Tag: Crime & Public Safety

San Francisco: It’s a Good Thing Homelessness Only Happens Between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M.

Bleeding hearts, that’s the term used to describe the typical liberal. They just feel so much, and are so compassionate, that their hearts bleed for those who are suffering. Well, San Francisco has a surplus of bleeding hearts, which is why the city’s newest program, created to help the homeless, is perfectly named, the Homeless…


Man Pleads Guilty to Strangling and Dumping Body of Missouri Woman 3 Decades Ago

UNION, Mo.—A 67-year-old man has pleaded guilty to strangling a woman in Missouri and leaving her bound body in the woods three decades ago, a newspaper reported. Kirby R. King pleaded guilty on Friday to involuntary manslaughter and felonious restraint in the death of 22-year-old Karla Jane Delcour, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. She…


Missouri Man Executed for Killing 2 Jailers During Failed Bid to Help Inmate Escape in 2000

BONNE TERRE, Mo.—A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m.,…


2 Killed, 7 Injured in Virginia Capital Shooting After Graduation Event

Two people were killed and seven wounded in a shooting after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. During a press conference, Richmond Interim Police Chief Rick Edwards provided information on the two individuals taken into custody, one of whom was identified as a 19-year-old male, while the other was confirmed…


2 Killed, 5 Injured in Virginia Capital Shooting After Graduation Event

Two people were killed and five wounded in a shooting after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. During a press conference, Richmond Interim Police Chief Rick Edwards provided information on the two individuals taken into custody, one of whom was identified as a 19-year-old male, while the other was confirmed…


2 Killed, 5 Injured in Shooting After High School Graduation

Two people were killed and five wounded in a shooting after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. During a press conference, Richmond Interim Police Chief Rick Edwards provided information on the two individuals taken into custody, one of whom was identified as a 19-year-old male, while the other was confirmed…


7 Injured in Virginia Capital Shooting After Graduation Event

Seven people were shot, with three of them sustaining life-threatening injuries, after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. Two people are in custody, Richmond interim police chief Rick Edwards said at a press conference. The incident took place near Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park campus. In a statement on its…


Indiana Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Jim Banks and His Family

An Indiana man has been arrested and charged with making a series of threatening calls to Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and his family. Aaron Thompson, 33, of Fort Wayne, was arrested last month in connection with calls he allegedly made to Banks’s office in April. Thompson allegedly called Banks’s office on April 6 and another…


Chicago Walgreens Restricts Unlocked Aisles to Two Due to Crime

A Walgreens in Chicago redesigned a store that would allow customers to browse only two aisles of products because of crime. Customers can only access those shelfs after they pass through anti-theft detectors. “Non-essential” items can only be ordered digitally from kiosks and later picked up at a counter as part of a pilot program, according…


Lululemon CEO Defends Firing Employees Who Confronted Robbers: ‘Step Back, Let the Theft Occur’

Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald defended the firing of two employees who confronted three masked thieves robbing a Georgia store and called the police, with McDonald saying that company policy is for staff to “let the theft occur” and not try to intervene. “We have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging…