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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Suisun City police officers investigate the scene of a shooting on the 300 block of Flagstone Circle, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic) Suisun City sees jump in arson, assaults; decrease in robbery, auto theft SUISUN CITY — The Police Department saw an overall drop in serious crimes in 2020. City police handled 744 Part I crime calls last year, the department reports. The figure was 801 in 2019. Part I crimes as defined by the federal Unifor...

Science-based reform Jill Long Thompson In 1972, the United States National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse issued a report, “Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding,” that recommended moving away from the criminalization of personal marijuana use and replacing it with a policy to discourage its use. A half century later, marijuana possession remains a federal crime. While there is widespread agreement that current federal policy is falling short, there is disagreement on how best to...

“My cousin Adam heard it,” Lewis said. Williams-Thomas, 17, was behind the wheel of a vehicle in the subsidized apartment complex when she was struck by a bullet police believe was intended for a 14-year-old passenger. Three teenagers, including two who were underage at the time of the shooting, were charged with her death. Just over 16 months later, on April 15, 2021, Castonguay was found dead in his apartment at 41 Village Road. Authorities charged his son, 22-year-old Alex Cote, with sho...

Columbus, Ohio, Police Have Killed Third Most Children in U.S., Compared to Other Departments: Data On 4/21/21 at 11:41 AM EDT Data from the research collaborative Mapping Police Violence shows that, among police departments across the U.S., Columbus, Ohio, police have killed the third-highest number of children since 2013. Officers from the Columbus Division of Police have killed six minors by gunshot between 2013 and 2021, with the first shooting occurring in 2016. The only two other departme...

As city marks 23rd homicide in 2021, Austin police to target gun violence Hojun Choi, Austin American-Statesman © Lynda M. Gonzalez, LYNDA M. GONZALEZ / AMERICAN-STA Assistant Chief Joe Chacon speaks during a press conference at the Austin Police Department in 2018. Citing a continual rise of gun violence in the city, Interim Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon on Friday said the department is launching a violence intervention program that targets crimes involving firearms.  ...

For 30 long years, Ana White has been searching for her sister, Andrea “Chick” White. The then 22-year-old Native mother of four, along with an eight-month-old baby, had traveled to Eureka, California, in July 1991 for a court date, after an auto accident. She was spotted hitchhiking home along a freeway near Blue Lake, in northern California. She has been missing ever since. White, who described her sister as a great mother and very giving...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced April 2 the formation of a Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to provide leadership and direction for cross-departmental and interagency work involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. According to the BIA, the MMU will help put the full weight of the federal government into investigating these cases and marshal law enforcement resou...

Apr 9, 2021 WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the formation of a new Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to provide leadership and direction for cross-departmental and interagency work involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. Approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native missing persons have been entered into the National Crime Information Center throughout the U.S., and approxima...

Deb Haaland creates unit to investigate killings and disappearances of Indigenous people CNN 1 hr ago By Nicole Chavez, CNN © Leigh Vogel/Pool/AFP/Getty Images/FILE Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said efforts to investigate missing or killed Indigenous people will be "all hands-on deck." Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new unit within Bureau of Indian Affairs that plans to tackle the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans. "Violence against ...

BELLEAIR BLUFFS — The city’s crime rate fell by nearly one-fourth between 2010 and 2019. The significant drop in serious crime was announced in a recent letter from Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri to Belleair Bluffs Mayor Chris Arbutine. The crime data was contained in the FBI’s most recent Uniform Crime Reporting Program annual report, released in 2020, that reflected crime that occurred through 2019, Gualtieri said in the letter. In highlighting the 24 percent reduction i...