Results for: violent crime 2023

Gavin Newsom Gets a Big Win, Screws Over 'Democracy'
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/06/20/breaking-at-newso…ocks-taxpayer-protection-act-initiative-from-ballot-n2175724
– unanimously ruled that the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act cannot appear on November's ballot.RELATED: Violent … Crime Skyrockets in CA, But Newsom's Attempting to Block Tough-on-Crime ReformsNewsom and Democrat leaders in the state legislature … filed suit in late 2023 to keep the initiative, which would require the Legislature to obtain voter approval for any tax increase…
FBI Raids Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's Residence—Authorities Mum on Reason Why
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/06/20/oakland-mayor-sheng-thaos-home-raided-by-fbimum-on-reason-why-n2175725
– not fared well under Thao's watch.Related:America's Worst-Run City Should Come As No SurpriseCOLLAPSE: Oakland Business Owner Says Crime … is justified for several reasons, including crime, the city's financial struggles, the way Thao fired former police chief LeRonne …  Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao reportedly has FOUR houses in Oakland.So while the violent crime rate is almost four times as high in…
Media Drums Up Another Fake Controversy With 'Milwaukee Is a Horrible City' Garbage
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/06/14/media-drums-up-anoth…ntroversy-with-milwaukee-is-a-horrible-city-garbage-n2175467
– “President Trump was explicitly referring to the problems in Milwaukee, specifically violent crime and voter fraud.”FAKE NEWS: In a … “@realDonaldTrump was specifically referring to the crime the CRIME RATE in Milwaukee,” Van Orden posted on the social platform X, … adding a screenshot of a 2023 news article that said the city ranks third for violent crimes nationwide.Naturally, Joe Biden didn’t…
Newsom Crows About Rise in CA Retail Theft Arrests—Gets Roasted for Creating Lawlessness in First Place
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/06/20/newsom-crows-about-r…ets-roasted-for-creating-lawlessness-in-first-place-n2175706
– But why is crime so high that you need to make so many apprehensions? … Sure doesn't seem like it's his real priority:California Dreamin'RECEIPTS PROVIDED: Violent Crime Skyrockets in CA But Newsom's Attempting … doesn't care about crime, he doesn't care about the homeless, and he doesn't care about the average Californian.…
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Governor Ron DeSantis's Firing of Soros-Backed Prosecutor
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/06/06/florida-supreme-co…nor-ron-desantiss-firing-of-soros-backed-prosecutor-n2175137
– In the latest such event, the Florida Supreme Court handed the governor a win when they upheld his August 2023 firing of Soros-backed … DeSantis' decision to remove a Soros-backed prosecutor on Thursday.DeSantis had suspended State Attorney Monique Worrel in August 2023 … , accusing her of "dereliction of duty" when it comes to crime.…
New York City's Government Despises Self-Defense
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/25/new-york-citys-government-despises-self-defense-n2174662
– city’s leadership has demonstrated its fervent belief that it is solely the government’s responsibility to keep people safe from violent … 53-year-old Francisco Valerio could be looking at up to seven years in prison for protecting himself and his property from two violent … the bodega worker and kept him in Rikers Island for a period of time before community backlash brought about his release.In June 2023…
FBI Says Law Enforcement Seeing Highest Level of Assaults in 10 Years As Criminals Are Emboldened
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/05/14/fbi-says-law-enfo…of-assaults-in-10-years-as-criminals-are-empowered-n2174201
– However, in 2023, that percentage decreased by 38 percent from 32 deaths in 2022 down to 20 deaths in 2023. … Broken down by year, that is 60 killed in 2023, 61 in 2022, and 73 in 2021. … , 32 had records of violent arrests.…
Concealed Carry Applications Are on the Rise in NYC, but It's Not Time to Celebrate Just Yet
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/04/29/concealed-carry-applic…rise-in-nyc-but-its-not-time-to-celebrate-just-yet-n2173479
– found ways to prevent residents from exercising their Second Amendment rights.This development comes amid fears about heightened crime … data is available, the department received 3,358 applications, making the total number of permit claims submitted since Jan. 1, 2023 … office shows the NYPD is on track to rake in $6.3 million in gun permit application fees this fiscal year, which started July 1, 2023…
WATCH: Border Czar Tom Homan Ratchets Up Feud With AOC, Anoints Her ‘Dumbest Congresswoman Ever’
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/02/18/watch-border-cza…eud-with-aoc-anoints-her-dumbest-congresswoman-ever-n2185704
– to believe any American, regardless of political affiliation, "would want to educate criminal illegal aliens ... convicted of a violent … crime" on how to evade law enforcement.But then, that's your modern-day Democrat party in a nutshell, isn't it? … needs.She was loudly heckled during a press conference with fellow Democrat lawmakers outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan in 2023…
The Torture and Murder That Proves the Left Will Flat-Out Lie to Avoid Reality About the Trans Movement
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/03/10/the-torture-an…t-out-lie-to-avoid-reality-about-the-trans-movement-n2186482
– society, not her LGBT peers.As The Federalist reported, a Change.org petition was created to pressure police into making this a hate crime … done by the trans movement itself: In fact, in 2021 only two murders of transgender people were being investigated as a hate crime … since 2013 were committed by a friend or intimate partner.[...]According to a report from analysts in the UK that tracked their violent…
Chicago Wins Horrendous National Title - for 13th Year Running
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/23/title-of-murder-capital-usa-goes-to-chicago-for-13th-year-running-n2187004
– “It's true the crime is down somewhat, but it's down dramatically across the country,” he said. “It's barely down here. … An analysis of crime trends in Chicago from 2013 to 2023 done by that group revealed that from 2023 to 2023:Violent crime was 11.5 … percent higher, driven largely by carjacking and assaults.Homicides were down 14 percent in Chicago from 2022 to 2023 but were still…
The Murder of Austin Metcalf Is Sparking a Conversation on Racial Violence, but Missing the Real Culprit
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/04/07/the-murder-of…ion-on-racial-violence-but-missing-the-real-culprit-n2187575
– Young black males are violent to a wildly, outrageously disproportionate degree. That’s just a fact. We all know it. … According to the Census Bureau, in 2023, 54 percent of black children live with a mother only. …  The relationship between fatherlessness and crime is well-documented.…
HOT TAKES: The Internet Comes for Alvin Bragg, and It's Not Pretty
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/12/10/hot-takes-the-internet-comes-for-alvin-bragg-and-its-not-pretty-n2183026
– Justice was served Monday as former Marine Daniel Penny was cleared of all charges in the accidental death of violent subway passenger … rot in our justice system.Many of them took to social media, and they were unsparing in their criticism of the divisive, soft-on-crime … Bragg.Internet commentator Greg Price noted something that we’ve reported on: Bragg downgraded a huge number of felony cases in 2023…
Has Black Lives Matter Lost Their Mojo?
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2024/12/10/has-black-lives-matter-lost-their-mojo-n2183020
– In May of 2023, Neely boarded a subway train and began to threaten other passengers. …  In 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, it seemed like almost immediately, violent protesters took to the streets … While some protests took place Monday evening in New York City that were posted on X, there was nothing big enough and violent enough…
Anti-Gunners Exploit UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting to Push for Useless Restrictions on 'Ghost Guns'
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/12/11/anti-gunners-exploit-u…ting-to-push-for-useless-restrictions-on-ghost-guns-n2183062
– law enforcement to trace,” NPR noted.The report goes on to suggest that “a growing number of ghost guns have been recovered from crime … fastest growing gun safety problem in the country.”California’s government claims 8,340 ghost guns “were recovered in the state in 2023 … This includes 692 homicides or attempted homicides.Yet, the overwhelming majority of firearms taken from crime scenes were commercially…
Prolific January 6 Prosecutor U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves Resigns
https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2024/12/30/prolific-january-6-prosecutor-us-attorney-matthew-graves-resigns-n2183760
– Case That Will Impact Multiple J6 DefendantsOver 1,000 defendants have been convicted, with many receiving harsh sentences for non-violent … I look forward to their pardons.In 2023, Rep Greene directly blamed Graves for Perna's suicide.She wrote:Matthew Graves is responsible … for the persecution of J6 defendants and the suicide of Matthew Perna, whose only crime was peacefully walking into the Capitol for…
'The CIA Must Get Involved': Trump's Midnight Missives on X Signal a Return to Form
https://redstate.com/brutalbrittany/2025/01/03/trump-is-back-to-midnight-rapid-posting-on-x-n2183888
–  The image read:“MUG SHOT - AUGUST 24, 2023, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, NEVER SURRENDER!” … crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. … The USA is breaking down - A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation.…
New York Is a Little Safer: A New Image Shows Daniel Penny Is Back to Riding on the Subway
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2025/01/16/daniel-penny-is-back-to-riding-on-the-subway-to-much-rejoicing-n2184425
–  Penny famously stopped repeat violent criminal Jordan Neely from harassing and assaulting innocents on a train car back in 2023 … When politicians are soft on crime, the people wind up having to deal with it first hand. …  Penny isn't being held because he committed a crime, he's being held because he's a political prisoner.…
Justice for Rachel Morin As Illegal Is Found Guilty of Her Brutal Murder—So, What's Next?
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/04/14/illegal-convicted-of-rachel-morins-murder-n2187864
– the nation back in 2024 when it was revealed that a Salvadoran illegal with a criminal past had been arrested for her August of 2023 … murder in August of 2023, first placing intense focus on her boyfriend and then theorizing that perhaps a local vagrant might have …  A manhunt began in earnest after Martinez-Hernandez's DNA also linked him to a March 2023 home invasion in the Los Angeles area…
Watch: Greg Gutfeld's Masterful Monologue on Democrat Priorities Absolutely Nailed It
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/04/17/watch-greg-gutfe…n-democrat-priorities-is-nothing-short-of-brilliant-n2187964
– over President Donald Trump's deportation of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the White House asserts is a member of the violent … mother of Rachel Morin, the Maryland woman who was fatally attacked on a popular hiking trail in a Baltimore suburb in 2023 …  This is after they ignored illegals coming in; crime in every city; shuffling young women around; pushed in front of subway trains…
Welcome to California: Race-Obsessed, Homeless Assailant Gets Slap on the Wrist Despite Horrific Crime
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/03/17/welcome-to-californi…derer-gets-slap-on-the-wrist-despite-horrific-crime-n2186781
– We’ve seen it way too many times, almost always in “progressive” areas: criminal commits horrible crime, criminal pays little in terms … ’s not always the case in deep blue California:NEW: A homeless man who murdered another sleeping homeless man in Santa Monica in 2023 … He had also been charged w/ a hate crime & attacked two other people.https://t.co/mSoiGNLvc7— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March…
DANGER: New York Gives Tren de Aragua Gang Members a Slap on the Wrist, Releases Them
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/02/19/danger-new-york-gi…agua-gang-members-a-slap-on-the-wrist-releases-them-n2185753
– all three are back on the streets.This has been a growing problem in the Big Apple since the de Blasio era, leading to a spike in crime … “They’re documented members of a known violent criminal enterprise, a gang who has planted their flag here by entrenching themselves … criminals, we wouldn’t have ICE scouring our streets for detainees.”Tamaronis-Caldera and Garcia crossed the US border illegally in 2023…
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