The FBI released its national crime data for 2021 this week, but it lacks data from nearly 40% of police departments nationwide, including massive forces in cities such as New York and Los Angelesd. “I don’t think you could get national numbers, at least not useful national numbers, from this data,” Jacob Kaplan, criminologist at […]
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Rape Victim Ordered To Pay $150,000 To Rapists Family
An Iowa teenage sex trafficking victim who stabbed her rapist to death was sentenced by a judge on Tuesday to five years of closely supervised probation and must pay $150,000 restitution to her abuser’s family. Pieper Lewis, 17, stabbed her abuser, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, more than 30 times in June 2020. She was initially charged with first-degree […]
Shocking images of homelessness greet Manhattan tourists today
New York City sidewalks are showcasing a little shop of horrors. The humanitarian crisis of homelessness festers in broad daylight today just steps from the tourist-packed heart of Manhattan. One man slept on a sidewalk in the rain with trash, food and filth littered around him on West 43rd Street this past Sunday morning, exactly […]
25% of Americans fear being attacked in their own neighborhood
A quarter of American adults say they live in fear of being attacked in their own neighborhoods, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The poll, conducted between June and July of this year and including a sample of 4,192 adults, found […]
Father Confesses To Murdering Baby By Leaving In Hot Car
An Ohio dad reportedly confessed to leaving his baby son to die in a blazing-hot car as outside temperatures soared, after initially claiming the 14-month-old was alone just briefly. Landon Parrott, 19 — who first said he’d left the infant alone during a short bathroom trip — allegedly copped to the heinous move after cops […]
Child Rapist Free On Bail Murders Ex-Girlfriend, Burns Down House
A Wisconsin man allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend just days after a judge denied a request from prosecutors to hold him in jail until his sentencing hearing, as he recently pleaded guilty to child sex charges. Ernest Terrell Blakney, 47, is being accused by prosecutors of killing his ex-girlfriend and setting his Milwaukee home on fire […]
Witness kills Indiana mall gunman after 3 shot dead
Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said. The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing […]
15 killed, 60 wounded in mass shootings this weekend
A string of shootings left at least 15 people dead and more than 60 others wounded in eight states this weekend, a spasm of gun violence that came as the nation continues mourning the lives lost in mass shootings last month in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. In Pennsylvania, police say multiple shooters fired into […]
Church Killer Hogtied by Parishioners
At least one person is dead and five wounded — including four who are critically injured — after a shooting Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods, California, the sheriff’s department said. “All victims are adults and are en route to the hospital,” the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a tweet Sunday. “One victim […]
Gunfight Between Two Women in Walmart Injures Bystander
An innocent bystander was shot inside a Walmart when a brawl between two women at the store ended with one trying to shoot the other but missing her intended target. Police rushed to the scene and officers delivered the wounded female shopper to paramedics as officers searched for the shooter and her intended victim who […]
Seattle businesses forced to close in ‘a criminal and humanitarian emergency,’
Seattle is in the midst of “a criminal and humanitarian emergency,” a bakery owner who indefinitely closed her business over safety concerns told Fox News. Olga Sagan said she shuttered one of her three Piroshky Piroshky locations in February after a surge in shootings and drug use outside her Pike Place store created a dangerous […]
Los Angeles prosecutors overwhelmingly want to oust their progressive boss. Is Gascón history?
Rank-and-file prosecutors in Los Angeles have voted nearly unanimously to back the recall of District Attorney George Gascón — a rebuke of the embattled progressive that came just after Gascón reversed course on controversial sentencing policies. The Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles, a union representing line prosecutors, said 97.9 percent of its […]