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Chicago
“These tools are not replacing people,” says Deputy Chief Jonathan Lewin, “but they improve our capacity to do our job."
Q & A
Precious Lives Senior Producer Emily Forman shares her experience covering the daily drumbeat of shootings in Wisconsin’s largest city.
Commentary
"Some couples fight and push or hit each other, but we need to differentiate between those situations and chronic, controlling violence."
National Rifle Association
Scott Meltzer says the group tells members they are 'crusaders’ fighting a corrupt elite class to make America great again.
Shot and Forgotten
Justin Duckett opens up about “the most barbaric” form of emergency medicine.
Criminal Justice
Leading criminologist David Weisburd says researchers found strong evidence that some policing strategies can lower crime.
Extremism
Duke constitutional law professor Darrell Miller explains "insurrectionist theory."
A "Becoming a Man" counselor on how he helps kids persevere in a city where shootings are everyday occurrences.
Embedding with the Newark Police Department for a new "Frontline" documentary, Jelani Cobb met officers desperate to get guns off the street — and some who went too far.
Community Violence
A pair of sociologists explain how nurturing kids' passions — whether for anime, customizing cars, or raising pigeons — has the power to reduce illegal behaviors.
Gun Safety
A Colorado district bought 10 military-style guns. They would be better off focusing on “environmental design,” John White says.
It took a gruesome mass shooting to draw attention to the city's bordering towns, but Vanessa German has been trying to help kids in the gun violence-riddled area for years.
Ernst Mauch talks with The Trace about the future of high-tech firearms.
Domestic Violence
Lawmakers and gun-rights advocates have called for arming abuse victims, but few battered women are mentally and emotionally prepared to pull the trigger.
Politics
Duke University professor Kristin Goss analyzes the response from both sides of the issue.
