Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot Develops Selective Amnesia About Chicago’s Violent Crime Problem Under Her...
Next month, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will no longer have a city office. Judging by her advice to other Democratic mayors on the current crime wave afflicting America’s largest cities, she’s already living in...
Guns Aren’t Causing America’s Violent Crime Problem, Single Mothers and Boys Without Fathers...
By BJ Campbell, Handwaving Freakoutery
Repeatedly in the press, we see “it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns” as the explanation for homicide in the United States, but this rhetoric only serves to obscure...
Houston: Four Armed Robbers Attempt Gas Station Heist, An Armed Customer Shoots Three
Things went poorly for four aspiring armed criminals in Houston. Four yoots piled out of a car and attempted an armed robbery at a Valero gas station. At some point in the would be...
Minorities, Hardest Hit by Urban Crime, Confound the Media and Gun Control Orgs by...
Policy makers are confounded. A recent report by The Hill showed that African Americans are the most directly impacted by what they call “gun violence.” At the same time, firearm purchases by African Americans...
Happy Ending: Rena Got Her Gun Back After Springfield, IL Police Confiscated It
Last month, we wrote about how the Springfield, IL Police Department confiscated a capital city woman's gun after she called police for a prowler. Her Firearms Owner ID card had expired a couple of...
Illinois Gun Owners Survived Day One of New Gun Ban that Outlaws Carrying Popular...
On Monday morning, Illinois began the penalty enforcement phase of the new ban on possession of popular guns and magazines on public property. For both residents and visitors staying more than 24-hours in the...
Los Angles Supervisor Claims to Care About Crime Victims While Working to Set LA’s...
In Los Angeles, the local transit agency has resorted to the desperation tactic of playing classical music in a downtown subway station to see if it has any impact on the crime, vagrants, drug users, and...
Good News: The IRS Promises it Won’t Use Any of the $80 Billion in...
As is the custom, Congress and the Biden administration used the passage of the hilariously-named Inflation Reduction Act to tack on all kinds of additional pork totaling about $740 billion in newly printed dollars....
Why Won’t St. Louis Metro Transit Run Ads Aimed at Reducing Illegal Gun Purchases?
St. Louis Metro Transit is the gateway city's public transit authority, running busses and light rail service throughout the St. Louis and metro east Illinois area. Like most public transit authorities, STL Metro sells...
Manhattan DA Backs Down Again, Drops Attempted Murder Charge Against Wounded Robbery Victim
Did you take the under in the line we set yesterday as to how many days it would take Manhattan's "progressive" prosecutor to do a 180 and drop attempted murder charges against a wounded...
Defining Deviancy Down: Being Victimized by Criminals is Now a ‘Basic City Life Experience’
Most Americans understand that our country has had a problem with a surge in crime over the last couple of years. In response, there has been a surge in gun purchases, and millions of law-abiding...
Chicago Mayoral Candidate Advocated Zeroing Out Police Budgets in 2020
Not even three years ago, current Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson didn't think "defunding the police" went far nearly enough. Not if that meant cutting the budget for law enforcement, anyway. Instead, he wanted...