
On November 15, the Associated Press (AP) fact-checked Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s gun control claims, among which was her contention that “nearly 3,000 [were] killed by guns” between the October 13 Democrat debate and the one that took place on November 14.
by AWR Hawkins16 Nov 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

On November 11, film director Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes “social media is partly to blame” for the surge in “gun violence” and firearm-related homicides in Chicago.
by AWR Hawkins12 Nov 2015, 8:45 PM PST0

As of last weekend, there are now 294 recorded homicides in Baltimore this year, up from the 211 murdered during all of 2014.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Nov 2015, 5:27 PM 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

Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and James Kilgore—three communist revolutionaries who were part of domestic terror groups and who all spent years on the run from the law—approved as a man called for “citizen’s tribunals” against the National Rifle Association to be held at the United Nations.
by Lee Stranahan4 Nov 2015, 4:56 PM PST0

On November 3, Democrat presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley pledged seven “unilateral executive” gun controls he will enact if elected president.
by AWR Hawkins3 Nov 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
by John Sexton29 Oct 2015, 8:42 PM PST0

An 8-year-old girl in Illinois is lifting the spirits of police offers all over the U.S. with packages of crosses. The latest package landed with the Chula Vista Police Department in California.
by Mary Chastain29 Oct 2015, 5:32 PM PST0

White House officials are aggressively pushing back at FBI director James Comey’s remarkable—although indirect—public criticism of President Barack Obama’s crime policies.
by Neil Munro26 Oct 2015, 9:15 PM PST0

The toll of violence in Chicago continues to spiral higher and higher, and this weekend brought another five killed and 17 wounded to add to the growing number. The weekend’s violence included the wounding of a 15-year-old girl and a knife attack on a British man visiting the city.
by Warner Todd Huston25 Oct 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
by Lee Stranahan23 Oct 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Oct 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

In their latest skirmish with authorities, in what they term a #BaltimoreUprising, Black Lives Matter claimed solidarity with Palestinians who have been murdering Jews in Israel.
by Lee Stranahan20 Oct 2015, 6:02 PM PST0

Law enforcement organizations across the country strongly oppose Republican efforts to empower Democrats to release thousands of convicts back onto the streets amid a nation-wide crime surge by passing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015.
by Katie McHugh19 Oct 2015, 7:06 PM PST0

Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.
by Julia Hahn30 Sep 2015, 6:52 PM PST0

One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
by Ben Shapiro30 Sep 2015, 5:40 PM PST0

With crime rates and gang activity that no law has been able to fix, Panama’s Public Safety Minister Rodolfo Aguilera says his country is ready to follow in the U.S.’s footsteps and make it easier—rather than harder—for citizens to carry guns on their persons for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins17 Sep 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

Twelve people have been shot to death, and 13 others have been wounded in Chicago since late Tuesday.
by AWR Hawkins3 Sep 2015, 10:04 PM PST0

Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department was criticized for purportedly having stopped and checked a disproportionate number of blacks and even made more stops than departments in other cities. Now the department has agreed to outside monitoring of its “stop and frisk” practices.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Aug 2015, 9:57 PM PST0

A sharp spike in the murder rates of Democrat-controlled cities across America is one of the consequences of the increased tension between police and black Americans; tension that has been stirred up by both the liberal media and by Democrat-aligned radical political activist group Black Lives Matter.
by Lee Stranahan5 Aug 2015, 9:50 PM PST0

New York Times columnist Charles Blow is outraged that some observers are connecting a recent spike in violent crime to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protest movement.
by John Sexton4 Jun 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

Sunday The Wall Street Journal crunched the numbers on America’s startling new crime wave (after a two-decade decline) and listed seven cities that have seen noticeable, and sometimes shocking, spikes in murders and other violent crimes.
by John Nolte2 Jun 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rode into office by capturing the White House/Democrat/Media zeitgeist that involves a relentless and dishonest hate campaign against American law enforcement. De Blasio’s whipping boy was stop-and-frisk, a policing policy he shamelessly
by John Nolte1 Jun 2015, 6:52 AM PST0

On February 20, NBC News reported that in addition to snow, cold winds, and terrible driving conditions, the freezing temperatures have brought with them one other thing—a reprieve from crime in Memphis, Boston, and New York, among other places.
by AWR Hawkins20 Feb 2015, 5:49 PM PST0

NPR public radio station KQED released an article lauding the results of Proposition 47, which was passed last November and resulted in a number of inmates being released from state prisons and county jails. But KQED managed to complete the piece without mentioning crime. The piece states loftily of Prop 47, “So far, it seems to be working.”
by William Bigelow19 Feb 2015, 5:57 AM PST0