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Safeway installs new security gates, requiring customers to scan receipts before exiting store.. ... Washington, D.C. supermarkets have started installing high-tech security gates in an effort to prevent rising retail theft and crime in the nation's capital. Over the past week, Safeway grocery stores in Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan have installed new security gates that open once a customer scans their receipt. ... The security gates come as retail thefts continue to climb. ... The Safeway in Columbia Heights recently experienced an overnight theft in which thieves broke into the grocery store’s ATM to steal the cash and ordered...

Counties near Portland aren't experiencing the same crime surge — here's what leaders say has worked ... PORTLAND, Ore. – Ben West remembers when Portland was a funky, artsy "crown jewel of the West Coast" with a great food scene. "Portland is a hollowed out shell of what it used to be," said West, a Clackamas County commissioner. "Businesses are fleeing and people are leaving for greener pastures." ... Public safety officials across Oregon have complained of rising crime in their communities, but, according to police data, crime is spiking much more dramatically in Portland than the statewide average. "Each...

If you're a self-styled "social advocate," the last thing you're going to do is blame the current crime surge on the criminals. Instead, appearing on Tiffany Cross's MSNBC show Saturday morning, former LAPD cop Cheryl Dorsey blamed . . . the police, calling them "butt-hurt" and "cowardly."Why, in Dorsey's view, are police "butt-hurt?" Because, she claimed, "they can't run willy-nilly through a police department and abuse with reckless abandon." Dorsey then described police leaving specialized units as "cowardly." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

The Supreme Court Should Hear Challenge to Harvard’s Race-Based Admissions Policies Maryland Opens ‘Special Clinic’ to Give Latinos COVID-19 Vaccines Crime Surges as Progressive Policies Gain Ground The Supreme Court Should Hear Challenge to Harvard’s Race-Based Admissions Policies The latest Leftist uproar — this over the alleged treatment of Asian Americans — points up their utter hypocrisy on race: accuse Americans broadly of racism while promoting racist policies. For example, it’s a poorly kept secret that academic bastions of leftist ideology have long been discriminating against Asians. Harvard leads the pack. With our friends at the Allied Educational Foundation...

ATLANTA—Lauren LeNoir had always felt safe on her quiet street in Buckhead, the city’s wealthiest neighborhood, known for its upscale malls and mansions. But that all changed when she was coming home from work one night in January. The 43-year-old restaurant general manager pulled into her driveway. In an instant, she said, two men were at her car door. One man threw her to the ground, pressed a gun to her head and threatened to blow her head off. In the end, they took off with her purse and cellphone. “He had no regard for my life,” she said. “They’ve...