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What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: How police gained control of America’s roadways. Recent incidents of police escalation and even using deadly force during traffic stops have advocates and…
What To Know Today Justice Department launches civil rights investigation into Minneapolis police misconduct. Such investigations were all but abandoned during the Trump administration, and last summer ex-Attorney General Bill Barr declined to call for one in the aftermath…
What To Know Today Leaked: The ATF’s plan to regulate ghost guns. The 107-page document, obtained by The Reload, comes less than two weeks after the president directed the Department of Justice to formulate a plan to…
What To Know Today “How does a community begin to heal from a tragedy like this?” That’s the question posed in this article from Chicago’s The Triibe about how the Little Village neighborhood where Adam…
What To Know Today NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s security measures evidently involved disguise. At a recent hearing in the gun group’s Texas bankruptcy case, Bill Winkler, the chief financial officer of the National Rifle Association’s former public relations…
What To Know Today Police reform commission calls for expanded federal oversight of officer misconduct. It was one of several accountability recommendations released by the bipartisan Council on Criminal Justice’s Task…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: 2021 has been a banner year for proponents of permitless carry. Nineteen states now have no requirement for residents to obtain a license before they carry a gun in public. On…
What To Know Today Ex-NRA CFO cites last-minute “surprises” for refusing to sign 2019 federal tax disclosure. Craig Spray spoke about the document yesterday during testimony in the Texas court hearing the group’s…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Federal supervision and decades of activism changed policing in Newark. Can the changes last? In 2020, Newark’s Police Department went a full calendar year without shooting a civilian. Mayor Ras Baraka…
What To Know Today Wayne LaPierre allegedly directed a travel consultant to submit invoices that omitted stops. That’s according to testimony yesterday from Gayle Stanford, who collected more than $2 million a year from the National Rifle Association while…
What To Know Today Biden set to unveil a flurry of executive actions on gun violence. The president is scheduled to appear later today alongside Attorney General Merrick Garland to announce the following steps: Direct the Department of…
What To Know Today Suicides declined in 2020. The bright spot was revealed in provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A total…
What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Biden’s $5 billion pledge to community gun violence prevention. Proposed funding from the American Jobs Plan would be the federal government’s largest potential outlay for anti-violence work…
What To Know Today Republicans are increasingly opposed to gun reform measures. That’s a key takeaway of a Morning Consult/Politico survey looking at Americans’ attitudes on firearms policy in the wake…
What To Know Today Biden jobs plan includes $5 billion pledge for community violence prevention. It is part of the $2 trillion dollar package the administration unveiled this morning. The funding — targeted over an…