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Sean Rayford/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Orlando Police Department created a new unit in 2021 that sends behavioral health experts instead of law enforcement officers to respond to 911 calls for mental health crises. It's in an effort -- one of a number around the country -- to avoid confrontations with law enforcement responding to non-violent calls and potentially avoidable fatal police shootings. More than 20% of people fatally shot by police since 2015 had mental illness, according to...

Sean Rayford/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Orlando Police Department created a new unit in 2021 that sends behavioral health experts instead of law enforcement

We must now hope that in 2022 more leaders will wake up, reverse course, back the blue, and show they’re serious about snuffing out the violence that now haunts our streets.

We must now hope that in 2022 more leaders will wake up, reverse course, back the blue, and show they’re serious about snuffing out the violence that now haunts our streets.

Amid a spike in violent crime, a dozen U.S. cities set homicide records in 2021. Will they be able to turn that around in 2022?

How will history remember Bill de Blasio?

At least 12 major U.S. cities have broken annual homicide records in 2021 -- and there's still three weeks to go in the year. Of the dozen cities that have already surpassed the grim milestones for killings, five topped records that were set or...

Daunte Wright was pulled over for an expired registration tab and an air freshener hanging in the back windshield on the day he was fatally shot.

Twelve major U.S. cities have already set new homicide records, and a retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department is blaming a decline in arrests and the inability to hold those who are arrested.

Twelve major U.S. cities have already set new homicide records, and a retired chief of detectives for the New York Police Department is blaming a decline in arrests and the inability to hold those who are arrested.