‘Let Me See That Waistband’ 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. Brandon Soderberg
Bloomberg’s Stop-and-Frisk Philosophy Also Informs the Rest of His Work on Gun Violence Prevention We need to be more critical of the former New York mayor’s outsize influence on the gun control movement. Alex Clavering
He Attempted Suicide and Ended Up In Jail 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. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
The Appeal Podcast: Chesa Boudin And The Meaning of ‘Reform’ With Chesa Boudin, candidate for San Francisco district attorney Adam H. Johnson
Baltimore’s Gun Offender Registry Is A Misfire Established to track anyone convicted of a gun-related offense, the registry has proved to be both racist and ineffective in reducing gun violence. Larry Smith