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If you are not alarmed by what is happening to our largest cities, you should check to see if you still have a pulse. Once upon a time, the beautiful new cities that our forefathers constructed were the envy of the entire planet, but now many of them have degenerated into crime-infested hellholes that are absolutely teeming with violent predators. Shoplifting has essentially become a national pastime, open air drug markets operate freely right under the noses of indifferent authorities, and addicts pull down their pants and take a dump whenever and wherever they feel like doing so. Thanks to...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New details are emerging about a violent robbery on the doorstep of a Los Angeles home, in which the victims were beaten and robbed of jewelry and a "large amount of money." Police say the robbery happened on the evening of Nov. 26 at a home on Fuller Avenue in the Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles...The victims had walked home after dining at a restaurant in the area, police say. As they got home, several suspects wearing vests with the word "police" on them and displaying some type of badge showed up. At least one had...

Dana Loesch Explains Hidden Dangers Of Red Flag Laws | Daily Wire ' Ten reasons why you should oppose #RedFlagLaws, a brief thread. 1) #RedFlagLaws are an inversion of 'innocent until proven guilty.' The standard of evidence is low and while state laws vary, many different people, not just family, can report you," Loesch began. "2) You don't have to be in the room (and advance notice isn't required) for the petition to be granted meaning you must wait to defend yourself. Most laws provide no penalty for abuse and no state law allows for civil cause of action against...

EDINBURG, Texas — Teams of gunmen have been running rampant in various communities near the Texas border, storming into homes demanding drugs or robbing victims at gunpoint. In one night, a team of hooded gunmen carrying rifles stormed at least three homes, assaulting the victims inside while demanding cash or drugs. Just one day later, a team of gunmen shot a robbery victim and led authorities in a high speed chase and managed to flee. Information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office revealed that the attacks began on Sunday late night and continued onto early Monday...

Making the comparison between the following two recent stories might be a very obvious thing to do, but sometimes the obvious just cries out to be highlighted anyway. The first story is so horrible that it is extremely difficult even to contemplate. It’s the kind of story that makes you shake your head and then, understandably, want to just turn it away. A court in Oklahoma will nevertheless have to focus on all of the details at some point. On March 13th last, a perpetrator invaded the Tulsa home of 90-year-old Bob Strait and his 85-year-old wife Nancy. Nancy was...

Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=96652 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Quito, Ecuador, Home Invasions CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Ecuador 29 Jan 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 16 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR DEMONSTRATION JANUARY 20 14 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: QUITO, ECUADOR, PROTESTS ANTICIPATED JANUARY 15 8 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR DEMONSTRATION JANUARY 8 6 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR DEMONSTRATION JANUARY 6 19 Nov 2008 WARDEN MESSAGE: ECUADOR PIRACY WARNING U.S. Embassy Quito issued the following Warden Message on January 29: The U.S....

Durham — Four men who authorities said posed as police officers to commit robberies from North Carolina to New York were being held Monday night in the Durham County Detention Center on $1 million bonds. Alexis D. Morillo, 23, of Reading, Pa.; Gabriele Pabon, 39, of Corona, N.Y.; Roberto Lopez, 23, whose address not immediately known; and Lameck L. Staton, 23, of Reading, Pa., are each charged with with robbery with a dangerous weapon, first-degree kidnapping and impersonating a police officer. "These gentlemen have extensive records up and down the East Coast," Durham County Assistant District Attorney Beth Koontz said,...

WESLACO — It’s a horrific, perhaps all-too common scenario. Masked men armed with high-powered weapons storm a home and often gag and beat the homeowner — or anyone — in sight. Most perpetrators know exactly what they are looking for: sometimes large amounts of cash, sometimes bundles of drugs. Other times, in stranger-to-stranger invasions, perpetrators target homes in affluent neighborhoods that appear to hold valuables inside. Since last July, there have been eight reported cases of home invasions — seven of them violent. In half of the reported cases, there was some type of relationship between the victim and the...

Kidnappings and home invasions linked to ransoms or drug disputes ROMA - The brush-covered hills of Starr County have long been a place of struggle and conflict, where settlers fought off Comanche raiding parties and dealt with bandits, gunrunners and bootleggers. And the Wild West atmosphere persists in this remote ranching and commercial center on the Texas-Mexico border, where 57,000 residents are spread over 19 small, isolated towns. Native American shamen still gather hallucinogenic peyote cactus in the hills for use in religious rituals, sharing the back roads with drug smugglers who have long used the county as a major...