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Susan Sarandon has attacked New York Police Department officers who attended the recent funeral of murdered cop Jason Rivera, posting a meme to Twitter calling cops fascists and questioning why police are even needed in New York City.

Glenn Loury, a Brown University economics professor and host of the video blog The Glenn Show (TGS), lamented the current state of crime nationwide.

Christine Dages, the wife of former police officer Matthew Dages, says the left-wing state has put her family “through the fires of hell” after her husband was wrongfully vilified and accused of a felony in regards to a 2020 arrest of a suspect in La Mesa, California.

Many U.S. voters think the FBI is Democrat President Joe Biden’s “personal Gestapo,” according to a Tuesday poll from Rasmussen Reports.

A total of 60 United States police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty since the beginning of the year, new data reveals, following anti-law enforcement riots and the start of the “Defund the Police” movement in 2020.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday announced he is pitching significant pay increases to support the men and women of law enforcement in the next budget.

Across the bluest of regions in the United States, the leftist rallying call to “Defund the police” collapsed on election night, as even the most liberal voters rejected such plans. 

President Joe Biden spoke at the 40th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Saturday, using the occasion to push gun control, police reform, and the narrative that the January 6 protests were an “insurrection” and a fundamental threat to democracy.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has written a letter to President Joe Biden, requesting “federal law enforcement and other assistance” to cope with angry parents concerned about their children wearing masks in school all day and learning concepts of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

A Denver Sheriff Department deputy has quit his $90,000 a year job due to the city’s strict Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate for government employees.

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers will be required to show proof of Chinese coronavirus vaccination or a negative test to be eligible to work overtime at major sporting and entertainment events.

A woman in West Virginia allegedly accepted $50 as payment from the local police chief to rape her 17-year-old relative, prosecutors say.

Democrat Tiffany Cabán, a New York City council candidate, has outlined a plan for victims of violent crimes to help rehabilitate their offenders in her public safety agenda.

On Wednesday, an NYPD officer helped to save a man who fell onto the subway tracks just after suffering a seizure.

The family of 17-year-old Gabriela Zequeira Hernández confirmed this weekend that the Communist Party of Cuba had sentenced her to eight months in prison for “public disorder” despite her insistence that she was not an active participant in the July 11 protests.

As crime in the United States continues climbing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is looking to allocate $50 billion from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending package to fund more police officers in localities and states. 

Texas abortion providers filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to block the new Texas Heartbeat Act from taking effect on September 1.

A White House memo released Monday makes it clear to state and local governments to use the coronavirus funds to fight crime and applaud the states that have already begun doing so.

Republicans may have found the Democrats’ weakness in taking back the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm election next year, according to a CNN report.

Some Missouri police departments are cutting ties with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as agencies figure out how state-federal partnerships will proceed under new state gun laws.

Sen. Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the crime wave taking place across the U.S. is the “inevitable consequence” of Democrat policies.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is deploying law enforcement officers to the United States-Mexico border to help mitigate the nation’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis. 

“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski butted heads Wednesday on the topics of gun and police reform.

Butler County, Ohio Sheriff Richard Jones is cutting ties with President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent the administration from releasing illegal aliens into his southwestern Ohio community. 

President Joe Biden will host the family of George Floyd at the White House next Tuesday, the attorney for the family confirmed Saturday.

Tuesday on “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) criticized the growing sentiment around the United States to defund the police.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, sought the release of more than 1,500 inmates this year, including illegal aliens and those charged with violent crimes. 

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 286 into law on Friday that prevents law enforcement from being defunded in the state.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says that unlike other states trying to defund their police departments, he is offering bonuses to every police officer, firefighter, paramedic, and emergency medical technician (EMT) in the state.

Police are less likely to “make split-second decisions to save lives” if they fear false accusations “of being racist,” Ken Blackwell said.

Hollywood star Rosanna Arquette is once again attacking U.S. law enforcement as racist, saying that police officers patrolling communities around the country resemble the “Gestapo.” The Desperately Seeking Susan star called on all cops “who aren’t racist and aren’t set

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” network anchor Al Sharpton pushed for policing to be “defined by the federal government.” This call comes following the Derek Chauvin verdict and in the wake of the shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant in Ohio and Daunte Wright in Minnesota.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is considering a new policy requiring police to obtain permission from supervisors to begin foot chases.

Most Americans are concerned anti-police rhetoric, routinely touted by Democrats and radical leftists, will lead to a shortage of police officers and ultimately endanger public safety, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Wednesday found.

Black Lives Matter protests “correlate with a 10 percent increase in murders in the areas that” experienced protests, according to a study reported by the left-leaning website Vox. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on Tuesday following the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, concluding that the results are “not a substitute for policy change” in the United States.