Luis Bracamontes, an illegal immigrant from Mexico accused of killing two cops, laughed during his trial proceedings on Tuesday and threatened to break out of prison soon to kill more cops. 
The Department of Justice has issued a federal warrant for the arrest of an illegal immigrant who on Thursday was acquitted of murder charges in the 2015 killing of Kate Steinle in San Francisco. 
President Donald Trump voiced his disagreement after an illegal immigrant charged with killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle was found not guilty by a California jury on Thursday. 
Murder and violent crime rates increased significantly in 2016, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation records released on Tuesday. 
Local Maryland group Baltimore Ceasefire is calling for a murder-free weekend in Baltimore using the slogan "Nobody kill anybody for 72 hours." 
President Donald Trump on Friday promised to send in "federal help" to gun-crime-ridden Chicago after a new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives force was assembled to help address the city's spiking murder rate. 
Immigration authorities arrested 39 members of the international crime gang MS-13 in New York in the past month. 
The murder rate in America's 30 largest cities rose by a total of 13.1 percent in 2016, according to a new preliminary study from the Brennan Center for Justice. 
ESPN published a poetry tribute this week to Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a police officer and is currently on the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list. 