
Gun Crime Convictions Down More Than 33 Percent, but Gun Control Rhetoric Up
Gun crime convictions are down more than 33 percent compared to a decade ago, but the Obama administration’s gun control push has risen sharply.

Gun crime convictions are down more than 33 percent compared to a decade ago, but the Obama administration’s gun control push has risen sharply.

Thursday, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan posted a video on his Facebook page from “The Cliff Kelley Show” on WVON from Dec. 12, 2015, in which he said “the system of justice in America should all be destroyed.” Discussing the

Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.

As Americans prepare for New Year’s Eve ball drops around the country, law enforcement is in overdrive to keep revelers safe–as the homeland has recently been stung by a Islamic jihadist attack and threats have been flagged around the world.

A vigil for Sandra Bland in New York’s Union Square Park Wednesday night skirted into conspiracy theory territory as protesters carried signs saying Bland had been “killed” and speakers suggested the failure to charge anyone in her death was a sign that justice had not been served.

Three basketball players at a Tennessee high school have been accused of the rape and aggravated assault of a 15-year-old teammate after the teen collapsed following a hazing incident, authorities say.

Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.

A mailman in Queens is being accused of throwing away dozens of pieces of mail and Christmas packages instead of delivering them, all because the high amount of mail “overwhelmed” him, court documents say.

A Florida woman is behind bars after police charged her with killing her 3-year-old son and stuffing his body in a suitcase.

Only about 20 percent of Chicago police officers carry Tasers on patrol, but now, after a series of high profile police shootings, Chicago’s police superintendent has ordered that all officers be equipped with Tasers starting next year.

In a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Harvard University Center for the Environment suggest that violent crime is precipitated by air pollution.

In a flood of media reporting and analysis appearing hours after a grand jury’s announcement to not indict officers involved in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, NBC and MSNBC used Rice’s case to conclude that the Black Lives Matter movement has “not made enough progress.”

Police in New York are searching for a man suspected of raping a 10-year-old Brooklyn girl causing the victim extensive physical damage that required surgery.

The Washington Post’s political vertical published an article Tuesday saying government officials who called for calm in the wake of the decision not to indict two police officers in the shooting of Tamir Rice were engaging in offensive stereotypes.

Police are searching for information leading to the arrest of an African-American man accused of masturbating for over 30 minutes while leering at a female commuter on New York’s No. 2 train last weekend.

On December 28, three armed intruders forced a mother to the back of her house then fled under a barrage of bullets as she opened fire on them.

A top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted while attending a vigil for two people killed by Chicago police officers.

End of year statistics released by the Federal German state of Saxony has shown a steep increase in immigrant crime, with a growing number of multiple offenders responsible for the rise since 2014. The increase is significant in the east German Free State

I would say that Rahm Emanuel’s “chickens have come home to roost.” In my mind, I would be quoting Malcolm X. But since Rev. Jeremiah Wright has corrupted and tainted the context of the phrase, it is no longer in my vocabulary. I shouldn’t be surprised. It is the Chicago way.

A year-long Washington Post investigation revealed that the high-profile deaths that spark so much media and activist attention—”white police officers killing unarmed black men—represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.”

Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has cut short his family vacation in Cuba to return to Chicago, following two more shooting deaths by Chicago police this past weekend, as the Windy City braces for more protests.

Al Sharpton is demanding that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel resign because of police shootings in Chicago.

As December nears its end and so with it the year 2015, the number of homicides in Baltimore has surged to its highest rate since the 1990s with 340 deaths as of Monday, December 29.

After a long and controversial investigation, grand jurors in Cuyahoga County chose not to indict the Cleveland police officers who were involved in last year’s fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old with a toy gun.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot to death while carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun, a prosecutor said Monday.