Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the launch of a new law enforcement assistance program, the “National Public Safety Partnership,” as he kicked off a national summit on violent crime Tuesday.
An illegal immigrant MS-13 member with a previous felony conviction in the U.S. was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is expected to be deported.
The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office is requesting that prosecutors not charge illegal immigrants with minor crimes to protect them from eventual deportation.
HOUSTON, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott announced the expansion of the Texas Anti-Gang Task Force (TAG) and the creation of a technical operations center in response to a sharp increase in rape and murder in the Houston area by violent gangs.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s campaign traded barbs with mayoral challenger (and fellow Democrat) Mitchell Schwartz last week over the city’s year-over-year rising violent crime rate.
An illegal immigrant and a foreign national, both ranking members of the MS-13 gang, were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder and other organized crime charges in North Carolina.
Gang violence is apparently so bad in Chicago that Facebook’s “safety check” alert system had spread across the city after a recent shooting incident.
According to the MCCA survey, the police departments of major cities reported a total of 2,308 homicides during the first half of 2016 compared to 2,001 during the first half of 2015. Additionally aggravated assaults increased from 68,990 in the first half of 2015 to 70,809 so far this year, non-fatal shootings grew from 6,362 to 6,965 this year to date, and robberies have also increased from 46,182 during the first half of 2015 to 47,294 this year.
The year 2015 was marked by a statewide pursuit of more gun control in California, while cities like Los Angeles played their part by enacting local controls, such as a ban on the possession of “high capacity” magazines.
Nearly 88 percent of police chiefs stated their conviction that “any vetted citizen” should be able to purchase a gun “for sport or self-defense.”
Governor Jerry Brown has placed before voters this November a ballot measure deceptively titled the “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016” – when it might be more accurately dubbed the “Let Violent Criminals Out Of Prison Early Act of 2016.”
With 344 murders, last year was the bloodiest year in the City of Baltimore’s history. But as 2016 reaches its halfway point, the bloodshed seems to be showing no signs of stopping.
In an interview with Bloomberg, filmmaker and newly-minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Ice Cube said Hillary Clinton’s “superpredators” comments in 1996 helped “justify” the police brutality that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown delivered sobering statistics about the city’s skyrocketing crime rates at Dallas City Hall on Monday, March 28. The chief revealed homicide rates spiked over 80 percent from the same time last year. Then, he unveiled a controversial plan to tackle the problem, which left some in law enforcement calling for Brown to step down.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against the planned bipartisan rollback of jail sentencing that will put violent drug offenders back out on the streets.
On Tuesday, the LAPD acknowledged that murders in the city have soared 27.5% compared to the same period in 2016.
The county with the highest arrest rate in California is not Los Angeles, San Diego or the Bay Area counties, where Black Lives Matter protests have shut down cities. Rather, it is “hippie” Humboldt County, which had the highest arrest rates for felonies, misdemeanors, and status offenses for the 58 counties in California from 2005 through 2014.
Another woman has had her face viciously slashed in a sneak attack on a New York street, making the attack the 471st such slashing this year.
On February 4, Chicago Police Department officers discovered five adults and one child stabbed to death in a home in Chicago’s Gage Park.
After decades of a steadily falling murder rate, the number of Americans killed in 2015 jumped 16 percent. But despite this hefty increase, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership seem headed toward joining President Obama to push a “reform” that would feature reductions in federal criminal sentences.
Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.
There has been a dramatic rise in urban gun crime across the UK in the past 12 months, leaping by nearly a quarter in London, statistics reveal. The rise coincides with increases in stabbings, knife possession and serious youth violence
On August 28, the NRA presented ATF and FBI data showing Americans have purchased “170 million new guns” since 1991, and violent crime has fallen “51 percent.”
Police departments across the country that have spent years boasting about plummeting crime numbers are now scrambling to confront something many agencies have not seen in decades: more bloodshed.
In April, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti boasted in his State of the City speech, “As long as I’m your mayor, I won’t duck bad news. I’m going to own it.” Garcetti may not want to own the newest data that shows that the overall crime rate in his city for the first half of 2015 spiked higher than any time in over ten years.
A man was shot and killed Saturday night at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue in the fourth violent incident to occur in the area in the past 19 months.