Crime

The FBI released preliminary crime data for 2025, and the numbers are stunning. Violent crime fell at a rate not seen in nearly a century, and the man overseeing the bureau is the same one the left has been trying to torch for months.

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter dropped more than 18% nationwide last year. Aggravated assault fell more than 7%. Rape declined nearly 8%. Robbery cratered by about 18.5%. All told, violent crime dropped about 9.3% overall; there were roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than in 2024.

In a cavernous exhibition hall in East London, thousands of pounds are changing hands every second.

Collectors from around the world flock to the three-day London Card Show each spring to exchange trading cards bearing everything from sports stars to comic-book superheroes.

But this year, most attendees are there for one thing only: Pokémon.

We the People are seeing our first serious strike for justice in the massive Minnesota fraud network, with the “Feeding Our Future” fraudster mastermind receiving a sentence of more than four decades in jail.

FBI Director Kash Patel celebrated Aimee Bock’s May 21 sentence of almost 42 years in prison, as Bock was at the center of a fraud case that represented $250 million of taxpayer money lost. Bock ran “Feeding Our Future,” which received lavish amounts of taxpayer money under the claim it was providing millions of meals to needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic, though the whole operation turned out to be a fraud scheme.

Walgreens is pulling out of Chicago’s South Side, home to some of the city’s most crime-ridden areas. The closure of a store in the city’s Chatham neighborhood, set for June 4, marks the seventh Walgreens location to shut down on the South Side in the past year.

Who’s to blame for this departure? Chicago Alderman William Hall, who represents Chatham as part of Ward 6, blames the company. Walgreens, he said, should be charged with “first-degree corporate abandonment” for creating a “medicine drought,” and he even accused it of committing a “pharmaceutical genocide.” (It’s particularly rich that Hall is now castigating Walgreens for closing, given that he hadn’t been happy about Walgreens opening, alleging it “ran out” small, local businesses.)

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced on Friday that her office will target the parents of children who participate in violent “teen takeovers” in the District of Columbia.

During a press conference, Pirro noted that “these takeovers have terrorized our neighborhoods,” “shut down businesses,” and “wasted hard-earned tax dollars of law-abiding residents who just want to live and work in peace.

Once a week, as predictably as death or taxes, the collector makes his rounds.

He drives to GTA restaurants, coffee shops and businesses, handing out winnings and collecting from losers.

The collector generally travels alone, but it would be dangerous to attack and rob him. He’s acting on behalf of frightening people in the Hells Angels and the Mafia.

If the losers balk at paying, they likely have a small window to reconsider, says a retired GTA-area organized crime cop whom the Star is not naming because he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the RCMP about his investigations into the Toronto collector, and others like him.

Whether in Congressional hearings or in media “fact checks”, arguments against local cooperation with ICE are often accompanied by the claim that illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate compared to the general population (aside from immigration offenses). The claim itself is dubious — see the addendum below — but the more important point is how little it should matter when deciding whether to turn arrested suspects over to ICE.

AKWESASNE – A federal indictment unsealed in New Hampshire reads like a logistics manual for exploiting cartel-saturated borderlands.

But it is the northern border — the trilateral seam between Canadian, American, and Mohawk lands — and not notorious southern crossings like Laredo or San Diego, that is now drawing increased focus from United States weapons-trafficking agencies.

A recently announced federal law enforcement agency dedicated to investigating financial crimes will take years to set up, and to be effective, the Ottawa-headquartered force will need to have a presence in places like B.C., say policing experts.

The new Financial Crimes Agency will be allowed to create offices outside of its head office, under legislation introduced at the end of April, but it’s unclear if that will happen.

The new agency is meant to investigate things like cross-border money laundering, a hot-button issue in B.C. in the past decade and the subject of several government reports and inquiries.

“You can’t investigate this stuff from a distance,” said Peter German, the author of two B.C. government reports on money laundering and a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP.

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