Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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Fairfax County Released 200 Illegal Alien Criminals Since February
Child sex predators, rapists, repeat offenders, and fugitives from justice are among those released to the streets despite ICE detainers. by Victoria Manning A FOIA request by Restoration News reveals that the sanctuary jurisdiction Fairfax County has released 205 illegal alien criminals onto the streets since February 2025. Only 7 arrested criminals were turned over to Immigration…
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Are ICE’s Courthouse Crackdowns Justified?
by James A. Bacon Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have discovered that an easy way to crack down on illegal-alien criminals is to pick them up in local courthouses where they are processed for alleged crimes and misdemeanors. It strikes me that ICE is entirely within its rights, but the strategy does have unintended…
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Take the Jay Jones “Soft on Crime” Attacks Seriously
by Paul Goldman When I ran Doug Wilder first historic statewide campaign, we initially didn’t take the “Wilder is pro-criminal” attacks very seriously. Doug was a war veteran. A long-time, well-known state senator. He had a solid mainstream record on criminal justice issues. Calling him pro-criminal was absurd. What reasonable person could possibly believe it?…
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Jones a Woke Champion for Criminals
Jones’ soft-on-crime, anti-police stances will undermine public safety in Virginia by Jacob Grandstaff Virginia Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones has persistently demonstrated a troubling pattern of leniency toward criminals through his legislative record and statements. Virginians deserve an attorney general who will prioritize public safety and uphold the rule of law—not someone who will…
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Which Laws Do We Want to Enforce?
by Dick Hall-Sizemore In a recent post on Bacon’s Rebellion, I cited what I felt was the disproportionate treatment of some undocumented immigrants by the criminal justice system. There was a lot of push back. Most of the negative commentary centered around the fact that the immigrants were in the United States in violation of federal…
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Politicians Are Not Punching Bags, Gun Range Targets
By Ken Reid “Political violence” reared its ugly head in the Saturday shooting deaths of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife – all of them shot at their respective homes outside Minneapolis. Shooting any human being and killing them is heinous, but…
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UVA Improperly Preserved Bodycam Video Used to Embarrass Board Member
by James A. Bacon University of Virginia officials violated the University’s own document-retention policies when it preserved bodycam videos of a University Police Department (UPD) encounter with Board of Visitors member Bert Ellis in March 2023. The videos were posted online in a Washington Post article critical of the activist board member this March, two…
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In the AG Race, Who’s Fighting Illegal Alien Crime?
by Jacob Grandstaff This November, Virginia faces a clear choice between an attorney general who protects its citizens and a candidate who defends illegal aliens. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares’ fight against illegal alien crime contrasts starkly with Democrat challenger Jay Jones, who supports giving free benefits to illegal aliens and shielding them from deportation. Miyares has…
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Chipping Away at the Rule of Law: Scott Jenkins Edition
by James A. Bacon From time to time, I highlight the bad behavior of Virginia elected officials as warnings that the public must remain ever vigilant in protection of honest government. These days, I can’t keep up. Wrongdoing has become so widespread that I could make it the subject of a blog all its own.…
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Abuse of Statistics: Loudoun Edition
by James A. Bacon The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is making more traffic stops this year than last. The number of stops conducted between Jan. 1 and March 31 this year totaled 7,088, up roughly 65% over the 4,290 stops made during the same period last year. Sofia Saiyed, director of New Virginia Majority, knows…
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Bacon Bits: Can Blue Virginia Get Any Crazier? Yes, It Can!
We’re not San Francisco…. yet. In the Franconia area of Fairfax County a McDonalds restaurant, known for catering to kids, has closed its doors to customers under 21 years old, reports WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. To gain admittance, customers must first ring a doorbell. The restaurant, located down the street from Thomas Edison High School,…
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Bacon Bits: Sickly, Sinking Feelings
A 4.7% unemployment rate next year? Virginia could lose 32,000 jobs this year due to federal spending cuts, as a result of which the state’s unemployment rate could rise to 3.9% this year and 4.7% in 2026, according to a study by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The study counts…
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Racial Turmoil in the Alexandria PD
by James A. Bacon Delton Goodrum, a Black police officer in the Alexandria Police Department, has been awarded compensatory damages for racial discrimination at the hands of Alexandria’s acting police chief Don Hayes… who is Black… and who aspired to create a more diverse workforce… and who even told others that he wanted to promote…
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Ship ‘Em Back to El Salvador
by James A. Bacon When illegal immigrants are convicted of crimes in the United States, some might ask, why deport them? Why not keep them in American jails and prisons? We just got an answer. Six Salvadoran inmates of the Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap injured five correctional offers in a premeditated…
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Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Down 44% in ’24
And now for a piece of good news! Fentanyl-related deaths in Virginia declined 44% in 2024 compared to the year before, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and touted by the Youngkin administration. Better yet, that was the best year-to-year performance of any state in the country. Nationally, drug overdose deaths…