Mississippi’s top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said following revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman.
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In addition to keeping city residents safer where they live, work, and play, a new analysis of data from Chicago shows that as violent crime decreases, so does the area’s death rate from heart disease.
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Newly published research describes a spatio-temporal model to predict trends in firearm prevalence on a state-by-state level by fusing data from two available proxies–background checks per capita and suicides committed with a firearm in a given state.
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A new study says Google searches are an effective tool to track and predict domestic violence, especially in times of crisis, such as the period that followed the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The 3D X-ray is a user-friendly, portable, durable, prototype imaging tool that uses a combination of both 2D and 3D computed tomography (CT) imaging capabilities to quickly and accurately detect the presence of explosive devices.
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Mass shootings are a source of shared anguish and outrage among Americans and are becoming more frequent. Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), also known as gun violence restraining orders or “red flag” laws, are designed to help prevent these shootings.
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The study analyzed the impact of the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and subsequent protests in 2020 in 28 of the 70 largest U.S. cities on five crimes: homicide, auto theft, burglary, robbery, and larceny.
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More than 10 years after it was first proposed, New York has become the second state in the U.S. to enact a law requiring semiautomatic pistols manufactured and sold in the state to be equipped with microstamping technology.
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Governor JB Pritzker signed two bills aimed at making medical and legal care for victims of sexual assault broader and more accessible.
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The Anne Arundel County Police Department sees true crime podcasting as a new way to revive interest in cold cases where investigators are still searching for leads.
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