Public Safety and Justice Update: 1/10/2025

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced today, 1/10, in his hush money conviction…

The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with the Antioch, California, Police Department, resolving an investigation into racist text messages allegedly sent and received by some of its officers…

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted this week to overhaul its police department to address a pattern of systemic abuses as part of an agreement with the Department of Justice…

A 14-year-old student has been arrested after bringing a gun to Apalachee High School, the same Georgia high school where a September shooting killed two teachers and two students and wounded others…

Proposition 36 took effect in California, with the immediate impact expected in charging decisions over theft and drug crimes…

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) last year arrested more than 1,400 suspects and recovered over $13 million in stolen goods through its Organized Retail Crime Task Force, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose office hailed this as "record-breaking results…”

Character.AI, a Google-backed AI chatbot platform, is facing scrutiny after reports revealed last month that some users created chatbots emulating real-life school shooters and their victims…

A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation’s capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a traffic stop…