US President Donald Trump will extend federal law enforcement action to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, in a move that will include sending in National Guard troops and setting up a Memphis State Task Force to tackle crime, though police say overall criminal offences are at a 25-year low. Trump announced the move in an executive order on Monday to rid Memphis of what he called the tremendous levels of violent crime that have overwhelmed its local government's ability to respond effectively.
If you're a Christian, white parent who loves the Lord and loves your children, then you need to have the talk. The talk that we're referencing is the talk that takes your children, according to their maturity, at the proper time, the appropriate time, and says there are certain parts of town that you cannot go and there are certain people that you cannot be around, right?
Donald Trump went out to dinner Tuesday night in Washington. It was the first time he had done so since his return to the White House last January and one of the rare occasions he has gone out since eight years ago, when he first became president of the United States and often went to Trump Tower, the hotel he owned in the city and sold in 2022.
Western Springs, Illinois took first place, while Massachusetts' own Lexington and Winchester placed second and third. Lexington experiences a property crime rate of 2.937 per 1,000 and a violent crime rate of 0.294 per 1,000. The annual cost of living there runs about $145,764 per household. The mean household income in the area sits just above $300,000. The average value for a single-family home in Lexington is $1,697,821.
In 1937, Joseph Stalin commissioned a sweeping census of the Soviet Union. The data reflected some uncomfortable facts in particular, the dampening of population growth in areas devastated by the 1933 famine and so Stalin's government suppressed the release of the survey results. Several high-level government statistical workers responsible for the census were subsequently imprisoned and apparently executed. Though the Soviet authorities would proudly trumpet national statistics that glorified the USSR's achievements, any numbers that did not fit the preferred narrative were buried.
We're tenacious like that, and we and everybody cares from the beginning, so we're not playing catch-up. So we're able to follow the lead, do the 48-hour investigation," she said, referring to the crucial investigative window immediately after a killing. "Everybody wants to be here.
It is not accurate. So of course, it's fantastic. There has currently been the 11-day stretch without a reported homicide, but that also happened earlier this year. In February and March, there was a 16-day stretch with no reported homicides in the district. So the president is exaggerating again, and that wasn't his only false claim, guys, on the subject of D.C. crime.
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Washington DC police systematically manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer than it actually is.
Donald Trump claimed that crime in Washington DC is at its worst, accusing law enforcement of providing false crime statistics and stating they were under investigation.
The vast majority of our people are good people. But that legacy, combined with the tragedy that some of this crime falls most heavily in black communities, creates a real problem.
Extortion is strangling businesses in Mexico, with organized crime often at the root. Smaller businesses frequently cannot endure the financial burden, leading to closures.
The National Portrait Gallery near Trafalgar Square reported 3,060 crimes in one year, including 1,200 thefts, while their spokesman pointed out only two reportable instances among 1.6 million visitors.
Spending on crime response varies dramatically from one state to another. For instance, California spends significantly more than states with less crime or smaller populations.