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The Crime Report
AUGUST 19, 2021
The Justice Department has asked a court to block a Missouri law that declares certain federal gun laws invalid and threatens financial penalties on state and local agencies that enforce them, arguing the measure violated the Constitution and undermined public safety, reports the Washington Post. The city of St.
JURIST
AUGUST 20, 2021
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a 28-page statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by the city of St. Louis challenging a Missouri state law that prohibits enforcement of federal firearms laws and subjects state and local law enforcement officers to civil suits and monetary penalties.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2022
Every second matters during an emergency, and 911 operator shortages can make wait times longer and lead to a backlog that’s hard for small agencies to recover from. In Bridgeton, a small suburb in Missouri, the city spent a year operating with less than half of the 911 dispatchers they needed before outsourcing to St.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 26, 2023
CCJ announced the new initiative on Thursday alongside a new study analyzing crime trends in 35 cities. Agency participation, which was already touch-and-go in some of the largest cities in the country, fell by 22 percent. Louis and former president of the American Society of Criminology.
The Crime Report
JULY 29, 2021
Authored by University of Missouri–St. Louis criminology professor Richard Rosenfeld and CCJ research specialist Ernesto Lopez Jr. , the report found that murder rates in major American cities rose throughout the first half of 2021, but the pace of the increase slowed from the year’s first to second quarter.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 22, 2022
On July 14, 2018, a young, white Chicago police officer, Dillan Halley, shot and killed Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old Black barber, on 71 st Street in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. The Chicago Police and the local civilian oversight agency concluded that the shooting was “within policy.”
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 11, 2022
NIBRS replaces the “summary system” the FBI has used since the 1930s, which included major felony offenses and arrests recorded by local law enforcement agencies. Only 62 percent of law enforcement agencies, covering about 65 percent of the U.S. And many other agencies submitted NIBRS data that covered only part of the year.
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