SCOTLAND: Police Scotland will record the biological sex of suspects across all crimes and offences, Chief Constable Jo Farrell has told MSPs. The petition calling for the sex of those charged with rape or attempted rape to be recorded accurately was first submitted to the committee in 2021 by the policy analysis group Murray Blackburn Mackenzie. It raised concerns that Police Scotland’s 2019 guidance, which allowed suspects to self-declare their sex, meant men who identified as women could be recorded as female offenders, even for crimes legally defined as requiring a penis. There was outrage in 2024 after The Herald revealed that police had told the committee allowing individuals charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape to “self-declare” their sex fostered “a strong sense of belonging”.

Ms Farrell opened her evidence by stating: “Police Scotland supports the petition. A man who rapes or attempts to rape a woman, girl or other victim is, should be and will be recorded by Police Scotland as a male. It was important for victims to hear from me, as Chief Constable, that there is no doubt in our practice: a man committing a rape will be recorded as a male.”

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25616920.police-scotland-record-biological-sex-suspects/

A local high school has taken kids on a field trip to the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois.

NEW JERSEY: "A federal judge on Thursday declined to toss federal assault charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver. The first-term Democrat was charged with assaulting law enforcement officers following a chaotic scrum outside an immigration detention facility in May. McIver argued that the prosecution, led by Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Donald Trump whom he picked to be the state’s top federal prosecutor, was unfair and that she was shielded from the charges by the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which grants members of Congress a form of immunity that is mostly impenetrable in investigations relating to the official duties of lawmakers. U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, disagreed and refused to toss two of the three counts, while reserving judgment on a third until he sees more evidence.

McIver is accused in a three-count indictment of slamming a federal agent with her forearm, “forcibly” grabbing him and using her forearms to strike another agent. Allegations of physical violence by a sitting member of Congress are rare."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/lamonica-mciver-prosecution-assault-charge-00650229