A veteran D.C. police officer says the Metropolitan Police Department’s Gun Recovery Unit deploys illegitimate tactics in a war on guns that have fostered an adversarial relationship between the department and the communities they are supposed to serve.
We need to be more critical of the former New York mayor’s outsize influence on the gun control movement.
Arthur’s story speaks to a troubling tendency in the legal system, reform advocates say: to treat mental health crises as criminal matters, rather than matters of public health.
After last week’s election victories, will Virginia Democrats address gun violence in ways that don’t rely on criminalization?
With Chesa Boudin, candidate for San Francisco district attorney
Established to track anyone convicted of a gun-related offense, the registry has proved to be both racist and ineffective in reducing gun violence.