As of the start of 2026, London's murder rate had dropped to the lowest it's been in more than a decade, making the capital one of the safest Western cities in the world according to the Mayor. The statistics certainly paint a different picture to the viral videos suggesting London is lawless peddled by the far right on social media.
Major crimes reported on the New York City subway system rocketed 17% during the first five weeks of the new year, the Gothamist reported. The uptick in crime is likely a result of more people relying on the subway system during the extreme cold, a police spokesperson said to the outlet. According to NYPD data, there were 246 major crime incidents on the subway in the first five weeks of 2026, compared with 210 for the same period a year earlier.
The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday. Photo by Dean Moses The new year of 2026 saw the safest January ever for gun violence, with the fewest murders, shootings, and shooting victims in recorded NYC history, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Monday.
OAKLAND - One man was killed and another man was wounded early Friday in a shooting in the San Antonio district of East Oakland, authorities said. No information was immediately released about either man. The shooting happened about 3:15 a.m. in the 1600 block of Solano Way. Police did not release details about what led up to the shooting. The man killed was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The victim was on a Manhattan-bound Q train rumbling into the Church Ave. subway stop in Flatbush at around 6:30 a.m. when another commuter confronted him. The suspect pulled out a sharp object and slashed the victim in the face, cops said. Wounded and bleeding, the victim got off the train at Church Ave. and alerted police. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was treated for a minor wound.
Pritzker: I'm explaining to you that our murder rate has been cut in half, and very importantly, Bret, you gotta hear this, very importantly we've been doing the things that are necessary to bring crime down, right? We've invested in community violence interruption, we've invested in police. I've added more state police than any governor in quite a long time. It's very important that we do both of those things and more to invest in our communities so that we bring crime down.
The tube can be stressful at the best of times. It's busy, it's often running late, and on top of it all you've got to keep vigilant to ensure you don't end up stepping off the carriage with fewer belongings than you had when you got on. Phone theft has been a big problem in London in the past few years, but it's not just drive-by robbers you have to be aware of.
during a Senate hearing on Tuesday morning. Sen. Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that's a great idea we should have bipartisan agreement, Cruz said. How about we all come together and say Let's stop murders.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop rape.' How about we all come together and say Let's stop attacking pedophiles.
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.
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.
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