Public Safety & Justice Update 1/27/23

President Biden said that police in the U.S. should be retrained to use deadly force less frequently in a speech about racial justice…

New York and Los Angeles police – the nation's two largest agencies – top the list of approximately 7,000 departments not reporting hate crimes to the federal government, according to a DOJ report….

Earlier this week, the Council on Policing Reforms and Race officially unveiled more than 50 research-informed recommendations to help address some of the most pressing issues facing policing and public safety…

A 67-year-old “disgruntled worker” shot and killed four people at a coastal farm and three more at another farming business near the heart of Half Moon Bay on Monday, 1/23, marking California’s second mass shooting focused on Asian Americans over two days…

On Saturday 1/21, a 72-year-old man carried out the fifth mass killing of 2023, the fifth time four or more people have been killed in a single incident in the United States…

A Supreme Court decision in June voided New York’s concealed carry law while also encouraging challenges to restrictions elsewhere — including California’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines…

California has mandatory waiting periods and background checks for gun purchases…

Officials at a Virginia school were warned on three separate occasions by teachers or employees that a six-year-old boy had a gun or had made threats, but failed to take action on the day he shot his first-grade teacher in class, an attorney for the teacher said…

In the three weeks since a first-grader in Virginia took his mother’s pistol to school and allegedly shot a teacher in the chest, the public has again asked why lawmakers have not done more to ensure that gun owners lock up their firearms…

The U.S. rate of gun homicides has increased in recent years, remaining a clear outlier for both civilian gun ownership and number of gun deaths among the world’s developed countries…

California is reeling from three major mass shootings in just over a week…

Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) reintroduced a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected last year that would curb use of long-term solitary confinement…

The Memphis Police Department fired five officers last week involved in an arrest that led to the death of a 29-year-old Black motorist Tyre Nichols earlier this month…

Diners at a Kentucky restaurant were outraged to see and hear what they believe was video footage showing the killing of Breonna Taylor at an event featuring John Mattingly, an officer involved in the 2020 raid, according to the local NAACP chapter…

Santa Clara County is among several areas critical of incarcerating girls and gender-biased youth (transgender, non-binary, and gender-biased youth)…

Classified documents were found in the home of former Vice President Mike Pence and turned over to the FBI for review…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and states including California, New York, Colorado and Virginia filed a lawsuit against Google alleging they illegally monopolized the market for online ads through self-dealing, anticompetitive acquisitions, and forcing businesses to use multiple products and services that it offers…

The Justice Department announced 1/27 it had disrupted a notorious cybercriminal group behind ransomware attacks on more than 1,500 victims worldwide and millions of dollars in extorted payment…