Restaurant and bar owners in Houston are sleeping in their establishments, armed, in order to protect them from robbers.

The restaurant owners have resorted to sleeping in their businesses in order to prevent a recent rash of break-ins that have taken place in recent weeks. The owners said that their businesses have been broken into repeatedly, sometimes by the same suspect. They placed the blame on Houston’s bail policies, which have resulted in more criminals out on the streets.

“We’ve been broken into six times now,” Tod Jones, the owner of Glitter, a karaoke bar in Midtown Houston, told local news outlet KHOU. “They’re coming in, grabbing as many bottles as they can, throwing it in a bag and then they’re out. Both my windows are broken, and I’m like, ‘Man, I don’t even want to fix them because they’re going to be broken again in the next few days.’”

Jones said that the thieves have caused more than $20,000 in damages and stolen alcohol. “At this point, you don’t even want to claim it on your insurance, because you don’t want to lose your insurance,” he said. “You just have to fix it yourself.” KHOU reported that Jones now sleeps at the bar from closing until morning to protect the property.

Raul Jacobo, the owner of Cobos Barbecue in the East Downtown neighborhood, is also sleeping in the back office of his restaurant with a gun waiting for burglars. The restaurant was broken into twice in less than two weeks, despite being a block away from a Houston Police Department office. In one instance, Jacobo and a security guard caught a would-be thief and held him until police arrived. “Police got there, he had his bag with all his tools in it, ski mask,” he said. “Then, next thing I find out, he’s out the next day.”

“We are literally one street away from an [HPD] substation and we have a criminal that is breaking in twice in four days and doesn’t care about any consequence,” he added.

“I have been burglarized 15 times in the last year,” Lindsey Rae, the owner of Two-Headed Dog in Houston, said during a recent city council meeting, via the New York Post. “We’re seeing, if they are getting caught, they’re getting re-released because of the cash bond issues we’re having,” she added. “They can come back and rob us again.”

A 2021 investigation from ABC affiliate KTRK found that Houston’s bail policies have allowed more criminals back onto the streets. The outlet found that in 2011, just 3.5% of cases filed in Harris County court resulted in the defendant being released on felony bond; in 2021, the defendant was released in 18.8% of cases, nearly six times as often. The most frequent charges for defendants who posted felony bond were: felon in possession of a weapon; possession of a controlled substance; or aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The investigation also found that criminals were committing more crimes while out on bail. In 2011, just 3.5% of cases involved a defendant who was already out on at least one existing felony bond; in 2021, that number leaped to 19%. Of those cases, 968 accused felons allegedly committed four or more new crimes since being released on bond. One case investigated by the outlet found that the offender was out on 13 separate bonds.

The following is the opening satirical monologue from “The Andrew Klavan Show.” 

Journalists, and other suppurating boils on the buttocks of human degradation, are insisting that the Biden classified document scandal, in which the then vice president removed classified documents to personal locations in a harmless frolic that could have happened to anyone, is entirely different from the Trump classified document scandal, in which Trump removed classified documents to personal locations, in violation of the laws of God and man.

On CNN, Christiane Imapoor Journalist turned to the camera and spoke directly to her audience, saying, [quote] “Listen, Mr. Soros, there is absolutely no similarity between the Biden case and the Trump case at all. Trump illegally stashed hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the sort of white supremacist luxury hotel where no BIPOC could possibly afford the price of even a simple lobster salad, which is totally racist, though the citrus vinaigrette dressing is, I admit, delicious. Biden, on the other hand, by pure accident, left nine or ten documents safely under lock and key at the Penn Biden Center for Global Engagement, a perfectly secure and respectable Chinese Communist front operation. And okay, there were also a few documents in his garage, some in his house, a harmless page or two in the apartment of Hunter Biden’s mistress, Fang Fang Jinping, and perhaps an idle scribble in the completely sealed pouch stuffed inside the hollow plastic stone that makes up part of the secret dead drop outside the Shanghai Spice restaurant, conveniently located across the street from the Chinese embassy, in case anyone there would like some kung pao chicken with his classified documents. What’s more, whereas Trump kept his heinous crime secret from anyone who didn’t happen to be looking at his social media feed, President Biden was completely transparent and immediately told the press absolutely everything as soon as the midterms were over and an anonymous source had already leaked the story to CBS. In fact, the President was so transparent, that even after he had told the press absolutely everything, he went on to tell them even more things when it turned out more documents had been found that he hadn’t told anyone about when he told them absolutely everything. The president has pledged he will continue to be transparent and tell even more things every single time it becomes impossible to avoid it.” [unquote]

Democrats, and other suppurating boils on the buttocks of journalists, were also rushing to explain the differences between the two cases as quickly as they could make them up.

At a White House press conference, Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Identity-Hire told reporters with a straight face, [quote] “As White House Spokeswoman, let me speak plainly: The concatenation of internal rebar has obviously unfurled the dominant carrier of calidocious.” [unquote]

Miss Jean-Identity-Hire then pointed behind the press corps and shouted, “Look over there, Prince Harry is exposing his frozen penis to that enormous Lizzo woman.” Then, when the journalists turned to look, Miss Jean-Identity-Hire quickly ran out the door, screaming in Mandarin, “Start the engine, Fang Fang, here I come!”

On The View, a show that acts as a kind of marriage therapy by making husbands thank the Lord they’re not married to one of the women on the View, View Host and raven-voiced idiot Joy Behar said, [quote] “Look, we all know Donald Trump is a liar whereas Biden is as honest as any other award winning PhD who faced down Corn Pop before getting arrested for marching with Martin Luther King. So when Donald Trump takes classified documents, we know he’s up to no good, but when Biden takes classified documents, we can be absolutely certain we’ll soon be in a nuclear confrontation with Russia to pay the Ukrainians back for all the sweet graft they paid to Hunter, which is only fair, since Biden got ten percent.” [unquote]

Both scandals continue to unfold as the FBI agents who raided Mar-a-Lago to seize Trump’s papers at gunpoint go about filing those papers in the National Archives under T for Totally Unimportant. The agents swear they will also vet Biden’s papers very carefully as soon as they catch up with Fang Fang and get them back.

Andrew Klavan Is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. Be sure to order his new novel today: A Strange Habit of Mind, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.

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