Public Safety and Justice Update: 6/28/24

The Supreme Court, on 6/28, made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge used in hundreds of prosecutions and also faced by former President Donald Trump…

This week, the U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence a public-health crisis for the first time, calling on policymakers to pass stronger laws to reduce deaths…

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions’ new goal is to reduce gun violence 30 percent by 2030…

Former Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas…

More than 500 people — some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings — have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Biden signed two years ago…

A constitutional amendment banning involuntary prison labor is headed to the November ballot in California after both houses of the Legislature voted to approve the proposal on Thursday…

Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public remarks on 6/24 since the FBI raided her house last week — questioning the motives of the authorities who conducted the searches and vowing that “I will not be threatened out of this office….”