Public Safety and Justice Update: 3/31/23

A former student of the Christian grade school Covenant School in Nashville killed three nine-year-olds and three adults on Monday, 3/27, and authorities continue to confirm a motive…

Protesters rallied at the Tennessee State Capitol on Thursday, 3/30, demanding lawmakers take action on gun violence as they mourned victims of Monday’s tragic school shooting that killed six…

The gun at the center of many firearm legislation debates is the AR-15 - the apparent gun of choice for mass shooters…

More than 80 percent of police and other first responders experience traumatic events on the job…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the sale of opioid treatment Narcan without a prescription, a major step forward in the nation’s fight against the deadly fentanyl crisis that claimed nearly 6,000 lives in California in 2021…

The Office of the United States Attorney has filed a federal criminal complaint charging Joanne Marian Segovia with attempt to illegally import a controlled substance in connection with a scheme to bring synthetic opioids into the country and distribute them throughout the United States, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Tatum King…

D.C. officials were peppered with questions about crime and policing in D.C. Wednesday, 3/29, during House Republicans’ first oversight hearing of the year targeting the city, before a committee voted to advance a measure to block D.C.’s major police accountability legislation…

As D.C. grapples with rising crime and increasing attention from federal lawmakers over public safety issues, a startling statistic emerged in recent weeks. Last year, federal prosecutors in the District’s U.S. attorney’s office chose not to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested by police officers in cases that would have been tried in D.C. Superior Court…