EncroChat....

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made 746 arrests and dismantled dozens of organized crime groups after intercepting millions of encrypted text messages, BBC reports. 

The messages were sent through EncroChat, a subscription-based phone system popular among career criminals. The NCA said in a press conference on Thursday that the operation has had “the biggest impact on organized crime gangs it has ever seen.”

EncroChat sold customized Android handsets with GPS, camera, and microphone functionality removed. They were loaded with encrypted messaging apps as well as a secure secondary operating system (in addition to Android). The phones also came with a self-destruct feature that wiped the device if you entered a PIN.

With these actions, some may want to defund the police in England.         Just a thought.

France...

Detectives are looking for the suspect who attacked and attempted to sexually assault a woman on a Brooklyn street early on Sunday morning.

Police released two videos of the perpetrator involved in the incident, which occurred at 4 a.m. in the area of St. James and Lefferts Places in Clinton Hill.

According to law enforcement sources, the 30-year-old woman was on her way home when the creep approached her from behind. Cops said he punched her in the head, knocking her to the pavement.

After she fell, authorities reported, the suspect repeatedly punched her, then attempted to sexually assault her. Cops said the victim managed to fight off her attacker, who then grabbed her backpack and ran away northbound on St. James Place toward Fulton Street.

Does this type of crimes happen in France?  Just a thought.

Secret...

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Henny Youngman

Backlash...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing continued backlash and accusations of hypocrisy for ordering travelers from certain states to go into quarantine upon entering New York, after he once threatened legal action against a state that tried doing the same to New Yorkers.

Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont all recently issued 14-day quarantine orders for travelers from states that have seen recent spikes in coronavirus cases. Individuals who do not quarantine and follow the restrictions would be subject to fines between $2,000 to $10,000.

Is...

Peaceful...

Irresponsible...

Ambush...

Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan says his officers were ambushed this weekend, when they responded to a call of a shooting near 15th Street and 26th Avenue.

Dugan said when his officers arrived early Saturday morning, they did not locate a shooting victim. Instead, they encountered people throwing glass bottles at them.

Dugan said the crowd of several hundred people blocked all four intersections and some jumped on a police car. More than 100 officers responded.

He described the situation as an ambush and said he believes the report of a shooting was a set-up to get police officers to go to that location.

Two officers were injured and one of them was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Comment:

As a result, the police is not going to respond to the areas of criminal activities at all. And if they respond, they will come with the Military's equipment that protect them and the residence.

It is a cause and effect that you don't want. Just a thought.

Cyclone...

Following a White House briefing Tuesday morning regarding reports that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban to kill U.S. military personnel, House Democrats renewed their call for an all-Member briefing from the intelligence community – “so we’d have direct evidence and discussion from intelligence community into how credible they assess the information.” 

Operation Cyclone [Wikipedia] was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the mujahedeen (jihadists) in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of its client, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. 

The mujahedeen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted separate covert actions. 

If this happened or didn't you can't look at one and ignore the other.

Run...

The NYPD was tight lipped about the mayor’s protection, but when he’s in New York City, like that day in May when threw his hat into the presidential ring, he normally travels with eight to 10 officers. Five or six usually go with him out of town, and when first lady goes along she has her own security detail.

And while de Blasio 2020 paid for hizzoner’s trip, taxpayers paid for the cops. Estimates by The City, a digital news service, put the cost for travel expenses for de Blasio’s NYPD bodyguards since announcing his presidential run, before the blackout, at over $100,000.

A Freedom of Information request was filed with the NYPD, seeking all security costs associated with the campaign hotels, meals, cars logistics and overtime because the city taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for costs associated with the mayor’s monumentally unpopular campaign.

As the mayor said, there are plenty of money.... in the wrong hand.