“It’s serious,” said Michael Lappe of the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, which oversees police pensions. “A lot of these people aren’t retiring. They’re quitting.” A police union officer says critics “have given control to the criminals.”
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There were 157 murders last year, up from 99 in 2019 and the most in more than two decades. “It’s ridiculous that now, even during this pandemic, we got more gun violence going on than ever before,” said one activist.
Michigan prosecutors said it’s not too late to pursue those responsible for one of the worst human-made environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Some 14 alleged leaders of the transnational gang were charged in what was described as the Justice Department’s most sweeping effort yet to crush MS-13, which was established in the 1980s in southern California by Central American immigrants.
Mexican authorities will bring no charges against a former top military official who was arrested in the U.S. last year on drug-trafficking and corruption charges, only to be sent home at the request of the outraged Mexican government.
Trump administration officials “significantly underestimated [the zero tolerance policy’s] complexities and demonstrated a deficient understanding of the legal requirements related to the care and custody of separated children,” the IG report said.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals plans to review the high-profile murder conviction of former police officer Roy Oliver, who fatally shot an unarmed Black teenager.
Prosecutors race to charge dozens of the most visible participants in the U.S. Capitol riot and investigate what kind of planning went into it, as Washington, D.C., prepares for the arrival of an estimated 20,000 National Guard troops to provide security during Inauguration Week.
Federal law, state constitutions, and criminal statutes in 29 states outlaw groups that engage in activities reserved for state agencies, including acting as law enforcement, training and drilling together, and making shows of force as armed groups at public gatherings. Hundreds of armed groups such as the Oath Keepers do exactly that.
A panel of federal judges has ordered that Dustin Higgs, 48, convicted in a Maryland triple murder in 1996, be executed as scheduled on Friday. A defense attorney complains of “super-spreader executions” during the pandemic.