Public Safety

Each time an alert to boil water was issued, unexcused absence rates in Jackson’s public schools increased between 1% and 10%.

There is grief, everywhere. In a time when COVID brings such a feeling of loss, news reports and social media are full of death. Presumably, these appear because people read…

Nearly a quarter of the activists murdered were Indigenous.

Schools are trying to boost security without criminalizing students, as the number of guns found in schools and shootings continue to rise.

Bias-related crimes rose in 2021 to nearly 11,000 incidents.

For Black youth, a police encounter by eighth grade predicts they will be arrested by young adulthood, but research finds the same is not true for white youth. Black young…

Health care providers rarely ask patients if they have access to firearms, researchers report. Here’s why they should.

Black children were 100x more likely than white children to experience firearm assault injuries in the first 21 months of the COVID pandemic.

In 2021, 29 homicides were carried out by children 9 years old or younger, according to FBI database…

From riot gear to PR to Dairy Queen, public records show every expense Enbridge reimbursed after the Line 3 protests.

Part of RAND’s Gun Policy in America project, this tool provides users with information about the distribution of firearms deaths across states and demographic subgroups, and how those deaths might be affected by the implementation of a set of common state firearm laws.