While guns used in crimes grab the headlines, people in the United State have a long history of relying upon firearms for self-defense. However, the reports go largely unnoticed since ...
CHICAGO -- Cook County surpassed 1,000 homicides in 2021 before December rolled around, and it's no wonder after dozens of felons in Chicago who had been released on bond were ...
New York City - On Thursday, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the United States can reduce the inmate population by simply “stop building” jails. But she had another ...
Washington D.C. — As we have previously reported, there are plenty of signs indicating some kind of federal takeover of American law enforcement at the state and local levels. At the ...
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio has made yet another about-face move and has broken yet another promise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter demanded massive ...
Highlights Reduced police budgets are correlated with increased homicides and violent crime. National violence is increasing per the US Department of Justice. In nine of the cities that made the ...
Highlights Based on recidivism studies of those released from prisons and those on probation, it's reasonable to assume that the release of offenders from jails contributed to the considerable increase ...
Department of Justice data indicates that violence increased significantly since 2015. And new data more clearly indicates that more than 230 people are shot per day. NBC News (quotes rearranged ...
A collective consensus is that fear, crime and violence are national concerns and priorities. Fifty-one percent say that the issue of crime in the U.S. is “extremely” or “very” serious. ...
Just to put all of this rioting, looting, assaults and worse upon cities and our officers in perspective, as a forensic criminologist who deals with officer-involved and civilian shooting stats ...
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