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Chicago Releases Video of Police Killing of Adam Toledo

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…

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Philadelphia Unveils New Violence Prevention Funding

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…

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Ex-CFO Decries ‘Wayne Said’ Culture at the NRA

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…

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‘The Most Serious Security Threat to the American People Today’

What To Know Today Minnesota police air body cam footage of an officer shooting Daunte Wright. At a news conference, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon played a video that showed the 20-year-old Black man slipping away from police…

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Biden’s Budget Ramps Up Funding for Violence Prevention

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…

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‘Gun Violence Is Not a Problem Law Enforcement Alone Can Solve’

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…

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Biden Unveils Executive Actions on Guns

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…

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‘We’re Missing Swaths of Stories and Issues’

What To Know Today Takeaways from Columbia Journalism Review’s summit on media and mass shootings. The magazine, along with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, convened experts, advocates, and journalists from several media organizations…

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Suicides Declined in 2020*

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…

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High-Stakes NRA Bankruptcy Hearings Begin

What To Know Today NEW from THE TRACE: Criminal justice advocates criticize Biden appointee over federal gun prosecutions. Washington, D.C., residents with existing felony convictions who are arrested for illegally possessing firearms will continue to be tried in federal…

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Tying the Costs of Gun Violence to Economic Health

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…

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Hardening GOP Opposition to Gun Reforms

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…

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‘A Historic Investment’ to Fight Community Violence

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…

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‘We Are Not Powerless’: Preaching Nonviolence to Teens

What To Know Today Inside New York City organizers’ push to curb gun violence. Last year, the city had over 1,500 shootings, nearly double 2019 and a particularly stark rise in a place that for years had one of…

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Senators Haven’t Given Up on Expanding Background Checks

What To Know Today Many Democrats are dissatisfied with President Biden’s handling of gun violence. Thirty-seven percent of the Democratic respondents to an ABC News/Ipsos poll disapproved of the president’s response to the issue — the lowest marks…