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States with more restrictive gun laws & fewer guns experience lower rates of fatal/nonfatal police shootings.

↑ From our new brief which examines state-level rates of police shootings and their relationship to gun laws & availability.📝John Shjarback

→ rockinst.org/issue-area/pol…

From njdotcom

Starts to make sense when you take the totality of research (Tony Cheng's 'The Policing Machine') & reporting (@ericuman & others) into account. The NYPD largely operates independently. Their NYC CCRB is shackled & hampered - reliant on the NYPD for access to records & footage.

Think weak state-level gun laws aren't a problem Morgan C Williams Jr: 'In '14, the Iron Pipeline was responsible for roughly 28% of the crime guns recovered throughout the state of New York. In '21, these states accounted for 40% of NY State crime gun recoveries.'
vitalcitynyc.org/articles/new-y…

Already hooked 6-8 pages in, Tony Cheng

A food desert on the edge of the ocean nj.com/atlantic/2024/…

Relevant to the discussion of the Chicago Mayor’s decision not to renew the city’s contract with SoundThinking (formerly ShotSpotter)

I was interviewed by Andy Mannix and quoted for this piece re: violence against US law enforcement:
m.startribune.com/in-minnesota-a…

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