Public Safety and Justice Update: 7/19/24

Firearm deaths have risen sharply over the past decade — a 35 percent increase from 2012 to 2022, the most recent year CDC data is available, according to an analysis by health policy research group KFF…

Throughout the first three days of the Republican National Convention, officials have highlighted a surge in what they call “migrant crime…”

Authorities have identified the gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump last weekend, but are still racing to understand what the shooter’s motives were and how he was able to get so close to Trump…

The U.S. Secret Service is facing harsh public scrutiny and investigations as the assassination attempt of former President Trump thrusts an agency with a checkered past into the center of a political firestorm…

President Biden has renewed a call for Congress to ban assault rifles, including the model that was used in the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump…

Out of 45 individuals who have served as U.S. president, 11 have been shot at (one twice, four fatally)…

The federal judge overseeing former President Trump’s classified documents case threw out all of the charges against him, ruling that Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed the indictment, had been given his job in violation of the Constitution…

The Supreme Court has granted mayors broad powers to combat the homelessness crisis, including by jailing people for sleeping outside…

Less than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities broader authority to police homelessness, a federal judge halted Oakland’s plan to clear a small encampment near the Bay Bridge, a win for homeless advocates in an early test of local officials’ power to carry out sweeps…

About five dozen law enforcement officers from California were on hand to help keep order in hand at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin this week…