by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 11, 2022 | Chicago Crime, Illinois Crime, Illinois News, National News, News & Events
CHICAGO – After disgraced actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced Thursday to 150 days in jail for staging a hoax hate crime, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx lambasted the court proceedings as “mob justice” and a politically motivated...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 11, 2022 | Illinois Crime, Illinois News, National News, News & Events
Carjacking reports increased 18% in February compared to the same month last year, according to the latest info from CPD. But you wouldn’t know that by the way the department framed its monthly “crime is down” press release yesterday. More on that in a minute. One of...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 11, 2022 | Illinois Crime, Illinois News, National News, News & Events
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com New York City subway crimes skyrocketed by more than 200% this past week compared to the same time in 2021, after several reports of heinous attacks in the transit system and despite Mayor Eric Adams’s crackdown efforts. There...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 11, 2022 | Illinois News, National News, News & Events
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed his first veto Tuesday on a bill that would have created a politically appointed independent policing auditor hired directly by the Arlington County Board of Supervisors. H.B. 670, which reached Youngkin’s desk after...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 8, 2022 | National News, News & Events
It wasn’t just the fatal shooting Sunday that led Olga Sagan to close her Piroshky Piroshky bakery in downtown Seattle. Last week someone was shot and injured near the bakery’s location near Third Avenue and Pike Street, Sagan said. When she tried to open the store...
by JimThackerSAFE24 | Mar 3, 2022 | National News, News & Events
A California mall owner has sold its 50% stake in the Shops at North Bridge to its partner in a deal that offers a reminder of just how far the Magnificent Mile has fallen. Several years after floating ambitious plans to expand the Shops at North Bridge on North...