Dec 31, 2024 · Chip is a reporter at The Trace covering federal policy related to violence prevention and firearms. He is also the author of The Trajectory newsletter, which spotlights the people, policies, and programs grappling with America’s gun violence crisis.

Dec 11, 2024 · In June 2023, the town council in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, voted unanimously to install the gunshot detection service ShotSpotter. The town would get the system up and running in a few square miles of the city using $297,000 in federal COVID relief funding. “Crime is an issue, but it’s not unique to Phillipsburg,” Councilmember Keith Kennedy said after the vote.

Dec 20, 2024 · The Landscape Is Different, but America’s Strong Relationship With Firearms Persists. As Mike Spies wrote in his coda about former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre, after a jury found him liable for misuse of the nonprofit’s funds, the gun rights movement has transformed America. And as explored in In Guns We Trust, our podcast series with Longlead, anchored by senior newswriter Jennifer Mascia ...

Oct 10, 2024 · As Chicago’s ShotSpotter microphones shut down following years of controversy about the gunshot detection device, the Chicago Transit Authority is trying out a new tool designed to detect the presence of firearms — this time, through video surveillance.. Through a $200,000 pilot, CTA is adding ZeroEyes, a software that uses artificial intelligence and human analysis to scan surveillance ...

Nov 1, 2024 · The 2024 presidential candidates couldn’t be further apart on gun policy. Vice President Kamala Harris has called for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban, while former President Donald Trump favors loosening concealed carry laws nationwide.. Though neither platform is likely to clear Congress, a Trump victory could give him the power to dismantle three years of gun ...

Sep 12, 2024 · The New Standard: A Historical Test. The 6-3 Bruen decision, authored by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, threw out the second half of that two-part test as “one step too many.”. The Supreme Court declared that any regulation affecting the right to bear arms must be rooted in the “historical tradition of firearm regulation” in the United States.

Chip is a reporter at The Trace covering federal policy related to violence prevention and firearms. He is also the author of The Trajectory newsletter, which spotlights the people, policies, and programs grappling with America’s gun violence crisis.

Dec 19, 2024 · Ralph Carter, founder of We Are Linden, at the North Columbus Preparatory Academy in South Linden. Eli Hiller for The Trace. Decades of accumulated concerns were ignored, driving residents into silence, Hill said, contributing to a culture of impunity as people became unwilling to communicate or cooperate with police, even if they had witnessed a shooting.

Sep 12, 2024 · The Bruen Era. More Than a Thousand Felons Have Challenged Their Gun Bans Since the Supreme Court’s Bruen Decision. The Trace reviewed more than 2,000 court cases that cited Bruen and found that no group has used the decision more often than people whose felony records bar them from possessing guns.

Sep 26, 2024 · A person shot in Chicago is more likely to die from it today than they would have been 13 years ago. Fatal shootings have made up a steadily larger share of the city’s gun violence statistics, according to a Trace analysis of data from the City of Chicago Violence Reduction Dashboard and studies from the University of Chicago Crime Lab.