Public Safety & Justice Update 11/22/22 

So far this year there have been more than 600 mass shootings — defined as a shooting when four or more people die or are injured in a single incident — in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA)...

Anderson Lee Aldrich was arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes for the murder of five people and wounding of 18 others inside a Colorado Spring’s LGBTQ club on 11/19…

The Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting by a suspected gunman who was arrested last year in connection with a bomb threat has renewed questions about "red flag" laws that are used irregularly across the U.S…

Christopher Jones Jr. is accused of shooting University of Virginia football players, killing three and injuring two others, on a bus that had returned from a field trip Sunday, 11/13…

Threat assessment has become an increasingly vital task during the past two decades at colleges and universities across the country…

Mental health professionals are riding along with officers to deal with the rise in mental health cases, but some critics question how safe this is…

Los Angeles police had been trained for decades in pretextual stops: Pull over a driver for a minor infraction such as broken taillight, use something vaguely suspicious — a shaking hand, a whiff of pot — to justify a search, hope to find drugs or weapons…

Police have killed more than 1,000 Americans this year – more than any other point in the past decade, according to recent data from Mapping Police Violence…

A panel of three appeals court judges appeared skeptical Tuesday, 11/22, that the federal government violated former president Donald Trump’s rights when it searched Mar-a-Lago in August, questioning whether a lower court judge erred in appointing an outside expert to review documents seized from the property…

The families of nine people killed last year by a coworker at a Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard will receive $8 million to settle damage claims filed last November, officials said…