Public Safety Update 9/21/22 

 Legislation to increase funding for local police departments has stalled amid deep Democratic divisions over concerns about steering more money to police, while moderates advocate for action that could impact Republicans’ arguments that moderates are soft on crime ahead of the midterm elections…

The prosecutor investigating efforts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to challenge the 2020 election results in Georgia said her team has heard credible allegations that serious crimes committed may lead to jail time…

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge’s order blocking criminal investigators from accessing about 100 documents with national security classification recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound last month…

More subpoenas were issued last week by the Justice Department seeking more information as part of its inquiry into the origins, fundraising, and motives of the effort to block President Biden from being certified as president in January 2021…

More than 30,000 Americans have died from firearms in 2022, and another 27,000 have been wounded. Among developed economies, the US suffers more gun-related deaths per capita than the following eight countries combined…

In a recent report produced jointly by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of Education Sciences, in the Department of Education, over the last decade, several crime and safety issues have become less prevalent at elementary and secondary schools…

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has released two research reports on investigating the effectiveness of school resource officers (SROs)...

Last month, nearly two dozen school leaders released a guide with lessons they wish they had known before their schools became school shooting crime scenes…

Since the Supreme Court ruled that California’s concealed gun laws go against the Second Amendment this summer, lawmakers have tried and failed to pass an alternative. 

California law allows police, family members, housemates, employers, co-workers and school officials to seek a gun violence restraining order for someone they believe poses a danger to themselves or others, but nearly all cases in the state are initiated by law enforcement…

California officials failed in expanding state hospitals or other community-based care options for their communities despite the surging numbers of incompetent criminal detainees, along with a string of court orders mandating the state transfer such defendants out of jails faster…

A Vallejo High School football coach is in stable condition after being shot last week while helping break up a fight outside the school…

New records show officials responsible for safeguarding Sophia Mason repeatedly chose not to intervene…

The documents must be released under a California law to enable public scrutiny of government agencies charged with keeping children safe…

Officials said that a sheriff’s deputy was taken into custody earlier this month after he fatally shot a married couple, prompting a search across suburban Northern California and a nearly hour-long phone conversation ending with his surrender…