2 h. ago NYC's incoming socialist mayor hires 'community safety' advisor who wants to abolish cops and who said policing gangs is 'racist'

Sociologist Alex Vitale, author of 'The End of Policing', a 2017 book that argued for the abolition of almost all police activity in the US, was added to Mamdani's team last week.

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3 d. ago All members of Louvre jewellery heist gang now in custody, French police claim

A 39-year-old male was arrested this week, French prosecutors said

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3 d. ago Scotland's police chief launches major review of grooming gang cases dating back more than a decade

Scotland's police chief has launched a major review of grooming gang cases dating back more than a decade.

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3 d. ago Grooming gang victim devastated to learn she was on police list of 46 girls at risk of sexual exploitation

Taylor, not her real name, was devastated to learn that authorities knew she was a potential victim but that no one spoke to her about it.

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4 d. ago Top cop vows to bring "grooming gangs" and online child abusers to justice

The Chief Constable of Police Scotland Jo Farrell has vowed to crackdown on grooming gangs and other forms of child sex abuse. in a new report published today

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5 d. ago Remarkable Great Train Robbery archive emerges 60 years later: Police chief's trove reveals unseen photos of gang's getaway cars and bundles of money

Detective Chief Superintendent Ernest Millen was head of Scotland Yard's 'Flying Squad' when the notorious multi-million-pound heist was committed on August 8, 1963.

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5 d. ago Guns and ammunition seized as police smash major cannabis gang

'Cannabis was sourced from associates in Bolton, then supplied on'

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9 d. ago Trump brushes off Mamdani’s ‘fascist’ comments and declares incoming NYC mayor ‘can do a very good job’: Live updates

‘You’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,’ Trump said with a smile at his Friday press conference with Mamdani

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9 d. ago I ❤ NY: Queens recognises Queens as Trump gives Mamdani warm reception

No fists, no fire – the president and the mayor-elect met in Washington, and things went bewilderingly, bizarrely wellThe armies of lefty America and of Maga were assembled ready to watch their champions do battle. After all, Donald Trump had called Zohran Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic” and “total nut job.” The incoming democratic socialist New York mayor in turn had called the Republican US president a “despot” and “fascist”.But anyone expecting to see fists fly and shirts torn in the Oval Office was in for a disappointment. Trump, 79, and 34-year-old Mamdani actually got on rather well. In fact beautifully, bewilderingly, bizarrely well. Instead of Batman v Superman, this was Toy Story besties Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump says Mamdani can call him a ‘fascist’ as socialist NYC mayor

Trump, who frequently labeled Mamdani a ‘communist,’ brushed off the mayor-elect’s ‘fasicst’ descriptor of him

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9 d. ago Police raid that uncovered mysterious locked safe sees five gang members behind bars

Five people have been sentenced to 19 years and two months in prison after police raided a property and pulled a man over

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1 week ago Man takes own life on train after telling police 'German gang was following him'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Andrew Dodds, 45, took his own life on a train from Sheffield train station, after telling police he was being followed by a German gang

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1 week ago £2.4m support for victims of child exploitation and grooming gangs in London

Scotland Yard is re-examining 9,000 cases over the past 15 years

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2 w. ago Met Police is investigating 'tens' of grooming gang cases, Mark Rowley reveals as Sadiq Khan is accused of 'taking the mickey' out of victims

London's Labour mayor told the London Assembly in June that there was 'no indication of grooming gangs' operating in the capital.

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2 w. ago Sadiq Khan accused of 'taking mickey' out of London grooming gang concerns as Met reviews 9,000 cases

The Met Police is reviewing 9,000 child exploitation cases dating back 15 years

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2 w. ago Cocky gunman stunned as armed police arrest him for murder of Olivia Pratt

A new documentary examines the moment police marksmen arrest dangerous gangland hitman Thomas Cashman for the murder of nine-year-old who he shot dead in her own home

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2 w. ago Toxic briefing that backfired on Keir: How No 10's bid to block a Streeting challenge left him quipping I'm a Faithful not a Traitor!

Wes Streeting took to social media to praise the newly elected socialist mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, heralding a victory that held 'lessons for progressives'.

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2 w. ago The Kinahan cartel's 'treasure map': How crime boss led police to gang's hidden gun arsenal in botched bid for a shorter sentence

The Mail has been given an exclusive insight into the UK National Crime Agency operation that exposed his plot through insider testimony from the lead detective involved.

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2 w. ago Zohran Mamdani’s writer on crafting a historic victory speech: ‘In New York, inspiration is everywhere’

The mayor-elect’s address pulled from Socialist titans, Astoria’s uncles and his rival’s father. Julian Gerson explains how the two collaborated on the ‘love letter to New York’In his victory speech after winning the New York mayoral election last week, Zohran Mamdani came out swinging.The speech included, among other dramatic flourishes, a reference to the socialist titan Eugene Debs, shoutouts to the city’s “Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses”, tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru and Fiorello La Guardia, sprinkles of Arabic – and it was all delivered with the cadence and command of a hip-hop emcee. Many who were listening could not help but wonder: how the hell did he pull that off? Continue reading...

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3 w. ago How could Zohran Mamdani pay for his bold agenda for New York? We broke it down

A look at the realities the mayor-elect will face to pay for his progressive policies – and whose support he needsWho is Zohran Mamdani, New York’s democratic socialist new mayor?Bold promises to make the city more affordable propelled the New York City mayor-elect and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to his unlikely win on Tuesday. Among them: free buses, universal childcare and a massive expansion in low-cost housing.But making the city more affordable for residents is an expensive government task, and many economists and politicians to Mamdani’s right say he faces too many obstacles to meaningfully deliver on his signature ideas. Continue reading...

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