Public Safety & Justice Update 11/1/22 

A gun control group is suing the Biden administration, claiming federal regulators left “mile-wide loopholes” that have increased untraceable, home-assembled weapons

 After increased gun violence in the U.S., the political power of gun reform will be tested this election cycle…

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was struck by a person with a hammer who shouted “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?”...

 On the same day an intruder assaulted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home, federal officials announced a 22-year-old Pennsylvania man, Joshua Hall, pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Bay Area congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and issued a broader warning about politically motivated violence in advance of Election Day…

A New Jersey legislative committee voted to require liability insurance for gun owners and restrict where they could carry their weapons, moving what would be some of the strictest U.S. firearms limits closer to becoming law…

Families of the Uvalde school shooting victims slammed the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Col. Steven McCraw, at a public safety commission meeting in Austin on 10/27…

Black drivers in California are nearly five times more likely than white motorists to get pulled over by sheriffs for traffic violations, according to a new report on racial profiling…

Republicans cite crime as a top issue in many midterm elections and have demanded solutions to crime increases, criticizing Democrats for supporting major changes to criminal justice policy in recent years, claiming that they, and progressive prosecutors, have fueled swelling crime rates…

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday, 10/31, in two cases challenging race-conscious admissions policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard…

Eight officers at the Antioch Police Department are under federal investigation, according to Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe…

 Chief LeRonne L. Armstrong of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) announced he is extending the department’s current 30-day crime plan…

 Six-term Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith resigned Monday, 10/31 morning as jurors are actively deliberating whether she abused her powers in office…

 Last year, fentanyl killed one-fifth of 15-to-24-year-olds. In 2021, California’s death rate from all drug overdoses surpassed that of lung cancer and ranked just below hypertensive heart disease…

 San Jose officers working the midnight shift Saturday were so busy with emergencies that no one was sent to look into a disturbance at a party where a man was later fatally shot…

Both Los Angeles mayoral candidates Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA) and Rick Caruso have consistently rebuffed calls from residents, politicians and far-left activists to cut the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) roughly $3-billion budget because of what many see as the agency’s historical mistreatment of Black and Latino Angelenos…

Aspire Academy gives high school girls an opportunity to see what a career in public safety looks like…

As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, a California prisoner has admitted to running a huge, multi-state drug ring from his cell and to plotting to kill a member of the Aryan Brotherhood at the behest of prison gang members, records show…