Last week, President Joe Biden spoke at a firearms safety summit in Connecticut attended by victims of gun violence…
A rare House Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) who supports stricter gun measures, said he won’t back a Democratic effort to end-run Speaker Kevin McCarthy and force a vote on a trio of bills to implement those restrictions…
The U.S. Senate on 6/22 rejected the repeal of ATF’s arm brace rule after the legislation narrowly passed in the U.S. House last week…
Federal and state politicians joined together in San Francisco last week, 6/16, to voice support for bringing California’s gun laws to the rest of the country, but many acknowledged the challenges in getting such legislation passed…
The proposed California 2023-2024 State Budget allocates significant funding aimed at combating crime and improving public safety…
This week, the state Supreme Court broadened Californians’ right to seek damages for abusive conduct by police, overturning decades of rulings that shielded police and the agencies that employed them from liability for any actions officers took during investigations…
Mass shootings and violence killed and wounded people across the United States last weekend, including at least 60 shot in the Chicago area alone…
Oversight of local law enforcement agencies in the form of consent decrees — legally binding, court-enforced agreements — is the federal government’s method for overhauling troubled police departments, often after high-profile incidents…
Police often are not the proper response for people experiencing a mental health crisis - and can lead to avoidable deaths and criminalization of mental illness, especially among people of color…
Three years after George Floyd’s death, advocates say they’ve won key victories but the pace of progress has slowed since the aftermath of the killing and could be losing momentum amid San Francisco’s shifting priorities and political landscape…
A Bay Area man is wanted for involvement in two mass shootings, one in San Francisco where nine people were injured and the other in January in Oakland where a teen was gunned down and others were struck by bullets during a music video shoot, multiple law enforcement officials said Monday…
Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes on time…
Last month, the Justice Department announced it is launching an environmental crimes task force focused on Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands…