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Appearing on FOX Business’s “Mornings with Maria,” former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis predicted an increase in violence will occur during the summer as crime rises in major cities across the United States. 

The former police chief said the “poor wording” of the Second Amendment Preservation Act could have “unintended consequences.”

Scandal-ridden Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (NJ) has claimed that “police officers should be honored, supported, and funded … regardless of politics,” but the Democrat went behind the back of law enforcement to take tens-of-thousands of dollars from and has been endorsed by multiple groups that want to “defund the police.”

An extreme activist group in Albemarle County, Virginia, requested a “call to action” targeting citizens who spoke against Critical Race Theory (CRT) at a County school board meeting, telling its supporters to confront them and labeling the individuals “dangerous to our children.”

Brexit leader Nigel Leader has had harsh words for England’s national football (soccer) team taking the knee for the Black Lives Matter movement during the belated UEFA European Football Championship 2020.

A manhunt is underway in Austin, Texas, for a gunman suspected of shooting 13 people on the city’s infamous 6th Street early Saturday morning. The shooting comes amid defunding police actions by the city council and an uptick in violent crime.

The Los Angeles Super Bowl Host Committee has awarded a grant to a group of activists who have the abolition of the Los Angeles School Police Department as one of their goals.

Los Angeles residents have launched an effort to recall City Council member Nithya Raman after just six months in office, after her support for squatters at a local park and her alleged refusal to respond to constituents about their concerns.

In Deep Blue New York City, a whopping 72 percent of likely voters want more cops on the street, according to a NY1/Ipsos poll.

A Democrat report has indicated party panic over far-left initiatives that Republicans successfully exposed as inconsistent with working class voters in the 2020 election cycle.

Black Americans are not endangered but saved by police officers every day, former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday.

A “Back the Blue” rally will call for the resignation of Trump-bashing Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) on Wednesday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats on Tuesday during an event in Owensboro, Kentucky, calling their far-left idea of defunding the police “one of the dumbest ideas.”

Leaders of U.S. cities are walking back plans to slash police budgets in the wake of surging crime that threatens public safety.

Democrats in the House of Representatives are faced with a messaging issue, as Democrat-led cities across the country are starting to boost their police funding back to original levels as crime rates rise.

Appearing Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom, former NYPD Commissioner & LAPD Chief Bill Bratton warned that growing crime across the United States is “going to get worse before it gets better.”

Seventy-three percent of Americans believe crime is higher now under President Joe Biden than under former President Trump in 2020.

Thirty percent of Americans sometimes feel unsafe in public as crime rages in American cities, according to an AP-NORC poll released May 26.

The Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division with only one vote from Sen. Susan Collins.

Since the death of George Floyd last year, Hollywood has devoted significant air time to promoting far-left racial ideologies. A new report has found that in the last 12 months, 127 TV episodes have pushed Black Lives Matter, the “defund the police” movement, and the belief that America is “systemically racist.”

I feel zero sympathy for the people of St. Louis. None. Just last month, amid a soaring murder rate, the highest murder rate in 50 years, as well as the highest in the country, the idiots of St. Louis still voted to elect a Democrat as mayor, a lunatic named Tishaura Jones who made no secret of her desire to make things worse, much worse.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced he would sign a bill to prohibit cities from defunding their police departments. The announcement follows a case where the response to a shooting in Austin took more than 16 minutes despite a man being critically wounded at the scene.

Tuesday on “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) criticized the growing sentiment around the United States to defund the police.

New Mexico state Sen. Mark Moores (R) depicts how radical his opponent, state Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D), is in a political ad released Tuesday.

In response to a Saturday shooting in the heart of New York City in broad daylight, which left two women and a child injured, New York City Republican mayoral candidate Fernando Mateo blamed “radical left Democrats” for the uptick in crime and offered a cash reward for information regarding the perpetrator’s whereabouts.

“Defund the police is wrong for New York City,” Andrew Yang, who is running for mayor of New York City, said after a shooting in Times Square.

A group of California residents came together for a pro-law enforcement rally and parade on Saturday that started in La Quinta and ended up in Palm Springs.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig will reportedly announce his retirement Monday and may declare he is running for Michigan governor.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 286 into law on Friday that prevents law enforcement from being defunded in the state.

As widespread efforts from the far-left gained momentum to end qualified immunity over the last year, new documents show Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her staff lobbied against the movement.

A group of House Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), are asking House appropriators to defund a police program in order to help criminal illegal aliens evade deportation from the United States.

Terrorist mobs have destroyed 25 police emergency response stations in Bogotá, Colombia, alone as of Wednesday night in a spate of violent attacks nationwide. Eyewitnesses say the assailants were attempting to burn police officers alive and, in some cases, succeeded in setting them on fire.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says that unlike other states trying to defund their police departments, he is offering bonuses to every police officer, firefighter, paramedic, and emergency medical technician (EMT) in the state.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said Sunday that America is “racist AF” and claimed that is the reason “a national movement” was kickstarted “to save Black lives.”

Sacramento is set to push back against the “defund the police” movement while planning to reveal its highest police budget on record.

Police and law enforcement agencies have a higher approval rating than President Joe Biden.