CRIME

The radical social justice movement to transform police officers into compassionate caregivers, and police departments into social service agencies, appears to have suffered a setback in what was already a tragic story. William Dorsey Jones Jr., a black police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, on the day before...

The US government dropped the prosecution of two guards at the facility where financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, said Reuters. The dismissal request comes just one day after Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of helping to traffic young girls for sex with older men. Guards “Noel and Thomas...

A Portland Antifa rioter charged with assaulting police officers had a federal case against him dropped after completing just 30 hours of community service. Eva Warner, who police said was also known as Joshua Warner, was charged in September 2020 with felony civil disorder after he pointed high-powered lasers into...

(Brett Davis, The Center Square) Washington state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reduce penalties for drive-by shootings with the goal of “promoting racial equity in the criminal legal system.” The proposed legislation would eliminate drive-by shootings as the basis for elevating a first-degree murder charge to aggravated murder...

The guilty verdict in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is raising questions about what happens next in a case where young girls were trafficked by Maxwell on behalf of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein to rich and powerful men around the world who have yet to be prosecuted. “It is akin...

Recently released surveillance footage appears to show Capitol Police beating Jan. 6 protestor Victoria White repeatedly in the head, according to Just the News. "Victoria White was pushed into the tunnel and desperately tried to escape . . . she never raises a finger to the police and never commits...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More police officers in the U.S. died in 2021 than any other year officer fatalities have been recorded, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. From Jan. 1 to Dec. 28, 2021, 358 active duty officers died. That's compared to 296 over the...

(Headline USA) Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women---including a state trooper---that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a suburban prosecutor said Tuesday. It's the latest in a series of decisions about whether a raft of sexual assault and harassment...

(Headline USA) Agents with an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security will wear body cameras for the first time as part of a six-month pilot program that will focus on the costs and benefits of using the technology in federal law enforcement, officials said. The cameras will be...

(Headline USA) Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges after a female state trooper said she felt “completely violated” by his unwanted touching at an event at Belmont Park in September 2019, a Long Island prosecutor said Thursday. Acting Nassau County District Attorney Joyce Smith said in...

(Associated Press) The man known as the “Unabomber” has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending the past two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings targeting scientists. Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, 79, was moved to the U.S. Bureau...

(Headline USA) A suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser was convicted of manslaughter Thursday in the death of Daunte Wright, prompting tears from the young black man’s parents and a celebration by supporters outside the courthouse who chanted “Guilty, guilty, guilty!” The jury...