Pro-crime Democrats are propelling New York toward anarchy and financial ruin. The seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Gotham’s mayor unanimously oppose increasing penalties for farebeaters. That includes frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani. Their refusal to crack down on farebeaters — all by itself...
Alison Stephenson Local Democracy Reporting Service LDRS Devon and Cornwall Police urged people to report crimes so issues could be addressed Policing resources can be prioritised if there is evidence of anti-social behaviour, a council meeting has heard. Speaking at a North Devon Council’s licensing and community safety committee, Devon and Cornwall Police urged people...
It has only been less than a month since two Israeli embassy staffers were murdered in Washignton, DC by a guy shouting “Free Palestine.” It has been just over two weeks since another deranged freak attacked a group of Jewish people in Boulder, Colorado and tried to set them on fire. He was shouting about...
Getty Images The National Crime Agency (NCA) will carry out a nationwide operation to target and jail predators who have sexually exploited children as part of a grooming gang, according to the Home Office. It said the NCA would work with police forces to give victims whose cases were not progressed through the criminal justice...
A UN expert said that Israel’s strikes on Iran, which have killed at least 78 people, were a “prohibited use of force.” United States lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have lauded Israel’s strikes on Iran and are stoking more violence, even as a UN expert has warned that the attack was likely a...
Bea Swallow BBC News, West of England Getty Images The unit investigates and disrupts the activities of organised criminal groups Five police forces must make improvements to how they work together to tackle serious and organised crime, an inspectorate has ruled. The South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) works closely with the local police...
Jeremy Ball Social affairs correspondent, BBC East Midlands BBC Armed police seized four kits containing guns, silencers, bullets and latex gloves Detectives have revealed how they uncovered a makeshift factory that produced lethal “assassination kits” for organised crime groups. Armed police arrested Ronald Knowles as he tried to burn a “treasure trove” of evidence in...
In 2022, I appeared on a Sunday morning news show in Los Angeles amid an increase in local news stories about theft. I pointed out patterns in which news stations devoted more coverage to low-level theft than to other behavior that causes more suffering, including larger forms of theft. The anchor incredulously asked me why...
Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez has launched a monthly “Commissioner’s Accountability Board” which she says will ensure Devon & Cornwall Police delivers an “effective and efficient police service”. The board is attended by interim chief constable James Vaughan and other senior police officers and staff from both Devon...
Police have launched an appeal to identify two men after racially aggravated graffiti was sprayed onto a building. Devon and Cornwall Police said the graffiti in Totnes town centre was reported as criminal damage on 27 April. The force said the graffiti has since been cleaned off and the incident has been recorded as a...
The April bombing of a Yemeni oil port by U.S. forces that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians and disrupted the delivery of lifesaving aid to one of the world’s most war-torn nations was “an apparent war crime” that should be investigated, a leading international human rights group said Wednesday. On April 17, a series...
By now, we all know that British culture is in rapid decline. There really is no other way to put it. Once the home of the Enlightenment that birthed liberalism–freedom of conscience, religion, and the sovereignty of the individual– it is now reverting to the sort of religious persecution that dominated the island after Henry...
Businesses in Torbay are being offered an app to help tackle retail crime. The UK Partners Against Crime (UKPAC) app and website allows firms to report shoplifting, anti-social behaviour and violence, which is shared with police so they are able to target problem areas and track repeat offenders. A free year-long pilot is being funded...
South Africa’s latest crime statistics debunk claims that a genocide is being committed against white people, the country’s police minister has said. The widely discredited allegation was amplified by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, in an extraordinary meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump told Ramaphosa that white farmers in South Africa...
BBC Lord Timpson is the former CEO of the Timpson Group, which provides key cutting and shoe repair services Prisons minister James Timpson has told the BBC more criminals could be tagged in future instead of being sent to prison – but insists he’s not “soft on crime”. More than 30 companies, including Microsoft and...