Public Safety and Justice Update: 7/12/24

A shooting at a block party in Detroit left two people dead and more than a dozen wounded, capping a violent 4th of July holiday weekend in the U.S. that also saw mass shootings in Kentucky and Chicago…

States with more restrictive gun laws had lower rates of gun-related suicide among children yet saw no effect on child homicide rates as gun remain the leading cause of death among children…

Most calls police departments receive are not about violent crime but rather distress…

Michigan prosecutor, McDonald pursued homicide charges for two years against Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son Ethan killed four students at Oxford High School in 2021…

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers backed away last week from plans to put an anti-crime measure on the ballot, a day after they announced the proposal…

Three weeks after FBI raids in Oakland, city officials will begin handing over records to authorities after being ordered to do so by the U.S. Attorney’s Office…

According to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis, Oakland’s police department has been publishing crime data that misrepresents the true nature of the city’s crime rates over the past few years…