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September 16, 2026
Public Safety Without Weaponization: A Balanced Approach to Automatic License Plate Readers
Automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) have become one of the most contested tools in American policing. More than 200 local governments have canceled or declined to renew their contracts since the start of 2025; Texas and Florida have pulled state support; a Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into the industry; and House members have introduced bills ranging from a federal funding ban to a federal warrant requirement. Much of that attention falls on Flock Safety, an Atlanta company that reports customers in roughly 6,000 communities and whose name has become shorthand for the technology itself.
Fact Sheet
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September 8, 2026
2025 FBI Crime Stats One Pager
The Largest Crime Drop in 90 Years New FBI data confirm 2025 delivered the biggest one-year decline in the violent crime rate since national estimates began in 1936. Preliminary FBI data for the first half of 2026 show the decline continuing.
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September 3, 2026
AFPI Urges Supreme Court to Reject Arbitrary Firearm Feature Bans in Viramontes v. Cook County
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans. At issue is whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. The Court will hear arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County during its upcoming term which begins next month.
News Release
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September 2, 2026
AFPI Releases “Back the Blue,” a Policy Roadmap to Strengthen America’s Law Enforcement Workforce
Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) released Back the Blue: A Policy Roadmap for Better-Staffed, Better-Supported Law Enforcement, a new policy paper examining America’s law enforcement staffing crisis and outlining solutions for recruiting, retaining, and supporting law enforcement officers around the country.
Issue Brief
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September 2, 2026
Back the Blue: A Policy Roadmap for Better Staffed, Better Supported Law Enforcement
“Many of the best parts of America’s history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear — sit on a foundation of public safety” (Bratton, 2015). These words were spoken by William Bratton, the current Co-Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council and the former commissioner of six police departments, including Boston, Los Angeles, and New York. Commissioner Bratton couldn’t be more spot on: prosperity is impossible without public safety, and public safety is impossible without police.
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AFPI Calls on Washington State to End Dangerous Inmate Policy After Assault at Women’s Prison
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America First Unfiltered: Trump Protects Social Security, Lowers Drug Costs & Deports Criminals
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Evaluating The Biden-Harris Policies: Crime
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Back the Blue: Police Week Countering the Left’s Assault on Public Safety
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AFPI Investigates Progressive Prosecutors Abusing their Power
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Combating Fentanyl in Schools
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Combating Fentanyl - The America First Action Plan
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Back the Blue Police Week: Honoring Our Heroes
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Pam Bondi joined Hannity on Fox News to discuss the surge of violent crime in America
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