Chicago Shootings Continue to Soar: Over the weekend, two people were killed and 24 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago, with homicides in the troubled city in the first eight days of February, falling just four short of last February's total. The Chicago Tribune reports that between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning alone, one man was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in shooting incidents. The city has seen 16 homicides since the start of the month and 73 since the start of the year, with 330 people shot since Jan. 1, more than double from the same period last year.
NJ Law Prevents Some Retired Cops from CCW Permits: A New Jersey gun law is preventing some retired police officers from being granted permits to carry concealed weapons. Fox News reports that since the law doesn't specifically address whether retired public university police officers are permitted to obtain a permit, "there seems to be some discrepancy in whether [state] university police are viewed as working for state agency." John Kotchkowski and Robert Dunsmuir, two retired University of New Jersey police sergeants, were denied right-to-carry permits, stemming from the 1997 law that was enacted after the murder of a police chief who was killed when he attempted to stop a carjacking. Kotchkowski says that the denial of a right-to-carry permit makes him feel as if the law is saying that he "wasn't a real cop." Last month, a judge refused to grant Kotchkowski a permit on appeal, and Dunsmuir's appeal is to be heard in March.
S.F. Hands Illegal Over to ICE, Igniting Furor: After San Francisco police officers actually complied with federal immigration authorities, handing over an illegal immigrant wanted for deportation, they are being criticized for violating the city's "sanctuary city" policy that bars law enforcement from detaining people for immigration authorities unless they are wanted for a serious crime. William Bigelow of Breitbart reports that the controversy surrounds 31-year-old Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, an illegal immigrant who failed to appear at an immigration hearing in San Antonio in 2005 and then was arrested in 2012 for drunk driving and remained in the U.S. When he reported his car stolen to San Francisco police in November 2015, a background check that found he had missed the hearing ten years earlier triggered a warrant for his arrest, and he was taken into custody the following month when he came to the station to obtain his vehicle, and was subsequently handed over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). However, he was released from jail last Wednesday after San Francisco police were slammed for violating the city's 2013 "Due Process for All" ordinance. ICE spokesman James Schwab asserted that Figueroa-Zarceno was one of the "at-large foreign nationals who meet the agency's enforcement priorities, including convicted criminals and other individuals who pose a potential threat to public safety." The case is currently being reviewed.
NJ Law Prevents Some Retired Cops from CCW Permits: A New Jersey gun law is preventing some retired police officers from being granted permits to carry concealed weapons. Fox News reports that since the law doesn't specifically address whether retired public university police officers are permitted to obtain a permit, "there seems to be some discrepancy in whether [state] university police are viewed as working for state agency." John Kotchkowski and Robert Dunsmuir, two retired University of New Jersey police sergeants, were denied right-to-carry permits, stemming from the 1997 law that was enacted after the murder of a police chief who was killed when he attempted to stop a carjacking. Kotchkowski says that the denial of a right-to-carry permit makes him feel as if the law is saying that he "wasn't a real cop." Last month, a judge refused to grant Kotchkowski a permit on appeal, and Dunsmuir's appeal is to be heard in March.
S.F. Hands Illegal Over to ICE, Igniting Furor: After San Francisco police officers actually complied with federal immigration authorities, handing over an illegal immigrant wanted for deportation, they are being criticized for violating the city's "sanctuary city" policy that bars law enforcement from detaining people for immigration authorities unless they are wanted for a serious crime. William Bigelow of Breitbart reports that the controversy surrounds 31-year-old Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, an illegal immigrant who failed to appear at an immigration hearing in San Antonio in 2005 and then was arrested in 2012 for drunk driving and remained in the U.S. When he reported his car stolen to San Francisco police in November 2015, a background check that found he had missed the hearing ten years earlier triggered a warrant for his arrest, and he was taken into custody the following month when he came to the station to obtain his vehicle, and was subsequently handed over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). However, he was released from jail last Wednesday after San Francisco police were slammed for violating the city's 2013 "Due Process for All" ordinance. ICE spokesman James Schwab asserted that Figueroa-Zarceno was one of the "at-large foreign nationals who meet the agency's enforcement priorities, including convicted criminals and other individuals who pose a potential threat to public safety." The case is currently being reviewed.
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