Public Safety Update 10/7/22 

A federal judge blocked portions of a new New York gun law on 10/6…

According to a poll conducted 9/27-10/3, U.S. voters prefer Republicans over Democrats for solving immigration and crime problems… 

The House passed bipartisan legislation to increase funding for local police departments…

The U.S. Interior Department launched a set of new policies that requires thousands of police officers to wear body cameras… 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) revoked gun store licenses at a higher rate in 2022 than in any year since 2006…

A group called 97Percent strives to engage gun owners in the national conversation about gun law reform…

Murders and shootings increased in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021, however, these trends reversed in 2022…

Incarcerated youth from Louisiana deemed the most troubled and aggressive could be moved to a building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, one of the country’s largest and most notorious maximum security prisons for adults…

New safety protocols including checkpoints and extra security are in place as students returned to an Oakland campus on Wednesday, 10/5, one week after a school shooting that injured six people

The killings of five men in Central California may be related…

A new law will allow Californians to seal old arrests and convictions from their official records in an effort to give them a fresh start…

Boys are falling behind in school, disconnected from family, vulnerable to opioid abuse and to deaths of despair at higher rates than girls…