Its estimated 40 of all crime in england and wales is fraud. Hello, its the police, open up. Fraud, it is a National Security issue. Its funding other organised crime. | you look back now and you think, how stupid were we . Yeah. But at that moment in time, it was. It was quite terrifying. Every year, fraudsters relieve us of an estimated £5 billion. Last year in kent alone, 12,000 frauds were reported. Panoramas been filming there for almost a year with the kent police fraud squad. The groups that operate tend to be from london. The whole of kent, it is targeted because its a quickjourney for them to come and pick up the cash. Weve also got quite an aged population, again, which is who they look to target, often. So it sort ofjust goes hand in hand with the sort of population type. Police are increasingly worried about something they call courierfraud. It begins with a call from a fraudster pretending to be a Police Officer or bank official, and ends with a Courier Collecting Cash or
Was talking about it. That is right, the supervisor has actually received Death Threats as a result of his decision to vote in mark farrell has as the mayor. So, while the progressives are happy around city hall, the moderates are having a bit tougher time. It was a city hall stutter, acting mayor was out and mark farrell was in. He was a brief close ally on the board, melita . It is a deal that most city hall insiders say happened between progressives and farrell, who is considered a moderate. There was backlash from replacing the citys first africanamerican woman with a white male. I think that what you saw last night, was not so much about elevating one white man, it was about sending a message to another white man, a tech titan billionaire named ron conway that San Francisco cannot be bought. He backed him and it backfired. Was in communication with you . Ron conway has tried to have a conversation with me. We have yet to actually meet. The supervisor, jeff sheehy, who was consider
Its an embarrassment to be a witness of what the police does and is allowed to do on the streets of San Francisco, going around and killing people. The police are here to the job of the police is to help, to assist, and it prevent the killing of people, but instead what we see happening is that they are going around the streets killing people as if they were animals. Its very saddening for parents, for mothers and fathers to hear that their loved ones have been assassinated on the street by the Police Department. If there are indeed changes happening for the better, there are improvements happening, reforms happening, we should be able to see them . We should be cognizant of them and be able to see them on the streets, but we dont see them at all. This cannot and should not stay as it is. We need to actually see the reforms that you all talk about on the street. We need to see them here and we need to see them on the streets. So thank you very much and in ending, i would like to thank
With unemployment skyrocketing to almost 15 . Job losses are concentrated at the lorain end of the income scale. By early april, anastonishing amount have been furloughed or layoff. The poor are less likely to have insurance and more likely to live in close quarters where the disease is easy to spread. Its been said that covid is like a guided missile attacking the poor. We will discuss what we as a nation can do to help. Joining me now, cochairman of the Poor Peoples Campaign and author of the forthcoming book, we are called to be a movement. This issue of poverty predates the covid19 pandemic. How has it made it worse . Well the fact of the matter is, pandemics exploit and live in the fissures and in the wounds of society, and in america, we have great wounds when it comes to systemic racism and poverty. Two things that you can never separate, even though we have the look at it across the board and how it impacts everybody. Before the pandemic, we had 140 Million People who were poor
Abc 7 news platforms for complete coverage. Com andlog onto wjla visit our facebook or twitter sites at any time. A latebreaking story. Police make an arrest in a series of local assaults. Brad bell is live tonight. Police are happy to make this announcement. They were looking hard for this guy. It turns out he was in jail eight hours after the attack. It happened right about here, but eight hours later the committed anedly Armed Robbery in Montgomery County. He was caught and locked up. He was not linked to these crime until the dna evidence came in. Princerges county georges county police say that emerito chicassavala is a brutal rape is that left a community in fear. It is good news to hear he is arrested. We still have to be cautious. I am glad they caught him. I am glad, i am glad. That is all i can say. But it was october 29. It 24yearold woman and a 14 yearold girl were attacked 20 minutes and 100 yards apart behind this building. Police conducted a massive manhunt for days. The