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What To Know Today A mass shooting at a Tennessee grocery left 12 people injured, one dead. A man armed with an unidentified gun walked into a Kroger store yesterday afternoon and opened fire, killing one…
What To Know Today 2020’s final crime stats are in. Guns drove a 29 percent increase in murders. The surge was the biggest single-year homicide rise since the government began keeping data in 1960, according to the FBI’s annual crime…
What To Know This Week 1 stolen gun linked to 27 shootings in Chicago. On January 1, 2016, a burglar stole several firearms, including a Glock 17 9mm, from a gun store in northern Wisconsin. In a deep-dive investigation,…
What To Know Today Latest data shows that homicide is still above last year’s historic spike — but declining. Criminal statistician Jeff Asher updated his year-to-date dashboard tracking homicide rates in 87 cities with available data.
What To Know Today “That’s their job to protect me, too”: Gun violence survivors on police and guns in their communities. Survivors of gun violence are far more likely to be injured in a subsequent shooting and slightly more likely…
What To Know Today NEW: Ask The Trace! Is there something that just doesn’t make sense to you when it comes to guns and gun violence in the United States? A statistic you’ve been searching for, but haven’t been able…
What To Know Today The FBI isn’t releasing midyear national crime statistics because not enough agencies submitted data. Just 43 percent of eligible law enforcement departments sent in crime data through the National Incident-Based Reporting System,…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: As students return, schools hope investments in mental health will also curb violence. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, but the new school year means young people are again headed into their classrooms,…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Four under-the-radar cases that could change the landscape of firearms regulation. Legal challenges to gun restrictions have been building since 2008, when the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in…
What To Know Today More than a year after George Floyd’s murder, Minneapolis is on track for most homicides in 20 years. The Star Tribune parsed the numbers and the traumatizing effect on residents. Across many…
What To Know Today Veteran suicides decreased in 2019, but the proportion of gun deaths ticked up. Overall, veterans suicide rate fell by 7 percent from 2018 to 2019, according to the most recently available data from the Department…
What To Know Today Americans support using community-led violence intervention to prevent crime. Seventy-six percent of likely voters — including 88 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of Republicans — say local and state officials should use money from the…
What To Know Today In three major American cities, so-called contagious shootings increased last year. That’s according to a new paper looking at the pandemic surge in gun violence in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia. Previous research has…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Ten years after her son was shot, she helps other grieving parents. “Before that moment, if anybody told me that my son would become a victim of gun violence, I would have…
What To Know Today Remington subpoenas school records of five children, four teachers killed at Sandy Hook. The bankrupt gunmaker, whose Bushmaster AR-15 was used to kill 26 people in the 2012 shooting, made the request…