by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | National News
The rise in violent crime has become a national trend in the past few years as cities reach homicide rates not seen in decades. FBI statistics show a 30% increase in violent crime in 2020 compared to the previous year, the largest single-year increase since the agency...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | National News
At the height of Seattle’s racial justice protests in 2020, then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation to transfer the Police Department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter activist organization and researched relocating the station’s...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | National News
A D.C. police officer was shot and wounded Sunday night in Northwest D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department said. Authorities called off a barricade situation, but the shooter remains at large. The officer’s injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | Chicago Crime, News & Events
ROGERS PARK — Jeff Kelley had just arrived in Rogers Park from California to visit his daughter when he became the first victim of a prolific armed robbery spree. As he was pulling luggage out of his daughter’s car just after 10 p.m. Nov. 22, Kelley noticed a man...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Jan 31, 2022 | National News, News & Events
SEATTLE—Democrats in Washington state rode the wave of anti-police sentiment after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Their goal was to “reimagine policing,” and it’s exactly what they did. Consequently, Washington experienced a surge of violent crime. Now...
