Results for violent crime 2023

  1. The Downfall of America's Cities: Oakland, the Shame of the West Coast https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/08/11/the-downfall-of-americas-cities-oakland-the-shame-of-the-west-coast-n2192687
    rate among its neighboring cities:The 2023 crime rate in Oakland, CA is 1,508 (City-Data.com crime index), which is 6.3 times greater …  The 2023 Oakland crime rate rose by 85% compared to 2022. …  In the last 5 years Oakland has seen rise of violent crime and rise of property crime.…
  2. Justice at Last: Rachel Morin's Illegal Alien Killer Finds Out His Harsh Destiny https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/08/11/justice-at-last-rach…ns-illegal-alien-killer-finds-out-his-harsh-destiny-n2192698
    He has now been jailed for life for first-degree murder, first-degree rape, and kidnapping for the horrific August 2023 attack on the … victims.God bless Rachel, @PattyMorin, and the Morin family.We have, unfortunately, become so accustomed to reading about soft-on-crime … judges in this country who routinely let out violent criminals instead of locking them behind bars where they belong.…
  3. Gotcha: Another Nail Just Got Hammered in Bogus 'D.C. Crime Is Down!' Talking Point https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/08/12/another-nail…s-hammered-in-the-crime-is-down-in-dc-talking-point-n2192751
    the summer of 2025, and Democrats and their media allies are doing it to themselves again, citing questionable stats to proclaim "crime … most of these violent offenses. … But when it comes to crime matters and how to combat them, you can rest assured that they are full of it 100 percent of the time.…
  4. The Downfall of America's Cities: The Nation's Capital City, a Crime-Ridden Pesthole https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/08/08/the-downfall-of-am…es-the-nations-capital-city-a-crime-ridden-pesthole-n2192595
    , before President Trump resumed office, the most recent year for which solid stats are available, the violent crime rate in the District … Rates of property crime were 124.7 percent higher. … In 2023, over half of all the violent crimes were robberies.…
  5. Watch: President Trump Holds EO Signing Ceremony/Presser, Slams 'Very Incompetent' Blue-State Leaders https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/08/25/president-trump-de…risdictions-slams-very-incompetent-mayor-of-chicago-n2193188
    invited the White House press pool into the Oval Office, where the president signed several executive orders, most having to do with crime …  Here are some highlights.First, the president touted the administration's successes in clamping down on crime in the District …  When asked about the cashless bail EO and urban crime rates overall, the president called out Chicago by name:.…
  6. SHOCKING VIDEO: Dozens of Eritrean Protesters With Long Sticks Surround, Attack Police in London https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/12/30/shocking-video-pr…ck-police-and-their-vans-with-long-sticks-in-london-n2168113
    You have progressive DAs who refuse to properly prosecute crime, which results in more of it. … There was the effort to defund the police by those on the left which also had the unhappy effect of more crime. … Who could have figured that trying to cut police and hamstring them in high-crime areas would be a problem -- aside from everyone,…
  7. Wokesters Outraged As BLM 'Garden' at Seattle's Former CHAZ/CHOP Encampment Gets Leveled https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/12/28/the-chaz-garden-in-seattle-gets-demolished-n2168045
    But according to city officials, over the last three years, the area had, surprise surprise, become a haven for drug problems, crime … The city also removed tent encampments from the park Wednesday, marking the 76th time it had done so at Cal Anderson in 2023, she said … Bottom line,… pic.twitter.com/2zWR0CmGBY — Jonathan Choe Journalist (Seattle) (@choeshow) December 28, 2023 Here are some videos of…
  8. ‘Defund the Police’ Radical Greg Casar Gets Reaction He Deserves After Request for Extra Security Patrols https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/12/24/greg-casar-called-out-extra-security-defund-the-police-n2167917
    Greg Casar (D-Texas) rolled into the House of Representatives in 2023 in a blaze of glory three years after successfully pushing for … As has been the case in other blue cities in America, the impact of that vote has been disastrous for the Austin community, with violentcrime increasing along with the resignations of formerly valued police officers, including the police chief.…
  9. Why Hate Crime Laws Are Dangerous https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/12/23/why-hate-crime-laws-are-dangerous-n2167891
    South Carolina is one of two states that does not have a hate crime law. … Let’s start with the intent behind hate crime laws. … The logic as that these extra penalties will somehow deter violent bigots from being violent bigots.…
  10. DC Business Owner Planning Move to Virginia, Decries High Prices, Rampant Crime in the Nation's Capital https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/31/dc-business-owner…ve-to-virginia-decries-high-prices-high-crime-in-dc-n2168131
    Additionally, motor vehicle theft is up 84% and violent crime increased 39% year-over-year. … There are several ways to address this kind of rampant, runaway crime. … Businesses bring prosperity, and you can only have a safe business environment when crime is under control -- and crime in the nation's…
  11. Moderate Chicago City Council Members Fed Up With Mayor Johnson Protecting Sanctuary Status https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/02/03/moderate-chicago…or-johnson-and-liberals-protecting-sanctuary-status-n2185144
    Mayor Brandon Johnson and his insistence that the city's law enforcement not cooperate in apprehending illegal immigrants with violent … and dangerous criminal crime categories. … Chicago Mayor Johnson Won't Say How Much Is Being Spent on Illegal Immigrant SheltersMayor Brandon Johnson was elected in April 2023
  12. JD Vance Suggests Mammon, Not God, May Explain the Stance of US Catholic Bishops on the Migrant Invasion https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/01/26/jd-vance-calls-out-c…s-not-a-good-partner-in-ending-the-migrant-invasion-n2184830
    And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious. You'll be charged with a serious crime. Be jailed. … Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they're an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant … Church World Service: Funding: Received a grant of $18,079,600 in 2023 for refugee assistance.…
  13. Updated: Jailbreak: 10 Inmates Escape From New Orleans Jail; New Presser Detailing Inside Job https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/05/16/jailbreak-10-inmates-escape-from-new-orleans-jail-n2189188
     Major Gibson with the New Orleans fire and sheriff's office, who heads the crime victims unit, said that the unit has reached … She also pointed people to VINE, an app with tips on how victims and survivors of crime can track offenders, providing other contact … The chief said that the jail was designed for minimum security inmates, not for the type of violent criminals they currently house,…
  14. Who Was Responsible for Using an Inapplicable Felony Charge Against J6 Defendants? https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2025/01/28/who-was-resp…an-inapplicable-felony-charge-against-j6-defendants-n2184921
    The “hole” was the fact that the language of the existing statute made it a crime to direct third parties to undertake such obstructive … costing maybe 80,000 Arthur Andersen employees their jobs – only to eventually be reversed by the Supreme Court in a 9-0 decision.The crime … Arthur Andersen was charged under Sec. 1512(b)(2) – there was no subsection (c) at that time – which made it a crime to "knowingly…
  15. US Murder Rates Plummet. Gee, I Wonder Why? https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/06/03/us-murder-rates-plummet-gee-i-wonder-why-n2189979
    American families were promised their communities would be safer and President Trump swiftly delivered by vocally being tough on crime … , unequivocally backing law enforcement, and standing firm on violent criminals being held to the fullest extent of the law.”Compared … But it’s clear that his approach to violent crime differs sharply from his predecessor, Joe Biden, woke George Soros-appointed district…
  16. Biden FBI's Chilling Anti-Catholic Bias Was Worse Than Anyone Thought, Newly-Released Documents Show https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/06/04/grassley-releases-more-documents-related-to-fbis-richmond-memo-n2190018
    And certainly not by Catholics, who well remember that time his FBI tried to categorize them as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent …  It was back in February of 2023—when the supposedly-Catholic Biden still confusedly wandered the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue … Were they also getting crime data from Black Lives Matter?…
  17. Columbia U Protester, 'Jew-Hater,' Had Links to Terror Groups, Now Faces Years in Prison https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/04/colombia-u-protest…ad-links-to-terror-groups-now-faces-years-in-prison-n2190026
    vocal supporter of terror groups like Hamas, a vicious criminal, a self-described "Jew hater," and now he's facing federal hate crime … And, while the very concept of "hate crime" has been badly abused, this guy certainly is driven by hate. … While all hate is irrational, Bazrouk's hate seems to be not only irrational, but virulent, violent, and insane.…
  18. Ex-Voice of America Employee Indicted for Death Threats Against MTG, Family, and Staff https://redstate.com/katie-jerkovich/2025/07/17/ex-voice-of…cted-for-death-threats-against-mtg-family-and-staff-n2191778
    out that the threatening calls were made inside the Voice of America headquarters.According to the indictment, between Oct. 11, 2023 … nbsp;My prayers are with Tammie Pickelsimer, her family, the officer who was injured, and the entire Rome Police Department.These violent …  The perpetrator of this crime has committed murder in our small community of Rome, Georgia.It is unclear at this time whether…
  19. Biden Says Republicans ‘Have to Decide Who They Are’ After Midterm Losses; He Should Mind His Own House https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/11/13/biden-says-republicans…re-after-midterm-losses-he-should-mind-his-own-house-n658371
    While the GOP will likely control the House in 2023, the Democrats are maintaining control of the Senate. … Surging crime rates are another issue about which Americans have been concerned. … With homicides and other violent offenses on the rise, people are ever more concerned about their safety.…
  20. Study Finds Number of Americans Carrying Handguns Has Doubled in Four Years https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/11/27/study-finds-numb…mericans-carrying-handguns-has-doubled-in-four-years-n664839
    With murder and other violent crime rates across America continuing to skyrocket, is there any wonder why an increasing number of law-abiding … The obvious answer: Because record numbers of Americans no longer feel safe, including from random murders and other violent crimes … Incidentally, Alabama on January 1, 2023, will become the 22nd state that will not require a permit or background check to carry a…
  21. FBI Celebrates New Year by Declaring They Will Chase January 6 Demonstrators for 'Years to Come' https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/01/04/fbi-celebrates-new-y…will-chase-january-6-demonstrators-for-years-to-come-n683173
    Not only is the effort expended in this grossly disproportionate to any potential “crime” committed. … A whole summer of riots, notably violent riots in Portland that frequently resulted in police officers being assaulted by a vicious … This happened right before Christmas pic.twitter.com/Jy5b0I3T2j — Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) January 4, 2023 Since 2016…
  22. Illinois 'SAFE-T Act' on Hold After Judge Rules It Unconstitutional https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2022/12/30/illinois-safe-t-act-on-hold-after-judge-rules-it-unconstitutional-n680841
    The Illinois “SAFE-T Act” was set to take effect on January 1, 2023. … eliminates the requirement to sign a sworn affidavit Requires the retention of misconduct records and requires increased reporting of crime … evade prosecution Allows persons in custody come Jan. 1. to petition for a reversal of their pretrial terms starting with the least violent
  23. The Reverse Great Migration Does Not Bode Well for California or Other Blue States https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/01/06/the-reverse-great…es-not-bode-well-for-california-or-other-blue-states-n684352
    — Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) January 5, 2023 So, where are these U-Hauls headed? … observance of the California spirit of opportunity and inclusion — ‘the California Way’ — will stand in peaceful contrast to the violent … Over-the-top progressive governance, out-of-control crime, high taxation, and lack of economic and cultural freedom.…
  24. WATCH: Crack Crime-Stopper Lori Lightfoot Offers 'Concrete Solution' to End Crime in Chicago https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/01/20/watch-crack-crim…oot-offers-concrete-solution-to-end-crime-in-chicago-n691643
    As the Windy City’s violent crime wave continues to rage, Lightfoot has blamed everyone and everything else but herself for her city … You’ve been mayor of the once proud city of Chicago for nearly three years and your violent crime rate has continued to skyrocket. … And now, you’re publicly pleading with federal law enforcement agents to help you do your job of cracking down on violent crime, after…
  25. Watch: Lori Lightfoot Gives Chicagoans Another Reason to Vote Against Her During Lunar New Year Parade https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/01/30/watch-lori-li…son-to-vote-against-her-during-lunar-new-year-parade-n696147
    crime wave in Chicago, her two-faced nature, blaming retail store owners in part for smash-and-grab looting sprees, instituting a … to crack down on lockdown opponents by using force during the COVID pandemic, and most notably her failure to address the rampant crime … Lightfoot is detached from reality. pic.twitter.com/uEbL5R9s1m — Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1) January 29, 2023 What…