Public Safety and Justice Update: 3/24/23

According to data from Gun Violence Archive, the U.S. has had over 90 mass shootings since January. In that time, more than 7,000 people have been killed by firearms, including more than 3,000 people who died by homicide and more than 4,000 who died by suicide…

On Monday, 3/20, a federal judge blocked California from enforcing a state law requiring new semi-automatic handguns to have certain safety features, finding it violates the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution…

According to a recent survey, more than two-thirds of parents worry a shooting could happen at their children’s school,, but home is proving to be dangerous for kids as well…

On Wednesday, 3/22, the Michigan Republican party compared gun laws proposed in the state legislature to restrictions imposed in Nazi Germany, in a social media post that drew bipartisan condemnation…

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and House Judiciary Committee met with Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta this month to discuss the status of police reform…

A group of former police chiefs wants cities like Chicago to rethink their approach to policing…

In a rare move and rebuke to District Attorney Pamela Price, Judge Mark McCannon decided against accepting an agreement that would have given a reputed Oakland gang member 15 years in prison for three 2008 slayings…

A Los Angeles hot spot policing model received a “Promising” evidence rating by the National Institute of Justice…