Public Safety and Justice Update: 9/27/24

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was charged this week with bribery, wire fraud, and seeking illegal campaign donations, a years-long catalogue of alleged crimes stemming from what prosecutors called his “corrupt relationships” with wealthy foreigners…

President Joe Biden has signed a new order that will restrict gun technologies, essentially making it less easy to obtain guns and improve shooting drills in schools across the country…

The school shooting in Georgia’s Apalachee High School, the worst the state has seen in its history, has led to the arrest of over 700 students, 98 of them in the state itself…

Laws that ban assault weapons do protect children from dying in mass shootings, but the same can't be said for more common types of gun restrictions and regulations, new research shows…

On 8/21, teenagers were walking in Philadelphia when they encountered another group of juveniles. The two groups exchanged angry words, someone pulled a gun, and shots were fired…

People who solicit minors for sex in California can now be charged with a felony after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on 9/26 increasing penalties for sex trafficking…

Gov. Newsom signed several gun control measures this week, including one that allows the court to consider stalking and animal cruelty as grounds to restrict access to firearms…

The campaign to pass a tough-on-crime ballot initiative in California heads into its final stretch. Proposition 36, which would strengthen criminal penalties for repeat offenders of drug and theft crimes…