CRIME

(Headline USA) Fifty officers who serve on a specialized crowd control unit in Portland, Oregon, who have responded to the city’s ongoing violent liberal protests have resigned en masse after criminal charges were filed against a team member. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the officers on the Rapid Response Team voted to resign from...

(John Haughey, The Center Square) U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is questioning and Democrats are denouncing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision to deploy state and local law enforcement officers to the U.S.-Mexico border. On Newsmax’s “Spicer and Co.” Wednesday and Panama City’s News Talk 101 Thursday, Scott said the border’s “national security...

(Associated Press) Prosecutors urged a judge Wednesday to impose a “very substantial” prison sentence on Michael Avenatti for trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike. Prosecutors noted in a Manhattan federal court submission that Probation Office officials recommend an eight-year prison term for the California attorney who gained fame three...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that he will send state and local law enforcement agents to help Arizona and Texas secure the southern border, according to a press release from the governor's office. DeSantis described the "border security crisis" as an issue affecting "every state and every American." "The...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd warned new Florida residents to refrain from bringing their former states' anti-police policies to Florida, the Epoch Times reported. "Do me a favor, don't vote the way the majority of the people voted from where you came or you'll have here what you had there---guaranteed,"...

(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) Arizona Gov Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott want other states to send police officers to aid their law enforcement agencies and federal immigration officials in policing the nation’s southern border. In a letter from both governors, Ducey and Abbott wrote the surge in immigration...

(Associated Press) Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures and are struggling to recruit the next generation of police officers in the year since George Floyd's death and slew of anti-police sentiment in recent years. And amid the nationwide attacks on police, communities are...

A black student at Wayne State University in Michigan has emerged as the primary suspect for an alleged hate crime outside of her residence, the College Fix reported. The Wayne State University Police Department said that it had spent 200 hours investigating the apparent race hoax, according to the police...

As President Joe Biden plans to hire 87,000 new tax collectors at the Internal Revenue Service, years of confidential tax filings from thousands of the nation's wealthiest individuals leaked from the agency, liberal news site ProPublica reported. The scope of the unlawfully revealed tax filings indicates that a government employee, most...

(Headline USA) The Biden administration said Friday it has dismantled a Trump-era government office to help victims of crimes committed by immigrants. Trump created the Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, known by its acronym VOICE, by executive order during his first week in office in January 2017. U.S. Immigration and Customs...

Seattle officials are defending an all-staff email sent to a city hall department demeaning the city’s police officers as “white supremacists.” The email, sent to the entire staff of the Seattle Department of Finance and Administrative Services, was written by FAS senior management systems analyst Daniel Holmberg. It was titled,...

(Headline USA) When Oregon’s most populous city had a rampant gang problem 30 years ago, Portland detectives were stunned if they found more than a few dozen bullet casings after a shooting. Now, police are recording multiple shootings a week with 50 to 70 shots fired, and in one case more...