Kevin Glass, In the 1990s, politicians were falling over themselves to combat the epidemic of violent crime in America. Joe Biden was a cosponsor of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act which, along with containing the infamous “assault weapons” ban, provided billions of dollars to expand the federal prison system under the logic […] Continue reading →
Is a “perp” who attempts to permanently scar a victim with a knife more or less depraved than one who forces a child to witness a murder? How evil would you rate a terrorist who targets civilians in comparison to a serial killer who picks victims according to their race or ethnicity? A leading forensic […] Continue reading →
One of the first clues that this Columbia-educated, liberal, Democrat, New York Jew had that there was something wrong at the heart of progressive/left-wing thought was when I read and was taught over and over that “poverty causes crime.” I knew from the first that this was dogma, not truth. How did I know? First, […] Continue reading →
Gary DeMar, We’ve seen Muslim extremists cut of the heads of innocent people. The video of these murders have made their way around the world via electronic media. Yes, the bad guys still use guns, but if they didn’t have them, they would still maim, mutilate, and murder. We saw what they did with airplanes. […] Continue reading →
A particularly violent July in Chicago – following years of staggeringly-high numbers of homicides in the city – has drawn attention to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s re-election campaign, raising questions about his chances of surviving a challenge in 2015. Polls out this month show “Rahmbo,” the famously audacious former congressman and chief of staff for President Obama, significantly […] Continue reading →
Matt Vespa What is the 1033 program? Well, it’s a law that says excess equipment from the Department of Defense can be transferred to local law enforcement. It started in the 1990s. Since then, $4.3 billion in equipment has been handed over to local police forces. These military equipment exchanges will reach record highs this […] Continue reading →
Can you imagine getting a phone call that your sweet, seventy-three year old grandma was sucker punched by a roving band of teenaged thugs and she’s now in ICU with a broken jaw and a cracked noggin? You can’t? Yeah, me either. But we should start envisioning such a bizarre scenario for our sainted elders […] Continue reading →
Back in September, The New York Times promoted Bill de Blasio’s mayoral candidacy with an editorial titled, “Don’t Fear the Squeegee Man.” The editorial informed readers that crime wouldn’t get worse under de Blasio because “policing is far better than it used to be, thanks to innovations by Mayor David Dinkins.” (Emphasis added — the […] Continue reading →
Rick Moran That’s the toll from overnight Saturday. The previous day’s carnage included 4 dead and 7 others wounded. And then there was the shootup in a park at a basketball game that wounded 13 earlier in the week. Governor Quinn is considering calling out the National Guard and State Police to help the Chicago […] Continue reading →
It sounds strange, but my two favorite columns on gun control were authored by self-identified leftists. But they didn’t let ideology trump common sense. Justin Cronin, for instance, explained that restrictions on gun ownershipundermined his ability to protect his family. And Jeffrey Goldberg looked at the evidence and concluded that guns make people safer. This doesn’t mean I […] Continue reading →
Michael SnyderEconomic Collapse Even though the United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the world by a very wide margin, hundreds of communities all over America are being overwhelmed by crime and violence. For many years, violent crime had actually decreased in the United States, but now the […] Continue reading →
Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos Take guns away from law abiding citizens and criminals are the ones that benefit. That is how gun control works and it worked exactly like that last weekend in Chicago, Illinois, a state and city with some of the toughest gun control laws in the nation. Those gun control laws work so well that Chicago saw 47 people shot […] Continue reading →