CRIME

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) California has hired former federal prosecutor McGregor Scott as special counsel to investigate the largest unemployment fraud in the state's history. During the state’s shutdown last year mandated by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Employment Development Department paid out more than $11 billion worth of fraudulent...

(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Record violent crime didn’t stop a Minneapolis City Council panel from advancing a plan to give voters the power to replace the city police department. This year, a new political committee called Yes 4 Minneapolis gathered petition signatures to place a question on the ballot whether...

(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Militiamen arrested for the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer claim the government set them up. Court documents obtained by Buzzfeed show government informants played a crucial role in the kidnapping plot. One informant posed as a demolition expert who advised members of the...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Farm Bureau and 50 other state and national farming organizations have asked the Biden administration to “enforce legal immigration” after an influx of illegal immigration resulted in a crime wave impacting ranchers and farmers. “The current situation should not be acceptable to you or...

As Democrat mayors and city councils in 25 major cities cut funding for local police departments, many of the same politicians have benefited from private police that they hired at public expense. About 20 cities pay for private security for their public officials, often costing millions of dollars per year,...

(John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations) In response to sharp increases in violent crime, President Joe Biden stressed again last week that his administration is focused on “stemming the flow of firearms used to commit violent crimes.” But critics warn that this “guns first” approach ignores a basic fact – about...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The city of Austin faces a crisis of rising violent crime after the City Council voted last year to drastically reduce the police department's budget, interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon says. Last summer, the Austin City Council voted to defund the police department by $150 million,...

(Headline USA) An FBI agent who testified about an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing an assault charge, according to court records. Richard Trask appeared in a Kalamazoo court Monday and was released. Online records show the alleged offense occurred Sunday. The court file doesn't list a defense attorney...

(Headline USA) Two people died and multiple people were injured, some critically, in four different early morning shootings Saturday in Portland, Oregon, a city that has seen gun violence and associated homicide rates soar in the past six months. Mayor Ted Wheeler called the rash of shootings a “pandemic” and said...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invited police officers who are leaving the force in other states to come and work in his state, where law enforcement is respected, he said. “If you have a chance to do law enforcement in Florida versus some of these other jurisdictions, you’re much better off...

New York Attorney General Letitia James and six other far-left attorneys general slammed Texas for upholding the law in a case involving a convicted felon who fraudulently attempted to vote while on parole. "The unwarranted criminalization of Hervis Rogers’ error is a grave miscarriage of justice," James complained in a...

(Associated Press) The FBI made “fundamental” errors in investigating sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and did not treat the case with the “utmost seriousness,” the Justice Department's inspector generalsaid Wednesday. More athletes said they were molested before the the FBI swung into action. The...