by Mark Angelides | Dec 26, 2023 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Editor's Choice, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
On Christmas Day, police in Georgia were called and told by a man that he had just killed his girlfriend and that he was about to turn the gun on himself. He gave his address as that of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to the congresswoman, this was...
by Andrew Moran | Dec 8, 2023 | Articles, Business News, Good Reads, Opinion
Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, which sparked nationwide protests, city mayors took action by cutting police budgets and changing how officers handle crime. In the last few years, recent FBI data show the United States has witnessed an uptick in crime,...
by Joe Schaeffer | Sep 12, 2023 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Good Reads, Opinion
Numbers are being crunched along with the bodies, and the woes for citizens living in Democrat-controlled cities racked by runaway crime just keep multiplying. An Illinois website called Wirepoints laid it out plainly on Sept. 5. “The decision to commit a crime in...
by Kelli Ballard | Aug 14, 2023 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
The failed national experiment to defund the police has brought with it an uptick in crime and a drop in police presence. Many officials belatedly realized that caving to the liberal cries for social justice by doing away with law enforcement wasn’t exactly the right...
by James Fite | Jul 25, 2023 | Articles, Crime & Punishment, Good Reads, Opinion
Call it the Minneapolis Effect. Call it the Ferguson Effect. Either way, it takes nothing more than a little logical reasoning to see that when urban policing falls, murder soars. It’s a fairly simple equation that doesn’t require a genius to figure out – yet still...