Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Monday, August 24, 2026
Nine out of 10 unsolved murders in London linked to minority ethnic victims
Killers who take the lives of black people have a greater chance of getting away with their crimes than those who target white people, new research shows...
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Trump threatens $5bn lawsuit over liberal national guard policy report
“Based on analysis of crime data, our report demonstrated facts about the National Guard deployments that are inconvenient to the Trump administration,” wrote Neera Tanden, Cap’s president and CEO. “This threatened lawsuit’s attack on facts and evidence is baseless. A fundamental protection of the First Amendment is to allow for the publication of facts and analysis that are contrary to the arguments and claims of any administration. A lawsuit is a transparent attempt to silence us. We will neither cower nor bend in the face of it.”…
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Center for American Progress defends National Guard research against Trump’s lawsuit threat - POLITICO
The Center for American Progress stood behind a recent report that the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments failed to reduce violent crime, after the president threatened to sue the liberal think tank.
In a statement released Tuesday, the organization accused President Donald Trump of “lashing out” in an attempt to “silence independent research, waste taxpayer money on his failed agenda, and distract from the reality that his policies are hurting the American people.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/11/center-for-american-progress-trump-lawsuit-01033086
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Michigan threatens to pull troops from D.C. if used for Trump task force : NPR
Michigan Gov. Whitmer is one of four Democrats who sent their states' National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. ahead of America 250 celebrations in recent weeks, amid President Trump's ongoing — and controversial — deployment in the city...
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5875427/michigan-governor-national-guard-dc
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Trump Says Religion Reduces Crime. Experts Disagree. | HuffPost Life
““Religion can have the opposite effect,” Adamczyk added. “We can think about murder and terrorism, and in some cases, religion is the motivating source for that.”
Belief in heaven and hell doesn’t appear to deter crime, either.
“Although there are people who choose not to commit crime in order to ‘go to heaven,’ empirical research does not indicate that is how religion generally works in reducing crime,” Jang said.
This distinction is found in a 2021 study by the Percy Foundation, a nonprofit that studies religion and criminal justice. Researchers interviewed 526 inmates and found that the majority were religious believers prior to their arrests.
Notably, 69.5% of sex offenders and 62.7% of the non-sex offenders said religious faith was “somewhat or very important” to them based on self-reported views prior to their arrests. While this is compared to 73% of adult men in the general U.S. population who say religion is “somewhat or very important,” according to a 2014 Pew survey, it’s still noteworthy that the majority of incarcerated men were religious before committing a crime. ”…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-religion-crime_l_6a0cd3c2e4b079e4ea33fd88
Monday, May 11, 2026
Friday, April 17, 2026
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Trump Says He Made Memphis Safer. Locals Told Me It Felt Like 1930s Germany or North Korea. – Mother Jones
Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, a Democrat who opposed the task force, speculated that crime—which had been a problem—was dropping at least in part because people weren't venturing out nearly as much. "Our risk is that [America is] gonna become a Yemen or a North Korea or something else altogether, where there is an armed individual with a semiautomatic weapon and military fatigues on many corners," he told me. "There may be zero crime, but we also won't be leaving our houses. I know that's a dark scenario, but that's kind of where we are."…
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Trump’s ‘racist hate speech’ and migration crackdowns violate human rights, UN panel says
"Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the president, may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes," it said, in what appeared to be an unprecedented singling out of comments made by a US president.
Trump has long sought to blame immigrants for crime, despite a wide range of statistics showing that they bolster the US economy and commit crimes at far lower rates than people born in the US...
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Dearborn sees violent crime reports plummet, maintains low homicide count
Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and Police Chief Issa Shahin, announced reports of violent crime declined by 14% in 2025, contributing to a cumulative 20% reduction over the last two years...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Monday, December 22, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits
In the wake of the deadly Washington DC shooting, Trump claimed immigrants are 'destroying everything America stands for'. Here's what the data shows…
Friday, November 21, 2025
These five cities help explain why homicide rates are down across the U.S. - Washington Post
"We capture all the things they say they need," said Aye, who previously worked as a violence-prevention specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "If they say they need socks, socks is a need. If they need therapy, therapy is a need. If they just want to go somewhere and record music, that is a need."
"And then," Aye added, "we wrap our arms around them and give them love."
Officials continue to study the impact of the program, which is largely funded by private foundations. But preliminary data studied by Temple University's department of criminal justice showed YEAH Philly participants had recidivism rates of about 9 percent, compared to state and national averages of about 30 percent. (The data exclude those arrested for new crimes before enrolling in the program.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2025/homicide-rates-us-cities/
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Nearly all immigrants detained in Trump Chicago raid had no criminal conviction
Data sharply contradicts officials' portrayal of immigration sweeps as effort to fight 'worst of the worst' criminals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/trump-chicago-immigration-raid
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Democrats scramble to blunt Trump’s midterms crime offensive - POLITICO
But, in a hint of hope for the party looking to neutralize a weakness President Donald Trump will exploit next year, those voters swung toward Democrats in all four categories after hearing messaging acknowledging crime is a problem and showing steps the party has taken to increase safety. Specifically, pollsters cited cracking down on gun trafficking and strengthening firearm background checks. The persuasion effort included criticisms of GOP cuts to gun-violence prevention funding, the Trump administration's attempts to roll back firearm regulations and Republicans' ties to pro-gun groups...
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Saturday, September 27, 2025
New Mexico’s Democratic governor sent National Guard to her biggest city - The Washington Post
No guns, no Humvees and no arrests. This deployment looks very different from the way Trump has used soldiers in places like D.C. or Los Angeles. And local police say it's working...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Click Older Posts above to see more.