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There is no credible reporting that police officers arrested ; the widely circulated clip claiming to show has been debunked as AI‑generated . What is documented instead are tense confrontations betwe...
As a general rule, modern policing doctrine and federal guidance advise officers not to stand in front of or shoot into moving vehicles and to move out of the vehicle’s path when feasible; shooting at...
There is no reliable, documented evidence in the supplied reporting that New York Police Department officers have arrested ICE agents; viral footage claiming such arrests has been debunked as AI-gener...
’s sex‑trafficking saga spans decades: early accusations and a controversial 2007 non‑prosecution plea deal, a federal arrest in July 2019 on new sex‑trafficking charges, his death in custody in Augus...
ICE has been conducting targeted operations in New York and other U.S. cities this month, with federal authorities saying some actions were aimed at specific suspects rather than “random” street sweep...
Frazzledrip is an offshoot of Pizzagate and QAnon-era rumors alleging an extreme “snuff” video showing Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin torturing, disfiguring and drinking the blood of a girl; reportin...
There is no verified reporting that the Police Department is routinely arresting agents; a widely shared video that appeared to show NYPD officers arresting federal agents was identified as AI-generat...
Reporting on resignations tied to Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory is mixed and often unverified: multiple outlets cite an October spike of roughly 245 NYPD departures (a 35% month‑over‑month rise) bu...
Darknet markets have long listed firearms, including handguns, rifles, submachine guns and “ghost guns,” and studies found 2,124 weapons offered across sampled markets in 2019 (1,497 handguns; 218 rif...
No credible evidence shows the physically “standing up to” on subways by detaining or arresting federal agents; purporting to show NYPD arresting ICE on subway platforms has been debunked as AI-genera...
Available reporting shows increased morale problems and individual resignations among NYPD officers around Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and election, but no credible source in the provided set documents ...
was immediately searched by federal and local investigators after ’s death in August 2019, then became the subject of continued criminal and civil scrutiny, a high-value settlement with the , a to a p...
Estimates of law-enforcement injuries during the George Floyd protests vary widely because no single federal tally exists; major industry reporting and police agencies put the number anywhere from sev...
There is no verified, credible reporting that New York Police Department officers have arrested ICE agents; viral clips showing NYPD arresting federal immigration officers have been debunked as AI-gen...
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019 after returning to the U.S. from Europe; federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged him with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficki...
Federal surveys and agency reports in 2024 show complex, sometimes contradictory patterns: the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey counted about 6.08 million violent inci...
Federal and local courts have directly confronted police use of Long Range Acoustic Devices () against protesters, most prominently in , where a federal district judge and then held that LRAD “area de...
A viral clip purporting to show officers arresting agents has been debunked as AI‑generated, and contemporary reporting does not provide verified evidence that in during the 2025–2026 enforcement surg...
The available materials do not provide a single, explicit national total for reported rapes in the United States in 2024; instead, official summaries emphasize rates and trends, such as a rape occurri...
Multiple law-enforcement agencies and federal entities — including local police departments (NYPD, LAPD and others), federal agencies ( and ICE are repeatedly named in reporting), and multi‑jurisdicti...