National Crime

Seattle’s violent crime rate reached a 15-year high in 2022, according to stats recently released by the Seattle Police Department. More than a year prior, the city slashed the department’s budget during the height of the defund the police movement, the Daily Caller reported. According to the SPD’s year-end crime report, homicides spiked by approximately [...]

Michigan State Police announced there was a “coordinated campaign” of hoax calls which included threats to schools around the state of Michigan. WOODTV reported that numerous threats were called into schools Tuesday morning, and all the threats “turned out to be fake.” Read more...

A New Jersey man stands accused of robbing five businesses at gunpoint over the course of two days in January. Four of the incidents happened in 30 minutes on January 22, NJ.com reported Monday. Read more...

A 46-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and second-degree assault after he allegedly ran a 37-year-old woman down with his car while she was pushing her 6-month-old in a stroller in the Mililani Walmart parking lot Wednesday morning. Desmond Kekahuna’s bail is set at $1 million. Investigators believe that the attack was a “random [...]

A man is wanted in New York City after entering a jewelry store and opening fire during an attempted robbery in broad daylight on Sunday, authorities said. The incident happened just before 2 p.m. at the A&M jewelry store on 5th Avenue in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, the NYPD said. Read more...

The suspect who pulled a gun from his coat and fired several rounds inside a San Francisco synagogue had loaded his weapon with blanks, police say. At approximately 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin reportedly entered the Schneerson Center in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California. The Schneerson Center is a small synagogue [...]

VALPARAISO Ind. — A man was arrested after allegedly injuring a court officer and breaking the metal detector at the Porter County adult probation center. Just after 12:35 p.m. Monday, police responded to center, located in the 150 block of South Franklin Street. Read more...

Police said that a man intentionally rammed his car into a woman pushing her baby in a stroller in a Walmart parking lot and then attacked a bystander with a crowbar. The harrowing incident unfolded at a Walmart in Mililani, Hawaii, at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning. Read more...

A man with a cache of weapons and a sniper-like setup in his apartment in a Hollywood high-rise is now facing charges, Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Thursday. Braxton Kyle Johnson has been charged with one count of making criminal threats, two counts of possession of illegal assault weapons and one count of solicitation of murder, the district attorney said. [...]

Two students were killed Monday and an employee was in serious condition after a shooting at a charter school in Des Moines, Iowa. The incident occurred just before 1 p.m. at Starts Right Here, a mentorship organization for at-risk youth, according to the Des Moines Register. Read more...