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A trendy Los Angeles boutique has garnered positive attention for the very public way it has decided to shame shoplifters.

A man who was previously known to New York City transit police has been arrested for allegedly punching a random 9-year-old girl in Grand Central station.

Two members of the Illinois Prisoner Review board have stepped down after granting the release of a man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s 11-year-old son hours after gaining freedom.

A 94-year-old woman was stabbed in broad daylight in a senseless attack, and her assaulter will avoid jail time.

Pittsburgh police have stopped responding to 911 calls that are not reporting in-progress emergencies, prompting concern from residents.

The number of New York City police officers getting injured by perps has skyrocketed in recent years, with the 2023 numbers totaling a whopping 5,363 cops hurt on the job.

A Chicago man accused of stabbing a stranger on Christmas was released by a judge — then missed his court date for attempted murder while he was allegedly busy stabbing another random woman.

A “sophisticated criminal enterprise” made up of migrants violently dragged a woman across the pavement and rode away with her belongings.

Chicago prosecutors have finally charged Mark Barber with the April 2023 murder of his ex-girlfriend, teacher Sa’Mon Richardson.

Violent crime is raging across New York City, as several shootings took place on Saturday in multiple boroughs.

A homeless man has been charged with knocking a man onto the Philadelphia SEPTA train tracks, leading to the victim getting struck and killed.

A “street takeover” in Compton, California, led to a mom-and-pop bakery getting ransacked and robbed by a wild group of thugs, not even two days into 2024.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has pardoned dozens of convicted murderers as he finishes out his final weeks in office.

A New York City supermarket butcher became a hero on Friday when he defended his autistic coworker from an unprovoked attack by a career criminal.

WASHINGTON, DC – Protecting Americans Action Fund (PAAF), a group dedicated to challenging leftist district attorney incumbents and candidates, is broadening its ambitions for the 2024 election after successes in 2022 and 2023. 

A mob of gunmen reportedly attacked and robbed an armed employee guarding a truck full of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes in Oakland, California, with shocking video appearing to show the organized crime go down in broad daylight.

A Harvard/Harris poll shows six in ten voters believe owning a gun is a necessary part of protecting themselves from criminals. 

Six individuals were killed on Saturday alone in Washington, DC, as crime in the district continues to bubble over.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) support for far-left, soft-on-crime candidates over the last campaign cycle has brought to light her own soft-on-crime stances as she gears up for a reelection bid in a battleground state.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced a “nationwide billboard campaign” on Wednesday, targeting three vulnerable House Democrats for voting in support of reduced penalties for violent crimes.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) fiscal 2024 proposed budget to defund the city’s commission that helped create the soft-on-crime criminal code revision, which the mayor initially vetoed and Congress blocked in a bipartisan effort.

Washington, DC, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) sent a letter to the U.S. Senate on Monday morning in an attempt to withdraw the city’s criminal code revision legislation before the Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to vote with the Republicans on a disapproval resolution that would overturn the bill.

President Joe Biden is expected to issue the first veto of his term in the wake of Congress passing a resolution Wednesday to scrap his administration’s rule on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing in retirement plans.

A controversial soft-on-crime bill has become law in the nation’s capital, but some congressional Democrats are working with Republicans to block the measure.

The teen who ran over a mother and baby in Venice, California, in 2021 was fatally shot recently in Palmdale.

Georgia gubernatorial Democrat nominee Stacey Abrams was hammered by 102 sheriffs who signed a joint statement “condemning” the candidate for supporting the “Defund the Police movement” and “soft on crime policies.”

UK government plans to do away with short prison sentences could result in tens of thousands of convicts on Britain’s streets, “unleashing a crime wave” on citizens, a think tank report has warned. Civitas’s report published Monday predicts that the government’s

Conservative leaders are asking President Trump to oppose prison reform legislation, telling him to “trust” his instincts and calling the bill “prison release.”