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Supreme Court Justices Weigh Constitutionality of Disarming Domestic Abusers

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Rahimi was involved in five shootings between December 2020 and January 2021. In Bruen , the Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that New York State’s Sullivan Act, passed in 1911—which required anyone applying for a pistol concealed carry license to show “proper cause”—was unconstitutional.

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A Reform DA Fights Back

The Crime Report

Between 2019 and 2020, the murder rate rose by 29 percent nationwide, marking the largest recorded jump in a one-year period since the FBI began releasing annual figures in the 1960s. Unlike other large counties in the state, violent and property crimes were down in 2020 in Contra Costa County.

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