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The “freeze” on federal gun violence research may be thawing, but only a substantial increase in funding for scholars and best practices will help the country address the public health crisis represented by firearm deaths, says the Joyce Foundation in a new report summing up its grantmaking in the field.
“Research increasingly tells us that our coverage of mass shootings has implications for public health,” said The Trace, a website covering gun issues. Meanwhile, President Trump promoted the views of Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox that there is no evidence of an “epidemic” of mass shootings.
Nearly 2,000 hate crimes have been referred to U.S. attorneys since 2009, but just 15 percent have resulted in prosecutions, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. So far, in 2019, just 17 cases—of 99 referrals under the five hate crime statutes on federal books—have been prosecuted.
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz is suing Epstein’s estate, a move for justice that is one of the first lawsuits filed under New York State’s new Child Victims Act (CVA).
The former VP joined other Democratic candidates this weekend in calling for action on gun control following mass shootings in Ohio and Texas. Biden and other candidates are road-testing a withering argument that draws a direct line between gun violence and the president’s racist rhetoric.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Matthew Albence called it a “textbook operation,” but critics said the raids on the first day of school left many young people locked out of their homes or without any family members to take care of them.
Viewed as soft targets, schools have been hit by 533 cyber incidents since 2016. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared an emergency after ransomware attacks on three school districts.
Procedural differences among state courts and lack of adequate counsel help explain why a “vanishingly small” number of misdemeanor convictions are ever appealed, according to a new paper by Vanderbilt and Cornell University scholars.
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University contends that the data show “clearly that reducing mass incarceration does not come at the cost of public safety.” The total number of state prisoners dropped 6 percent over the same decade, 2007 to 2017.
Only 2016 had more mass killing deaths this far into the year, finds an analysis by USA Today, the Associated Press and Northeastern University.