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AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus It’s not getting much attention outside of local media, but violent crime in Portland, Oregon has been soaring upwards for months now, with no sign of any improvement in the number of shootings and homicides in the city. Even so, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler is proposing several million dollars be cut from the Portland Police Bureau’s budget, and other city officials are touting unarmed park rangers and other non-law enforcement strategies in an attempt to address violent crime without necessarily putting violent criminals behind bars. One of the latest efforts? A�...

I remember Cody Woodson as a good kid. He played on the same high school soccer team as one of my sons, and the two were friends in high school, though Cody didn’t have a lot of free time. When he wasn’t involved in his school work or athletics he was generally working at a convenience store in our rural county, but he’d still come over to our house every now and then to pick up my son to go play basketball or hang out and play video games. I didn’t know Cody well, but I liked him. He was smart, polite, and clearly had a good head on his shoulders.

AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus Crime in Portland, Oregon has gotten to the point that police say they can’t keep up with the number of reported shootings, stabbings, and other acts of violence, but three of the newest city council members are still resisting Mayor Ted Wheeler’s call to spend $2-million dollars to put a team of police officers on the streets dedicated to combat the rise in violent crime. Instead, they’re proposing the city spend nearly $5-million on anti-violence programs and adding more patrols of park rangers in the city. Yeah, park rangers. The memo, sent to Wheeler last w...

Tweet The passage of HB 2231 should have been a no-brainer, bipartisan decision for Virginia lawmakers this session, but Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates once again put politics above public safety and have killed the measure in a legislative subcommittee. The bill, authored by House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, would have established a Group Violence Intervention Board and a Division of Group Violence to oversee distribute federal and state grants to cities that want to adopt the anti-violence strategies of Project Ceasefire and Project Exit. These programs have been proven t...

Tweet There’s no disputing the fact that Philadelphia has a violence problem. The city saw 499 homicides in 2020, which was the highest number in nearly 30 years; and shootings, carjackings, robberies, and murders are still on the rise in 2021. Last week eight people were shot in broad daylight at the city’s Olney Transportation Center, but so far police have yet to make any arrests in the case. On Friday afternoon, Philly mayor Jim Kenney, police commissioner Danielle Outlaw, District Attorney Larry Kransner, and other officials held a press conference demanding that the Republican-c...