Public Safety

After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on research into firearms risks, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or political support, to document the nation’s growing gun violence problem and start to understand what can be done to curb the public health crisis.

In the United States, the Internet Crime Complaint Center serves as a critical component in the FBI’s efforts to combat cybercrime. The center’s website provides educational resources to help individuals…

Scholar Rashad Shabazz explains how anti-Black bias is so central to American policing that even Black officers are influenced by it.

An increase in assaults on transit workers has contributed to operator shortages, preventing many agencies from offering high-quality transit services.

With hate crimes, context is everything, and events outside of the United States – like the war between Israel and Hamas – can have far-reaching and potentially tragic consequences. Vermont…

A Denver police unit started investigating all shootings like homicides. Now other cities are taking notice.

Red flag laws are an important step in the right direction, but much more work is needed to determine the role of mental health in the lead-up to and aftermath of mass shootings.

This article by Andrés Spokoiny was previously published on Oct. 19, 2023 in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Reprinted with permission. Nearly two weeks since the Hamas massacre in Israel, we…

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New research gauges how people in structural disadvantaged communities feel about police responding to mental health crises.

The massacre in Lewiston, Maine, last week was the seventh mass shooting of 2023. There were seven in total last year.

Police officers on patrol spend more time in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, a new study shows.