
As Yale students demand greater administrative oversight to sustain the “safe spaces” on their campus, University of Oklahoma professor David Deming is denouncing the threats inherent to college campuses and seeking the ability to carry a gun for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins9 Nov 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

A German Police Union has said around 10 per cent of migrants to Germany are “delinquent”. He said those prone to criminality come mainly from the Balkans and Africa, but singled out Georgia in particular for sending organised burglary gangs. The
by Sarkis Zeronian9 Nov 2015, 10:41 AM PST0

A convicted people smuggler has avoided a lengthy jail term because a district court judge believed he was working in the interests of the German state’s policies of mass migration. The Serbian human trafficker, who was part of a gang
by Oliver Lane9 Nov 2015, 10:34 AM PST0

The Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curium decision today reversing a 2014 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit opinion holding that a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper was not entitled to be granted qualified immunity. The officer had used deadly force to stop a driver in a high-speed car chase. Justice Sotomayor chastised the court for allowing a “shoot first, think later approach to policing.”
by Lana Shadwick9 Nov 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

Reports in Texas indicate that Austin police suspect retaliation as a possible motive in the shooting of a Travis County Criminal District Court judge. The judge was attacked Friday night after returning home with some friends. She is said to be in stable condition with serious injuries.
by Bob Price9 Nov 2015, 5:02 AM PST0

On Friday, the Los Angeles Ethics Commission announced that it has formally charged retired LAPD Sergeant Jim Parker, who detained Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend for lewd behavior last year.
by Adelle Nazarian9 Nov 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

With a bill, retroactive to show an ending date of October 1, the state of Maryland is ending its program to take ballistic fingerprints of firearms through shell casings after 15 years, $5 million spent, and no crimes solved.
by AWR Hawkins8 Nov 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

On November 8, University of Oklahoma Professor David Deming contended that “self-defense is a basic human right” that does not end where the campus begins.
by AWR Hawkins8 Nov 2015, 5:01 PM PST0

Texas Senator John Cornyn took to the floor of the U.S. Senate last week to join in the call to have the murder of Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega classified as a line-of-duty death. The move, if approved, would bring additional benefits to the family left behind after this agent was gunned down during a robbery attempt.
by Bob Price8 Nov 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

During her Saturday show on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry reacted to being told one-third of the prisoners being released by President Barack Obama would be deported and noted the “new very aggressive criminalization” of Latino communities. “This seems so critical to me that even as
by Trent Baker7 Nov 2015, 5:49 PM PST0

Lost in the media’s reportage of Quentin Tarantino’s using rhetoric scripted by Black Lives Matter is the fact that the Rise Up October event at which Tarantino spoke was organized by revolutionary communists who advocate the armed overthrow of the United States of America.
by Lee Stranahan7 Nov 2015, 2:03 PM PST0

Southern Coalition for Social Justice senior staff attorney Daryl Atkinson appeared Saturday as a guest on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” to talk President Obama’s executive order to “ban the box,” which refers to the section on a job application for criminal
by Trent Baker7 Nov 2015, 1:37 PM PST0

Saturday, during MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host and executive producer of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman reacted to President Barack Obama’s executive order to eliminate the section on a job application for criminal history, saying criminal justice reform has to be “across the board.” “It is
by Trent Baker7 Nov 2015, 1:36 PM PST0

University of California Merced mass stabber Faisal Mohammad left behind a manifesto that referenced Allan numerous times and revealed plans to “cut someone’s head off.”
by AWR Hawkins7 Nov 2015, 10:23 AM PST0

CNN anchor Don Lemon is the target of a petition drive to get him fired, after he refused to rush to judgment on the viral video showing Columbia, South Carolina, deputy Ben Fields roughly dealing with a non-compliant student at Spring Valley High School.
by Lee Stranahan7 Nov 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

Director Quentin Tarantino stated, “I actually don’t think it’s an issue of individuals, good cops versus bad cops. I think it’s inside of the institution itself” while discussing problems with policing on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” Tarantino said
by Ian Hanchett6 Nov 2015, 8:35 PM PST0

Despite being arrested on drug and murder charges, an East Chicago city councilman was re-elected to his office in Tuesday’s elections.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 7:05 PM PST0

A jury in Cook County convicted a suburban Chicago man of robbing and murdering an elderly Bridgeport woman in order to take her set of wedding rings to propose to his girlfriend.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 5:58 PM PST0

Chicago Police are now saying that the 9-year-old boy killed near his grandmother’s home on Monday afternoon was specifically targeted for death by gang members.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015, 3:17 PM PST0

According to a report from 10News, a California woman that vandalized 22 luxury vehicles in Solana Beach, CA has been caught. Adam Richardson’s 6-month-old Tesla was one the luxury vehicles subject to the vandalism. The woman spray painted “pig” in orange, which has since
by Trent Baker6 Nov 2015, 12:23 PM PST0

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) responded to director Quentin Tarantino’s criticism of him during Tarantino’s MSNBC interview on Thursday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Clarke said, “you notice that he [Tarantino] had to look down and read from
by Ian Hanchett5 Nov 2015, 8:07 PM PST0

Police arrested a Nashville woman on charges of filing a false rape report in order to keep an affair secret from her fiancé.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Nov 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

On November 2 Obama-nominated U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross gave one year probation to a woman who admitted buying a gun for her boyfriend, which he later used to shoot and kill Omaha Police Officer Kerrie Orozco.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 5:53 PM PST0

The November 4 mass stabbing at University of California Merced comes just weeks after Governor Jerry Brown (D) barred concealed carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 5:37 PM PST0

We’ve seen this before: An encounter between a black citizen and police is framed as an example of racial profiling. The story spreads like wildfire on social media and is pointed to as evidence of the need for immediate cultural change.
by John Sexton5 Nov 2015, 4:56 PM PST0