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Would Bring ATF Into The 21
st Century
Vermont Business Magazine Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Representative Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ-09) Tuesday reintroduced the Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act of 2021, their bill to modernize the capabilities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to trace crime guns.
After a firearm associated with a crime is discovered somewhere in the United States, federal, state or local law enforcement officials contact ATF, which then must recreate the chain of custody of the firearm.
But ATF is prohibited by law from electronically searching millions of gun sales records already in its possession. The absurd result is that ATF must comb through mountains of paper records manually, an extremely laborious process that delays timely investigations and drains law enforcement resources. Their legislation would update this process from the age of paper records to the age of electronic records, to enable electronic
A rise in violent crime is endangering slim Democratic congressional majorities more than a year out from the midterm elections and threatening to revive “law and order” as a major campaign issue for Republicans for the first time since the 1990s.
“Allah can’t help you now,” one officer said as they roughly tried to hog-tie him.
Muhaymin, who was homeless and unarmed, called out he could not breathe. Minutes later he died, a brown pool of vomit spreading out under his face.
“No, he’s dead,” an officer said, stepping back.
Muyhaymin, 43, had tried to bring his dog with him to use a public toilet at a community centre next to a park where he lived.
Police were called. They ran his name against a database and found an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on a minor charge. They ended by choking him, his family says.
“He Died Like an Animal”: Some Police Departments Hogtie People Despite Knowing The Risks The U.S. Department of Justice in 1995 warned that people may die when police tie handcuffed wrists to bound ankles. Filed 4:00 p.m. 05.24.2021 Illustrations by Mark Nerys for The Marshall Project Illustrations by Mark Nerys for The Marshall Project
GREENSBORO, N.C. On a warm October day in 2018, George and Mary Smith drove to police headquarters, where they had a 2 p.m. appointment to watch video of the death of their son Marcus.
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Nearly everything they knew about the September 2018 incident in which he died came from a Greensboro Police Department press release, which said he had been suicidal and combative before collapsing as police tried to help him. A lawyer had secured their right to watch the body camera footage.