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Aug 19, 20222 min read
North Carolina Sheriff Wants School Officers Armed With Assault Rifles
A North Carolina sheriff says school resource officers should be armed with assault rifles on campus in addition to their handguns. In...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 19, 20221 min read
2021-22 Gunfire Incidents In Schools Highest In A Decade
Schools around the U.S. experienced 193 incidents of gunfire in the 2021-2022 academic year, doubling the previous year's total, says the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 17, 20222 min read
How March For Our Lives Made Progress In Gun Control Movement
Sam Fuentes, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland, Fl., school massacre, marched through the streets of Uvalde, Tx., in 105-degree heat,...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 17, 20222 min read
Oklahoma Mom Prepares Son With Shooter Drills, Bulletproof Backpack
An Oklahoma mom has gone viral on TikTok after sharing a video that shows her practicing an active shooter drill with her young son. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 15, 20222 min read
Judge Must Decide Whether Jurors Get FL School Gunman Brain Scans
Wesley Center, a defense mental health expert in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, realized that the 23-year-old mass...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 6, 20221 min read
$45M Punitive Damages Verdict Against Alex Jones Could Be Cut
A Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 5, 20222 min read
Punitive Damages Loom After Jury's $4.1M Verdict Against Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of Sandy Hook school massacre victim Jesse Lewis damage awards totaling $4.1 million,...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 4, 20222 min read
Jury Deliberates Alex Jones Case; He Concedes Truth of Sandy Hook
A Texas jury is deliberating how much Infowars host Alex Jones must pay for defaming the father of a six-year-old who was killed during...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 4, 20221 min read
News Media Sue Texas For Failing To Release Uvalde Shooting Records
More than a dozen major news organizations are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for failing to release public records...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Sandy Hook Victim's Family Says Jones Put Them Through 'Living Hell'
Parents of children who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting began testimony against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 1, 20221 min read
Teachers Get Firearms Training in Push by Pro-Gun Advocates
Republicans and gun-rights advocates are pushing for teachers to be trained and armed with firearms amid a spike in school shootings, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Firm Touts Bullet-Resistant 'Pods' To Shelter Kids In Mass Shootings
A company in Fort Pierce, Fl., – not far from Parkland, site of the 2018 school shooting that killed 17 – is stirring controversy with...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20221 min read
Parkland High School Shooter Cruz Sentencing Trial Starts Monday
The Parkland, Fl., Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter who killed 17 people in 2018 will face a sentencing trial beginning...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20222 min read
TX Panel Cites 'Systemic Failures,' 'Poor Decision Making' At Uvalde
The 18-year-old who massacred 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Tx., on May 24 had no experience with firearms before his rampage....
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20222 min read
Will Police Face Consequences For Uvalde Shooting Inaction?
As video from Robb Elementary School puts in full view the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May slaughter of 19...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Could Better Locking Systems Be Key to Stopping School Shootings?
The classrooms in Uvalde, Tx., schools lacked a basic security feature — and it’s missing across most of the nation. The classroom doors...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20221 min read
Video From Uvalde Shooting Shows Slow Police Response
A 77-minute video recording, along with body camera footage from a responding officer, shows in excruciating detail what happened when...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Uvalde School Police Chief Arredondo Quits City Council
Pete Arredondo, the law enforcement official Texas state police said was most responsible for a flawed response to the Uvalde school...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Will Tech Products Help Reduce School Shooting Incidents?
After the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, TX, a familiar question emerged: how to prevent such horror from happening...
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