The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/violence/)
Global terrorism data show a decades-long drop-off in violence by left-wing groups, while violence by white supremacists and other far-right attackers has surged since President Trump took office. This year has been especially deadly.
Jon Adler, director of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, said a primary purpose of the new publication is “to identify the critical elements of violent crime reduction efforts…”
Nearly half of doctors responding to a survey said they have been physically assaulted on the job, while 71 percent said they have witnessed an assault, said the Texas-based American College of Emergency Physicians.
If incoming Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wants to undo his nation’s culture of violence, he needs to focus his resources on the large numbers of young people without jobs or prospects around the country, according to a leading expert on Latin America.
Activists gathered at Chicago Police Headquarters Monday morning in response to the video issued by police that showed a man who was shot to death by an officer on the weekend had a firearm and tussled with officers before the shooting. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson quickly disseminated the body camera video, but activists called for his resignation.
Using data from Chicago, Julia Burdick-Will of Johns Hopkins University linked exposure to neighborhood violence to a drop in test scores, an effect that extended to students coming from communities that experienced little or no violence.
A 3-year-old Idaho girl who was stabbed at her birthday party died Monday, two days after Timmy Kinner, 30 is accused of invading the celebration and attacking nine people with a knife
Timothy Kinner, 30, was charged with stabbing children who were members of refugee families from Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia.
While shootings have declined in Chicago, violence continues to acutely impact a handful of neighborhoods. Both residents and the police know that Memorial Day weekend often brings a spike in gunplay.
Alek Minassian, 25, is accused of mowing down 25 pedestrians on busy Yonge Street in Toronto, killing 10. One former classmate said he couldn’t conceive that Minassian had learned to drive–let alone carry out such an attack.