Public Safety and Justice Update: 6/9/23

Former President Donald Trump was charged in connection with the investigation into classified documents taken to his Mar-a-Lago home after he left the White House…

A new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data revealed another record year for firearm fatalities…

Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would restrict gun ownership in response to the wave of mass shootings, positioning California as the most aggressive state on gun control…

People who own and sell ghost guns are committing a crime — but there’s no law against making the deadly weapons…

On a two-block stretch of Brownsville, NY, the police stepped aside and let residents respond to 911 calls…

The Atlanta City Council approved ‘Cop City’ funding despite protests, approving $31M for the construction of a police and fire training complex, nicknamed by critics as “Cop City”…

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont this week signed the most wide-ranging state gun control bill since a 2013 law passed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, sparking an immediate lawsuit by gun rights supporters seeking to block a ban on open carrying and other parts of the new law…

District attorney of Alameda County Pamela Price initiated a new review of several cases involving officer-involved fatalities in one of the most extensive re-examinations of police killings launched by progressive prosecutors…

Law enforcement officers from across the country are undergoing a peer support training class this week in South Mississippi…

After months of struggling to gain traction, a group of bipartisan lawmakers led by Republican Assemblymembers Diane Dixon, Juan Alanis and Joe Patterson have introduced a last-ditch effort to go after fentanyl dealers…

In the year since the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, TX., blame for law enforcement’s decision to wait over an hour to confront the gunman has centered on the former chief of the school district’s small police force…

The Supreme Court turned down a 2nd Amendment appeal from gun owners and let stand for now an Illinois law banning the sale of the rapid-fire assault weapons that have been used to carry out mass shootings across the country…