

Capt. Jonathan Tippet of the Los Angeles Police Department is spearheading a task force to identify and stop the individuals carrying out these attacks. He has identified at least 17 distinct gangs that operate independent “follow-home” robbery operations. Many of these gangs are located in Los Angeles’s southern neighborhoods.

In 2021, there were 165 of these robberies; there have been 56 so far in 2022. Reportedly, the region experiencing the plurality of these robberies is what the LAPD labels its “Hollywood Division.” Of the more than 200 robberies, this division has experienced 50.

The LAPD has used surveillance technology to identify gangs and crew members engaged in the robberies “rolling three to five cars deep in some of the attacks.” Once the gang members get close enough to an identified target, they blindside their victim.

Tippet suggested that the victims often don’t even get a chance to voluntarily comply with their robbers before being violently attacked.

He said, “There’s no chance or opportunity for these victims even to comply. They’re just running up to people and attacking them, whether that’s putting a gun in their face or punching them and beating them. Pistol-whipping them as well.”

Tippet said that in 23 of the robberies, shots have been fired, and two victims have been murdered.

He said, “In my 34 years on the job, I’ve never seen anything like this."