Sweeping criminal justice reforms in Illinois have had “overwhelmingly negative” effects, a small town sheriff in the southern part of the state said a year after the law was implemented. “These kinds of reforms and this kind of constant police-bashing rhetoric that we hear out of these – I’ll just …
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A Labor Day celebration in Brooklyn culminated in violence with at least six people shot and another slashed in separate incidents following the West Indian Day Parade, according to the NYPD. Police said the shootings and stabbings occurred across four locations in Crown Heights as parade crowds dispersed between late …
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PORTLAND, Ore. – After mass resignations and poor morale following the 2020 protests, new police recruits are finally flocking to Portland, the police union head says. There’s just one hiccup: a months long training backlog. “Our hiring has picked up quite a bit,” Portland Police Association President Aaron Schmautz said. …
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A Yellowstone County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a man who fired a gun while officers were trying to serve him with an arrest warrant from another Montana county, the sheriff’s office said Thursday. Officers went to a residence about 22 miles northeast of Billings, near Ballantine, at 11:30 p.m. …
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A security guard was hospitalized after a “verbal argument” devolved into an all-out brawl at a North Carolina cocktail bar, with nine of 20 participants facing a slew of criminal charges, police said. Winston-Salem Police said the fight erupted around 1:30 a.m. at the Thirsty Pallet on Sept. 23, when …
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Kentucky police officers shot a suspect in a residential break-in who did not comply with commands to drop a gun during a foot pursuit, officials said Tuesday. KENTUCKY DEPUTY WOUNDED AND SUSPECT KILLED DURING ATTEMPTED ARREST The shooting happened as officers responded to an early morning call from the home …
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Taxpayers are paying for transgender inmates in U.S. prisons to transition to another gender if a medical assessment deems it necessary, according to a June Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) memo obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The memo, discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request this …
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Juveniles in Minnesota’s Twin Cities are “committing a growing number of severe and brazen crimes,” according to the Star Tribune. “We are not talking about stealing candy bars from stores,” Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt told the Star Tribune in an article published Sunday. “These are indicators that we’re in …
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Three men are dead, and another is in critical condition after a suspectedcarbon monoxidepoisoning incidentin Kansas City Saturday morning. The victims were discovered at around 6:50 a.m. by the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department, who were responding to a report of carbon monoxide at a home in the 1000 block …
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A suspect has been arrested at the Colorado Supreme Court building after allegedly shooting out windows, holding an armed security guard at gunpoint and maneuvering about the building for nearly two hours until voluntarily surrendering early Tuesday, according to authorities. The timing comes soon after the state’s high court drew …
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