Public Safety and Justice Update: 9/1/23

On 8/31, the Justice Department announced a proposed rule to specify what exactly the new definition in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

Despite claims from politicians, party rule does not drive crime…

A graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been charged in the fatal shooting of one of his professors, a killing that spread fear across the campus and forced an hours-long lockdown…

Gun suicides reached an all-time high in the United States in 2022, and the gun suicide rate among Black teens surpassed that of white teens for the first time on record, new data shows…

At least 48,000 people died by guns last year — an average of one person every 11 minutes, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis…

Payroll records between 2020 and 2022 show the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) had 273 officers leave their jobs…

In towns and cities across the country, police unions have been asking for pay bumps for body cameras, seeking to capitalize on the growing public expectation that every encounter with the police will be recorded…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s quest to put gun restrictions into the U.S. Constitution through an amendment cleared the first of many hurdles this week…

Acknowledging a lack of oversight that allowed abuses of power within the police force, the Antioch City Council has agreed to give itself the authority to hire, supervise and remove its police chief…

A San Jose lawmaker’s criminal justice reform bill is set for a hearing this week in Sacramento…

The San Jose drug dealer that targeted his sale of fentanyl-laced pills at Los Gatos High School students will be sentenced to 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to all charges…

Deputies and medical personnel rushed on 8/23, to a mass shooting at a bar in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon, with authorities saying four were confirmed dead at the scene, including the shooter…

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia, formally signaling his intent to fight the charges in the sprawling racketeering case brought by Fulton County prosecutors…

Zephaniah “Zephi” Trevino, 20, was charged in connection with the death of Carlos Arajeni-Arriaza Murillo, 24, who was fatally shot during a 2019 robbery in Grand Prairie, Tex…