California’s homicide rate fell nearly 16% last year, state report shows
5 months, 2 weeks ago

California’s homicide rate fell nearly 16% last year, state report shows

LA Times  

An LAPD officer holds up yellow tape at the scene of a double homicide in Exposition Park on June 1 in South Los Angeles. The violent crime rate in California was up 3% last year compared with 2022, according to to new data released this week, but the state saw a significant drop in the number of homicides, continuing a recent downward trend. Rob Bonta’s office counted 1,892 homicides in California last year, compared with 2,206 in 2022, a nearly 16% decrease in the homicide rate per 100,000 people. Guns continue to be the most commonly used weapons in homicides, having a role in 73% of killings in the state last year, according to the attorney general’s report. In Los Angeles County, homicides increased 8% last year from 195 to 212, according to the Los Angeles County sheriff’s 2023 Homicide Report.

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New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting
4 months ago

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale, smash-and-grab …

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting
4 months, 1 week ago

New California laws aim to reduce smash-and-grab robberies, car thefts and shoplifting

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. The move comes as Democratic leadership works to prove that they’re tough enough on crime while trying to convince voters reject a ballot measure that would bring even harsher sentences for repeat offenders of shoplifting and drug charges. “We know that retail theft has consequences, big and small, physical and financial,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, …

Burglars made off with over 300 guns by smashing cars into stores, prosecutors say
5 months, 1 week ago

Burglars made off with over 300 guns by smashing cars into stores, prosecutors say

LA Times  

Six men have been charged with conspiracy to steal firearms from businesses in Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. The targeted businesses were in Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties, with the most recent incident reported Saturday at Fowler Gun Room in Orange, where 70 firearms were stolen. The first burglary happened Oct. 9 at Chaparral Coin & …

Opinion: Will California’s new tax on gun sales reduce firearm violence?
7 months ago

Opinion: Will California’s new tax on gun sales reduce firearm violence?

LA Times  

A display of shotguns available for sale. California’s new excise tax on guns and ammunition — an 11% levy on each sale — starts in July. The new tax — an 11% levy on each sale — will come on top of federal excise taxes of 10% or 11% for firearms and California’s 6% sales tax. Using these figures, another …

Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Guns are being stolen from cars at triple the rate they were 10 years ago, a report finds

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. They’re going to drug dealers, and they’re going to hurt and kill the people who live in the next …

TSA found more than 1,500 firearms on airline passengers in first 3 months of 2024
8 months, 1 week ago

TSA found more than 1,500 firearms on airline passengers in first 3 months of 2024

LA Times  

More than 1,500 firearms were found on travelers screened at airport security checkpoints across the country in the first three months of the year, according to federal officials. TSA officers found 1,503 firearms, which amounts to about 16.5 guns found each day across the nation’s airports, which is slightly down for the same time period last year when officers found …

Federal report finds 68,000 guns were illegally trafficked through unlicensed dealers over 5 years
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Federal report finds 68,000 guns were illegally trafficked through unlicensed dealers over 5 years

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. came through unlicensed dealers who aren’t required to perform background checks over a five-year period, according to new data released Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. That represents 54% of the illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021, Justice Department officials said. …

Arming America: How we did the analysis
1 year ago

Arming America: How we did the analysis

LA Times  

The Los Angeles Times spent months researching and analyzing firearms dealer and gun violence data for its recent series on gun access. The most comprehensive data available about gun dealers are from the list of federal firearms licensees published online by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives every month since 2014. The Times replicated Johnson and Robinson’s analysis …

A troubling California trend: More violent crimes with guns even as restrictions tighten
1 year, 2 months ago

A troubling California trend: More violent crimes with guns even as restrictions tighten

LA Times  

Guns on display at a shop in Burbank. “It is particularly in the last few years that we have seen an increase in violent crime involving firearms,” said Magnus Lofstrom, policy director of criminal justice and a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. The last time firearms were involved in such a high percentage of violent …

Which major California city has the highest rate of car thefts? Hint: It’s not L.A.
1 year, 2 months ago

Which major California city has the highest rate of car thefts? Hint: It’s not L.A.

LA Times  

A car after it was broken into in Los Angeles in 2020. The total number of car thefts in California rose by 1.9% in 2022 to a total of 198,538, according to the California Highway Patrol’s 2022 California Vehicle Theft Facts report. Oakland, a Bay Area city with a population of about 400,000, has nearly 12 car thefts per 1,000 …

US: Federal report on gun violence reveals shocking facts: Time between weapons bought and used for crime is decreasing
1 year, 10 months ago

US: Federal report on gun violence reveals shocking facts: Time between weapons bought and used for crime is decreasing

Firstpost  

It also shows a rise in the usage of conversion devices, which enables a semiautomatic weapon to fire like a machine gun, and a rise in the number of so-called “ghost guns,” or secretly manufactured weapons that are difficult to track down Washington: A comprehensive federal report on guns and crime released on Friday stirred the debate of gun violence …

First sweeping federal gun crime report in 20 years released
1 year, 10 months ago

First sweeping federal gun crime report in 20 years released

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The most expansive federal report in over two decades on guns and crime shows a shrinking turnaround between the time a gun was purchased and when it was recovered from a crime scene, indicating firearms bought legally are more quickly being used in crimes around the country. It also documents a spike in the use of conversion devices …

US: 3 Dead, 4 Injured in Gun Attack in Upscale Los Angeles; 3rd California Mass Shooting in a Month
1 year, 10 months ago

US: 3 Dead, 4 Injured in Gun Attack in Upscale Los Angeles; 3rd California Mass Shooting in a Month

News 18  

At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in a shooting in California area early Saturday morning. Frank Preciado of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. in Beverly Crest, an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. The early Saturday morning shooting comes on top of three mass killings in California this month, …

DC Edit | End gun culture in America
1 year, 10 months ago

DC Edit | End gun culture in America

Deccan Chronicle  

By one count of the inexplicable madness of mass shootings in the United States of America, there were as many as 648 instances in 2022. Considering most, if not all, shooters are male, what gun violence points to is something sociologists are now describing as stemming from the toxic masculinity of life in America. Irrespective of the most recent bipartisan …

More mass shootings than days of the year: The grim reality of gun violence in the US
1 year, 11 months ago

More mass shootings than days of the year: The grim reality of gun violence in the US

Firstpost  

The gun problem in the United States is grave. The Saturday incident was the deadliest mass shooting in the US since the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in May last year, wherein 19 children and two teachers were killed. As per the non-profit research group Gun Violence Archive, on Sunday alone, the US saw three mass shootings …

California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough?
1 year, 11 months ago

California mass shooting: Gun laws in the state are stricter than in the rest of US, but are they enough?

Firstpost  

America once again saw a mass shooting on Sunday during Lunar New Year celebrations in California’s Monterey Park, a majority Asian-American city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will …

Oakland police are doubling down on a tough-on-crime plan. Some activists are skeptical
2 years, 1 month ago

Oakland police are doubling down on a tough-on-crime plan. Some activists are skeptical

LA Times  

Chief LeRonne Armstrong, shown last year, said the Oakland Police Department will be extending what was initially a 30-day initiative to deploy “all available resources” against gun violence. “That’s not plausible.” And despite the efforts laid out by Armstrong, Brooks described the Police Department’s relationship with the community as “horrific.” “Rather than actually addressing the small percentage of the folks …

Reports: California homicides, violent crime rose in 2021
2 years, 3 months ago

Reports: California homicides, violent crime rose in 2021

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Homicides in California increased again last year — as did other violent crimes — amid rising frustration as the state’s top Democrats are seeking to keep their jobs in upcoming elections. The state Department of Justice released its annual crime reports Thursday, showing upticks in violent crime and property crime rates in 2021 even as the total …

California adds laws targeting ghost guns, sales to minors
2 years, 5 months ago

California adds laws targeting ghost guns, sales to minors

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California, which already has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, has added new restrictions on untraceable “ghost guns” and on marketing firearms to minors, Gov. “As the Supreme Court rolls back important gun safety protections and states across the country treat gun violence as inevitable, California is doubling down on commonsense gun safety measures that save …

‘Active shooter’ incidents went up 52% last year in the US
2 years, 6 months ago

‘Active shooter’ incidents went up 52% last year in the US

The Independent  

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Murders with a gun SOARED by 35% in 2020 to their highest level in 25 years, new CDC report reveals
2 years, 7 months ago

Murders with a gun SOARED by 35% in 2020 to their highest level in 25 years, new CDC report reveals

Daily Mail  

Gun murders skyrocketed in the United States in 2020 and reached their highest rate since 1994, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Protection. The US racked up 19,350 firearm homicides in 2020, as calls to defund the police were sweeping the nation, marking a nearly 35 percent increase from 2019, the CDC said in a …

Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change
2 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: Domestic abusers still have access to guns. That has got to change

LA Times  

The entrance to the parking lot at the Church in Sacramento, where a man shot and killed his three daughters, their chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls. And yet, because of California’s lax enforcement of gun prohibitions, and the availability of “ghost guns” and illegal firearms, people who were known to be dangerous were able to …

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta joins suit against ‘ghost gun’ sellers
3 years, 2 months ago

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta joins suit against ‘ghost gun’ sellers

LA Times  

Rob Bonta is joining a lawsuit targeting three online sellers of “ghost guns,” the untraceable firearms made from build-it-yourself kits that he said can be assembled in minutes and are increasingly being used in violent crimes. Bonta said his office will provide information discovered through its years-long investigation into GS Performance, a maker of ghost gun components based in San …

San Francisco sues 3 California-based ‘ghost gun’ makers
3 years, 4 months ago

San Francisco sues 3 California-based ‘ghost gun’ makers

LA Times  

San Francisco police display some “ghost guns,” which accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in the city’s gun killings last year. San Francisco’s district attorney is suing three California companies that make and distribute “ghost guns,” the untraceable, build-it-yourself weaponry that accounted for nearly half the firearms recovered in gun killings in the city last year. In 2020, California …

How crime stats lie — and what you need to know to understand them
3 years, 5 months ago

How crime stats lie — and what you need to know to understand them

CNN  

CNN — As Covid-19 rates improved and vaccinations allowed much of the country to reopen, reports of crime waves began to dominate headlines. According to the FBI’s preliminary 2020 findings, violent crime rose by 3% across the country last year. “We say all the time that violence is a public health problem, but we’ve never invested in data with crime …

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, most in 13 years
3 years, 5 months ago

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, most in 13 years

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Homicides in California jumped 31% last year, making it the deadliest year since 2007, and Black people accounted for nearly one-third of all victims as the nation’s most populous state struggled with the coronavirus pandemic and concerns over racial injustice, according to reports released Thursday. California’s 2019 homicide rate was the lowest since 1966, and violent and …

California saw record surge in handgun sales during pandemic, attorney general says
3 years, 5 months ago

California saw record surge in handgun sales during pandemic, attorney general says

LA Times  

Law enforcement investigated a mass shooting in Orange in March that claimed the lives of four people, including a 9-year-old boy. “In California and across the country, gun violence in particular continues to be a uniquely American health crisis.” Statewide, there were 2,202 homicides reported in 2020, an increase of 31.1% over the year before, according to a separate report …

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, reaching highest total in 13 years
3 years, 5 months ago

California homicides jump 31% in 2020, reaching highest total in 13 years

LA Times  

Homicides in California jumped 31% last year, making it the deadliest year since 2007, and Black people accounted for nearly one-third of all victims as the nation’s most populous state struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns over racial injustice, according to reports released Thursday. California’s 2019 homicide rate was the lowest since 1966, and rates of violent and property …

Justice Dept. rule would aim to crack down on ‘ghost guns’
3 years, 7 months ago

Justice Dept. rule would aim to crack down on ‘ghost guns’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday released a proposed rule that would broaden the definition of a firearm, requiring some gun-making kits to include a serial number as the Biden administration moves forward to combat so-called “ghost guns.” It comes several weeks after President Joe Biden promised a crackdown on “ghost guns,” homemade firearms that lack serial numbers used …

Did Record Gun Sales Cause A Spike In Gun Crime? Researchers Say It's Complicated
3 years, 9 months ago

Did Record Gun Sales Cause A Spike In Gun Crime? Researchers Say It's Complicated

NPR  

Did Record Gun Sales Cause A Spike In Gun Crime? Researchers Say It's Complicated Enlarge this image toggle caption Karen Ducey/Getty Images Karen Ducey/Getty Images The year of the pandemic was also the year of the gun. "It's a real challenge to try and disentangle the role of any one single potential cause," says Julia Schleimer, with the Violence Prevention …

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