There’s an old term, “scofflaw,” that refers to a person who refuses to obey the law. The Chronicle reported over the weekend about a scofflaw named Stephon Fowler, a drug addict and dealer who plies his trade on Sixth Street, arguably the worst street in San Francisco.

There are a lot of spurious anti-cop organizations out there. They claim to be “fighting for social justice” but in reality they’re contributing to the outrageous explosion of crime in Oakland by excusing bad behavior and instead blaming cops and “White supremacy” for all these robberies and attacks. Nothing gets me angrier than stupidity like this:

When Pamela Price made a rare public statement on Twitter, someone else tweeted a very good followup question, which I’ll get to in a minute.

Pamela Price told a local media outlet, SF Bay View (which calls itself the National Black Newspaper), “I ran for District Attorney of Alameda County in response to the startling racial disparities in our County with respect to adult and juvenile prosecutions.”

“All violence is state violence,” Brooks informs us. Now, you may wonder how the fatal slaying of 23-month old Jasper Wu in Oakland was an example of “state violence.” After all, the people who shot little Jasper weren’t state employees; they were Black gangbangers, engaged in a shootout on the 880 freeway.