Crime and Punishment

De-Policing Los Angeles: Defunded LAPD Won’t Respond 30 Types of 911 Calls

From the NRA-ILA . . . Many municipalities being pressured by the progressive left have “defunded the police,” with activists claiming that shrinking “massive” police budgets would actually improve public safety. The Los Angeles Police…


McCloskeys: St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Kim Gardner is ‘Just As Dumb As a Sack of Hammers’

Mark and Patricia McCloskey nearly lost their careers and gained felony convictions after standing up to a trespassing mob of Black Lives Matter “protesters” threatening to kill them and burn their house down. That happened…




3 Evidence-Based Ways to Prevent School Shootings (That Don’t Involve More Gun Control)

Beverly Kingston, University of Colorado Boulder and Sarah Goodrum, University of Colorado Boulder In the months leading up to his 2012 attack that killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, a 20-year-old man exhibited a cascade…


El Paso Homeowner Shoots Home Invader After the Intruder Shot the Man’s Dog

  You can learn a few things from a John Wick movie, but maybe the most important lesson is…don’t mess with a man’s dog. Maybe Bruce Wayne Murphy isn’t a movie fan. Or maybe he’s…


Even After a Historic Landslide Defeat, Lori Lightfoot Doesn’t Seem to Realize It Was About the Crime

Chicago’s incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot just lost in a landslide. She came in third place and barely received 17 percent of the vote from Chicago voters – 83 percent chose someone else. That means she’ll miss…


Protecting and Serving: Springfield, IL Police Seized Homeowner’s Gun After Investigating Her Report of a Prowler

“We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” Those words should strike fear into the heart of any American. Too often government “protects and serves” the little people – good and hard – making…



Well-Earned: Chicago, New Orleans Officially Crowned America’s Murder Capitals

Readers of TTAG know all how Murder City, USA gained its moniker. But Wirepoints, a non-profit research service, evaluated homicide statistics from America’s 75 largest states and confirmed that in sheer numbers, Chicago easily earns…