Public Safety and Justice Update: 8/4/23

Gun sales increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020…

Last summer, the Supreme Court sought to clarify its expansive reading of the Second Amendment, however, the result has been less clear…

Representative John D. Dingell Jr., a powerful Michigan Democrat who died in 2019, sat on the National Rifle’s Association (NRA)’s board of directors, positioning him to influence firearms policy as well as the lobbying force responsible for shaping it…

A focused deterrence intervention designed to reduce the presence of gun violence and gang activity was rated Promising by the National Institute of Justice…

Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty this week to multiple counts of civil rights violations for a January raid in Rankin County during which they physically abused two Black men, the Justice Department said…

President Joe Biden is encouraging downsized policing sparked by George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020…

Ellis Lariviere, an eighth grader at Saint Ann’s, an elite private school in Brooklyn Heights, was asked not to return to the school for ninth grade…

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie…

The City of Antioch has announced a possible ordinance change that would allow for the city council to have control to appoint, supervise and remove the Antioch Police Chief…

An emotional showdown in the jury room where one holdout juror complained of being bullied and refused to deliberate Thursday led to a mistrial in the case of San Jose State’s former head athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting female athletes during treatment sessions…

Operation Cross Country focused on women and girls suspected of being forced into sex work and was conducted by the FBI and county and city law enforcement…

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday, 8/3, to federal charges accusing him of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy to try to derail the transfer of power after the 2020 election…

Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the federal investigations of former President Donald Trump, has charged Trump with committing criminal fraud and violating conspiracy laws that were not written to prevent the overturning of an election result…