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Indianapolis leaders and event organizers are in a race against the clock to quell a recent spate of downtown violence before ...
The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again ...
The shootings of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses took place over the weekend as the latest act of political violence in the United States. A gunman impersonating a police officer ...
Firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States for the third consecutive year, and homicides accounted for the majority of gun deaths among the age group ...
Crime in Brooklyn in 2024 Despite a string of violent incidents at the end of the year, major felonies across Brooklyn were down roughly 6% from 2023. Murders and shooting incidents were down 6% and ...
States where gun violence has surpassed car accidents as the #1 killer of children in the US On the heels of yet another mass school shooting in Georgia in September and in Madison, Wisconsin in ...
How the US made progress against gun violence in 2024 It’s easy to feel like gun violence is hopeless and never getting better. 2024 disproves that.
Former Secret Service agent discusses enhanced security protocols for Fourth of July celebrations across the country amid ...
Fatal gun violence has been steadily rising in the U.S. for nearly a decade. In both 2022 and 2021, the two most recent years of available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
The United States has seen an increase in antisemitic attacks and violent pro-Palestinian protests amid the war between Israel and Hamas. Following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, anti-Jewish ...
In the first year of the pandemic, when schools were closed, there was a major decline in gun violence incidents on school grounds.
KOMU 8 spoke with Mayor Barbara Buffaloe and Office of Violence Prevention administrator D’Markus Thomas-Brown. Buffaloe said her reaction to the shootings was disappointment.