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A disgraced California elementary school teacher was sentenced to more than two centuries in prison last Friday after authorities unravelled the decades-long sexual abuse he committed against many of his own students. Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, served as the head of the audio-visual club at Del Paso Heights Elementary School for 23 years before he was axed when the stomach-turning abuse was revealed. Wilson wound up curating a mountain of evidence against himself, including sick photographs and videos he captured of himself committing sex acts on his female students, often as young as 6 or 7 years old. Thanks to...

A majority of Americans back President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the District of Columbia and believe large American cities are unsafe, according to recent polling. A Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Monday found that 54% of registered voters said the president’s crime-fighting efforts in the nation’s capital are “justified and necessary.” The favorable results come as the administration is touting a marked decline in crime since the president’s federal takeover of D.C., including a 12-day streak of zero reported homicides. “This town averaged one murder every other day for the last 20-30 years, which means in two short weeks the...

Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics · 11h Haven't been able to get this story out of my head. I think this moment is the turning point. You're either the type of country that allows little innocent girls to be fed to the wolves and forced to defend herself against migrant rapists or you're the type of country where the men say enough is enough and take their country back. It's now or never.

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – A man died Monday night after he was shot by nine officers following a tense and chaotic series of events that began at a boat ramp and ended in a crash in Atlantic Beach, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. According to JSO, the incident began around 6 p.m. at the Dutton Island Preserve boat ramp, where a couple from Georgia was fishing when they heard gunshots from across the water. The couple told police they saw a man, 37, shooting a rifle into the water, and the husband decided to approach the man and ask him...

The president in recent days is leaning even further into using the National Guard as a glorified police force, visiting the troops and allowing them to be armed. He’s suggested he’s eyeing Chicago and New York next for their next deployment. On Sunday, he needled Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for Baltimore’s notorious crime statistics, hinting he could send troops there as well. It's a sign that despite polling showing how unpopular Trump’s moves are in Washington, the president is playing to a national audience — and betting this is a battle he and the GOP can win. If his recent...

A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who recently fled her war-torn home for a safer life in the US was knifed to death by a homeless career criminal at a North Carolina train station last week, according to family members and authorities.

A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who recently fled her war-torn home for a safer life in the US was knifed to death by a homeless career criminal at a North Carolina train station last week, according to family members and authorities. Iryna Zarutska suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the East/West Boulevard light rail station in South End, Charlotte just before 10 p.m. Friday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Saturday. Zarutska had “recently arrived in the United States, seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning,” according to a GoFundMe page set up to fundraise...

A Democratic strategist outrageously claimed that public safety threats like migrant offenses and carjackings 'don't matter to that many Americans.' Insha Rahman, vice president of advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, made the jarring declaration while addressing the Democratic National Convention (DNC) crowd during its summer meeting on Monday. The former public defender discussed Donald Trump's crime crackdown in Washington DC, calling his efforts a 'huge opportunity' for Democrats. You want to talk about the crime issues voters care about. Where does Trump go? Migrant crimes, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy...

Apparently trumps threat is starting to get real. They have to have a preliminary plan to give [t]o the mayor by Wednesday of how CPD will respond if the national guard is deployed... will cpd have to assist in any way if anyone is arrested for local and non federal charges etc etc. some are hinting this may happen in time for Mexican independence weekend. This will be a disaster... Au contraire dear reader....this will not be a disaster. This will be entertainment of the highest order. We have contacts standing by at three different hospitals and a mole in...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said. The pair met for about 30 minutes behind closed doors at One Police Plaza in Manhattan, with the tête-à-tête occurring as President Trump has taken a keen interest in boosting public safety in the city — including by potentially deploying additional boots on the ground in the five boroughs. The president has already sent armed National Guard troops to crime-riddled Washington, DC. But the Big Apple’s top cop politely pointed...

Screencap of Twitter/X video. Trump has had control of Washington, DC for a little over a week and it has already made a tremendous difference, and while partisans and talking heads on TV continue to describe this as ‘authoritarian’ many of the people who actually live there seem to appreciate it. In the video below, which has been shared widely on Twitter/X and other social media platforms, a young woman from Washington, DC marvels at what Trump has been able to do in such a short amount of time. You will not see this young woman featured on CNN or...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller told reporters Monday that the Trump administration has uncovered a “massive scandal” in Washington D.C. involving the doctoring of crime statistics. He said the alleged corruption is currently under investigation and said details of the corruption will soon be brought to light. “The results will stun you,” he said. Miller made the remarks in the Oval Office after President Trump signed a slew of new executive orders to end cashless bail throughout the United States and in the District of Columbia, prosecute the burning of the...

Just days into his federal takeover of Washington’s police force, President Trump declared the problem solved. “D.C. was a hellhole and now it’s safe,” he said. On Monday, he said he expected the same results in Chicago, the next city on his list for a federal crackdown on crime. “We will solve Chicago within one week, maybe less, but within one week, we will have no crime in Chicago,” Trump told reporters on Monday. Mr. Trump’s bold (and misleading) pronouncements expose a key strategy behind his tough-on-crime swagger. For the president, the idea of sending federal forces into American cities...

PONCHATOULA, La. — A Tickfaw man has been arrested after shooting at a car during a road rage incident, critically injuring a pregnant teen girl. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office arrested Barry West, 54, of Tickfaw on four counts of attempted second-degree murder, one count of illegal use of a weapon and obstruction of justice. According to deputies, on Sunday, around 9 a.m., the 17-year-old girl was in a Ford Expedition with two other people traveling on North Hoover Road in the Ponchatoula area. They encountered West, who was driving a silver Dodge truck in the same direction. After an...

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress are launching an investigation into whether top police officials in Washington, D.C., engaged in a cover-up of crime statistics to make it seem as if illegal activity in the capital city was decreasing over the last three years. The House Oversight Committee announced on Monday it would open an inquiry into the Metropolitan Police Department and whether it deliberately manipulated data to show lower crime rates. As part of the inquiry, the panel is requesting access to all documents and materials detailing the decision-making behind the department’s crime reporting process.

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18,362 views Aug 25, 2025 President Donald Trump has initiated a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., due to rampant crime and violence. The Home Rule Act of 1973 allows the Government to federalize D.C.'s police force, which has been done. Some say this is a racist action due to the high black population of DC. Black residents, however, seem to think differently. Many of them love the surge as it has made DC safer.

More than 84 per cent of respondents believed that capital punishment deters the trafficking of drugs into Singapore.A large majority of people living in the region believe the death penalty is effective in deterring serious crimes such as drug trafficking in Singapore, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Tuesday (Aug 26). In an online survey conducted on 12,000 residents from six regional cities, 83.9 per cent said they believed that the death penalty deters serious crimes such as murder and the smuggling of firearms into Singapore. Separately, 84.2 per cent of respondents, who are aged 20 to 64,...

Democrats are still in denial about Washington, DC’s crime problem, and decrying President Donald Trump’s intervention — but it’s time they face reality. Over the last 12 days, as Trump federalized the DC police force and deployed federal officers on district streets, the city’s shockingly high murder rate screeched to a halt. No homicides were recorded at all in that time frame, a sharp, statistically significant drop that’s far too large to dismiss as mere chance. . . . Statistically, compared to the homicide rate during the first seven months of this year, the odds of that happening by chance...

Comedian Reggie Carroll — A Baltimore native known for touring his stand-up routines across the country — was shot and killed in Mississippi last week, according to authorities. Carroll, 52, was gunned down in Southhaven on Wednesday, the Southhaven Police Department said in an update Saturday. Officers responded to Burton Lane after reports of an isolated shooting and located “one male victim suffering from gunshot wounds,” cops said. Despite providing “life-saving” measures, the victim, later identified as Carroll, died from his injuries, authorities confirmed. “One male is in custody and has been charged with the murder of Reginald Carroll. Our...