Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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Publication of 2024 “Crime in Virginia” Data a Half Year Late
For years the Virginia State Police has published its annual “Crime in Virginia” report each May detailing the number of violent crimes, non-violent crimes, arrests, hate crimes, officer-involved shootings, and other crime-related data for the commonwealth. Then something strange happened last year: The 2023 report came out late — in August, as I recall. This…
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Virginia’s Nursing Homes – Central Region Update
by James C. Sherlock This article was revised on November 16 to provide a better view of the data. The format the author chose wasn’t getting the job done, so he revised it. Changes in the text are made only to reflect the updated spreadsheet. It should provide more clarity. This is the second article…
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Virginia’s Dreadful Nursing Homes – Part 7 – How to Stop A Deadly Scheme
by James C. Sherlock A brutal pattern is observed repeatedly. Some chains offering the worst nursing homes in America have established a singular process for profit maximization. It is seen in a combination of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) data on their operating subsidiaries and city/county property records on their real estate…
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Virginia’s Worst Nursing Home Chains – Part Six – A Picture of Deceit
by James C. Sherlock “This nursing home information is confusing, mindbending, and scary. Please draw us a picture to clarify.” Well, readers are right. It is all three of those things. It is meant to be so by some people in the system. Virginia has some excellent nursing homes and chains, but those are not…
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Jason Miyares Crime Fighter V. Soft-on-Crime Jay Jones
by Kerry Dougherty Polls are all over the place this year in Virginia. But the fact that Jay Jones is within 20 points of Attorney General Jason Miyares is not just a scandal, it’s a sign that bitter partisans in the Democrat party care more about a D after a name than public safety. For…
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More than 5,600 Illegal Alien Criminals Arrested in Virginia Since February
Spanberger would revoke Gov. Youngkin’s executive order that protects Virginia. by Victoria Manning More than 5,600 illegal aliens have been arrested in Virginia since Feb. 2025 thanks to federal and state law enforcement working together through the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force. Gov. Youngkin’s office told Restoration News those arrested included violent criminals including MS-13,…
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Jay Jones: Now the Target of a Criminal Investigation
by Kerry Dougherty Whoa! Jay Jones is in deep trouble. Just when the Dems’ attorney general nominee was hoping the daily headlines about his scandals might abate, he’s back in the news. And it’s worse than ever. According to Nick Minock, reporting for ABC News, Elliott Bondurant, a courageous New Kent County Circuit Court Judge…
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Youngkin: “Nobody who would cheer murder should be allowed within 100 yards of a student.”
by Scott Dreyer Many across Western Virginia and our nation have had nerves raw and on edge, first since the chilling video of a man knifing to death Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska, 23, on a light rail train in Charlotte, NC, and then the outrageous news that the killer had been arrested and released 14 times…
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Keep Violent Geezers Behind Bars
by Kerry Dougherty Just what Virginia doesn’t need: Violent predators – murderers and rapists – vomited back into society from prison just because they’re old. But that’s what we get in Virginia, thanks to a wrinkle in the law that allows the parole board to spring inmates once they get a few gray hairs. Let’s…