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President Joe Biden is asking Congress to support his $37 billion "Safer America Plan," an anti-crime proposal that left law enforcement experts unimpressed.

The Chicago Police Department has lost two officers and a sergeant to suicide in the past months, authorities revealed Monday – amid what critics say is a harsh environment for police officers and as brass continues to cancel days off.

Superintendent David Brown held a news briefing Monday announcing the deaths of three Chicago police members and fielding questions about their mental health.

You knew this was coming.

Suicide has quietly become an epidemic among the nation's police, with suicide ranking as the No. 1 cause of officer deaths this year, and frustrated police advocates and mental health experts warn that President Biden has not only ignored the burgeoning crisis but exacerbated it with anti-police rhetoric.

The crime wave across the U.S. exploded ahead of the notoriously violent Fourth of July weekend.

The crime wave across the U.S. exploded ahead of the notoriously violent Fourth of July weekend.

A national law enforcement organization has sued the Biden administration's top border officials for withholding information about how the White House handled a 2021 incident in which President Joe Biden accused Border Patrol agents of whipping migrants.

The FBI has released new data on police use of force against civilians in 2021. It also recently released new information on 73 police officers feloniously killed in 2021.

A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.