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Here’s the newest example of how New York City is in favor of violent crime. In Manhattan, a 30-year-old man named Jean Carlos Zarzuela punched a 54-year-old woman so hard that he broke her nose.Zarzuela was arrested for that, but Manhattan Judge Laurie Peterson released him without bail.Four days after Judge Peterson released Zarzuela without bail, he punched a 9-year-old girl in the head.This is yet even more proof that New York City is in favor of violent crime.

Violent crime is going down in Venezuela just as the United States has been hit with a rash of high-profile violent crimes by illegal immigrants. It’s not hard to figure out why. The killing of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia, has become the latest and most prominent case of an American being killed as a consequence of President Joe Biden’s open-border policies. The man being held in connection with the killing of Riley is Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who reportedly entered the United States in 2022. Since his arrival in the U.S., he...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) launched an initiative on Friday to curb the soaring crime rates in the Democrat-controlled city of Washington, DC, just as the 2024 presidential election cycle swings into focus. The timing of the initiative suggests the Biden administration recognizes soaring crime as a political vulnerability for the Democrat party. Crime in the Democrat-controlled city spiked in 2023, according to police department data: Homicides: Up 35 percent Robberies: Up 67 percent Violent Crime: Up 39 percent Motor Vehicle Theft: Up 82 percent

Rep. Gabe Evans isn’t a career politician. Before being elected to his first term as a Colorado State representative on Nov. 8, 2022, Evans served 12 years in the U.S. Army and Colorado Army National Guard, and 10 years as an Arvada, Colorado, police officer, sergeant, and lieutenant.As such, Evans has extensive experience in law enforcement and combating crime. When he was asked about a March report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that found that among the 22 most populous states, Colorado was number one for violent crime and what’s led to the increase, Evans was quick to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits. The decision handed down in June already has led one judge to temporarily block a Colorado town from enforcing a ban on the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic weapons. The first major gun decision in more than a decade, the ruling could dramatically reshape gun laws in the U.S. even as a series of horrific mass shootings pushes the issue back into the headlines. “The gun...

A 9-year-old girl from Miami visiting the Big Apple with her mom was ‘sucker-punched’ in the head Monday while walking near Central Park — and a doorman at The Plaza made sure the assailant couldn’t flee before cops showed up. Suspect Raheem Ramsarran, 27, allegedly punched the young tourist in the left side of her head at around 11:20 a.m. on the corner of Central Park South and Grand Army Plaza, police sources said. “We saw a man with a backpack, a red hoodie and a beige jacket screaming at people and people literally running away from him and he...

Inappropriately and dangerously low bail recommendations have been a hallmark of the Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office since Democrat John Chisholm was first elected.Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has launched an investigation into what he called the “inappropriately low” bail set for Darrell Brooks, Jr., the suspect in the deadly Christmas parade attack in nearby Waukesha, Wis. Sunday afternoon.Brooks, who faces five counts of first-degree intentional homicide, was freed after posting $1,000 bail even though he faces serious felony charges in two different open cases in Milwaukee. In the most recent, he allegedly “ran [the victim] over with his vehicle”...

The St. Louis attorney has made a name for herself as a progressive activist. Gardner doggedly pursued Mark and Patricia McCloskey after they confronted left-wing agitators outside their home with firearms. After the McCloskeys successfully argued Gardner’s personal politics had infected the proceedings, she was removed from the case. The local NBC news affiliate reported she had used the case in campaign fundraising emails before and after the charges were issued. Gardner’s office missed multiple hearings related to the Campbell case; Gardner herself failed to respond to an email from the accused murderer’s attorney. “Kim Gardner is a poor excuse...

With violent crime increasing over the last year, Americans want a solution. Over and over, President Joe Biden frames violent crime as a gun problem. His presentation this month was no different. But the problem is much more far-reaching. Violent crime is rising across the board, and in 2019, 92% of it didn’t involve guns. Even just 2% of gun crimes end in murder. That has been virtually the same percentage for decades, and even if gun crime surged relative to all other violent crime it would still be a relatively small percentage. It’s not hard to find explanations for...

An 18-year-old woman is facing charges of attempted murder after shooting a 12-year-old boy early Tuesday morning, according to the Alachua County Sheriff's Office. Quashanti Samuel was one of multiple shooters who targeted a young boy in the 6900 block of SW 6th Place, according to an arrest report. Samuel reportedly fired first and told the others with her, who were wearing ski masks, to "shoot him in the head." The victim, who was hit "at least" five or six times, identified Samuel as one of the shooters in a photo lineup, deputies say. Samuel is charged with attempted first-degree...

Street violence can't be fixed overnight, but progress can be made when the left begins to value black lives regardless of what is threatening them.On August 27, 2020, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, both candidates at the time, responded to the shooting of Jacob Blake by talking about the constant fear black Americans live with due to systemic racism. Details of the case, specifically the fact that Blake was armed with a knife, were still developing at the time.The news of Blake stood in stark contrast to the public response to a mass shooting that had occurred...

Big Tech Censorship OUT OF CONTRL As Left Abuses Donald Trump With Sham Impeachment! BLM “Racial Justice” Riots Result in Record Domestic Terrorism Cases Judicial Watch Obtains Footage of Scene of Fatal Police Shooting of Duncan Lemp Most Illegal Aliens Arrested in 2020 Had Average of Four Criminal Convictions Violent Crime Surged in 2020: More to Come? Defense Department to Release Al Qaeda Terrorist with Ties to 9/11 Big Tech Censorship OUT OF CONTRL As Left Abuses Donald Trump With Sham Impeachment! I’ve joined many others, including the President of the United States, in being locked out of Twitter...

A woman was hit in the head with a brick as she walked near Grand Central Terminal on Thursday afternoon The woman, identified as Lisa Cavanaugh, 51, was struck near Third Avenue and East 48th Street about 2:15pm Nothing was said by the suspect before or after the attack The man fled from the scene - officers launched a search for him in the surrounding area and in the transit hub SNIP

I’m an angry man, and by angry, I mean living in a state of perpetual outrage over the events that continue to unfold in the United States over the past few years. It’s the same kind of outrage I experienced that motivated me to answer the call (which is very real) to join the Marine Corps and serve this country in 1999. It’s the same kind of outrage I felt after 9/11 towards the cowardly terrorists who slaughtered three thousand innocent Americans. It’s the same kind of outrage I felt when I deployed in 2006 to Fallujah, Iraq, as innocent...

With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland's police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building. The reaction from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: "The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way." Majority Whip James Clyburn endorsed the speaker's equating of the U.S. law enforcement officers to Ernst Rohm's SA thugs being deployed to do the dirty work of Adolph Hitler. "Nobody asked the federal government to come...

The Washington Post tried to push back on President Donald Trump’s claim that the most dangerous cities in America are run by Democrats – but the graph provided largely proved Trump’s point. Trump said Wednesday that “every one” of America’s “20 most dangerous” cities “are Democrat run.” WaPo’s analysis headline wrote that “Trump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They aren’t.” The article, however, did not provide a single city run by a Republican in the top 20 most violent cities per capita. According to data WaPo gathered to disprove Trump, 19...

<p>With the economy hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic and protesters in the streets targeting America’s systemic racism, President Trump has been forced to revise his reelection strategy. What was once going to be a triumphal declaration of his effectiveness at keeping the economy afloat has been reworked as a reiteration of his 2016 run: a focus on making America great and, more specifically, on law and order.</p>

The FBI Assailant Study - Mindsets and Behaviors was initiated to analyze attacks against law enforcement officers in 2016. Sixty-four officers were killed in 53 incidents, but for the purposes of this study only 50 of the 53 incidents were examined considering three of the assailants are being charged as minors and two assailants are unknown. The FBI accomplished this by studying information about the assailant's mindsets and behaviors to determine what may have influenced the assailants and contributed to the attacks. Over the course of this study, law enforcement command staff and officers were interviewed from 13 departments where...

Liberal polices are "reversing" gains made in fighting crime in New York City, former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik .. blamed Mayor Bill DeBlasio and the City Council for a recent spike in violent crime. Murder investigations in 2019 spiked to 9.4 percent this year. "I don't blame the NYPD. I blame the mayor. I blame the City Council. I blame the people that promote this anti-cop rhetoric," Kerik said. "They took stop-question-and-frisk away from the cops. They took enforcement out of law enforcement." ... at the end of the day, the men and women in the NYPD have to have...

Violent crimes cases across Boulder County surged from 2013 to 2018, a trend that corresponds with a rising number of felony case filing across the state. According to Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty, state felony case filings spiked nearly 45% in five years. In Boulder County, the majority of new felony case filings were for violent crimes, which saw a 32% increase from 2013 to 2018. ... Violent crimes include cases that involve assault, robbery, vehicular homicide, crimes against at-risk individuals, bias-motivated crimes, murder, attempted murder and stalking. In Boulder County, Dougherty said domestic violence is the county’s most...