James A. Gagliano
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How safe will Milwaukee RNC be after Trump shooting?
Ripples from Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., are being felt deeply some 550 miles away in Milwaukee.
Congestion pricing will sting upstate communities — and New York City itself
Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stand at a press conference.
New York's 'stop cops' bill is a law built on a lie
Co-sponsored by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the How Many Stops Act is rooted in the intellectually lazy, time-tested trope that the NYPD is a racist department.
Albany, make fixing bail reform your top to-do item as you return to session
The state is seeing a mass exodus, an obvious result of suffocating taxes, unaffordability and rising crime — due in no small part to sweeping bail reforms enacted in 2020.
Release of driver in NYPD Officer Byrne's murder proves we need Parole Board reform
Scott Cobb, 60, who served as the getaway car driver for the team of assassins, will be sprung as early as next month, having served 34 years of a 25-to-life...
Mayor: Why should my town bail out failure of Dems on illegal migrants?
As Republican mayor of Cornwall-on-Hudson in Orange County, James A. Gagliano was invited on a call with Mayor Eric Adams, where Adams encouraged the towns to accept migrants bussed from...
Farewell, FBI: The bureau I once knew and loved is gone
The FBI that agents like me were once so proud to be a part of is gone. It’s been destroyed by wokeness and outright politicization.
Behind Tyre Nichols' death: dangerously lowered law-enforcement applicant standards
Could the relentless pursuit of “equity” — as “equality” is no longer the accepted standard — have contributed to the senseless assault of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers?
The FBI Agents Association rewarded agents who took a knee in front of BLM, proving the rot isn't just at the top
With outrageous, political decisions by its board, it has sullied itself just as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith annihilated the top law-enforcement agency’s reputation...
The obsessive pursuit of woke domestic-terror laws isn’t making us safer
Why do President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice insist on doubling down with domestic terrorists instead of prosecuting criminals?
I watched the FBI become so woke it can’t call out terrorism
The FBI has made a sea change in defining criminal suspects since the Obama administration and its attorney general, Eric Holder, set out to transform the justice system.
Rittenhouse verdict no surprise — except to the pundit & politician ideologues
They wanted to make Kyle Rittenhouse a scapegoat for violence in our cities, when it was the rioters who burned down buildings and looted stores who represented the real culprits.
From irresponsibly pointing a gun, to 'tsking,' DA's closing in Rittenhouse trial was pathetic
As the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments, with the jury likely to get the case Tuesday, it looks even more likely that he will be acquitted on murder...
Kyle Rittenhouse deciding to testify wasn’t as much about his defense as his reputation
Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand on Wednesday in his own defense — a precarious move for any defendant. The risks typically outweigh the benefits.
Legal analyst on why Kyle Rittenhouse case looks like it's headed toward an acquittal
On Monday, the prosecution’s case against an Illinois teen, 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, collapsed with a confounding unforced error.
A public-safety game plan for Eric Adams
Brooklyn Borough President and former NYPD captain Eric Adams daringly ran on a law-and-order mayoral platform, earning the Democratic nod in a field populated with progressives bent on defunding the...
I'm a former law-enforcement officer — but I won't encourage my kids to be cops
As a retired law-enforcement professional, it deeply saddens me to witness how my former profession suddenly finds itself in similar straits — reviled, the object of scorn and derision.
A conviction looks likely in the George Floyd case, but also an appeal
John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson have both been credited with the dictum that “when the facts change, I change my mind.” So, what I once believed to be highly...
Why Derek Chauvin's despicable act is unlikely to get a murder conviction
We exist in a period of ideological purity tests and zero tolerance for what F. Scott Fitzgerald described as “the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the...
The cop-hating Bronx Defenders shouldn’t get a dime of public money
Twenty-five years spent as an FBI agent instilled in me an appreciation for American justice. One of its hallmarks is collegiality: Prosecutors and defense attorneys respect each other even as...